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VFTB 044b: Paul & Phillip Collins — The Information Cartel

By: Derek

On: April 18, 2010

In: A View From the Bunker, Podcast

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BARACK OBAMA is on a political roll, finally getting his health care reform bill and preparing to push through (equally unpopular) legislation on climate change and immigration reform. But can President Obama — or any president — really offer change?

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VFTB 012: Wesley J. Smith — Health Care and Human Exceptionalism

By: Derek

On: September 6, 2009

In: A View From the Bunker

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WE ARE pleased to talk again with bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. We discussed the Obamacare proposals and the dangers posed by a system designed by people who deny that humans are unique among the species on planet Earth.

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VFTB 005: Paul & Phillip Collins — Survival of the Richest / Interfering in Iran

By: Derek

On: July 20, 2009

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IT’S AN honor to welcome back to this site the remarkable brothers Collins, Paul and Phillip, authors of The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship.

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