Jonathan Last, The Weekly Standard & author, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting" joins Thom Hartmann. Conventional wisdom says that overpopulation is a global threat - that has the potential to wipe out resources - cause widespread famine - and bring our environment and civilization to their knees. Not according to Jonathan Last.

Marc Harrold, "Observations of White Noise...an 'Acid Test' for the First Amendment" & Vince Coglianese, Daily Caller & Richard Fowler, the Richard Fowler Show all Join Thom Hartmann

Thom delivers his State of the Union Address focusing on jobs, climate change and infrastructure, and tonight's "Big Picture Politics Panel" previews President Obama's address. Also discussed: what a high-speed rail system could look like in the US, whether underpopulation is a threat to our country and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details the origins of the Tea Party.

If you watched Meet The Press this weekend - you heard David Gregory talk about the crumbling state of the US Postal Service. But he left out one pretty big detail about the post office's demise. Whether it's lazy journalism or an effort to give cover to the corporatists, the news media is assisting in the demise of the Post Office - an institution started by Ben Franklin that's older than the United States itself. So that leaves it up to us - "we the people" - to tell the real story about what's happening. The Digital Age isn't killing the Post Office. Instead, the demise of the Post Office is another good ol' fashioned story of corporate corruption of politicians and a Republican Party that exists, first and foremost, to serve the CEO class and screw the middle class.