Critical Thought

Critical Thought 64 - Difficult Christian Questions

October 12th, 2023  |  36 mins 48 secs

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Have we out learned our capacity to love? Pastors Paul Knight and Mason Peters from HOPE Church join Noah as we walk through difficult questions with no easy answers.

Critical Thought 63 - Binary Triggers & The Fed

July 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 13 mins

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The man who fired on police officers in Fargo earlier this month chose to use a gun that was modified with a binary trigger. Some states do ban the purchase of binary triggers specifically or modifications like binary triggers generally.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate another 0.25% on Wednesday, reviving its inflation fight despite a significant cooldown of price increases in recent months. The rate hike brought the Fed's benchmark interest rate to a 22-year high of between 5.25% and 5.5%.

Critical Thought 62 - Fargo Officer Killed

July 18th, 2023  |  59 mins 29 secs

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Officers in Fargo were attacked by a shooter that left one officer dead, two others critical injured, and the shooter dead! What is changing in our communities and how do we keep officers safe?

Critical Thought 061

May 18th, 2023  |  43 mins 21 secs

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College programs that leave graduates underpaid or buried in loans would be cut off from federal money under a proposal issued Wednesday by the Biden administration, but the rules would apply only to for-profit colleges and a tiny fraction of programs at traditional universities. Dr. Mark Jendrysik joins Critical Thought and we discuss!

Episode 60: Critical Thought 60 - (RESTRICT Act & SpaceX)

April 21st, 2023  |  1 hr 1 min

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Senator Kevin Cramer joins the program and we talk the RESTRICT Act. The most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed ended in an eruption of flames over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. was the launch really a success?

Episode 59: Critical Thought 59 - Leaked Pentagon Documents (Jack Teixeira)

April 14th, 2023  |  1 hr 9 mins

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Nathan Wolf CubicleNate joins Critical Thought and we break down the timeline and the way Jack Teixeira leaked documents which ultimately made their way to Discord, Telegram, 4Chan and Twitter.

Episode 58: Critical Thought 58

April 13th, 2023  |  36 mins 22 secs

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We know more about the leaked pentagon papers. They appear to have come from a Discord user using the handle "OG". He was one of the 1.25 million people given access to top secret documents. North Dakota Gov. Dog Burgum on Tuesday signed two laws prohibiting transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college.

Episode 57: Critical Thought 57 - Why are People Leaving Churches?

March 3rd, 2023  |  1 hr 43 mins

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Pastor Mason Peters joins Critical Thought and we explore why people are leaving churches. There is an erosion of trust, a lack of perceived need from the Church, what can churches do differently to serve people more effectively?

Episode 54: Friday 02-17-2023

February 17th, 2023  |  1 hr 56 mins

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Steve Ovens joins Critical Thought and we dig into Canadian healthcare and Canadian tourism into the US.

Episode 53: Wednesday 02-08-2023

February 8th, 2023  |  1 hr 23 mins

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Mayor Brandon Bochenski (2/6/23) and Dana Sande (2/8/23) join the program and we discuss the city council last night voting to scrap the controversial Fufeng project to Grand Forks.

Episode 52: Thursday 02-02-2023

February 2nd, 2023  |  27 mins 12 secs

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer joins Critical Thought to discuss the Air Force letter that was critical of the Fufeng project in Grand Forks.

Cramer says the reason Andrew Hunter – the assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics – penned the draft is testimony to the future of the GFAFB. “The most important person in the Air Force for Grand Forks right now is exactly that person because acquisition and technology screams Grand Forks Air Force Base.”

Episode 51: Wednesday 02-01-2023

February 1st, 2023  |  1 hr 56 mins

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The U-S Air Force has come out against the proposed Fufeng corn milling plant in Grand Forks for security reasons.

A letter to North Dakota U-S Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer from the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force said in part… that while the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) concluded that it had no jurisdiction, the Air Force believes the project presents “a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.”

Mayor Brandon Bochenski joins Critical Thought to discuss the news, and as always your calls and your thoughts guide the discussion!