Etcetera - 09.30.08 - Let's Stupid Around!

Erik October 1st, 2008

Hey, kids. Hows about a little buffoonery? Take a break from the economic collapse and inevitable downfall of Western Civilization. Come on over and blow a half-hour with your Etcetera friends. Use one of the options below to listen.

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The Change Manifesto - John W. Whitehead on SBE

Erik September 26th, 2008

Don't miss this edition of SBE with one of our heroes, a man who has been called, "the Tom Paine of our time," John W. Whitehead. Use one of the options below to listen.

America needs change, but Whitehead says the next president isn't the answer. Instead, he calls us back to what the Founding Fathers of America originally intended: A nation whose ultimate power base is the will of its citizens.

In Whitehead's new book, The Change Manifesto, he goes beyond alarmist r … (Read More)

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The Constitution Is the Issue

John W. Whitehead September 16th, 2008

“In America, the law is King. For as in absolute governments, the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”—Thomas Paine

As usual, the contenders for the White House are making a lot of promises about what they will change if elected. They’re singing the siren song all politicians adopt by telling us exactly what we want to hear … (Read More)

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Would You Risk It All for Freedom?

John W. Whitehead June 30th, 2008

“Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.”—Thomas Jefferson

Let me tell you a story about 56 men who risked everything—their fortunes and their lives—to take a stand for truth.

These men laid everything on the line, pledged it all— “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”—because they believed in a radical idea: that all people are created to be free. They believed that the rights we possess are, in their words, given to us by the Creator. At the heart of these rights … (Read More)

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Orwell Cinema: Living in the Land of the Blind

John W. Whitehead May 20th, 2008

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face."

–George Orwell

It has been 60 years since George Orwell published his novel 1984. Described as political satire, it is, in reality, a political prophecy.

1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any … (Read More)

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Bush and Habeas Corpus: Gutting the Constitution

John W. Whitehead March 31st, 2008

Incredibly, President Bush would have us believe that the rights of citizenship are only as good as the ground a citizen literally stands on. In recent oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving Mohammad Munaf and Shawqi Omar, a Bush Administration lawyer argued that "American citizens, when they go abroad, they have to take what they get."

Munaf and Omar, both American citizens, were arrested in Iraq by American military personnel and have been in the custody of … (Read More)

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