Join us in the smoking parlour for some fine chat. It’s Meet the New Press!

James Pindell is the national managing editor of the Politicker.com websites and a columnist for the New Hampshire website PolitickerNH.com. He followed his passion of politics by reporting on it in five states, two of those being the early presidential states of Iowa and New Hampshire.  The Washington Post called him the "Insider’s Insider" for his coverage of New Hampshire politics.  He ran PoliticsNH.com for four years before joining the Boston Globe in 2006 as a reporter and blogger covering the 2008 New Hampshire primary.  He covered the 2000 Iowa Caucuses for the Des Moines Register, and was the Statehouse Bureau Chief of the Morgantown Dominion Post.  Pindell is an Adjunct Professor at New England College, and has provides analysis on national and state television and radio stations on a regular basis. He is a graduate of Drake University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. We’ll talk about his latest online venture, the state of the presidential race, and the outlook for some upcoming NH campaigns, icluding the Governor’s and the US Senate.

Mark Steyn is the author of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It and his writing on war, politics, the arts, and culture can be read around the world from the Atlantic Monthly to The Australian. In the United States his column appears in the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Sun, the Washington Times, the Orange County Register, and other newspapers. He is also National Review’s “Happy Warrior,” a columnist for the New Criterion, and resident obituarist for the Atlantic Monthly. In Canada, he is senior columnist for the country’s newest political magazine, the Western Standard, and literary correspondent for the country’s biggest-selling general interest magazine, Maclean’s. In addition, he appears in many other publications, from the Jerusalem Post to Hawke’s Bay Today in New Zealand. Born in Toronto, he lives in New Hampshire. We’ll talk about his book, as well as the latest on his legal problems involving "hate speech" in Canada. He’ll be with us for nearly a full hour, so if you want to ask him a question, or throw in a comment for discussion, simply phone in and we’ll put you right on!