By SueN
- Guests:
- Bay Buchanan, commentator for CNN, president of the non profit conservative foundation The American Cause, and chairman of the immigration control political action committee Team America.
- Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
- William Yeatman, Energy Policy Analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute over the EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.
- Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Chair of the TckTckTck Campaign.
- Topics:
- Until Americans are working again, should there be a moratorium on legal immigration?
- Demand creates jobs...how to we create demand?
- Why do conservatives want to defy the Supreme Court and stop the government from protecting us from dangerous pollutants?
- Time for peaceful civil disobedience on climate change?
- Bumper Music:
- Workin' For A Livin', Huey Lewis and the News (video).
- Heroes Are Hard to Find Fleetwood Mac.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- Working Elf Blues, Darren Norwood.
- It's Good to be King, Tom Petty.
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- Happy Xmas (War is Over), John Lennon.
- Heat Wave, Linda Ronstadt.
- Pump it Up, Elvis Costello (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: "Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism." -- Michael Sherme, Scientific American: The Flipping Point.
- Article: The New ‘Public Option’ Compromise And How To Improve It by Igor Volsky.
"Last night, Senate Democrats reached a deal to replace the opt-out public option in the Senate health care bill with a network of nonprofit insurers administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)— the entity that runs the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 could also buy into the Medicare program before the exchanges become operational and enroll in Medicare from within an exchange."
