Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2015

Recent Articles from Bearing Drift: free speech, marijuana, & domestic spying

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As many readers know already, I am a contributor to Bearing Drift , which uses the tagline "Virginia's Conservative Voice."  W...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Remembering Adolph Green at 100

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A report from NPR's Jeff Lunden today on "All Things Considered" recalls that today marks the 100th birthday of Broadway lyr...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Why Can't I Stop Laughing?

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This afternoon I was listening to Science Friday on NPR, which was featuring its annual April Fools' Day jokes show.  A good number of...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Governor Gary Johnson Plays 'Not My Job' on NPR

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Gary Johnson in Charlottesville " Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! " is a weekly quiz show on NPR stations, usually broadcast ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Sagal and Ferguson on the 'Real America'

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Peter Sagal, host of NPR's weekly quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me , was a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on ...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Saintly Mishegoss

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On this weekend's edition of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me , the humorous news quiz show on National Public Radio, the "Not My Job...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

'Chris and Don: A Love Story'

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Those of you who are literarily or theatrically inclined may be most interested in this information, but there is plenty to chew on if polit...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Ahead of the Curve

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NPR listeners had the opportunity, earlier this morning, to hear filmmaker Nick Broomfield talk about his "new" movie, Battle for ...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

There's a Huckster Born Every Minute

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A 21st-century equivalent of the Cardiff Giant is set to open this week in Kentucky. Back in the 1860s, an intricately carved gypsum statue ...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Tintinnitus

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It was only a few weeks ago that a New York state senator proposed legislation that would have prohibited pedestrians in New York City and ...
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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Language and Assimilation, Then and Now

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The fuss over the Spanish-language version of the "Star Spangled Banner," which I wrote about earlier , continues and may even be ...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

'Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me'

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Funny thing -- in all the years I've lived and worked in Washington, D.C., I never attended an event at Lisner Auditorium , one of the a...
Sunday, February 05, 2006

There Is Nothing Like a Dane

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Everyone -- that is, everyone who hasn't been living under a rock -- is aware of the controversy that has developed from the printing, w...
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Saturday, September 24, 2005

A Hero Is Coming

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It may be hard to believe, but more than 50 years after the war ended, the President of the United States yesterday presented the Congressio...
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