Hey, Let’s Name the Moons of Saturn!

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10242019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsHouston           Call me crazy, but I think this would be fun.  I noticed a brief blurb in the “news” section of the recent Science magazine.  It heralded the discovery by astronomer Scott Shepherd of twenty additional moons orbiting around the planet Saturn.  I had not realized there …

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You Can’t Dial Up a Demo, like an Uber

ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10232019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        A question posed recently by a one of my favorite op-ed columnists, Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times, was essentially, “where have all of the protestors gone?”  It wasn’t exactly her question, but close enough.  She marveled at the number of mass actions …

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Can Trump be Beaten on Foreign Policy?

International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     Various polls indicate that the American people are increasingly open to impeachment proceedings on President Trump, but his hardcore Republican base continues to hold firm, seemingly against all odds.  Increasingly, I have to wonder giving the Teflon nature of his support, whether his Achilles …

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