Archive
of The Andy Finn Show - June 8, 2006
Special Topic: The Basic Stages of Intellectual Development
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Part 1 - Politics & Social Issues: 'On this Date' Info; Current Events & News; Moore's Law; Senate Defeats "Defense of Marriage' Constitutional Amendment proposal; Next on the agenda - the Flag Desecration Amendment. |
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Part 2 - Politics & Social Issues: Amending the Constitution to prevent flag desecration - the Supreme Court's position, My former Senator, Mitch McConnell, is a hero here; Forms of flag desecration, including wearing the flag, flying the flag in the rain, at night, and when tattered; The 'new patriotism' during the 1980s was largely businesses using the flag as a commercial prop; Notice it's conservatives who want to amend the Constitution to address a slew of imagined crises (flag desecration, prohibit gay marriage, balance the budget, etc.). | |
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Part 3 - Politics & Social Issues: Current Events and News; New Fed Chairman scares the market; Fighting inflation; Schools are discouraging normal bathroom breaks; Breaking ground for the Pentagon memorial; Congressional travel money; New report on European countries that cooperated with CIA flights to and from the secret prisons; The value of Oversight | |
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Part 4 - Politics & Social Issues: Newly released CIA documents from the 1940s indicate that the U.S.; U.N. Deputy Secretary blasts the U.S. for withholding support; Conservatives dismiss the U.N., but for the most part the U.N does what the U.S wants; The Red State / Blue State dichotomy on the U.N.; the nature of intellectual development suggests that multilateralism is a higher form of development. | |
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Part 5 - Politics & Social Issues: Andy explains the basic levels of intellectual development; The Strength and power of seeing the world through relativism - but don't try it if you don't have the intellectual horsepower. |
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