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Judge Blocks a portion of the NDAA
The highly-controversial indefinite detention provision signed into law by the President at the end of last year has been ruled unconstitutional by a U.S. District court judge in New York. The provision allows the military to detain anyone indefinitely if they are suspected of associating with terrorists – whether they realize it or not.
But that law was challenged by a group of journalists and whistleblowers – including Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg – who argued the law violated the First Amendment – since journalists often come in contact with terrorist organization and thus under the law could be subject to detention. On Wednesday night, Judge Katherine Forrest agreed with the plaintiffs in the case, ruling that the law is unconstitutional – violating the First Amendment rights of the press and the Fifth Amendment right of due process.
Meanwhile, as a new version of the NDAA is being debated in Congress, brave members on both sides of the aisle are arguing that there should be no indefinite detention provision in it, invalidating the previous NDAA. We need to return to the values our nation was founded on, which include bravery and due process – and not fear and medieval imprisonment techniques.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... If Rev. Wright is on the table, is Mormonism too? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: If Rev. Wright is on the table, is Mormonism too?- Richard Fowler, Democratic Strategist 
Screwed: Will all PIGS nations leave the Euro?- Professor William "Bill" Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
The Best of the Rest of the News...
War on Women- Lizz Winstead, political satirist / co-creator of The Daily Show / Author-"Lizz Free or Die - Essays"
Is nuclear catastrophe imminent at San Onofre, CA?- Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear 
Daily Take: Will controversial NDAA be overturned?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If Rev. Wright is on the table, is Mormonism too?
Latest on Jobs Act and student loan hikes- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Hour Two: Naked shorts exposed at Goldman- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine
Geeky Science - can sugar make you dumb?
Hour Three: Will controversial NDAA be overturned?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Common Cause sues the Senate- Bob Edgar, Common Cause
Romney can only win by lying
Quote: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." by John Kenneth Galbraith.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Article: " Genesis 1:29" - Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Hour Two: Isn't gay marriage inevitable? - Dr. Paul Cameron.
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..." Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Hour Three: Read the tea leaves...democracy is dead
Quote: "This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations" -- Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Thom's Poll
A federal judge issued an injunction against a provision in the NDAA. Do you think it will ultimately be found unconstitutional?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Can Romney win only by lying?
Crazy Alert! Clowns Armed w/Pies vs. Police
Lone Liberal Rumble - More Hostage Taking P1
Your Take/My Take - Viewer thinks, "An armed society is a polite society"
US-Colombia Trade Deal a New Low for Workers
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Unguiculateously Ugly!
Why Common Cause is suing the U.S. Senate
Lone Liberal Rumble - End the Death Penalty P2
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Full Show 5/16/12: The Only Way Romney Can Win
Thom discusses the only way Willard Mitt Romney can beat Obama in November--continue to lie. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses Speaker Boehner's debt limit threat, the new poll showing overwhelming support for medical marijuana and George W. Bush's upcoming book on how to "save the economy." Also discussed: the lawsuit filed to end the filibuster, the cost of "free" trade and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how we can make lawmakers start working for "we the people," and not the corporations.
Thom Hartmann on the News - May 16, 2012
Hartmann vs. Dr. Cameron - Is President Obama gay?
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