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 Post subject: Good Podcasts?
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:12 am 
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Does anyone listen to some good thought provoking podcasts? One of my favorites is Radio Lab. Great storytelling and very well produced. I listen to them before bed to help me sleep.

This one is just insane called The Political Thicket. A discussion emerges around how powerful the courts should be over the political process.

It concerns whether or not the judicial system and in particular the Supreme Court should interfere with the democratic process and the implications on our civil liberties and the entire democratic process at large when this occurs.

On one horn of the dilemma is the conservative idea that the Courts should not intervene at all because in theory, the will of a judge would supersede or replace the will of people and their elected representatives. On the other horn, is the more liberal notion that Courts ought to intervene to in order to protect minority groups, free speech rights etc.

The political thicket....once the courts gets involved, there is no turning back. Someday the Courts would be forced to declare winners and losers of very important elections. Sound familiar?

http://www.radiolab.org/story/the_political_thicket/


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 Post subject: Re: Good Podcasts?
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:10 pm 
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Eventually, courts are going to be involved in offsides calls after potential goals. :rimcrash:

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 Post subject: Re: Good Podcasts?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:53 am 
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Lol - or even worse, getting involved in Presidential Elections like Bush over Gore.


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 Post subject: Re: Good Podcasts?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:35 pm 
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I like the NPR Politics podcast. They also have their own app called NPR One.

I don't get to watch it so I listen to Real Time with Bill Maher - just an audio recording of his HBO show.

Also been listening to the FiveThirtyEight.com election podcast.


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 Post subject: Re: Good Podcasts?
PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:39 am 
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About the only podcast I listen to is this one:

http://www.flamesfrom80feet.ca/

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