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I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 06:17
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 11, 2016
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 1
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 05:01
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
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
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
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
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
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 05:03
In Today's Department of Poetic Justice (and The Great American Wrongbook), "Donald J. Trump- The Evangelical Version" which could be sung to the ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 02:59
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 04:45
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 we have a remarkable example of corporations having their way with state legislators to pass a bill that- in the long run did not...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 05:46
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
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
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 06:45
