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Churches Ignore Separation of Church And State
More than 1,000 religious leaders across the nation have decided to take a wrecking ball to the wall separating church and state. The Conservative group “Alliance Defending Freedom” has scheduled what they are calling “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” for October 7th, when church leaders across America will devote their sermons to the election and campaign on behalf of a political candidate.
According to I.R.S. law, churches enjoy tax-exempt status so long as they don’t participate in political campaigns on behalf or against any particular candidate. Those church leaders also plan to send video of their political sermons to the I.R.S., in hopes of triggering a legal case that could strike down laws against their tax-exempt political activity.
Let’s face it, today, many churches have been turned into very lucrative businesses. And those businesses haven’t shied away from using their wealth to aid numerous far-right political causes. If churches want to operate like a business, then it’s time they get taxed like a business as well.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Romney and the princely class (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Romney and the princely class
Need to Know: Questions Romney must answer about his taxes...- David Selig, Conservative Commentator / Pro-Business Advocate
Screwed: Study finds tumors & organ damage from GMO corn- Mike Ludwig, Investigative Journalist-Truthout 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
1,000 pastors challenging the IRS- Professor Carol Swain, Author of ' Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise' / Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University
"Everything You Know is Wrong...My Year of Living Cash Free"- David Wolman, Journalist/Author-"The End of Money"
Daily Take: Romney's big idea vs. Obama's big idea
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Speech: " 1944 State of the Union Address". FDR's Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech, January 11, 1944. " we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being... For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world."
Hour Two: Obama supports vets & families / anniversary of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"- Senator Max Cleland (Obama campaign), former U.S. Senator (D-GA)
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday. Is America moving back to the left?
Bible: "And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." Revelation 17:16".
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Romney & Obama's big ideas...billionaires vs. the middle class
"Taking Our Country Back": Running for Congress (D-VA, 7th district) against House Majority Leader & Tea Partier, Eric Cantor- Wayne Powell, retired army colonel, small business owner & community lawyer
Hour Two: Voter ID...how the GOP wins elections- Judson Phillips, TheTeaParty.net / Founder, Tea Party Nation
Hour Three: Romney and the princely class...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour Two: Banks want to regulation themselves...really?!- Mark Williams, Talk Show Host / Former Chair-Tea Party Express 
Plus the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thom's Poll
Would Pres. Obama benefit from having Gary Johnson in the debates?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Is America moving back to the left?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 9/21/12: Why America's Moving to the Left
In tonight's extended edition of the "Big Picture Rumble" the panel discusses our tax code's contribution to our wealth inequality problem, Paul Ryan being booed at the AARP for saying he would repeal Obamcare and whether the GOP's voter suppression tactics will get Romney in the White House. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains how the country's moving to the left and how the corporate elite are trying to stop it.
Thom Hartmann on the News - September 21, 2012
Brunch with Bernie - September 21, 2012
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