What do Uganda, the Ivory Coast, and the United States have in common?
Feb. 21, 2013 9:58 amBy louisehartmannExtreme wealth inequality. And according to a new paper from Thomas Hungerford at the Congressional Research Service, capital gains and dividend tax loopholes are responsible for our nation's unequal income divide. Capital gains and investments used to be taxed like regular income, but they were lowered once in 1996, and again by the Bush tax cuts.
Daily Topics - Wednesday February 20th, 2013
Feb. 20, 2013 12:40 pmBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: You've met the birthers, the truthers and the Fockers...now meet the Simpson-Bowlers
Hour Two: Equal pay...equal paid leave? Kay Hymowitz, Manhattan Institute
Hour Three: Invasion of Iraq...10 years ago...'mission accomplished?' Cliff May, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Republicans secretly love big government
Feb. 20, 2013 10:41 amBy louisehartmannAt least, 26 Republican-leaning states sure do. Despite over 30 attempts to repeal Obamacare, and Tenth-er arguments for social programs to be run by the states, 26 states haven't set up their insurance exchanges – leaving it up to the federal government.
Daily Topics - Tuesday February 19th, 2013
Feb. 19, 2013 10:51 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: Media cover up on the plan to burn Dorner alive... Max Blumenthal
Hour Two: The REAL reason the GOP is pushing for sequester - Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller
Hour Three: Could a new monetary system save America...and the world? Professor Steve Keen, Economist
Simpson-Bowles are at it again!
Feb. 19, 2013 10:04 amBy louisehartmannToday, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will put out a new deficit-reduction plan. The pair served on President Obama's fiscal commission in 2010, and presented a plan to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff – a plan that was so focused on austerity, that 350 economists co-wrote and published a letter rejecting it. And Simpson-Bowles are at it again.
President Obama isn't wasting any time...
Feb. 18, 2013 9:03 amBy louisehartmannTrying to accomplish the long list of goals he set for his second term. Just since his State of the Union speech, less than a week ago, he's already put forward a plan for universal preschool, called on Congress to vote on gun regulations, and now he's tackling immigration.
Daily Topics - Friday February 15th, 2013
Feb. 15, 2013 12:14 pmBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour One: Keeping Ins. Co's from bankrupting sick people - Corey Dubin, Committee of Ten Thousand
Hour Two: Meet the 102 year old face of voter suppression...
This is why we needed filibuster reform!
Feb. 15, 2013 10:40 amBy louisehartmann40 Republican Senators made history yesterday, and refused to allow Chuck Hagel's confirmation to come to a vote. Only four Republicans, Sens. Thad Cochran (R-MS), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mike Johanns (R-NE), voted to break the filibuster, and the final vote was 58 to 40.
Daily Topics - Thursday February 14th, 2013
Feb. 14, 2013 12:50 pmBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" (special edition) - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: What would Davy Crockett Say? Karl P. Koenigs / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - What can romantic jays teach us on Valentine's Day?
The NRA is not a political party.
Feb. 14, 2013 10:35 amBy louisehartmannIt may comes as a surprise to Wayne LaPierre, but the NRA is not a political party. Apparently no one's informed him of that, as he'll be delivering the gun-group's official response to the State of The Union tonight, on TheSportsmanChannel.com. Talking Points Memo is reporting that LaPierre will respond to the President's Tuesday night speech from the annual convention of the National Wild Turkey Federation.