Mark Levine (journalist)
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Mark Levine is an American
United States
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 broadcast journalist who frequently appears as a pundit on FOX News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, and CNN Headline News, http://bobcarson13.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-06-28T19_08_21-07_00 http://radioinsidescoop.com. He often debates radio host Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagheris an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Mike Gallagher Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program that airs throughout the United States on Salem Radio Network and is also a FOX News Channel Contributor and guest host...

 on America Live with Megyn Kelly
America Live with Megyn Kelly
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 and Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
Laura Anne Ingraham is an American radio host, author, and conservative political commentator. Her nationally syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network...

 on the O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor
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. http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=%22mark+levine%22&submit=Search. Levine is the host of the nationally syndicated radio/television show Mark Levine's Inside Scoop on Washington, which began in June 2003 http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:NwZG_wmiaZUJ:www.colorado.edu/cwa/bios.html%3Fid%3D654%26year%3D2007+mark+levine+conference+on+world+affairs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
and is currently featured on local television in Metropolitan Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. He also has regular shows on XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio
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 and on Pacifica Radio
Pacifica Radio
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 in Washington DC. The Inside Scoop's tag line is "All the News from Washington the Government Does Not Want You to Know." http://radioinsidescoop.com From July to December 2007, Levine hosted the television show The American Dream on Press TV
Press TV
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, until, he says, Press TV
Press TV
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 tried to censor him. http://radioinsidescoop.com/?p=781 http://radioinsidescoop.com/?p=848. Levine is well-known for keeping a Constitution in his pocket when he debates on air http://radioinsidescoop.com/?p=5891.

Prior to his radio debut, Levine served three years as legislative counsel to Barney Frank
Barney Frank
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, a high-ranking Democrat
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 on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees. In that capacity Levine says he learned how Washington really works: from the way bills become law to political negotiations, spin, administration secrets, and dangerous lapses in American security. He was hired by Democrats.com on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing the black members of the United States Congress. Membership is exclusive to blacks, and its chair in the 112th Congress is Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri.-Aims:...

 to author the Congressional Challenge To Presidential Electors, "The 'Gore Exception': A Layman's Guide to the United States Supreme Court Decision in Bush v. Gore", and a section of the USA PATRIOT Act
USA PATRIOT Act
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. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:NwZG_wmiaZUJ:www.colorado.edu/cwa/bios.html%3Fid%3D654%26year%3D2007+mark+levine+conference+on+world+affairs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Levine earned an economics degree magna cum laude from Harvard University
Harvard University
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 and a Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor
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 from Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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. He was a Fulbright scholar in Switzerland
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. He has worked as a California trial attorney, Nazi hunter
Nazi hunter
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, Jewish historian, and inner-city school teacher. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:NwZG_wmiaZUJ:www.colorado.edu/cwa/bios.html%3Fid%3D654%26year%3D2007+mark+levine+conference+on+world+affairs&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us. Rush Limbaugh has called Levine "a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance." http://radioinsidescoop.com/?p=5124

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