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The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry:Isn't the Individual Candidate Who Won't Listen Just Like Congressional Politicians Who Refuse to Listen?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:02
Defenders of Wildlife
From: The humble Farmer
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Should any species be hunted to extinction?

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:14
Linking Teacher Pay to Student Performance
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
They tried it in Houston

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
Illinois Governors
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How many Illinois Governors have gone to jail?

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Keep Your Friends Close
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Chinese philosophy passed on to you by a Swede

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 1
What's The Matter With Kansas?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why do poor people vote for the party of billionaires?

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Blame Congress For The Oil Spill
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It's complicated.

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 02:37
The Destruction of Krypton
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Superman got out in time.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
A New Kind of Political Campaign
From: The humble Farmer
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Stop me if you've heard this one before

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: :35
Does Your Spouse Buy Useless Things?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A marriage is the smallest unit of government.

Bought by KUT and WTIP


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 2
Would Your Representative Vote for Socialized Medicine?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it applied to them, the bill passed.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:49
Why Do Seniors Buy Pills In Canada?
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Seniors charter buses for pill buying forays into Canada

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: :38
A Ship Without A Rudder
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A small town in Maine has fired the town manager

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
How To Recognize Hoax Emails
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The more popular the email, the more likely it is to be bogus

  • Added: Mar 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
How To Buy A Seat In Congress
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can You Imagine An Election Where TV Ads Were Not Allowed?

  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:45
A Better Standard of Living
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Many countries have a higher standard of living than we do.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2010
  • Length: 01:26
Coolidge And the Crash of 1929
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Coolidge and his friends, subsequent presidents have learned the danger in giving banks a free rein.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: :55
Jailed for Starting a Dog Fight
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man went to jail for starting a dog fight.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: :34
The Cat Came Back
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We get email that encourages us to "Vote the bums out."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:01
A Misplaced Sense of Moral Responsibility
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Where but in American could a man start a war that kills a million or so people and not be castigated as much as another man who cheats on his wife?

  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: :28
The Supreme Court Decision
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The good thing about the recent Supreme Court decision is that now corporate dollars will buy legislators from both parties. Because everyone wil...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: :33
From The Bottom of The Heap
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Martin Luther King, Thoreau, Voltaire, Bertrand Russell, Thomas More, Oscar Wilde, Solzhenitsyn, Ghandi and hundreds more went to jail.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Yak Dung
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2009
  • Length: :21
The Clean Election Fund
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Clean Elections is touted as a practical, proven reform that puts voters in control of elections.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
How To Write A Best Seller
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:07