Anti-abortion groups want you to believe they're all about saving "unborn" human lives, but a new poll shows that, for the majority of abortion rights opponents, that's a lie. The "pro-life" movement, it turns out, is fundamentally about keeping women down - a sentiment that's even shared by a majority of women who support forced pregnancies. For example, a majority of anti-abortion advocates say that men make better leaders than women. Forced-pregnancy advocates dislike the #metoo movement, and they don't think a lack of women in positions of power is a problem. "Pro-lifers" tell researchers that it's ok with them if women don't have access to birth control and, broadly, their opinions are openly hostile to women's rights.

What a surprise that the anti-abortion movement isn't about babies at all, but instead about keeping women under the thumbs of men.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump pledged to save US factories - but a key measure of manufacturing just contracted for the first time since 2009" by Gina Heeb.

Article: "A new poll shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling women" by Jill Filipovic.

Podcast: "Liberty RoundTable: Radio Show Hour 2 – 8/22/2019. Guest: Thom Hartmann".

Article: "Volcker Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Volcker Rule relaxed: Has the next financial crisis just become more likely? "by Lucy Burton.

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

Article: "Federal regulators decide the one thing the Trump era needs is banks playing casino again" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "In Reversal, Trump Says He Is No Longer Considering Tax Cuts" by Rebecca Ballhaus, Alex Leary and Andrew Restuccia.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: Thank Goodness We Have Such A Stable Genius In Charge Of Our Teetering Economy" by EarlG.

Article: "Denmark offers to buy America from Russia" by Quentin D Fortesqueue.

Article: "Beware of Donald Trump's Attempts to Link Mental Illness with Violence!" by MineralMan.

Article: "Tuskegee Airmen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How a Slave-Turned-Spy Helped Secure Victory at the Battle of Yorktown" by Thad Morgan.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity" by David L. Holmes.

Article: "Cheddar Man: Mesolithic Britain's blue-eyed boy" by Kerry Lotzof.

Article: "The family link that reaches back 300 generations to a Cheddar cave" by Charles Arthur.

Article: "Great Commandment" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself." - Matthew 22:37-39.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Inverted Yield Curve, Recession & Racism
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work/Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown / Understanding Marxism

Article: "Inverted Yield Curve" by James Chen.

Article: "History of capitalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Economic Cycle" by Will Kenton.

Article: "Trump's disastrous trade war won't head off a recession, and it might help cause one" by Bruce Bartlett.

Article: "Trump's trade war comes for consumers: Tariffs could cost U.S. families up to $1,000 a year, JPMorgan forecasts" by Taylor Telford.

Video: How China Is A Loser In The US-China Trade War.

Article: "Germany steels itself to face recession threat" by Rob Young.

Article: "Michael Levine (biologist)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tiny Genetic Differences between Humans and Other Primates Pervade the Genome" by Kate Wong.

Book: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan.

Site: Gay and Lesbian Pages.

Article: "Ben Carson says no Muslim should ever become US president" by Martin Pengelly.

Movie: "Gentleman's Agreement".

Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order" by Mitch McConnell.

Article: "Susan Collins hasn't held a town meeting in more than 20 years. Here's her chance to rectify that" by Joan McCarter.

Tweet: "Missed last night's #TownHallMaine where more than 100 of @SenatorCollins' constituents turned out to express their concerns in an open and public forum? (Spoiler: Sen. Collins didn't make it) Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/16CountiesCoalition/videos/842629412788696/ #mepolitics" by 16 Counties Coalition.

Article: "Major automakers buck Trump's emissions rollback by signing deal with California" by Sean O'Kane.

Article: "'I am the Chosen One,' Trump proclaims as he defends trade war with China" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" by Wikipedia.

Video: To Save Social Security You Have to Vote for Democrats! (w/ Alex Lawson).

Article: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Medicare "Part E"- for Everybody" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Social Security debate in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Medicare Advantage Costs Taxpayers Billions More Than It Should" by Fred Schulte, David Donald, Erin Durkin.

Book: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg.

Article: "Margaret Sanger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "8 years of suffering under Barack Obama" by Teri Carter.

Site: Street Roots.

Article: "Peace Plan" by March For Our Lives.

Article: "Why the "political center" is a dangerous myth - and how it could cost Democrats the 2020 election" by Sophia A. McClennen.

Article: "Does anyone understand the 2020 race? This scholar nailed the blue wave - here's her forecast" by Paul Rosenberg.

Article: "The Record-Breaking Amazon Rainforest Fires Could Be Detrimental to the Earth" by Sophie Hirsh.

Article: "Why doesn't the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race." by Jeneen Interlandi.

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