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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been banned from receiving the Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion in the archdiocese of San Francisco, its conservative Cardinal Cordileone confirmed over the weekend. Pelosi, a lifelong Catholic who lives in San Francisco, has been banned from receiving communion because of her support for women's reproductive rights, including abortion, the Cardinal said, noting...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: ︎Almost a year and a half in office as the nation's two top leaders -- as President and vice president, respectively, of the United States -- what is your assessment of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team?

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Based on what you have been able to learn from media coverage of the mass killing in Buffalo, N.Y., last Saturday--allegedly by a lone teenage gunman--what do you consider the main stories/issues to be? Explain.  

The Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting:  Nobody seems to have real answers or solutions, other than a slew of scrambled-together ideas and "policies" to show that well-intentioned law-enforcement and political responses were attempted. Bottom line: No new ideas so far relating specifically to the killings, but a lot of discussion on the "Great Replacement Theory," which supposedly informed 18-year-old g...

It's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories.    That's when the program becomes an open forum and listeners have their say about a subject or issue that warrants closer attention and/or debate.  

No cogent answers yet on what, exactly, is the law of the land on women's reproductive rights and why are such laws aimed particularly at women and their presumed  constitutional right to decide whether to bring a pregnancy to term or terminate it. Many states prefer their own interpretations of the law.  Roe v. Wade, a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision,  said that a pregnant woman may decide for h...

No easy answers on a national policy on abortion, and President Biden's lack of clarity on the issue is only adding more fuel to an already roaring fire. What do you think?

Share your thoughts on the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine crisis. 

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today -- Living well(ish) on a tight budget.   SAVING MONEY IN A WAR ECONOMY: SMALL STEPS TO KEEP YOU GOING   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today -- Living well(ish) on a tight budget.   SAVING MONEY IN A WAR ECONOMY: SUGGESTIONS   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each week. Encourage e...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today -- Living well(ish) on a tight budget.   SAVING $$$: A START   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each week. Encourage each member of your hous...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today. ︎House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a group of high-level U.S. officials should be back home today after unannounced whirlwind visits to Ukraine and Poland to assure both countries of U.S. support in the face of heightened Russian aggression. What is significant about the legislators' trip?

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Picking up from where we left off yesterday, here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today.   FINISHING   ︎In your view, how real is the risk of nuclear war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? What do you think could  provoke a nuclear war? What could deter it? What factors are you weighing?   NEW TOPIC: SAVING MONEY   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy?...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today. Are you preparing/have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are making? What plans should we consider making right now?

Is the United States, by virtue of its massive -- and, presumably, continuing  military aid to Ukraine -- at war with Russia, too? ︎With the Biden administration's secretary of defense,  Ret. Gen. Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visiting Ukraine President Volodymir Zelenskyy over  the weekend, does it signal that the U.S. has chosen "sides" position on the Russia-Ukraine war...

Here's what's happening on Leid Stories today.    It's "Free Your Mind Friday," a free-form opinion fest. Give your take on issues that matter! 

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories:   President Biden has opened the gates to the nation's coffers -- to check the threat of economic and social woes that loom large nationwide. A grateful nation--and a normally adversarial Congress--considered it a good move. That program just getting off the ground and showing encouraging results, Biden is urgently beseeched by President Volod...

Continuing our ongoing series of special presentations by Leid Stories listeners, Gardis Henry Watts explains what violence is--and isn't--in his hometown, Chicago.

Here's what what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: whatever you have a strong, thought-out opinion about and want to share with others.

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What if?... Biden's memory lapses and jumbled words turned out to be much more than we knew? ︎Are you beginning to see Obama's return in a different light? ︎Will the Democratic Party leadership endorse the leadership of Kamala Harris, or will she be forced out? ︎Is Obama a possible stand-in for Biden? ︎Constitutionally, must there be new elections for a Biden successor, however temporary? ︎Can the...

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: What qualities did you have as a child that you're glad you still have as an adult? ︎Who or what inspires you? ︎Were you on a wrong path, but made a dramatic turnaround because of a major event or a particular person in your life? ︎Did you develop a different reading of life early but were not understood? ︎What were you like as a child or grow...

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