Daily Topics - Wednesday October 27th, 2010
Oct. 27, 2010 8:06 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: "Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." -- Abraham Lincoln
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - special Wednesday edition! Senator Sanders spends the hour talking about issues that affect us all and taking your calls too www.sanders.senate.gov
Hour Two: Birthright citizenship vs. coporate personhood...good trade? Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Intstitute www.businessandmedia.org
Thom's blog - Tuesday October 26th 2010
Oct. 26, 2010 11:42 amBy shawnt56You Need to know this! An ugly scene took place outside the Kentucky Senatorial debate Monday night. A man who appears to be supporter of Republican candidate Rand Paul was captured on TV by a local news affiliate literally stomping the head of a member of MoveOn.org into the pavement. The MoveOn volunteer, Lauren Valle, went to the hospital and was still there last night, according to another MoveOn member.
Is the Tea Party the New Brownshirts?
Oct. 26, 2010 11:40 amBy shawnt56You Need to know this! An ugly scene took place outside the Kentucky Senatorial debate Monday night. A man who appears to be supporter of Republican candidate Rand Paul was captured on TV by a local news affiliate literally stomping the head of a member of MoveOn.org into the pavement. The MoveOn volunteer, Lauren Valle, went to the hospital and was still there last night, according to another MoveOn member.
Daily Topics - Tuesday October 26th, 2010
Oct. 26, 2010 8:13 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy
Hour One: Have the tea partiers become like Cyberdyne's Skynet in The Terminator?
Hour Two: Alaska's 3 way senate race heats up - Thom talks with Alaska Senator Mark Begich http://begich.senate.gov; Plus, Alaska candidate for U.S. Senate, Scott McAdams will be here www.scottmcadams.org
Monday 25 October '10 show notes
Oct. 26, 2010 7:02 amBy SueN- Lee Fang, Reporter/Blogger for thinkprogress.org - News for sale...where is accountability in the corporate media?
- Curtis Dubay, Senior Policy Analyst, Tax Policy - Heritage Foundation - Kill tax breaks for the rich, not the middle class.
- Economist Michael Hudson - "THE MONSTER: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis".
Daily Topics - Monday October 25th, 2010
Oct. 25, 2010 8:13 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957
Hour One: News for sale...where is accountability in the corporate media? Thom talks with Reporter Lee Fang of Think Progress www.thinkprogress.org
Hour Two: Kill tax breaks for the rich, not the middle class? Thom has a rumble with Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org
Friday 22 October '10 show notes
Oct. 25, 2010 6:35 amBy SueN- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "Brunch With Bernie".
- Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR): how the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling is affecting the midterm elections.
Thursday 21 October '10 show notes
Oct. 25, 2010 5:56 amBy SueN- Alex Epstein of Ayn Rand. Six months after BP poisoned the Gulf, are we back to April 19th and business as usual?
- Arianna Huffington. Her brilliant new book, "Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream".
- Joshua Holland, Alternet Editor/Senior Writer. What are the 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy?
Wednesday 20 October '10 show notes
Oct. 25, 2010 5:30 amBy SueN- Guests:
- Lee Fang, Reporter/Blogger for Think Progress.org.
- Dan Gainor, Vice President & T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
- Jason Clemons, Director of Research, Strategic Planning, and Budgeting at the Pacific Research Institute.
- Topics:
- Get ready for President Palin?!
- Guests:
The Secret Republican Plot
Oct. 22, 2010 9:50 amBy louisehartmannAccording to a Center for American Progress report, there seems to be a common goal among all these shadowy PACs that are spending tens of millions of dollars in our elections this year -- they want to protect polluters' profits!