- Guests:
- Conservative talker Michael Medved.
- Robert Knight, Senior Fellow at the American Civil Rights Union; journalist for 15 years, including seven as editor/writer at the Los Angeles Times.
- Topics:
- Is this health care reform we can believe in?
- "The 5 Big Lies About American Business: Combating Smears Against the Free Market Economy"
- Should Obama's safe schools czar (Kevin Jennings) be removed for conduct unbecoming? He's gay. (Pushing Explicit Sexual Content...really?!)
- Bumper Music:
- Santa Claus Is Comin' (In A Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train), The Tractors.
- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Ennio Morricone.
- Christmas Vacation, Monique Coleman.
- Join the Club The Waco Brothers.
- Holidaze (S'cuze Me, I Got Gifts To Buy), Bob Rivers.
- The Twelve Pains Of Christmas, Bob Rivers.
- Simply The Best, Tina Turner (video).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it." -- Voltaire.
- Article: Senate Bill: More Wal-Mart Wages, Goodbye Middle Class by Jonathan Tasini.
"There are lots of reasons to oppose the Senate bill in its current form, and hope that, if the Senate does pass a bill, that the final form of the bill is closer to the House version (I am leaving aside for the moment the argument, pro or con, that anything short of "Medicare For All" will not fix the system). But here is a key issue rarely discussed--the Senate bill will encourage companies to increase its workforce of LOW-PAID workers, already exacerbating the plunge in wages for workers and speeding our country to a Wal-Mart vision of America."
- Dwight Eisenhower letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954.
"But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. ..."
