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CJ's future, gas tax, Takings Clause typo Transition, inauguration, pardon Sam returns, Kazakhstan, NSA wiretaps Offer for Vinick, Kazakhstan Election results, death of a candidate Leo's funeral, House Speaker election, lobbying reform Disenfranchisement of ex-convicts, election-eve indictment Exit polls, election results, death of a candidate Look for articles connected to your favorite episode, or start with these West Wing-related questions and then keep exploring FootnoteTV (R) and the entire Newsaic (R) : Where does the phrase "Let Bartlet be Bartlet" come from? Which president actually declared a war on cancer? What is at 18th and Potomac, where Mrs. Landingham had her fatal car crash? Which is better: a Mercator or Peters map? CJ just heard part of a long-settled debate. Season One (aired 1999-2000) (back to top) #1: Pilot (Fundamentalist Christianity, Cuban refugees) #2: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (Syria) #3: A Proportional Response (war crimes) #4: Five Votes Down (federal laws prohibiting gun ownership, financial disclosure) #5: The Crackpots and These Women (the Jackson cheese, UFOs, wolves, smallpox) #6: Mr. Willis of Ohio (census, budget surplus) #7: The State Dinner (strikes, part-time employees, president's powers re strikes) #8: Enemies (Antiquities Act) #9: The Short List (nominating a Supreme Court justice, privacy rights, Hispanic judges) #10: In Excelsis Deo (hate crimes, hate-crime legislation, homeless veterans, Arlington) #11: Lord John Marbury (India and Pakistan) #12: He Shall, From Time to Time ... (India and Pakistan) #13: Take Out the Trash Day (hate crimes, hate-crime legislation, gays in the military, sex education, PBS, Alabama and the Ten Commandments) #14: Take this Sabbath Day (federal executions) #15: Celestial Navigation (racial profiling) #16: 20 Hours in LA (ethanol, flag-burning) #17: The White House Pro-Am (international child labor, Federal Reserve) #18: Six Meetings Before Lunch (school vouchers, reparations, "forty acres and a mule") #19: Let Bartlet be Bartlet (campaign finance, FED, gays in the miitary, "let Reagan be Reagan") #20: Mandatory Minimums (drug sentencing, drug policy, English as official language) #21: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (FEC, soft money, English as official language) #22: What Kind of Day has it Been? (youth participation, Iraq's no-fly zone, presidential assassinations) Pilot The Crackpots and These Women Mr. Willis of Ohio The Short List Season Two (aired 2000-01) (back to top) #23: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part I (presidential assassinations, Iraq's no-fly zone, 25th Amendment, oil spills) #24: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part II (presidential assassinations, Iraq's no-fly zone, 25th Amendment, oil spills) #25: The Midterms (balance of power, Pendleton Act, Dr. Laura, Leviticus, peremptory challenges, Theory of Everything) #26: In This White House (Africa and AIDS, pharmaceuticals, HIV and AIDS, grand-jury investigations, bipartisanship) #27: And It's Surely to their Credit (contempt of Congress, women in history, suing hate groups, military planning, Gilbert and Sullivan) #28: The Lame Duck Congress (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, "rogue states", employee fraud, ergonomics) #29: The Portland Trip (teachers and classroom size, Iraqi oil exports, gay Republicans, same-sex marriages) #30: Shibboleth (asylum, Chinese Christians, recess appointments, gay Jesus) #31: Galileo (Mars, Russia's nuclear stockpile, stamps, Puerto Rican statehood) #32: Noel (Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Nazi art, post-traumatic stress disorder) #33: The Leadership Breakfast (Patient's bill of rights, minimum wage) #34: The Drop In (missile defense, environmental terrorism, racial profiling) #35: Bartlett's Third State of the Union (school uniforms, Colombia) #36: The War at Home (Colombia) #37: Ellie (marijuana, Surgeon General controversies, Social Security panel) #38: Somebody's going to emergency, Somebody's going to jail (WTO, presidential pardon, Alger Hiss, maps) #39: The Stackhouse Filibuster (filibusters) #40: Seventeen People (medical cover-ups, no duty to disclose, impeachment, the 25th Amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment) #41: Bad Moon Rising (no duty to disclose, Mexico bail-out, oil spills, school vouchers) #42: The Fall's Gonna Kill You (no duty to disclose, tax cuts, falling satellites) #43: 18th and Potomac (Haiti, 18th and Potomac, coincidental accidents) #44: Two Cathedrals (season finale) (medical cover-ups, banned books, salary inequity, Haiti) Season Three (aired 2001-02) (back to top) Special: Isaac and Ishmael (two sons of Abraham, other topics) #45: Manchester (part 1) (RU-486, Haiti, special prosecutor) #46: Manchester (part 2) (RU-486, Haiti) #47: Ways and Means (special prosecutor, estate tax, presidential veto, amnesty for illegal immigrants) #48: On the Day Before (presidential veto, estate tax, Israeli-Palestinian peace process) #49: War Crimes (International Criminal Court treaty, concealed firearms, pennies) #50: Gone Quiet ("magic words", NEA, medical ethics) #51: The Indians in the Lobby (Indian land claims, death penalty for minors, definition of poverty) #52: The Women of Qumar (arms sales to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, prostitution, mad-cow disease, Smithsonian) #53: Bartlet for America (church burnings) #54: H. Con 172 (censure resolution, tell-all books, Israel maps) #55: 100,000 Airplanes (State of the Union, cancer research) #56: The Two Bartlets (affirmative action, Vieques bombing exercises, UFOs) #57: Night Five (U.N. finances, Democratic Republic of Congo, reporters killed in the line of duty) #58: Hartsfield's Landing (China-Taiwan, arms sales to Taiwan, taxes) #59: Dead Irish Writers (medical ethics, Northern Ireland, Superconducting Super Collider) #60: The U.S. Poet Laureate (dependence on foreign oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, poet laureate, landmines) #61: Stirred (switching running mates, voter turnout, Internet access, transporting radioactive waste, tax "rebate") #62: Enemies Foreign and Domestic (U.S.-Russia summits, Iran's nuclear reactor, Russia's nuclear situation, Saudi Arabia) #63: The Black Vera Wang (terrorist attacks, nominating conventions) #64: We Killed Yamamoto (assassination policy, who killed Yamamoto?, legality of torture, welfare reform, Wars of the Roses, Everglades, North Dakota) #65: Posse Comitatus (assassination policy, Posse Comitatus Act, Wars of the Roses, welfare reform, violent crime) Season Four (aired 2002-03) (back to top) #67: 20 Hours in America (4th season premiere) (Indiana, stock market, terrorist attack, abortions) #68: College Kids (college tuition, third-party candidates, Title IX) #69: The Red Mass (debates, needle-exchange programs, Red Mass, Establishment Clause) #70: Debate Camp (racial profiling, Cabinet nominations, school prayer) #71: Game On (Mike Dukakis, death of a candidate, trade with China) #72: Election Night (victory margins, California's 47th Congressional District) #73: Process Stories (Venezuela, control of Congress) #74: Swiss Diplomacy (Iran, doctors' obligations, gas taxes) #75: Artic Radar (female pilot charged with adultery, U.N. v. N.Y.C. over parking tickets) #76: Holy Night (infant mortality) #77: Guns Not Butter (foreign aid, intercessory prayer) #78: The Long Goodbye (Alzheimer's disease, math) #79: Inauguration (Part I) (inaugural traditions such as the inaugural Bible, Rwanda, removing a federal judge) #80: Inauguration : Over There (military-intervention doctrines, Rwanda, assassinations, inauguration, "era of big government", removing a federal judge) #81: The California 47th (tax plans, Rwanda, Orange County, single mothers) #82: Red Haven's on Fire (Rwanda, Somalia, tax plans, John Rawls and the "veil of ignorance", immunization) #83: Privateers (global gag rule, foreign aid, global warming) #84: Angel Maintenance (drug-certification process, Colombia, the draft, Chesapeake Bay) #85: Evidence of Things Not Seen (Russia's nuclear situation, soft money, "suicide by cop") #86: Life on Mars (Vice President Hoynes resigns, evidence in a meteorite from Mars, fuel efficiency) #87: Commencement #88: Twenty-Five Season Five (aired 2003-04) (back to top) #89: 7A WF 83429 #90: The Dogs of War #91: Jefferson Lives #92: Han #93: Constituency of One #94: Disaster Relief #95: Separation of Powers #96: Shutdown #97: Abu El Banat #98: The Stormy Present #99: The Benign Prerogative #100: Slow News Day #101: The Warfare of Genghis Khan #102: An Khe #103: Full Disclosure #104: Eppur Si Muove #105: The Supremes #106: Access #107: Talking Points #108: No Exit #109: Gaza #110: Memorial Day The Stormy Present The Warfare of Genghis Khan The Supremes Season Six (aired 2004-05) (back to top) #111: NSF Thurmont #112: The Birnam Wood #113: Third-Day Story #114: Liftoff #115: The Hubbert Peak #116: The Dover Test #117: A Change is Gonna Come #118: In the Room #119: Impact Winter #120: Faith Based Initiative #121: Opposition Research #122: 365 Days #123: King Corn #124: The Wake Up Call #125: Freedonia #126: Drought Conditions #127: A Good Day #128: La Palabra #129: Ninety Miles Away #130: In God We Trust #131: Things Fall Apart #132: 2162 Votes A Good Day Ninety Miles Away 2162 Votes Santos helps organize House Democrats against a stem-cell bill. Santos considers legislation about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. Bartlet considers lifting the Cuba embargo. Bartlet and Vinick discuss faith, the debt ceiling, and the minimum wage. Santos refuses Russell's offer while CJ deals with a crisis involving the ISS. The Democrats' new ticket. Season Seven (aired 2005-06) (back to top) #133: The Ticket #134: The Mommy Problem #135: Message of the Week #136: Mr. Frost #137: Here Today #138: The Al Smith Dinner #139: The Debate #140: Undecideds #141: The Wedding #142: Running Mates #143: Internal Displacement #144: Duck and Cover #145: The Cold #146: Two Weeks Out #147: Welcome to Wherever You Are #148: Election Day #149: Election Day, Part II #150: Requiem #151: Transition #152: The Last Hurrah #153: Institutional Memory #154: Tomorrow Message of the Week The Debate Tomorrow A glimpse into the future. Josh deals with the "mommy problem." Vinick raises immigration issues. Intelligent design, leak. Toby confesses. Abortion issues, attack ads. Santos and Vinick debate. Police shooting, Kazakhstan Electoral calculations, Kazakhstan Leo prepares for his debate CJ works on a Sudan resolution Nuclear incident upsets campaign Kazakhstan intervention Nuclear power, the briefcase Disenfranchisement of ex-convicts, election-eve indictment Exit polls, election results, death of a candidate Election results, death of a candidate Leo's funeral, House Speaker election, lobbying reform Sam returns, Kazakhstan, NSA wiretaps Offer for Vinick, Kazakhstan CJ's future, gas tax, Takings Clause typo Transition, inauguration, pardon		Home / Calendar The West Wing The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Colbert Report Saturday Night Live Commander in Chief Law & Order * Issues Resources Site FAQ Search via Google Ripped from the Headlines? West Wing: Santos discusses a lawsuit about intelligent design West Wing: Electoral map as of the 10/9 episode; Santos needs to catch up big-time SNL: The Miers nomination South Park: Inspired by Katrina Boston Legal: End to assault-weapons ban Daily Show: A 2004 study found that 21 percent of young people regularly get their campaign news from comedy shows like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live. So, some footnotes. NOTE: All photos are copyright their respective owners.
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