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Republicans - Read the Constitution!
Republican Congressman from Ohio Steve Chabot doesn’t know jack about the Constitution. Last week – the Congressman – fearing that tough questions asked of him may end up on YouTube – banned constituents from having cameras at his town hall meeting – even employing the police to confiscate recording devices from attendees. Now – the first circuit U.S Court of Appeals has ruled that citizens have a right to film government officials conducting official business.
The court’s opinion reads, “Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting “the free discussion of governmental affairs…Freedom of expression has particular significance with respect to government.”
Yet another case of Republicans having no understanding whatsoever of the United States constitution.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... CEOs rewarded for tax dodging (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: CEOs rewarded for tax dodging
D-O-J says N-O-T to AT&T - Matt Wood, Free Press.net 
Nurses demand tax on Wall Street to help Mainstreet - Karen Higgins , National Nurses United
Daily Take: Name one member of Congress who wants to privatize social security?
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Read Thom's Book for Free!
Now you can read all of Thom Hartmann's " Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back" for free online. Truthout is publishing weekly installments over the coming weeks. Read the Chapter 14: Unequal Protection from Risk today. |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." -- Erich Fromm.
Please welcome Bill Press, host of The Bill Press Show, in for Thom today!
Hour One: The chapter that went missing from Dick Cheney's book John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: Explosive new report - CEO's rewarded for tax dodging Sam Pizzigati, Institute for Policy Studies
Hour Three: What you need to know about Rick Perry Eric Burns, Bullfight Strategies
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Thom's Poll
Will Obama get the Transportation Funding Bill that includes a Gas Tax to Fund Highway Construction, Repair & 1 million jobs?
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Full Show - 8/30/11. Is Afghanistan America's "Forgotten" War?
Lucy Kafanov fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses how August's death toll of American troops is the highest in the war's nearly decade long history.
Thom Hartmann on the News - August 31, 2011
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