Recovering politician Arnie Arnesen's daily pubic affairs interview show from WNHN Radio in Concord, New Hampshire and the Pacifica Radio Network. Arnie hosts progressive voices from politics, journalism, industry, and academia. She talks electric cars with Barry Woods, she talks Texas with Scott Braddock, she talks Congress with Rho Khanna, she talks gun culture, she talks limericks, she talks campaigns ...
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Episode 456: Arnie Arnesen Attitude May 1 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Jacqueline Ellison, Ph.D., who has done research on the rise of permanent contraception among young people in the US, particularly among women. This is seen as a response to several events, mostly to the Dobbs decision. We discuss how young men have also reacted to this, and what this means for the future population. Part 2: We…
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Episode 455: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 30 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Anders Croy, of Florida Watch and DeSantis Watch. We discuss the home insurance problems in Florida. Cost of insurance has skyrocketed. This has cause many people to lose money, since the insurance companies also often refuse to pay for climate-caused damages. Home prices are falling in Florida. Many people cannot afford to kee…
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Episode 454: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 29 2024
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Part 1: We discuss Project 2025, and its implications. We discuss the life expectancy differences between red and blue states. How unionizing is affecting workers and corporations. Part 2: We discuss new regulations that require airlines to disclose true ticket prices and fees. New regulations now require airlines to compensate passengers for fligh…
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Episode 453: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 26 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Elliot Haspel, an authority on child care. We continue the discussion about how child care is being dominated by for-profit private equity firms. We note their economic power, which translates to political power. For example, their lobbyists were instrumental in eliminating child care provisions from the Build Back Better bill.…
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Episode 452: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 25 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Elliot Haspel, a child and family policy expert. We discuss the takeover of childcare by private equity firms. This is now an industry, that is by its nature, not likely to be profitable. However, private equity firms are using various tools to gain from it. They acquire small child care facilities, then "strip and flip" them, …
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Episode 451: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 24 2024
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Our guests: Part 1: Aaron Peskin, currently the President of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. He is running for Mayor. Topics: The home affordability crisis in San Francisco. Peskin's goal is to make SF a more affordable, fair, and equitable city, not just for millionaires. He considers SF a "small town with global wealth". The business c…
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Episode 450: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 22 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Part 1: We discuss the various protests at colleges and universities around Israel and Gaza. There has been encouragement of the criticism of colleges as a way of attacking higher education. The main influencers voicing the criticism have been right-wing institutes, and individuals (C. Rufo), with a goal of creating inst…
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Episode 449: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 19 2024
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Part 1: Project 2025 This segment is Arnie Arnesen discussing the outline for the future of the US as envisioned by the Republicans. It is a plan to radically change the government of the US according to the goals of the Heritage Foundation and its supporters and fellow travelers. There are hundreds of policy objectives outlined in the 900+ pages o…
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Episode 448: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 18 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Jordan Haedtler and Teddy Stancil. Haedtler is a climate financial policy consultant, and Stancil is a Senior Researcher with the Revolving Door Project. We discuss the problems with home owner insurance. Huge losses have occurred due to climate change. Unfortunately, states have chosen to bailout insurance companies and deregu…
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Episode 447: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 17 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent, The Nation. We discuss the influence of AIPAC on American politics, and that AIPAC is funneling Republican money into Democratic primaries, changing the outcomes. We discuss the latest military action by Israel, in first, bombing the Iranian Consulate, killing 16 people, including an I…
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Episode 446: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 16 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Sarah E. Patterson, Research Investigator at Survey Research Center at the U. of Michigan. We discuss proposals by Gov. Whitmer of Michigan for providing tax credits for caregivers of elderly or disabled members of families. The US has an aging demographic, and 38 to 53 million Americans provide care services at home to family …
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Episode 445: Arnie Arnesen Atttitude April 15 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Part 1: We discuss OJ Simpson death and his trial. The effect of his trial proved that enough wealth and celebrity provides whiteness to a Black man, and power and "innocence" to any man. The media is complicit in perpetuating this pattern. Part 2: We discuss Trump's likely pick for VP candidate. Abbott not a likely choi…
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Episode 444: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 12 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Harvey Kronberg, Publisher of the Quorum Report in Texas. We discuss Project 2025, and how it has begun to be implemented in Texas. There is a "MAGA inflammation" in Texas. The governor, currying favor with Trump, has primaried Republicans in order to replace them with more extreme representatives in the State House. There is a…
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Episode 443: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 11 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Anne Nelson, author of “The Shadow Network”, a description of authoritarian forces in the US. We discuss plan developed by the Heritage Foundation and others, Project 2025, to remake the US into an an authoritarian society, governed by their version of christianity. We discuss the dangers posed by the implementation of Project …
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Episode 442: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 10 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Tom Scheller and Paul Waldman, authors of a book about how rural Americans are likely to be the death of democracy. We discuss the opinions that are held by many rural voters, and we note that rural voters have a disproportionate effect on elections. We talk about the problems they face, but how they tend to blame problems on c…
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Episode 441: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 9 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Austin Frerick, who has written a book about the food business/farm business in the US. We discuss the food barons, and how they control food supplies in the US. The Farm Bill, up for renewal this year, should be called the Wall Street Bill, since it benefits large food producing conglomerates, rather than farmers themselves. W…
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Episode 440: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 8 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Alexandria Jacobson is an Investigative Reporter for Raw Story. Lincoln Mitchell is a professor at Columbia University. Stephen Pimpare is a professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School. -We discuss the state of the economy in the US, and how its health has not yet reached most people, who are struggling, and feel its pr…
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Episode 439: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 5 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Harvey Kronberg, publisher of the Quorum Report. Texas has had its primaries, and these have served to purge Republican ranks of many moderates. Abbott has been zealous in this effort. The two major issues have been identified by the parties: for Republicans, migrants; for Democrats, abortion and reproductive rights. Texas has …
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Episode 438: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 4 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Mark Medish and Joel McCleary. They have written an article titled "Dancing in the Dark", about Project 2025 is influencing the Far Right in their quest to dismantle American democracy. We discuss how our electoral systems can be subverted in the time between the vote and the installation of a new president. The Constitution is…
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Episode 437: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 3 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Anders Croy, Communications Director, Florida Watch and DeSantis Watch. We discuss the latest ruling by the Fla Supreme Court, which instituted a 6-week ban on abortions, countering the Fla Constitutional right. However, and amendment is on the ballot. Medical benefits for children have been revoked, which had been in place dur…
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Episode 436: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 2 2024
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Part 1: We speak with Bob Lord, Senior Advisor on Tax Policy, Patriotic Millionaires, and Kenny Stancil, Senior Researcher, the Revolving Door Project. We discuss how very rich people avoid paying taxes. Tax cuts and tax code changes during the Trump administration only worsened the problem. Part 2: We talk with Anne Nelson, a professor at the Colu…
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Episode 435: Arnie Arnesen Attitude April 1 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Ron Abramson is an immigration lawyer. Laura Jedeed is an investigative reporter who writes about right wing militants. Lincoln Mitchell is a professor of politics at Columbia University. Stephen Pimpare is a professor of social sciences at Vermont School of Law and graduate school. topics: -The firing of personnel at th…
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Episode 434: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 29 2024
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Part 1: Harvey Kronberg, Publisher of the Quorum Report talks about the upcoming Republican Summer Convention in Austin. The Republicans are attempting to sanitize all press coverage of this convention. We discuss the Ken Paxton charges recently dropped by the Texas DOJ, though other charges are still pending. We discuss antisemitism in Texas. Part…
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Episode 433: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 28 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Mark Joseph Stern, reporter for Slate.com about the case at the US Supreme Court about the FDA's approval of mifepristone. The standing of the plaintiffs is also in question. This is part of the Heritage Foundation's push of Project 2025. Court has not yet ruled, and the result will affect the FDA's power to declare the safety/…
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Episode 432: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 27 2024
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We talk with David Dayen, the Executive Editor of The American Prospect, about the Senate race in New Jersey. The Governor's wife, Murphy, has dropped out of the race. This indicates that this will not be a "machine" election, and changes are being made around the "county line", which has been in place in the state for decades. An interesting discu…
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Episode 431: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 26 2024
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Part 1: We speak with Andra Watkins, writer, and authority on Project 2025. we discuss the details of Project 2025, and its implications for American democracy and personal freedom. We discuss the origins and history of Project 2025, a christo-fascist undertaking. Part 2: We talk with Alexandria Jacobson, Investigative reporter for Raw Story. We di…
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Episode 430: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 25 2024
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This is a panel discussion. We discuss how the US has become broken up into fiefdoms through the actions of Republicans and fascist influence. States are in effect acting contrary to federal laws and policies. These actions affect health care, voting rights enforcement, immigration, and other public policies. WNHNFM.ORG production…
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Episode 429: Arnie Arnesen March 22 2024
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Part 1: We talk with John Nichols, writer for The Nation. We discuss the profitability of large corporations in the US. They have used their wealth to enrich shareholders and executives, not the workers. The budget at proposed by Biden primarily has two goals: tax the rich, and increase tax revenues from corporations. This would help pay for the so…
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Episode 428: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 21 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Will Rice, Communications Consultant with Americans for Tax Fairness. We discuss how corporations avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. The Trump tax cuts even cut their taxes (and those of their rich shareholders) even further. The top 5 executives of large corporations are paid more than the corporation pays pay in…
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Episode 427: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 20 2024
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Part 1: We speak with Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Ca). We discuss the Biden and Netanyahu conversations, and what pressures Biden should bring to bear on Netanyahu. Biden has been extremely successful domestically, though voters seem not to be aware. Anxiety still plagues voters, despite improvements. "Biden is building a cathedral, while people strug…
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Episode 426: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 19 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Paige Oamek, writer based in New York, and Rohan Montgomery, researcher and writer based in New York. We discuss the Kentucky bill ("Safer Kentucky") which gives individuals the right to kill 'campers' on their land. It criminalizes homelessness. At a time when housing is difficult to find and afford, this extreme law is a symp…
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Episode 425: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Part 1: We talk with Ryan Melton, Democratic candidate for a House seat from Iowa, Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches at Columbia University, and Stephen Pimpare, who teaches at the Vermont School of Law. What if Trump wins the 2024 election? What are the choices and options for those who do not vote for him? The time to buil…
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Episode 424: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 15 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Alex Sammon about New York State's redistricting, and the result. The result was a better outcome for Republicans. Part 2: We talk with Harold Meyerson and Bill Curry. We discuss the ongoing campaigns, especially the strategy of the Democrats: Biden at the picket line, and Kamala Harris at an abortion clinic. We also discuss th…
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Episode 423: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 14 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for Public Education Foundation. We discuss how public education is under attack. The Foundation studies how states support/don't support public education, and ghe governance of public schools. Part 2: We speak with David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect. We discuss …
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Episode 422: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 13 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Elliot Haspel, a child and family expert. We discuss child care availability, cost, and quality. We discuss the Canadian policy of subsidized child care, and its success so far. Goal is $10/day. This is separate from the Child Benefit already in place in Canada. Part 2: We talk with Andra Watkins, author. We talk about the Proj…
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Episode 421: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 12 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Robert Hockett, who teaches at Cornell Law School. We talk about Biden's economic agenda, and how is it likely to be implemented. Changes to our economy are needed, and they should be revolutionary. Part 2: We talk with Allison Chapman, transgender legislative researcher who writes for Slate.com. We discuss the many anti-LGBTQ …
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Episode 420: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 11 2024
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This is a panel discussion. Part 1: We discuss the SOTU speech. Pres. Biden was forceful and conveyed energy. This should counteract the perception that he is past any real action. He concentrated on the future, rather than the past, and on hope, rather than fear. The Republican response was odd. Part 2: We discussed the statistics of what is actua…
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Episode 419: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 8 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Harvey Kronberg, publisher of the Quorum Report about the Texas primaries. The governor, Abbott, has campaigned heavily in favor of school vouchers, and has campaigned against Republicans who have voted against them. He has lied to voters, and has conflated school vouchers with the border policy. He has received $6M from christ…
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Episode 418: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 7 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Cheryl Clark, medical science journalist, about Medicare Advantage programs and their effect on health and health care. There are many problems with these programs, and unfortunately, many people are trapped within them. Part 2: We speak with Bill Lascher, a journalist who examines funding for news organizations. We look at the…
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Episode 417: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 6 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Marcia Brown, food and agriculture reporter at Politico. We discuss the summer school lunch program funded by the federal government, and how states (with Republican governors) are not participating. The reasons cited are specious. This will affect students in both cities and in rural areas, though the rural areas will be more …
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Episode 416: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 5 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Alex Sammon, reporter for Slate.com. We discuss the problem with the organization Emily's List, and how it is morphing to support Republicans. We also discuss the issue of how New York State has allowed the increase in Trump-supporting districts, when Democrats dominate politics in New York. Part 2: We talk with Tim Glaza and H…
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Episode 415: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 4 2024
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This is a panel discussion: Rethink the Week We discuss the following topics: -Trump scored a delay victory in the SCOTUS ruling regarding his eligibility to be on the ballot. The "immunity" case is still pending. SCOTUS has proven to be contemptuous of the rule of law, and democracy. -We discuss how Mitch McConnell has corrupted SCOTUS by his mane…
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Episode 414: Arnie Arnesen Attitude March 1 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Scott Braddock, the Voice of Texas, Editor of the Quorum Report. We discuss the Texas wildfire, the largest ever in Texas, consuming about 1 Million acres in Texas panhandle. Governor Abbott is at the southern border with Trump. He is pushing school vouchers, and attacking fellow Republicans who do not support them. Texas prima…
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Episode 413: Arnie Arnesen February 29 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Anders Croy, Communications Director, Florida Watch and DeSantis Watch. We discuss the relationship of DeSantis with the Florida Legislature. He is not dominating as before his abortive presidential campaign. $180 M was spent in Iowa, only to lose to Trump. Kitchen table issues continue to be dominant among Florida voters. Ther…
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Episode 412: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 28 2024
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Part 1: We talk with David Dayen about student loan relief as currently being implemented by the Biden administration. There were many laws passed since the 1960's that provided some relief, but were not implemented. Biden used these methods to provide loan forgiveness to Americans. We talk about the several provisions, and how much ($1.2B) forgive…
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Episode 411: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 27 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Art Pronin, a Democratic activist and political organizer in Texas. He recounted an occasion where a meeting was disrupted by individuals who verbally attacked him and others, attempting to stifle a discussion. The lack of respect, the aggressive nature of the attack was chilling. Part 2: We talk with Eli Day, an activist in Mi…
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Episode 410: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 26 2024
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Part 1: We discuss the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on declaring a fertilized egg as a 'child'. This becomes a problem now even for IVF. Women are not safe in any state, since anti-abortion states have shown a desire to control women everywhere, including outside their own borders. We discuss the measles epidemic in Florida, and in other states. Ma…
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Episode 409: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 23 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Scott Braddock, Editor of the Quorum Report, about Texas voting. Currently, Texas is having primary voting (early). Turnout is slow and low. Gov. Abbott is attacking Republicans who have not supported his school voucher program. He is also building a military base at the border, ostensibly to 'defend' Texas from invading migran…
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Episode 408: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 22 2024
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Part 1: Our guest host is Lincoln Mitchell We talk with Alexander Cooley, Prof. of Political Science at Barnard College. We discuss the rise of fascism worldwide, and how it is being accomplished with the help of Putin. How is misdirection used to steer attention from what is happening in reality when specious topics are introduced in the political…
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Episode 407: Arnie Arnesen Attitude February 21 2024
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Part 1: We talk with Amy Littlefield, The Nation's abortion correspondent. We discuss the Florida ballot initiative, and its chances of passing. The campaign has raised considerable money, though the Florida Supreme Court has yet to rule on inclusion of this initiative. Currently, Florida is the only Southern state to allow abortion after the cutof…
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