Is the Koch Brothers' Curriculum Coming to Your Child's School?
Dec. 11, 2014 1:08 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The Koch Brothers are trying to re-write history. Caitlin MacNeal over at TPM is reporting that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has “encouraged” state high school teachers to start teaching a curriculum that was drafted by a Koch Brothers-funded group.
Wednesday 10 December '14 show notes
Dec. 11, 2014 8:39 amBy SueN- "We are awesome"...
- Matthew Heimbach, Traditionalist Youth Network: Does free speech extend to your license plate?
- Dan Sisson, The Revolution of 1800: Thom Hartmann University book club - chapter 6
Torture is Not an American Value
Dec. 10, 2014 12:58 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Conservatives are freaking out about the Senate torture report, and nowhere are they freaking out more than on Fox So-Called News. Host Andrea Tantaros, for example, went on a crazy rant after hearing that the report was being released and repeated “America is awesome” over and over again.
Tuesday 9 December '14 show notes
Dec. 10, 2014 3:05 amBy SueN- Senate releases the torture report...should we pardon the torturers?
- Kyle Ash, Greenpeace: Latest from U.N. Climate talks in Lima, Peru
This is NOT who we are…
Dec. 9, 2014 1:01 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...“The character of our country has to be measured in part, not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard.” Those were the words of President Obama, when he was asked over the summer about the CIA’s use of torture in the months and years after 9/11.
Monday 8 December '14 show notes
Dec. 9, 2014 8:30 amBy SueN- Have we lost our democracy?
- David Morris, Institute for Local Self Reliance / The New City States: What can we learn from Alaska?
- Shane Davis, Fractivist / Groundswell Rising: How one fractivist is fighting back
How Democrats in the South will Rise Again...
Dec. 8, 2014 1:37 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The “Southern Democrat” is dying, but it’s not dead yet.
On Saturday, things got even worse for the Democratic Party. As many expected, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu lost in a runoff race to Republican challenger Congressman Bill Cassidy. To make matters worse, it wasn’t even close. With almost all votes tallied, as of earlier today, Cassidy was beating Landrieu by 14 percent of the vote.