Episode 017

March 12, 2012 in Podcasts by Washington's Beard

We recap two weeks of political hysteria surrounding presidential candidates and birth control “debate,” we each make two predictions for the coming year, and explain how the best move for workers’ rights is the extrication of workers’ “benefits” from their–our–employers. Oh yeah, and half of the south thinks Obama is a Muslim. Sorry to all the rational folks that live there!

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Episode 016

February 20, 2012 in Podcasts by Washington's Beard

Ron Paul probably didn’t win the Maine caucus but that doesn’t mean some shenanigans didn’t go down. We catch up with the Republican primary, the insanity of the FOR-SOME-REASON national debate on birth control, and new happenings in and around Iran. Oh brother.

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Episode 015

February 12, 2012 in Podcasts by Washington's Beard

What good is war? What war is good? We ambitiously go through America’s past wars in history and justify them…or make a case for why they were actually unjust. No news, just a good bit of history and some philosophical pondering.

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Episode 014

February 8, 2012 in Podcasts by Washington's Beard

In the afterglow of Rick Santorum’s great upset, we discuss the caucuses and primary of Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Which leads us to discussion of social conservatism and the recent Federal appeals court ruling against California’s Prop 8. Some Milton Friedman sycophancy ensues.

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Episode 013

January 30, 2012 in Podcasts by Washington's Beard

Obama’s State of the Union, Mitt and Newt in Florida, why we don’t agree with banker bailouts, Ron Paul’s marginalization, the value in Michael Moore, and our breakdown of the different “sects” of Republicanism.

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