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)

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 Radar

• 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.

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

• 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.

Quotation:

• Show live from Air America, New York.


• Guest: Jennifer Wheary, Senior Fellow, Demos. "From Middle to Shaky Ground". Report on the declining middle class.


• Guest: Larry Beinhart, Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts. Transcript.


• Guest: Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research.


• "Everything You Know is Wrong!": Guest: Mary T. Browne, "Wall Street's Psychic Adviser". Author, "The 5 Rules of Thought: How to Use the Power of Your Mind to Get What You Want".

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

Quote: "When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." - John F. Kennedy

Hour One - Dr. Yaron Brook www.aynrand.org

• Show live from the "It's Time To Talk Day" radio row at Liz Claiborne Inc, Manhattan, to raise awareness for domestic violence.


• Guest: Dr. Christian E. Weller of the Center for American Progress who says America's middle class is still losing ground.

Anything Goes! Friday

Hour One - "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Hour Two - Lamar Waldron Co-author w/Thom of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and now, "Legacy of Secrecy" www.legacyofsecrecy.com

• Guest: Victoria Schofield. The Kashmir conflict and how it may relate to last week's attack in Mumbai. Transcript.


• On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus.


• Guest: Dr. Walter M. Brasch. The Media Auto Know Better: Fueling the Anti-Union Fires.


• Guest: Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine. Author, "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope".


• Guest: Jonathan Tasini, Executive Director, Labor Research Association. Robert Rubin: Coward Or Liar--Or Both?


• Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Recap and update on his case. The court will hear his appeal on December 9.

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

Quote: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hour One - John Berlau www.cei.org Topic: Thom challenges John who says - DE-regulation is the answer!

Hour Two - Stephen Moore economist & founded Club for Growth www.opinionjournal.com Topic: Thom and Stephen debate - Tax hikes…help for the middle class or death for the economy?

Hour Three - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Will Carrie go into shock when Thom calls for living wage not a minimum wage?

Quote: "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves; the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy" - Ivan Illich, Austrian-born philosopher

Hour One - Jennifer Wheary www.demos.org Topic: report on the declining middle class

Hour Two - Larry Beinhart author of Wag the Dog www.larrybeinhart.com Topic: Body Politic: Alan Shrugged

Hour Three - Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC www.cepr.net Topic: Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around

Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong!" Mary T. Browne "Wall Street's Psychic Adviser" Author www.marytbrowne.com

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


• Guest: Mayor Mark Begich. Democratic senator elect for the US Senate from Alaska. Transcript.


• Guests: Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter of "Peter Paul and Mary" and his singer daughter Bethany. Politics, performing and the future of our country. Operation RESPECT.

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

Live from "It's Time To Talk Day" radio row at Liz Claiborne Inc in NYC

Hour One - Dr. Christian E. Weller, Senior Fellow at American Progress www.americanprogress.org Topic: America's middle class continues to lose ground

Guest: Jim Martin www.martinforsenat.com Topic: Today's special run-off election today against Chambliss... please vote & call your friends to vote!

Hour Two - Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week Magazine www.businessweek.com Topic: Can Obama keep new jobs at home?

Hour Three – It’s Time to Talk Day