Bob Coate

Tue., Jan. 1, 12:00 noon - Capitol Steps, Politics Takes a Holiday, New Years Edition

Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with the Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called "Politics Takes a Holiday!" This year will feature all new awards, such as:

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Charles Morrison, President of the East-West Center “Asia Megatrends and Implications for United States – Asia Policy”

INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION LECTURE – Milton Kleinberg, Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Senior Market Sales, Inc., in Omaha, Nebraska “Memories of My Childhood: During and After the Holocaust, 1937 – 1951”

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – Dan Sullivan, Editor for World-Herald Books, including “At War, At Home: World War II” “Answering the Call”

E. N. THOMPSON FORUM ON WORLD ISSUES – Charles Villa-Vicencio, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa, and author of “Walk With Us and Listen: Political Reconciliation in Africa” “Violence, Religion, Financial Muscle and Liberation: Can Africa Heal Itself?”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – TENTH ANNUAL WOMEN AND RELIGION LECTURE – Carol Meyers, Mary Grace Wilson Professor in Religion at Duke University “All About Eve: The Last Word on the First Lady”

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Richard Barea, Vietnam War veteran; Stacey Stabler, Iraq War veteran “Native American Warriors: Yesterday and Today”

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Richard Barea, Vietnam War veteran; Stacey Stabler, Iraq War veteran “Native American Warriors: Yesterday and Today”

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Richard Barea, Vietnam War veteran; Stacey Stabler, Iraq War veteran “Native American Warriors: Yesterday and Today”

UNO LECTURE – Rudolph Penner, Fellow at the Urban Institute, holder of the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy, formerly Director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987 and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute “The Hard Road to Fiscal Responsibility”