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The Osgood File (Talk)

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  • Charles Osgood shares his witty and thought provoking point-of-view four times daily. His work has garnered virtually every significant award in broadcasting including The Marconi, The Peabody and induction into the NAB Hall of Fame.
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The Osgood File 9:25 am

Fri, Nov 20 Listen
On our annual "Sunday Morning" Food Issue on television this weekend, Barry Petersen takes note of the fact although this has been a banner year for crops...

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Fri, Nov 20 Listen
The top Page One headline in "The Washington Post" this morning reads: "Angry Congress Lashes Out at Obama / Economic Woes Taking A Toll / House Republicans call on Geithner to resign."

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Fri, Nov 20 Listen
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has opened a sweeping inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings in which 13 soldiers and civilians were killed.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Fri, Nov 20 Listen
Harry Reid's health care reform plan --- titled, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act --- the one he didn't let anybody see until Wednesday night --- is ready to be voted on, he says.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
President Obama wants to "recast" U.S. relations with Cuba. Back in April of this year, he said...

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
A Federal judge found last evening that poor maintenance by the Army Corps of Engineers of a navigational channel was responsible for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina.

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
About the last thing proponents of more government control over health care needed was for a government-appointed panel to come out with the recommendation it did this week: that breast cancer screenings should start at the age of 50, rather than 40.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the top terrorist suspect in the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in a civilian court in New York --- rather than in a military tribunal --- has drawn heavy criticism from Senate Republicans.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Wed, Nov 18 Listen
We have a situation in this country where a third of our kids will not graduate from high school --- and then in many of our largest urban areas, the areas covered by this study --- that number will run as high as 40 or 50 percent won't graduate.

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Wed, Nov 18 Listen
This week, researchers at IBM Corporation proudly announced that --- using a massive supercomputer with 147,000 processors and 144 terabytes of main memory --- that's many, many times as many processors and 100,000 times as much memory as your PC or Mac --- they have succeeded in simulating the function of the cerebral cortex --- the thinking part --- of the brain ... of a cat.

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Wed, Nov 18 Listen
The Treasury Department now puts the national debt at more than 12 trillion dollars, the most it's ever been. Economists are getting to be like astronomers --- they now use astronomical numbers like 12 trillion.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Wed, Nov 18 Listen
President Obama found some time --- after six hours of meetings, two dinners, and a joint news conference in which China's President Hu refused to take any questions or make any public concessions --- to sit down, one at a time, with reporters from some of the major news organizations accompanying him on his Asian trip.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Tue, Nov 17 Listen
The best whiskeys are aged. But there are two crates of vintage McKinlay and Company Scotch that were shipped to the Antarctic for the British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shacketon in 1909 that were abandoned --- but are still there.

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Tue, Nov 17 Listen
Even though my kids are a lot smarter than I am when it comes to computers and the digital world, I try to explain to them that there is some benefit to age and experience --- "Live and learn," as they say.

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Tue, Nov 17 Listen
In analyzing any speech or statement by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, you have to pay special attention to the "howevers" and the "neverthelesses."

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Tue, Nov 17 Listen
President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao emerged from two-and-a-half hours of intense conversation in Beijing, with no indication of any specific progress on any issues --- but with everything expressed, as if there was agreement.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Mon, Nov 16 Listen
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The Osgood File 8:25 am

Mon, Nov 16 Listen
What is a nice supposedly law-abiding person like you doing, walking around with traces of cocaine in your pocket?

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Mon, Nov 16 Listen
Applying for a job is never easy, especially these days. You want to dress the right way, say the right things, and make the right impression.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Mon, Nov 16 Listen
It's been 45 years since Walter Cronkite showed America something that they'd never seen before...They called it the Bullet Train.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Fri, Nov 13 Listen
Today is Friday the 13th --- not that there's anything wrong about that, or unusual.

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Fri, Nov 13 Listen
When President Obama talks about his upcoming decision on Afghanistan --- as he did in a news conference in Tokyo today --- it's clear he wants things to be clear, and clear-cut, and precise...

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Fri, Nov 13 Listen
The government has had to revise what it's been telling us about the extent of the swine flu pandemic in this country.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Fri, Nov 13 Listen
Federal prosecutors yesterday filed a complaint against the Alavi Foundation --- and gave notice of the U.S. government's intention to seize a half a billion dollars in foundation assets here in the United States.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Emergency legislation has been proposed in Congress to guarantee all workers a week of paid sick leave.

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Unlike the Federal Government --- which can spend more money than it takes in indefinitely, simply by adding to the national debt --- we all pay a price for that, but they can do it --- state and local governments have to balance their budgets.

The Osgood File 7:25 am

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
Numbers can fool you, sometimes --- the new RealtyTrac figures on home foreclosures for last month are still high.

The Osgood File 6:25 am

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
President Obama doesn't like --- and won't accept --- any of the Afghanistan options he's been given. This according to senior officials in a position to know, but who don't want to be identified.

The Osgood File 9:25 am

Wed, Nov 11 Listen
The Roman Catholic Church has had a very hard time shaking off the anti-scientific reputation it earned 400 years ago, when it locked up Galileo --- for challenging the now obviously mistaken view that the Earth was the center of the universe.

The Osgood File 8:25 am

Wed, Nov 11 Listen
Veterans Day honors not just those who lost their lives, but all those who served in the military --- some of whom were able to come back home and resume their lives after the wars they fought, and without being reminded every day of what happened when they wore the uniform.

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