Today on the 5: Building on the 5 from yesterday, I have noticed a serious deficit within the education system. Most of the school day in the early part of our educational lives is spent memorizing facts that are at best one dimensional, if not severely distorted. Why don't we make challenging assumptions and questioning what we're told more important? Shouldn't that type of analysis be the foundation of a democracy?

Today on the 5: In the United States, we often hear the phrase "Greatest Country In The World." Even if that's true, which I think it is, it's usually a phrase used to cover or dismiss real concerns. Have Americans started to think that the the U.S. is the best it could be, outside of petty local concerns?

Today on the 5: I almost didn't record anything for Memorial Day, because I just didn't know if I had anything to say on the subject. As the weekend went on, however, I started to see something that bothered me more and more. For a group of people that are ostensibly our most honored, it sure seems like veterans get exploited for political reasons more and more.

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Today on the 5: The recent NATO protests in Chicago had a bit of friction between police and protest members over the weekend. I can see the issues that both sides have in a case like this, so the question becomes where is the middle ground in a case like this? Was one side or the other more at fault?