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The Best Idea Podcast Steven Cochran
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Perspective on important topics and the best ideas that we can draw from them. Debate, argument, corrections - all welcome and encouraged.
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Are you a Capitalist or a Socialist?
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Summary of The Wealth of Nations
Socialism and Capitalism Explained
Bio of Karl Marx
Patriotism vs Nationalism
Coca-Cola Stock
Largest Private Companies in US
Costco ain't the same as Dollar Tree
Hospitals must stabilize you, but not treat you
Conservatives are Socialists too
US Wealth Funds
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Stop The Presses: (In)Justice
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Banks never lose.
Universities need to think before they support student outrage.
Daycare owner shot her husband for molesting kids, Cheers. Now she has a trial date
The woman that got Emmett Till murdered won't die in prison.
How easily one detective can ruin so many lives.
Most states make you pay for your own prison time.
We probably failed Eliza Fletcher. There is a better way to do prison. -
Stop The Presses: Technology - SIMS, Robots, Roaches, and Proteins
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Would you take a flying taxi?
The Swiss have a great idea for delivering packages.
Did you know cyborg cockroaches can save your life?
Would you allow robots to clean your teeth?
How about a micro-robot can be driven like a car in your blood?
Why does Sims need to be this involved?
We can fold our own proteins now.
Amazing video of proteins being built.
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Stop The Presses: R. Kelly vs Maxwell; Frisky fertility doctor; Judges ruin lives over football
We can all learn from Nora
Beware people that try to ban books
Metais a strange place to work
Volcanoes can create a glass brain
Judges in Louisiana give out more time if LSU loses unexpectedly.
This fertility doctor used his own semen to impregnant a lot of women
R.Kelly got 30 years for raping girls. Ghislane Maxwell got 20 years for helping someone rape girls.
Texas woman claims her fetus is a person to get out of a traffic ticket, rather than just cry.
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Theft That Will Disgust You
Think of the worst way we could treat poor families and foster kids, then double it.
States are stacking welfare checks or spending it to prosecute parents
After the state takes your kid, you get an invoice
Then, once they have the kid in foster care, they steal their money too.
How states spend the money we pay to help people.
Your state's budget bullshit
Being poor makes you a poor parent
There are far too many kids in foster care
ProPublica investigation on welfare spending
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The Realest Abortion Problem
Maybe the seven judges in 1973 had the decision right when they crafted the Roe v Wade opinion; Maybe the five judges in 2022 that completely changed were right on the constitutional question.
The problem is that they had a say in the first place.
We allowed this to happen.
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Resources:
Norma McCorvey
Norma McCorvey II
Henry Wade
Roe v Wade & The Constitution
Roe v Wade – Oral Arguments
Norma’s lawyers
US Constitution
THE ROE BABY
Age Of Consent by state
Cases regarding abortion rights
Grain of salt
Louisiana law is too vague to stand