Randi's on vacation, but Nicole Sandler's in with another live show today, featuring the latest news, some great guests, your calls, and more of our year-end wrap-up.

As any potential fiscal cliff deal becomes increasingly unlikely, we're reminded that 2012 has been a year where the economic plans of President Obama and Congressional Democrats kept shrinking the numbers of jobless Americans, while strengthening the economy.

Author, economist, and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker, will join Nicole to talk about The Economy, one of our Top Topics of 2012, and why the fiscal cliff may not be the apocalyptic disaster many in the media are making it out to be.

From transvaginal probes and 'legitimate rape', to Sandra Fluke smears and the attacks on Planned Parenthood, one of our other Top Topics of 2012 has been the GOP's War on Women. Cultural 'her-storian', writer, and actress Amy Simon will look at a year filled with both ugly attacks and beautiful triumphs.

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