• Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute. Is the "free market" or government will be better dealing with food rationing & shortages in the U.S.?
• As Howard Dean said, the most important person is the one who does not win the nomination.
• Guest: Lene Johansen, Competitive Enterprise Institute. Should we accept global climate change instead of trying to prevent it?
• Guest: Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute. "Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (and Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)".
• Guest: Congressman Keith Ellison. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution recognizing Chavez's life and work.

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

Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.

Joe steps outside and coughs–the pollution is especially bad today, but the smokiest cars are the cheapest ones, so everyone buys ‘em. Joe Conservative checks to make sure he has enough toll money for the 3 different private roads he must drive to work. There is no public transportation, so traffic is backed up and his 10 mile commute takes an hour.

August 29th, 2004 9:38 pm
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

by John Gray

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Hour One - Guest: Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org  Topic: Should women rule the world?

Hour Two - Guest: Former U.S. Border Patrol Officer Zack Taylor www.nafbpo.org Topic: Is it worth killing jaguars to keep the "brown people" out?

Guest: U.S. Congressman(D-NY, 7th district) Joe Crowley www.crowley.house.gov Topic: Economy and Recovery Rebate Checks...you might not want to spend them just yet

Hour Three - Topic: Should we use the 5th anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" to investigate the Bush Administration war crimes?

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org   Topic: News under the radar

Hour One - Pastor Thomas Robb National Director, The Klu Klux Klan www.kkk.bz Topic: What do they have against a person of color having political power

in America?

Hour Two - Professor Marjorie Cohn www.marjoriecohn.com Topic: Since the Bush Administration won't enforce the law, what can congress do? (re: prosecuting Dick Cheney over the Pentagon propagandizingthe American public)

Hour Three - Everything You Know is Wrong Nick Rosen www.off-grid.net Topic: How hard is it to live off the grid?

Guest: Larry Scott Founder & Editor VA Watchdog.org www.vawatchdog.

Thom's Hungry Ghost article:

http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=436&Itemid=119

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Racism.
• Rush Limbaugh calling for riots and beatings in Denver.
• Justice Scalia: "get over it.".
• Hardening of sides within the Democratc Party.
• What's the filter through which we view society?

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

I interviewed former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman for an hour Tuesday in the second hour of my radio program on Air America. These are blockbuster allegations of election fraud against Rove and the Bush Justice Department that go way beyond what he said on CBS's 60 Minutes last month.

Listen to the full audio here.

"click read more" for the transcript...

Hour One - Who arranged for for Rev Wright's appearance at the Press Club? Photo from the National Press Club's website and outed in a story by Errol Louis in today's NY Daily News, captioned: "Rev. Wright gets the inside story from Rev. Barbara A. Reynolds, the Speakers Committee member who organized the Wright breakfast. (Photo by John Metelsky)" According to Louis' article, Reynolds' website said that: "'My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you' to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency."

Hour Two - Guest: Governor Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org Topic: Will this finally get Karl Rove frogmarched out of the White House (or out of Texas) in chains?

Hour Three - Why Obama should agree to a "Lincoln-Douglas" type debate.

Barack Obama has been challenged by Hillary Clinton to a "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate. That particular debate had very specific rules - each side had an hour to speak, followed by an hour and a half rebuttal, followed by a half-hour closing speech. The rules of the debate would hugely favor an orator like Obama, and he'd be brilliant to take up Clinton on her challenge.

His doing this now will break the news cycle out of Rev. Wright - and will refocus this election on his topics.

Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up…May 3 - 5:00 - 9:00 pm - Coquille: Coos County Democrats - Coquille Community - 115 N Birch, Coquille (map) Thom Hartmann, Bill Bradbury, Joanne Verger, Steven Novick, Arnie Roblan and others. Tickets $25

• Attack ads.
• Instant Runoff Voting.
• Guest: Jim Trippon "Becoming Your Own China Stock Guru ".
• Guest: Ed Begley, Jr. Author, "Living Like Ed". Living green.
• Christy Todd Whitman ruled not liable for lies about air quality in NYC after 9/11. Political interference in EPA.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress. "News Under the Radar".

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

Hour One - Guest: Dr. Yaron Brook www.aynrand.org Topic: Thom and Yaron will debate if the "free market" or government will be better dealing with food rationing & shortages in the U.S.

Hour Two - Guest: Lene Johansen www.cei.org Topic: Thom will be challenging Lene who claims - we should accept global climate change instead of trying to prevent it.

Hour Three - Guest: Jared Bernstein www.epi.org Topic: Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries

Guest: Congressman Keith Ellison www.ellison.house.gov Topic:In an outrageous move, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution recognizing Chavez's life and work.

Anything Goes Friday!

Sen. Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov is here taking your calls

• Pennsylvania Primary results.
• Republican Attack Ads.
• Guest: Sarah Hailey Merriam who worked with the SEIU in Pennsylvania yesterday.
• Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. "And the winner is John McCain".
• What would be your elevator speech for the candidate you do not prefer?
• Guest: Dr. Robert R. Hieronimus, "The United Symbolism of America: Deciphering Hidden Meanings in America's Most Familiar Art, Architecture, and Logos ".
• "Takin Back Our Country": Guest: Dan Seals. Northern Chicago.
• Guest: Larisa Alexandrova, Raw Story. Updates on Don Siegelman and Paul Minor.

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

• Pennsylvania primary.
• Hitting below the belt line.
• Would you vote for the other candidate if your favorite lost? Could you give an elevator speech for them?
• Guest: Richard North. Co-author, "Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth".
• Should the rules be changed and the popular vote be counted?
• Guest: Ambassador of Finland to the United States Pekka Lintu.
• What is Hillary Clinton's strategy?
• Guest: Jim Hightower, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow".
• Guest: U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). Earth Day.

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

Hour One - Popular Vote vs Pledged delegates - are the rules changing? Should Hillary condemn the "Willie Horten" ad on Obama

Hour Two - Jim Trippon www.trippon.com/legal.htm Topic: Thom is challenging Jim on his statement - Boycotting the Olympics is a mistake…

Hour Three - Ed Begley, Jr. www.edbegley.com Topic: living green

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

Hour One - Pennsylvania Primary results
Hour Two - Guest: Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Rising gas prices/taxes; review of the PA primary; financial jihad; Pentagon puppet pundits; etc.
Hour Three - Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong" Dr. Robert R. Hieronimus www.unitedsymbolismofamerica.com   Topic: The United Symbolism of America

Guest: "Takin Back Our Country" Dan Seals www.dansealsforcongress.com 
Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com  Topic: Updates on Siegelman and Minor