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In my state, a few years ago a bright, articulate local woman ran for the state House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was ‘Fight Like A Gi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:32
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2016
- Length: 08:01
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 01:02
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 01:21
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 04:13
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 03:23
Not long before the earthquake in Nepal, I drove by yet another SUV with the bumper sticker “No child left a dime.” Then, as now, I am reminded ag...
- Added: May 09, 2015
- Length: 05:55
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
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Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Citizens are being reminded these days of everything they don't have control over. Any nutritionist will tell you that the one thing you always ha...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 04:02
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 04:13