Category: Politics
August 3, 2022

Why Politics Sucks – 2022 Edition

Did the House Progressive Caucus betray their promise on the Build Back Better Act? Ohio Attorney General David Yost needs remedial Bible study and the gun fetish in Georgia leads to the canceling of a $10 million music festival.

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May 23, 2022

Mutual Respect: Merkel and Obama with Claudia Clark

We talk to Claudia Clark about her book “Dear Barack” that explains the unique partnership of President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Claudia also gives the European viewpoint of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and finally we discuss her time as a community organizer with the group ACORN.

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April 25, 2022

Seeing Through the Election Year Theater (Lies and Damn Lies)

March 11, 2022

Gun Violence Isn’t Always About Gangs And Drugs

Violent crime has spiked recently. Are we wasting time and money with more policing? Can having children be immoral? And where are the vigils and memorials for the thousands who died in the pandemic. One political party has blood on its hands and its initials are G. O. P.

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February 22, 2022

In GOP-land, Ignoring Racism Is The Ideal

January 27, 2022

Bari Weiss Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

In this episode Doug looks at Bari Weiss’s appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show and why her flippant Pandemic of Bureaucracy is both childish and dangerous to us all. Then we look at a recent church and state case over a Boston flag pole that was heard at the US Supreme Court. It doesn’t look good for secular people or for more than 40 years of settled jurisprudence.

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