My 5-Minute Opinion Videos

“100 years of Women Governors” From Nellie Tayloe Ross to “Ma” Ferguson to Ell Grasso and Kelly Ayotte…..50 women have served as US Governors. Progress has been made.

Artemis Aims for Giant Leap over Apollo

In addition to greater diversity, the Artemis program has a broader scope than the Apollo program. Artemis plans to use the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.

My 5-Minute Opinion by Dave Berger: Episode 2: Whale Watching to Weddings: Fictions Make Life Fun

The true story of becoming an ordained minister in the span of 10 minutes.

My 5-Minute Opinion by Dave Berger: Episode 5: Banned Books of 1922 Reveal Century of Cancel Culture

We think of cancel culture as something more modern, but it was, in fact, very prevalent in the birth year of Betty White.

My 5-Minute Opinion by Dave Berger Episode 4 Clash Over Critical Race Theory Shows Our Divided America

Critical race theory is an example of a cognitive paradigm that uses critical thinking. It emphasizes that individual intentional racism is not the central cause of the majority of racial discrimination in American society. Rather, it contends that certain laws, rules, and other social-control mechanisms form a web of structural or institutional racism. From this perspective, even if we were successful in removing all individual explicit racism from our society, we could still have a large amount of racial discrimination, because we would not have changed the built-in racism in the system itself. Everyone must come to the table when it comes to making fundamental changes. … It benefits no one if we run screaming from the room shouting that the other side is out to get us.

Unheralded athletes left their marks on the first Winter Olympics a century ago

by Dave Berger01/24/2024