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Episode 212: The Obama Doctrine
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Watch President Obama Address U.S. Drone Policy And Counter-Terrorism Efforts Live [Video]
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks OK Tornado Victim “Do You Thank The Lord?” [Video]
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Episode 211: Cheesy Theses
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Episode 210: Between A Rocky Road And A Slippery Slope
Discussions
Episode 212: The Obama Doctrine
After about five years in office, President Barack Obama finally laid out what we’re calling The Obama Doctrine–essentially the admission and defense of some of the most unscrupulous behavior by the government in the nation’s history (except perhaps the forced enslavement of Africans for free labor). On this episode of The Axiom Amnesia Theory, Heit [...]
Discussions
Watch President Obama Address U.S. Drone Policy And Counter-Terrorism Efforts Live [Video]
In a few minutes, President Obama will give a speech at National Defense University on the Administration’s counter terrorism policy. He is expected to discuss U.S. drone strikes on American citizens (there have been four killings of U.S. citizens since 2009), and in general, broad counter-terrorism efforts, including U.S. military, diplomatic, intelligence and legal efforts. [...]
Philosophy
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks OK Tornado Victim “Do You Thank The Lord?” [Video]
What part of the journalism game is this where it’s okay for CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to initiate a line of questioning about whether an Oklahoma tornado victim “thanks the Lord” during a television interview? While interviewing one of the Oklahoma tornado victims, Wolf Blitzer made a fool of himself, asking an atheist woman, “I guess [...]
Full Length Podcasts
Episode 211: Cheesy Theses
The world is full of cheesy theses–those ridiculous theories that are far too often taken as fact, not on their merit, but because of who said them. On this episode of The Axiom Amnesia Theory, Heit & Cheri give you some real-life examples of the excuses and justifications people use to maintain classist and racist [...]
Full Length Podcasts
Episode 210: Between A Rocky Road And A Slippery Slope
When it comes to crime and punishment (and anything else in life), it’s easy to find yourself between a rocky road and a slippery slope. For starters, there are just too many laws, rules, and regulations that exist solely as a means of revenue generation for the state. Furthermore, these laws do not prevent people [...]
Amnesia Podcast
Episode 196: The Uncommon Sense Project
We hear people say that we should use some “common sense” to solve the issues we face, but perhaps the problem is that we are using “sense” that is too common–too infused with ideals of the status ...
Episode 195: Popular Loudmouths And Nobodies
So much of life is a popularity contest, with people acting out of the desire to be well-liked, admired, followed, and famous. Often, the most popular among us are the loudmouths who make their voices heard above everyone else&...
Episode 194: That Bird Don’t Fly
Why is it that people have such a hard time coming to the conclusion that “that bird don’t fly”? The majority of the issue is that a lot of folks never stop to assess the situation before accepting the “...
Episode 193: Standard Template For Thinking
We are capable of so much more thought than we exercise at any given time. Consequently, we would be better served to depart from what we call the “standard template for thinking”–the default set of instructio...
Episode 192: Empty Libraries
What shall we do when our “libraries” are empty–when the place that should house records of our meaningful collective accomplishments is empty? Or worse yet, what shall we do upon discovering that the historic...
Episode 191: KnockOff Americans
Vice President Joe Biden referred to the Boston bombing suspects as “two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists”. Stop and think about why he called them “knock-offs”… His language was ve...
Trayvon Martin Case
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