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The GOP's Obsession with Power-At-All-Costs Will End Badly for Us All (Including Them)
The monster of fear, hate, and greed the right wingers have created – as it rises from the primordial mud and shakes itself into life – will eventually consume them. Many commentators and pundits have worried out loud that the Texas "precedent" of using vigilantism to end safe, legal abortion in that state is either wildly unconstitutional or, if it stands, will set a precedent to take down other rights like free speech or protest. Republicans are playing with fire here, but it's not just around abortion rights. They're also explicitly going after a wide variety of other rights that Americans have fought to maintain for centuries. If they achieve their endpoint — the direction they're currently heading — they will ultimately see their own rights stripped away as well, leading to the end of our democratic republic. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom
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Thursday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The GOP's Obsession with Power-At-All-Costs Will End Badly for Us All (Including Them)
Article: " 9/11" by Ann Coulter. " We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Bizarre Tales From the Right Wing... Incels, Turtle Love and Yet Another Trump Con - Oh My...
Quote: "Less government in business and more business in government" - Warren Harding.
Hour Three: You are Invited to Attend a Live Webinar with Thom & Powell's Books - Tonight!
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
20 Years of Lies & Bloodshed- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director/Publisher - The Nation Magazine
Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.
Article: " The Most Patriotic Act" by Eric Foner. "At times of crisis the most patriotic act of all is the unyielding defense of civil liberties, the right to dissent and equality before the law for all Americans"
Article: " 9th Amendment" "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
It's Anything Goes Friday!
I'll be talking with Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast, about what changed on 9/11.
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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