Tag: american
group name: intheloop
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April 17, 2006 04:17 PM EDT --
After a little hiatus, Minnesota Public Radio's new show The Loop returns in a couple weeks. This time around, we're taking our own special approach to a truly timely issue: The current immigration . . .
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April 04, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
Seems appropriate to toss this out to the public radio junkies on Gather. We had a podcast coming up right around April Fools...and our producer sounds like Ira Glass. So...here you go:
Listen . . .
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June 07, 2008 07:45 PM EDT --
It's official: Al Franken is the DFL-endorsed candidate for the US Senate seat currently occupied by Norm Coleman. This first-ballot endorsement has been a surprise to many, including MPR's Midday . . .
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July 07, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
Patriotism is ACTION inspired by a profound sense of RESPONSIBILITY to one's country. American patriotism is a duty to act toward the creation of a more perfect union.
Sometimes that duty means . . .
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June 28, 2008 01:22 PM EDT --
The most important issue facing America today is the counter-productive and divisive paradigm of our political discourse. I will refer to this as "image-based politics".
Our democracy cannot . . .
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July 08, 2008 10:21 AM EDT --
I think it's a stretch to impeach Bush for murder as some would propose but I do believe there are many other viable articles of impeachment that could be brought against the president and others . . .
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May 24, 2006 12:49 PM EDT --
Greetings to our Gather friends and followers! Somewhat belatedly, I am happy to offer up to you the latest edition of "The Loop" from Minnesota Public Radio (we were so busy getting the . . .
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July 01, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
My Fellow Americans,
We are all so played against each other by sophisticated political machinery. "Divide and Conquer" still appears to be working, and it richly rewards those who operate . . .
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July 02, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
There are millions of undocumented workers in this country who came here for nothing more than an opportunity to work hard and find security for themselves and their families.
American companies . . .
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June 09, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
My name is Michael, and the meaning of my name in Hebrew is actually a question: "Who is like God?"
How can anyone even attempt an answer? To do so would be to say that one understands . . .
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July 01, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
After the September 11 terrorist attacks the reaction of our government was one of arrogance, ignorance and fear. Everyone, myself included, was subjected to intense domestic terror and manipulated by . . .
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July 09, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
Iran recently launched a long-range missile capable of reaching Israel and Europe. The Bush administration's reaction has been once again unfortunate yet predictable: saber-rattling with offers to . . .
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July 11, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
A Sophisticated Theology Behind the Musical Tradition
I once met an American tourist who went to Siberia — and was peppered with questions about Joe Carter. Joe had made one of his riveting . . .
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July 09, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
One hears it over and over again and again that this economy, the American economy, is in place because the of the American consumer. However, now that the financial ability of the American consumer has . . .
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June 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
The word "sustainability" has entered our common vocabulary, a critical concept for the period ahead. But like every catchword, new and old, this . . .
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July 10, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
We are, all of us, played by those more powerful than each individual, like pawns on a chessboard or puppets on a string.
Dangling from the strings of the Puppeteer's right hand is the Elephant, . . .
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August 22, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
So much of the news of recent years has a religious component, for good or ill, and often involving the young. Since I interviewed Eboo Patel, I watch this unfold with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem ringing in . . .
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May 21, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
partner: ( one who shares )
In 1919, Arthur G. Staples published a limited-edition book titled, "Just Talks On Common Themes". Staples was a journalist for the Lewiston Journal . . .
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June 02, 2008 04:05 AM EDT --
It has begun. Things are revving up on the politikal front. It is sad to say that it looks like we are in for more of the same. The GOP, or Grand Obfuscating Party, have begun their usual shenanigans. . . .
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June 19, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
Have you played Budget Hero™ yet? After my first try, I managed to reduce the national debt from 37.7% of the GDP in 2008 to just 5.9% of the GDP in 2018. That equates to $7.1 billion in ten . . .
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