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June 13, 2014 · 10:14 am

Snowden Was Right to Fear That Nothing Would Change, Today at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET)

The title of today’s show was inspired by a video assignment I got early this week but, as you’ll see, my point was unfortunately proven again by the latest news about Obama’s surveillance state. See the link to that story below, along with all the others on a variety of topics that we plan to discuss today.

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Program Notes

The Jezabels on Tour

The Jezabels on iTunes

The Jezabels on Amazon

Obama To Let Feds Trawl Personal Financial Data For ‘Crimes’ HT MaryAnn DeRaad via Facebook

Apple praised for plan to undermine extensive system that secretly tracks customers Posted on Don’t Let It Go Unheard page on Facebook

Hillary Avoids Press: I Have ‘Deal’ Not to Answer Questions

ABC News’s Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi

Obama: U.S. must stop “jihadists” in Iraq and Syria, and finance and train military forces from other countries to fight them

Breaking: Obama finds out about Iraq crisis from the newspaper HT Bosch Fawstin

BRUCE: Iraq, the Taliban 5 and Hillary Clinton

Cantor upset in Virginia GOP primary by Tea Party-backed challenger HT Tammy Bruce

Dave Brat and Ayn Rand on Rights and Government

The Long March Through the Republican Party

Chris Matthews: “Looking Down Our Noses At The Tea Party Has Got To Stop”

The Slow and Glorious Death of America’s Worst School System

CBS’s ‘Good Wife’ Ridicules Ayn Rand’s Books as ‘Awful’ with ‘a 12-Year-Old’s View of the World’

Paul Krugman: Climate Denialism is Ayn Rand’s Fault HT Todd, show supporter, who sent related story via email

3 Reasons Why Bulletproof Coffee is a Bad Idea HT Chip Joyce via Facebook

First Video: Was Snowden Right to Fear That Nothing Would Change?

As a result of a request from a producer at Al Jazeera, London, I produced my first video. Not sure if they’ll even use the clip, or if people outside the U.K. will be able to view the show anyway, but you can watch it here. (It’s a continuous take of just under one minute, as requested by the producer.)

Let me know what you think in the comments, either here or on YouTube. I will be playing with the lighting and set quite a bit before I get it right, as this was a first attempt.

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May 23, 2014 · 10:01 am

Inspiration vs. Indoctrination, Today at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET)

Today’s show title was inspired (pun intended) by the juxtaposition of two stories about the future of education in the United States. One story is about a new startup that aims to inspire grade school children to love and learn about science. The other is about a White House official who, after considering the system of educational indoctrination in China, concluded that, even in the United States, “high schools probably have a significant ability to move students toward what they consider ‘a correct worldview, a correct view on life, and a correct value system.'”

But, as we’ll see, the theme can be carried beyond the realm of education, to Obama’s use of his “pen and a phone,” to his characterization of Obamacare, to Islam and other totalitarian religions, and more. This dichotomy might even help explain the success of non-liberal talk radio!

See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., we plan to discuss in today’s show.

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Program Notes

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Mystery Science tackles STEM education gap at the source, putting curiosity back in elementary schools

Cass Sunstein: Chinese student indoctrination study may be an ‘OPPORTUNITY’ for America

A scathing interview with a 5th grade teacher who was in the room when Common Core was being created

Study: New Technology Development Pushed By Feds Allows For Data Collection on Every Child

This kid is fat (according to the City of New York)

(Reprise from August 2013) The $4 Million Teacher

The New Abolitionism: Why Education Emancipation is the Moral Imperative of Our Time

Obama blames Founding Fathers’ ‘structural’ design of Congress for gridlock

Obama’s Creative New Way of Describing the Obamacare Mandate