Daily Topics - Wednesday - May 12th 2010
May. 12, 2010 6:54 amBy louisehartmannQuote: Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society. -- John Adams
Hour One - Hour One -Has the President "dummied down" the Supreme Court? Thom challenges Bay Buchanan www.theamericancause.com
Tea Party Protesters Give a Big Wet Kiss to Hedge Fund Managers
May. 11, 2010 9:10 amBy louisehartmannEven though there are Tea Party protests about high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data shows that Americans paid the lowest level of taxes last year since the Harry Truman’s presidency.
Federal, state, local, property, sales, and other taxes are 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950. This is also true of multimillionaires and billionaires, who pay a maximum 35 percent income tax on salaries and not a penny in Social Security taxes on the vast majority of their income.Daily Topics - Tuesday - May 11th 2010 - Mercury goes Direct!!
May. 11, 2010 9:09 amBy louisehartmannWelcome to our newest affilate TV stations: Baltimore Grassroots Media in Baltimore, MD and also Fort Collins Public Access Media in Fort Collins, CO
Hour One: Is America facing "My Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy?!" Thom mixes it up with Libertarian Wayne Root www.rootforamerica.com
Tea Party Protesters Give a Big Wet Kiss to Hedge Fund Managers
May. 11, 2010 7:48 amBy louisehartmannEven though there are Tea Party protests about high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data shows that Americans paid the lowest level of taxes last year since the Harry Truman’s presidency.
Daily Topics - Tuesday - May 11th 2010 - Mercury goes Direct!!
May. 11, 2010 7:40 amBy louisehartmannWelcome to our newest affilate TV stations: Baltimore Grassroots Media in Baltimore, MD and also Fort Collins Public Access Media in Fort Collins, CO
Hour One: Is America facing "My Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy?!" Thom mixes it up with Libertarian Wayne Root www.rootforamerica.com
Monday 10 May '10 show notes
May. 10, 2010 4:29 pmBy SueN- Guests:
- Webster Tarpley, PhD, Author, historian, journalist, lecturer, and critic of Anglo-American hegemony.
- Matt Welch of the Reason Foundation.
- Topics:
- Who is Elena Kagan?
- How do we stop the hedge fund wolfpacks from destroying the European economy?
- How About Hate Crimes for Homeless?
- Guests:
Kagan: A Sleeper Socialist or Right Winger?
May. 10, 2010 7:49 amBy louisehartmann
Today President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, positioning the court to have three female justices for the first time.Daily Topics - Monday - May 10th 2010
May. 10, 2010 7:41 amBy louisehartmannHour One - Who is Elena Kagan?
Hour Two - How do we stop the hedge fund wolfpacks from destroying the European economy?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Greg Palast, is the Immigration issue in Arizona a smoke screen for Republican suppression tactics? 26 Apr '10.
May. 10, 2010 7:08 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: I want to start out, though, with Greg Palast. Old friend of the show, GregPalast.com, one of America’s best investigative journalists, and actually one of Britain’s best investigative journalists as most of his work that makes its way to television is published by the BBC. He also writes for the Observer, the British newspaper. GregPalast.com his website. Greg welcome to the show.
Greg Palast: Hey glad to be with you, Thom.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann defends Obama Zombies against Jason Mattera, 29 Mar '10.
May. 10, 2010 7:06 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Jason Mattera was seven minutes into his speech yesterday to the 2010 CPAC conference when he raised his rallying cry: "we must be that generation that stands athwart history" - as I recall he was paraphrasing William F. Buckley- 'yelling, “Hey jackass get your government off my freedom!' ” Right.
Jason Mattera, JasonMattera.com. Am I pronouncing that right, Jason?