December 09 2008 show notes
Dec. 15, 2008 5:24 amBy Thom Hartmann A...- Guest: Mark Zusman, editor of the Willamette Week. Is it time to break up "Big Newspaper" to save the industry?
- Bob Ney of Talk Radio News, ex Ohio congressman. His insights on being on the receiving end of an investigation.
On the Program - Dec 15th 2008
Dec. 15, 2008 2:56 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Quote: "Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance." - Nikola Tesla
Hour One - Lou Engle, Evangelist & founder of The Call www.thecall.com Topic: Is the gay marriage debate really about religion or civil rights?
Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Do Obama's "green jobs" discriminate against women?
Hour Three - David Horowitz www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org Topic: "What are the limits of hate speech and at what point do you criminalize it?"
Guest: Joseph Cirincione www.ploughshares.org Topic: Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President (Mark Green's book)Transcript: Ellen Hodgson Brown, 09 December 2008
Dec. 14, 2008 11:14 amBy georgevapReinvent America's currency, banking system. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. America should print its own money instead of selling debt to the Fed which prints the money to pay for it, and then leverages it by a factor of 10.
Thom Hartmann interviews Ellen Brown, 09 December 2008
Transcript: Senator Barbara Boxer, 09 December 2008
Dec. 12, 2008 10:19 amBy georgevapThom and Senator Barbara Boxer discuss the economy, the need to rebuild infrastructure and switch to renewable energy. They also discussed the auto manufacturers bailout and the hypocrisy of those senators whose states have subsidized foreign auto manufacturers at a much higher rate than the American auto makers are asking for, yet are threatening to filibuster the bailout.
On the Program - Dec 11th 2008
Dec. 11, 2008 10:46 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Quote: Activism is my rent for living on this planet - Alice Walker
Hour One - Susan Powter www.susanpowteronline.com Topic: Her new book "The Politics of Stupid: The Cure for Obesity"
Hour Two - Judge James "Jim" Gray www.leap.cc Topic: Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it (also the name of his latest book)
Hour Three - Gene Stone www.genestone.com Topic: The 12 Step Bush Recovery Program (A Lifesaving Guide to Shaking Off the Horrors of the Last Eight Years...)
Topic: GEEKY SCIENCE ROCKS!!
Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the RadarDecember 05 2008 show notes
Dec. 11, 2008 9:15 amBy Thom Hartmann A...- Show live from Air America, New York.
- "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
- Guest: Lamar Waldron, author, with Thom, of "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination",
- Atheist display for Christmas.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - Dec 10th 2008
Dec. 10, 2008 10:45 amBy Thom Hartmann A...Hour One - Dick Kay Host of "Dick Kay – Back on the Beat," www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com Topic: Blagojevich…a betrayal of public trust if proven true
Hour Two - How is the public served by exposing political corruption?
Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Alex S. Key www.TheThirdBasicInstinct.com Topic: What Makes Us Tick
December 04 2008 show notes
Dec. 10, 2008 10:38 amBy Thom Hartmann A...- Show live from Air America, New York.
- The fate of the middle class.
- Guest: John Berlau, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Deregulation.
- Guest: Wall Street Journal editorial page's senior economics Stephen Moore, founder and former president of the Club for Growth, co-author, "The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen".
- 'Creating a middle class' rant. Transcript.
- Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women's Forum. The middle class.
Transcript: Creating a Middle Class rant, 04 December 2008
Dec. 10, 2008 10:26 amBy georgevapThom explained that a middle class is necessary for a democracy, that a middle class is not a normal thing, and the ways one can be brought about.