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Need to Know: It all started with Reagan...
- Marcy Wheeler, ExposeFacts

Lone Liberal Rumble:
- Horace Cooper - National Center for Public Policy Research
- Tyler Harber, GOP Strategist

Green report: What we can learn from California
- Aaron Weil, Environment America

Community Square

"Watch This Video! Talks about Ferguson and Gaza and Checkpoints."

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "First case of Ebola confirmed in the United States: CDC" by Javier E. David.

Article: "Savage advocated "kill[ing] 100 million" Muslims; called alleged Duke rape victim a "drunken slut stripping whore" " by Jeremy Schulman, April 19, 2006.

Video: Dr. Michael Savage- Ebola Comes To America (September 30, 2014) .

Video: "Ronald Reagan States' Rights Speech in Philadelphia, MS", August 3, 1980.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Disease Threat From Immigrant Children Wildly Overstated" by Rachel Pearson.

Song: "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

Song: "Me And Bobby McGee" by Kris Kristofferson. Freedom's just another name for nothing left to lose

Article: "Remembering iconic Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937" by Lorene Parshall.

Article: "Ludlow Massacre", 1914 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pullman Porters: from Servitude to Civil Rights".

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Salem International

Article: "Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola" by Marjorie Owens.

Article: "Man develops BUBONIC PLAGUE from stray cat bite and narrowly escapes death... but will have fingers and toes amputated" by Hannah Rand.

Article: "Bob Dole Says He, Reagan Might Not Win in Today’s GOP, Thinks Party Should Close for Repairs" by Chris Good.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann

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Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "China's growing middle class" by Tami Luhby.

Hour Two: What to do about religious extremists?
- CJ Werleman

Article: "Radicalized Right-Wing Activists Pledging Allegiance to Dangerous Agenda" by CJ Werleman.

Article: "Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church (February 21, 1811)" by James Madison.

Article: "Texas Ebola Patient Had Contact With School-Age Kids, Perry Says" by Hasani Gittens and Pete Williams.

Article: "Godwin's law" by Wikipedia.

CD: "Light Side: The Dark Side" by Dick Gregory.

Article: "Prosecutor obsessed with jailing MN mom who treated son with marijuana oil to stop painful seizures" by Scott Kaufman.

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Talk Radio News Segment:
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Article: "50 Percent Approve Of Obama’s Handling Of ISIS" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "Modi: “Terrorism Is An Enemy Of Humanity”" by Paayal Zaveri.

Article: "First Imported Case of Ebola Diagnosed in the United States" by CDC.

Article: "US sharply criticizes new Israeli construction" by Julie Pace.

Article: "Pelosi Suggests Secret Service Head Should Resign" by Leah Schwarting.

Article: "Evaluation Finds Jailed U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi Has PTSD, Should Be Released: Lawyer" by Andie Adams.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 10/1/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/30" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Hour Three: Is America prepared for Ebola?
- Dr. Arthur Caplan, NYU Langone Medical Center

Bible: "Genesis 1:29".

Article: "Texas Health Care Spending" by Texas Impact.

Article: "More than a million Texans would become Medicaid-eligible under Obamacare expansion" by Sue Owen.

Article: "Incredibly, subprime loans are driving the US economy—again" by Matt Phillips.

Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Article: "If you thought House Republicans were crazy now, just wait" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz" by keepemhonest.

Site: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Case: "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby", 2014.

Law: "Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", 2010.

Article: "Rule That Curbs Bank Risk-Taking Nears Approval" (Volcker Rule) by Ben Protess and Peter Eavis.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Video: Falwell and Robertson on The 700 Club after 9/11 .

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Politics Panel - We underestimated ISIS?

Why the Web of Life is Dying…

The Kings Have Spoken On Voting

Secret Tapes Show How Banksters Get Off?

Politics Panel - Why Voter Suppression?

Why Republicans Stop People From Voting

Full Show 9/30/14: SCOTUS Rules Against Early Voting in Ohio

Tonight’s “Politics Panel” discusses the GOP’s continued sabotage of Obamacare, who in the Obama administration underestimated the ISIS threat and whether Obama will put boots on the ground in Syria. Thom discusses the release of audio recordings showing how federal regulators are still looking out for the big banks with Campaign For America’s Future Richard Eskow and the Supreme Court’s ruling against early voting in Ohio with SCOTUS Reporter Shane Farnan. In tonight's “Daily Take” Thom discusses how our planet is like the human body - everything depends on something else.

Is America prepared for Ebola?

Ebola in the U.S. - Time for Healthcare for All!

Time to Stop Letting These guys Scare the Crap out of us...

SCOTUS Stops Early Voting in Ohio...

The American Dream, Hanging by a Thread...

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