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Posted by John Wihbey on Wednesday, August 11, 2010

In a Wednesday interview, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, an ‘08 GOP candidate for president and a potential candidate again in 2012, said he did not favor repeal of the 14th Amendment, or birthright citizenship, and said that all children of illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship.

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Posted by bhansen on Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Our guest Randy Cohen, who writes “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine, took some questions from listeners about their moral quandaries. Cohen helped Tommy, from Washington D.C., puzzle out the ethics of a college meal plan.

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Posted by Julie Diop on Monday, August 9, 2010

Leslie Mulcahy, owner of the Rabbit Hill Inn in Vermont and a guest in our second hour today, is accepting new requests from those who have lost jobs to stay at her inn for free.

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Posted by Julie Diop on Wednesday, August 4, 2010

See the viral video that has brought this issue into the public square. It’s by the Enough Project. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has even weighed in on the debate. We re-post his note here, too.

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Posted by John Wihbey on Tuesday, August 3, 2010

During our Iraq show Tuesday, we received a poignant call-in from a self-identified Iraq War veteran named “Mike,” from Nashville, TN. “We were really just over there trying to get each other home,” he said. Listen to the call.

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Posted by Marieke Spence on

Our recent segment about the social games craze got one of our guests, Mia Consalvo, of MIT, thinking more about the concept of cheating in social games. She wrote a blog post for On Point. Have you “cheated” in social games?

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Posted by Sam Gale Rosen on Thursday, July 29, 2010

After our show on the state of the news media, guest Charles Madigan had some more thoughts on the topic, which he sent to us. Here’s what he wrote.

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Posted by jbidgood on Monday, July 26, 2010

Was the real-life adventure lived out by Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old “barefoot bandit,” really any fun?

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Posted by Sam Gale Rosen on

In our show on the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, host Tom Ashbrook mentioned that he has a poster in his study with an illustration of the Baghavad Gita — part of the Mahabharata — illustrating Krishna revealing his divine form to Arjuna. Here’s a picture of what the poster looks like.

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Posted by Julie Diop on Friday, July 23, 2010

Our segment this week on killer whales generated a lot of strong opinions. Our main guest, Outside magazine writer Tim Zimmerman, followed up the show with some thoughts about criticisms of his work. We repost it here.

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Posted by John Wihbey on Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Our guest Nell Irvin Painter, author of “The History of White People,” wrote in after our show with more thoughts about New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s notion of “white anxiety.” Here’s her note.

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Posted by John Wihbey on

Our show Wednesday examined new racial sensitivities, and the latest wrinkle in this debate is the controversy over USDA official Shirley Sherrod. Here’s the full video in question that got her in trouble, after a conservative blogger circulated an excerpt.

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Posted by John Wihbey on Tuesday, July 20, 2010

We’re taking an in-depth look at the fatal killer whale incident at Sea World earlier this year. Here is the CBS News report in the aftermath of the incident.

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Posted by Pien Huang on Friday, July 16, 2010

Hear an excerpt from our 2005 interview with the late, great comic book writer Harvey Pekar, on how he made the transition from file clerk and jazz critic to writing comic books.

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Posted by jbidgood on Thursday, July 15, 2010

Judy Collins wrote a note to Tom and the On Point community after the show. We repost it here. Also, a few more musings on her deep relationship with “Over The Rainbow.”

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On Point Today
Cabin Pressure and Public Anger
Thursday, August 12, 2010 JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater (from Facebook)

A JetBlue flight attendant is now the working man’s hero and social media sensation. We ask why.

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Deflation Fears: U.S. as Japan?
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Deflation worries. High unemployment and low consumer confidence. Is the US looking at a Japan-style meltdown?

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Recent Shows
Andrew Bacevich: U.S. Militarism
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Retired Army colonel and big thinker Andrew Bacevich on why it’s time to throw out the playbook on American military policy.

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Politics, Punditry with Huckabee
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is interviewed after speaking at the University of Arkansas Clinton School for Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 14, 2009. (AP)

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talks GOP politics, Obama, and his own political future.

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