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1.25 – Basic Civics

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Phil and Kevon are so sorry that they have been gone for so long. They will be back in the studio soon. Until they do, here’s some audio from a class Phil taught at his church. The class was based upon Tony Evan’s book How Should Christians Votes?, which we’ve mentioned several times before.

We hope you enjoy this “substitute” episode and will help us by spreading the word as The Ignorance of Church and State gears up for Season 2.

We’re also sorry about the audio from this episode. There was an error with the microphone. It was a user error. Phil was the user.

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Mentioned in the Episode
How Should Christians Vote? by Tony Evans

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1.22 – Two Party (System) Pooper

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Why do we have a two-party system? Hard to say, since George Washington didn’t want us to. Are these two parties part of our government or merely our tradition? How do they emerge? How do they die? What do we do when neither party fits our needs? We’ll try to answer at least half of these questions with at least one-third accuracy.

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Mentioned in the Episode
Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig – We haven’t read this yet.
Common Sense with Dan Carlin

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1.11 This Episode is Yuge!

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What can we say? “We’re sorry”? This is our longest—and angriest—episode every, but let’s see you try to explain what’s wrong with Donald Trump in under 30 minutes.

Without shouting.

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Mentioned in the Episode
Donald Trump’s Official Site – Positions
Full Speech at Liberty Univeristy
Trump’s Claim that Cruz’s Father Knew Lee Harvey Oswald – Four Pinocchios (Out of Four) – Not Mentioned, but Interesting
US News & World Report – “The Stunning Ignorance of Trump’s Health Care Plan”
TIME – “Fact-Checking Donald Trump on Free Trade (And Bernie Sanders Too)”
The Washington Post – “Recidivism Watch: Trump’s eight repeated falsehoods in 16 hours” (Mentions immigration)
Donald Trump’s PolitiFact File – 19% Pants on Fire – 42% False – 15% Mostly False – Over 75%!
PolitiFact’s “Life of the Year” 2015 – Donald Trump
Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2010
Center for Immigration Studies – “No Coyote Needed”
CNN – “Trump believes in God, but hasn’t sought forgiveness”
2015 Family Leadership Summit – Forum in which Trump says that he doesn’t as God for forgiveness – 7:40 mark – rambling answer – 8:51 “I’m not sure I have.”

John Oliver

Here are two clips from Oliver’s Last Week Tonight that cover Donald Trump. Oliver has some seriously biting comments about Trump, but he also makes some seriously obscene comments and does swear, though most of the harsher words have been bleeped.
“Donald Trump”
“Border Wall”

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1.4 Primarily Caucuses

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Primary this and caucus that—what’s it all mean! Have no fear, Kevon and Phil are here to give you a basic understanding of what’s going on in the mad rush to the White House. They’ll discuss the different between a primary and a caucus, and we’ll pull back the political curtain and reveal a little bit of the disingenuous nature of modern politics.

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Mentioned in the Episode
The New York Times – 2016 Primary Results and Calendar

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