Many Will Vote Their Gut Feelings This Year – Or Something
September 23rd, 2012
By Dan Miller This Howard Stern show features interviews with some ordinary folk who are likely to vote their gut feelings this year, having nothing else to help them to decide. Maybe they are right and the pro-life “Obama-Ryan” ticket will eventually result in the prohibition of abortion and the capture of Osama bin-Laden.
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Tags: 2016: Obama, film, Howard Stern, ignorance, McCain, Palin, Ryan, voters
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At the Movies: Rising Up Down South
November 23rd, 2011
By Jan Barry The myriad marches, sit-ins, camp-ins and other protest demonstrations sweeping across America these days didn’t spring up out of nowhere. Such actions against entrenched injustice were honed in the civil rights movement that shook up authorities in the 1950s and 1960s. That movement energized and inspired a groundswell of grassroots movements against […]
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Tags: civil rights, democracy, demonstrations, dissent, environment, film, protest
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Why Inspirational Talks Don’t Work
September 7th, 2011
By Dr. Jim Taylor Have you ever listened to an inspirational talk, for example, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch? Have you ever read an inspirational book such as Born to Run? Or watched an inspirational film like Hoosiers? How do you feel after? Well, inspired, right? What a great feeling! You’re fired up and […]
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Tags: books, effectiveness, film, inner, inspiration, motivation, speeches
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Welcome Home
August 10th, 2011
By Jan Barry Bob and Moe Eaton’s marriage, shadowed for more than 30 years by nightmares from the war in Vietnam, was about to implode. Ken Kraft, an Army officer who proudly served in Iraq, felt betrayed by his son’s refusal to carry on the family tradition of military service. Eli Painted Crow, a former […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, film, Iraq, Oregon, PTSD, The Welcome, veterans, Vietnam
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