• Aaron Swartz, Co-founder, Bold Progressives.
• Doug Cunningham, Producer/Reporter Worker's Independent News.
• Environmentalist, activist, Bill McKibben.
• Mark Williams, Chair of the Tea Party Express.
• Robert Greenwald.

• When will the democratic party wake up and realize that voters want progressives not conserva-dems...?
• Labor Segment: Labor works to unseat incumbent Blanche Lincoln
• Doomsday scenario...could the oil spill reach Europe?
• Ground Zero mosque..."temple to terrorists"...really?!
• Afghanistan-now the longest war in U.S. history

• Workin' For A Livin', Huey Lewis and the News (video).
• Get Up, Stand Up, Bob Marley.
• There Is the Sun, Derek James.
• You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
• Drive, Incubus.
• Castaway, Green Day.
• Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
• When I'm Gone, 3 Doors Down.
• (Can't Get My) Head Around You, The Offspring.
• Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
• Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
• Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.

"Well, I would say that in the year 2000 the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process. There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president. He received the most votes nationwide and in my opinion he also received the most votes in Florida. And the decision was made, as you know, by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the US Supreme Court. I would say in 2000 there was a failure. The year 2004 is hard to grade. I don’t have any detailed information about what actually went on in Ohio. If Ohio had gone one way or the other it would have changed the outcome of the election. And the only thing that I know about Ohio was that there’s general consensus, that the secretary of state of Ohio, who was responsible for the administration of elections was highly partisan in his public approach and perhaps even in his private administration but I don’t know about that."

Jimmy Carter’s Town Hall meeting with the American University Community, September 19, 2005.

"The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important. Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation.

The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day."

"We’ve also ordered BP to pay economic injury claims, and we will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf Coast. The Small Business Administration has stepped in to help businesses by approving loans and allowing deferrals of existing loan payments. And this week, the federal government sent BP a preliminary bill for $69 million to pay back American taxpayers for some of the costs of the response so far. In addition, after an emergency safety review, we’re putting in place aggressive new operating standards for offshore drilling. And I’ve appointed a bipartisan commission to look into the causes of this spill. If laws are inadequate –laws will be changed. If oversight was lacking – it will be strengthened. And if laws were broken – those responsible will be brought to justice."

Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Administration Response Efforts to the BP Oil Spill from Grand Isle, LA, June 05, 2010.