Daily Topics - Tuesday July 24th, 2012
Jul. 24, 2012 11:16 am
By shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Is Michelle Bachmann the new Joe McCarthy - Ryan Mauro, Radical Islam.org / Plus, "You Don't Belong Here"...the Republican legacy of dog whistle politics
Hour Two: Only Christian Aurora victims go to heaven? Bill Keller, Live Prayer
Big Brother is watching you!
Jul. 24, 2012 8:40 am
By louisehartmann
In an interview with Current TV on Monday, former NSA senior official Thomas Drake revealed that the NSA is not just monitoring international phone calls and emails as its been given the authority to do, but also domestic calls and emails. As Drake said, “a key decision [was] made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillancDaily Topics - Monday July 23rd, 2012
Jul. 23, 2012 9:19 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Does anyone in America really need an assault weapon? Noel Flasterstein, Gun Rights For You
Hour Two: How to lose 800,000 jobs...Mitt Romney's tax plan - Curtis Dubay, Heritage Foundation
Hour Three: Food fight...time to return to family farming?
Why does the US have such a high rate of gun murders?
Jul. 23, 2012 8:25 amBy louisehartmann
The shooter in the Aurora theater massacre, James Holmes, purchased more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition in the weeks leading up to the shooting, spending roughly $3,000 on his arsenal. He also purchased a bullet-proof vest and other tactical gear to mimic a SWAT team member, and high-capacity magazines that would have been illegal under the Assault Weapons Ban or any number of pieces of gun control legislation that have stalled out in CGrowing economic stress & inequality brings an increase in violence
Jul. 20, 2012 8:13 am
By Thom Hartmann A...
Twelve people are dead and nearly 40 wounded after a gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theatre in Colorado late Thursday night. Moviegoers were attending the premiere of the new Batman movie, when 24-year-old James Holmes walked in with tear gas, a rifle, a shotgun, and two hand guns, and opened fire. Holmes is in police custody.Daily Topics - Thursday July 19th, 2012
Jul. 19, 2012 11:16 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Who's the richest country in the world? "We're #1"...NOT! Logan Clement, Freestar Media LLC
Hour Two: Business...you can't do it alone, can you? Mark Williams, MarkTalk / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Where do animals get their magnetic sense from?
The US is NOT the wealthiest nation on the planet
Jul. 19, 2012 8:54 amBy louisehartmann
America likes to think of itself as the richest nation on the planet, and looking strictly at total combined wealth, it is. But that’s only because there are a heck of a lot of billionaires living here. But looking at median wealth, or how much Americans in the middle are making, the United States doesn’t even crack the top ten in the world.Daily Topics - Wednesday July 18th, 2012
Jul. 18, 2012 10:12 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: How to marry a millionaire...corporate "person" / Plus, here comes the "bride" - Mrs. Angela Vogel-Incorporated
Hour Two: Would term limits help...or hurt? Robin Fawsett, American Manifesto
The Wealthy hoard money, while holding the middle class hostage
Jul. 18, 2012 8:30 amBy louisehartmann
The heirs of the Wal Mart fortune – the Walton family – have gotten a lot wealthier since the Bush recession began in 2007, while the rest of us have gotten a lot poorer. According to data from the Federal Reserve, median family wealth in America dropped by nearly 40% between 2007 and 2010. But, during that same, the wealth of the Walton family increased 22% to nearly $90 billion.
So now, the six Walton heirs have more wealtAmerican democracy - for sale to the highest anonymous bidder
Jul. 17, 2012 8:53 amBy louisehartmann
Transparency!? We don’t need no stinkin’ transparency! On Monday, Republicans in the Senate joined together to filibuster and kill the latest attempt by Democrats to inject transparency in our elections.
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