The Myth of National Victimhood - All Wrapped and Delivered for Christmas...by Thom

http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=123

When Democracy Failed...by Thom

http://video.google.com/videoplaydocid=1251628960376247583&q=thom+hartmann&ei=eG4sSPbCIqj0qgOR4cWuCQ&hl=en

Book Contest - Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision by Thom Hartmann. Goes to the wittiest, smartest or funniest post at www.thomhartmann.com -chosen by Shawn Taylor - show producer.

Hour One - The Best of the rest of the News...

Hour Two - Dr. Jeffrey Feldman www.frameshopisopen.com Topic: "Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy"

Hour Three - Guest: Douglas Farah www.douglasfarah.com and www.merchantofdeathbook.com Topic: His new book "Merchant of Death"

Guest: "Taking Our Country Back" Rick Noriega www.ricknoriega.com Topic: his campaign for U.S. Senate to unseat Republican incumbant Senator John Cornyn

Firday - Chicago - May 16th - Booksigning & Talk 7pm- Frugal Muse Books - corner of SE corner of 75th and Lemont Road in Darien.

Saturday - May 17th - Chicago Green Festival 1pm- Thom will be speaking on main stage

James Hansen, the chief climatologist for NASA, is saying we need to reduce CO2 levels fast, they are already too high, and other countries are taking action, but Bush and McCain are procrastinating. Thom rifffs on the latest climate news and views. Is it already too late?

The Seattle Times reports Michael Dudley is the son of a preacher man. He's a born-again Christian with several family members in the military. He's voting for Obama. Many traditional younger GOP evangelicals are no longer identifying with the Republican party.

The so-called millennial generation, roughly late teens to early 30s are part of the so-called millennial generation. Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times that this is the generation that's in danger of being left out of the "American Dream." This generation is faced with doing less well than their parents and that economic uncertainty is playing a huge role in forming their views of government and politics.

In 1974 the average income for men in their 30s was $40,000 (using today's inflation-adjusted dollars) - today that amount is $35,000.

According to The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe first published in 1997.

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Guest: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, just back from Jordan and Syria where she spoke with Iraqi mothers.
• Farm subsidies. "Columbia Dies over Texas". The goddess Columbia".
• Guest: U.S. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ, 12th District). His recent trip to Iraq.

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