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Wanted, A Few Good Chaplains
Chaplain Kenneth Beale, along with serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Army, is in charge of making sure the Army has enough chaplains. The Army Reserves is suffering a shortage of chaplains right now. It's less of a problem in the regular military, but not when it comes to Catholic priests. Nearly a quarter of all Army soldiers identify themselves as Catholic but only eight percent of Chaplains are Catholic priests. Host John Moe asks Beale how he's trying to change that.
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Project Censored
The war in Iraq often dominates headlines today, as it has for the past four years. That means many other stories aren't on the front page. Project Censored has been highlighting what it sees as the big but under-reported stories for the past 31 years. The group at Sonoma State University in California has already published its list for 2007. Host John Moe takes a peek.
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To Look Back, or Not to Look Back
While the war in Iraq continues, there's renewed interest in revisiting how we got into it in the first place. Next week, the House Committee on Oversight and government reform will hold a new round of hearings about the intelligence that led up to the war. We get mixed signals about the past all the time--as citizens and as individuals. We're admonished that "those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." But we're encouraged to "let go and leave the past behind." So which is it? That's what Weekend America's Krissy Clark wants to know.
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A Question About Iraq
We asked listeners last week to share their stories related to the Iraq War with us. Hear what people are talking about and how they are connected to the war in Iraq.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. Weighing in this week is John Ridley, author of "The American Way," Ana Marie Cox from Time magazine and formerly of Wonkette, and Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor at The New Yorker
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A Veteran Poet
Mickey Cesar is a poet and a veteran of the Iraq War. He's written poems in the 140-degree heat of the desert with sand blowing every which way. He says all of his poems, regardless of the topic, are informed by the war. Cesar shares his story with Weekend America.
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A Poet Laureate Under Fire
Poet Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr. was ready to accept the position of poet laureate of New York's Nassau County on Monday, when the county legislature balked. In 2005, Wheat wrote a book of poetry called "Iraq and Other Killing Fields: Poetry for Peace," something a little different from his other poetry. We talk with Wheat about the honor he is getting--with or without the county legislature's blessing.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. Weighing in this week is Cathy Sorbo, a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nancy French, author of "A Red State of Mind," and Missouri State University journalism professor Andrew Cline.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. Weighing in this week is Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford; Detroit Free Press writer Desiree Cooper; and essayist, journalist and actor David Rakoff.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. Weighing in this week will be Amy Hungerford, Dana Gould, and Nancy French
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Ron Paul's Online Army
Presidential candidate Ron Paul got some media attention this week after a sparring match with Rudy Giuliani at the Republican Presidential debate. Paul's numbers in the polls haven't been so hot but in the online world, it's a different story. Weekend America's John Moe looks at the phenomenon of the modern internet-fueled campaign.
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Suspicion at the Dog Park
Recently, Weekend America's Neille Ilel learned something disturbing about a regular at the dog park near her: he was on the state sex offender registry. Dog parks, especially in the sprawl of California, are one of the last places where people from very different backgrounds, who aren't connected in the usual ways -- work, kids, a love of organic vegetables -- actually hang out and talk. She brings us a story of community and fear.
