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Maybe Drag Shows Should Hand Out Guns To Kids
Secular Left - March 09, 2023 16:00 - 51 minutesProtestors on the left are more likely to be charged as domestic terrorists. MAGAs are more threatened by drag shows than guns and Universal vouchers reward conservative selfishness. Show Notes 00:35 Protesting Cops Gets You A Terrorism Charge 19:45 Maybe Drag Shows Should Hand Out Guns To Kid...
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No Outrage Politics with Bud Cornwell
Secular Left - February 08, 2023 13:00 - 54 minutesIt isn't everyday that a conservative wants to be a guest on a secular left podcast but it happened. Doug talks to a conservative podcast host about topics they will never agree on and there was no name calling. Slowly drive past the scene of this accident. Show Notes [00:45] Why would a relig...
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The Debt Ceiling Myth and Abortion Bans
Secular Left - January 21, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutesRepublicans take over the US House and immediately use the mythical debt ceiling to demand cuts to social security and medicare. Landlords in Maumee Ohio don't like regulations to make their housing safe and affordable and did you know abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. S...
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You're So Lame Duck
Secular Left - December 23, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutesGOP gerrymandering shenanigans caused an Ohio GOP State Senator to lose her seat and we look at more fun from the lame duck session of the Ohio legislature. You really didn't want your right to choose to be restored did you? Show Notes 00:35 Ohio State Senator Loses Seat Over Gerrymandering F...
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Be A Fascist Without Telling Us You're A Fascist
Secular Left - November 22, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutesA majority of Ohioans didn't support the relection of Governor Mike Dewine or any of the GOP office holders and the GOP wants to keep it that way by making it harder to vote. Do you know the difference between Critical Thinking and Confirmation Bias? Show Notes 00:35 Ohio Gop Won Offices With ...
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Religious Freedom Is Not Pie
Secular Left - October 26, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutesFor our 50th episode we look at religious opposition to equality efforts where we have to state again, religious freedom is not pie. Then we explain simply why government policies to address racism isn't racist. Finally we look at one local political ad that is an outright lie and showing the a...
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Election Liars and Religious Deceit
Secular Left - September 30, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutesHow do you know when a GOP election ad is lying? Its lips move. And religious conservatives will do whatever it takes to force religion on all children in public schools. Their newest trick? Fake school assemblies. Show Notes Our Newsletter Our Merch 00:45 Discerning political ads 20:23 School...
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Being Popular Doesn't Mean Being Good
Secular Left - September 06, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode Doug points out what podcaster Tanner Campbell got wrong about his old remembered complaints over Atheism Plus. Then Doug gives an update about the Sylvania Bus Dispute and his thoughts on the remaking of CNN into FOX "news" Lite. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter Chec...
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The Great Religious Bus Dispute
Secular Left - August 17, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutesTwo Ohio families spent a lot of money and time to complain about a new plan to bus their young children to their catholic school. They cited some recent US Supreme Court 1st amendment cases but in the end a judge used her gut feeling in helping protect the family's privilege. Show Notes Subscr...
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Why Politics Sucks 2022 Edition
Secular Left - August 03, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutesDid the House Progressive Caucus betray their promise on the Build Back Better Act? Ohio Attorney General David Yost needs remedial Bible study and the gun fetish in Georgia leads to the canceling of a $10 million music festival. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter Check out our merch ...
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Clarence Thomas, CRT, And A Touch Of Abortion
Secular Left - July 15, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutesWe explore Justice Clarence Thomas' Black Nationalism in his college years and how his thoughts on racism sounds like critical race theory. Then we talk to an abortion clinic volunteer about the loss of religious freedom from overturning Roe v Wade. Show Notes Get our free newsletter Check out ...
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Religious Freedom Had a Very Bad Week
Secular Left - June 29, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutesWhat is the long term fall out now that the right to privacy is in danger with end of Roe v Wade and how can this turn out worse for the Democrats. We also take a look the ramifications of the Football coach prayer case that also helps Christian Nationalists. Show Notes Get our Free Newsletter ...
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When Did Free Inquiry Turn Into David Silverman's Twitter Feed?
Secular Left - June 09, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutesRobyn Blumner of the Center of Inquiry took the opportunity, in a recent editorial, to slam identity politics, woke progressives, and took a cheap shot at the American Humanist Association. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter Check out our merch 01:35 Blumner is wrong about Humanism 22...
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Mutual Respect: Merkel and Obama with Claudia Clark
Secular Left - May 23, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutesWe talk to Claudia Clark about her book "Dear Barack" that explains the unique partnership of President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Claudia also gives the European viewpoint of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and finally we discuss her time as a community organizer with the group ACO...
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Reaching out to Secular Students with Kevin Bolling
Secular Left - May 09, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutesKevin Bolling faced the biggest challenge he's faced as Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance. He had to manage the group through the pandemic and then resume regular support once the schools opened back up. SSA launched a massive effort to reach 1.4 million students. He will tell u...
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Seeing Through the Election Year Theater (Lies and Damn Lies)
Secular Left - April 25, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutesThe stench of Trump has been absorbed into the corpuscles of the Republican party so that now it isn't about policies but what fake outrage you support or are against. The electorate suffers. We take a look at some examples of this theater called a primary season here in Ohio. Show Notes Subscr...
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Ohio Republican's Supermajority of Bigotry
Secular Left - April 07, 2022 13:00 - 42 minutesElections matter and when you can hold a super majority in the state legislature you can feed your every factless conspiracy theory fever dream and let your bigot flag fly. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter See our Merch 00:36 Announcement 05:33 Release Time Religious Instruction ...
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Gun Violence Isn't Always About Gangs And Drugs
Secular Left - March 11, 2022 14:00 - 34 minutesViolent crime has spiked recently. Are we wasting time and money with more policing? Can having children be immoral? And where are the vigils and memorials for the thousands who died in the pandemic. One political party has blood on its hands and its initials are G. O. P. Show Notes Subscribe t...
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In GOP-land, Ignoring Racism Is The Ideal
Secular Left - February 22, 2022 15:00 - 46 minutesIn this episode, we look at the struggles of 'moderate' Republican and retired sports reporter Michele Tafoya as she tries to stop the world from making her babies feel bad in our 'post' racial era. Tucker Carlson celebrates her American Ideal. Then we look at how the Ohio GOP is trying to run o...
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Bari Weiss Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Secular Left - January 27, 2022 14:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode Doug looks at Bari Weiss's appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show and why her flippant Pandemic of Bureaucracy is both childish and dangerous to us all. Then we look at a recent church and state case over a Boston flag pole that was heard at the US Supreme Court. It doesn't look goo...
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Can Polarization Be Reduced By Exchanging Cookie Recipes?
Secular Left - January 14, 2022 15:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode, Doug takes a look at political polarization, which many people feel is a threat to our democracy. We take a look at two projects that think talking things out will lead to shiny happy people, rainbows, and unicorns. Show Notes Subscribe to our free Newsletter Check out our Merc...
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Protecting Rapists Seems To Be Ohio AG Yost's Thing
Secular Left - December 31, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutesIn this episode, we wonder why, at the request of no one, Ohio Attorney General David Yost inserted the state into a local case and tried to prosecute a rape victim instead of the rapist. And a Federal judge tells parents they don't have a constitutional right to avoid school mask mandates. Sho...
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Sorry Anti-Abortionists. A Fetus Is Not A Child Until It's Born
Secular Left - December 10, 2021 21:00 - 42 minutesIn this episode, we take a deep dive into the abortion issue because the US Supreme Court is looking at a Mississippi law that ignores established science and bans abortion at 15 weeks. We look at the history of abortion rights in this country and why the Christian Nationalist's argument that a ...
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Fetishization Of Kyle Rittenhouse
Secular Left - November 24, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode we look at some wrong hot takes on the Kyle Rittenhouse case and ask why it was treated differently than the Breonna Taylor case in 2020. President Biden was threatened by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops again over his pro-choice stance but the Pope stepped in to provide ...
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Discrimination is NOT Religious Freedom with Alison Gill
Secular Left - November 09, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode we talk to Alison Gill, Vice President, Legal and Policy with American Atheists, about Christian Nationalists using the 1st amendment to discriminate and how the Do No Harm Act could help restore real religious freedom. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter Check out our M...
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Bigotry And A Bitter Comedian Target Trans People
Secular Left - October 27, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutesIn this episode we look at another attempt by religious extremists in the Ohio legislature to kill more Trans teens. Comedian Dave Chappelle, needing to protect his manhood lashes out at LGBTQ people for not getting his jokes. And we find out who bankrolled this year's National Prayer Breakfast ...
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Three Existential Threats to Democracy
Secular Left - October 08, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode we look at voter suppression efforts by Republicans, a US Senate Candidate who is using the Taliban playbook, and we look at the growing issue of conservatives trying to take over school boards. Show Notes Subscribe to our free newsletter 00:47 Voter Suppression 17:34 Taliban J...
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Gerrymandered Parasites
Secular Left - September 14, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode we take a look at the dumpster fire that is Ohio’s redistricting process after the 2020 census then we talk about the lack of research in the use of ivermectin as a treatment for Covid and the lengths one woman went to force a hospital to treat her husband with it. Finally we loo...
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An Atheist Takes Over Harvard
Secular Left - August 31, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode Doug is kind of happy that Greg Epstien is now head of the Chaplains of Harvard University but he still has trouble believing that interfaith work really includes the non-believer. Then Doug talks about a recent study that showed ending the $300 extra unemployment benefit didn't ...
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No More F*cks To Give For Anti-Maskers And Anti-Vaxxers
Secular Left - August 15, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode, Doug is fed up with the idiot science deniers who keep pushing mask and vaccination mandate bans. Doug hates wearing a mask too but their failed logic, and that is being kind, will prolong the pandemic and harm people needlessly. Why do the people who do the right thing have to ...
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