• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.


• Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.


• Guest: Lamar Waldron, author, with Thom, of "Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK" and "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination".

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Quote:"It's not too late to seek a newer world."- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hour One - Executive Director JStreet Jeremy Ben-Ami www.jstreet.org & Palestinian Journalist Ray Hanania www.themediaoasis.com Topic: Gaza...Israeli ground attacks

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic:Thom and Carrie debate - What should be included in the '09 economic stimuluspackage?

Hour Three - Karina Vanden Huevel www.thenation.org Topic: newbook "The Nation Guide to The Nation"

Guest: Bill Samuel www.aflcio.org Topic: AFL-CIO and the new Administration

• New Year's Eve.


• Gaza.


• Guest: Ray Hanania. Award winning journalist, stand up comedian & author (hosts a daily radio show on Chicago's WJJG 1530AM). A Palestinian American "Defining the moderate Palestinian Arab voice, offering reason to the American, Israeli and Arab publics.


• Guest: Former U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, American Enterprise Institute.


• Guest: Gerald Celente, Director of the Trends Research Institute. Trends Journal: Top Trends 2009.


• Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong": Kat Tansey. Author, "Choosing to Be: Lessons in Living from a Feline Zen Master".

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Guest: A.C. Thompson, an award-winning journalist on the staff of ProPublica. "Katrina's Hidden Race War".


• The house prices index fell by 18% last year, a record.
  
• Guest: Alan Jablonski. Consumer Rights Attorney, California Mortgage Broker and author of

• The Middle East situation.


• Guest: Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street, the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

Quote: "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance ~ it is the illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel Boorstin

Hour One - Jeremy Ben-Ami Executive Director J Street www.jstreet.org Topic: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: "A Modest Conservative Wish List for 2009"

Hour Three - Ed Rampell www.politicalfilmcritics.blogspot.comTopic: Announcing the nominees for the Progie Awards for the best Progressive Pictures

• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon.


• Guest: Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO). Should health care providers be able to deny you potentially life saving treatment because they object on moral or religious grounds?

• Guest: Wendy Gelberg, Gentle Job Search & Career Services. Author, "The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career". How to keep or get a job in a recession.


• Guest: Jim Sues, Executive Director, New Jersey Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.). 5 Muslims Convicted - The Fort Dix Verdict: A Victory for Pre-emptive Prosecutions?


• Holiday tipping...who do you tip and how much?


• Guest: Sandra Swirski, president of the Philanthropy Collaborative. What is the nature of charitable giving in the U.S.?

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon.


• Guest: Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the National Association of Realtors

• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon, with Higgins the cat.


• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont. Bernie talked about the economy, the bank bailout and the auto bailout, and answered questions from callers. Transcript.


• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. His 4 point plan for turning the economy around. Why throwing money at banks doesn't work. Listeners' questions. Transcript.


• Guest: Sarah Rosen Wartell. Acting CEO of the Center for American Progress and Executive Vice President for Management of American Progress.


• "Geeky Science Rocks"

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Quote: We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Hour One - Congresswoman (D-CO) Diana Degette www.degette.house.gov Topic: Should health care providers be able to deny you potentially life saving treatment because they object on moral or religious grounds?

Guest: Melissa Etheridge www.melissaetheridge.com/home Topic: "The Choice Is Ours Now”

Hour Two - Rabbi Michael Lerner www.tikkun.org Topic: Chanukah & Christmas: When Hope Triumphs Over Cynical Realism

Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Santa Claus is here!

Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org Topic: Vets issues

Guest: Kenneth "Ken" Davis www.dontknowmuch.com Topic: Christmas trivia and traditions