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.
Comments [2]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.
Comments [1]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.
Comments [1]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.
Comments [2]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.
Comments [5]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?
Comments [5]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.
Comments [10]Was the real-life adventure lived out by Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old “barefoot bandit,” really any fun?
Comments [5]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.
Comments [4]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.
Comments [7]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.
Comments [18]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.
Comments [3]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.
Comments [1]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.
Comments [1]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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