• Thom is traveling to Darfur. Donate $50 for each "Sack of Hope" to help Sudanese refugees.
• Guest: Larisa Alexandrova, Raw Story. The Siegelman story, CBS 60 Minutes.
• Guests: Lene Johansen, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Factory Farming Campaign, The Humane Society of the United States. The beef recall.
• Guest: Alfred S. Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism.
• Guest: Jesselyn McCurdy, ACLU Legislative Counsel, Washington. Crack v powdered cocaine.
• Guest: Comedian Lee Camp. "What is Fox News? It's just a parade of propaganda, isn't it?

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Laura Flanders, host of RadioNation, will be guest host for three days while Thom is on the Air America Cruise.

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Bernie and Thom agree with Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.
• The Democratic debate last night.
• Prairie View A&M University students marched 7.2 miles to vote.
• The "oh, damn" test.
• Guest: P.J. Crowley, Center for American Progress. US embassy in Belgrade attack. Kosovo.
• Why does Thom say free trade isn't free?

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Hour One - Marc Morano www.epw.senate.gov Topic: Thom and Marc debate - Do Climate bills harm the economy?

Guest: Investigative Journalist Greg Palast www.gregpalast.com Topic: Exxon Shipping v. Baker: What's at Stake?

Hour Two - Mike Adams www.dradams.org Topic: Thom challenges Mike on his book - "FEMINISTS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS"

Hour Three - Kathryn Joyce www.thenation.com Topic: Demographic Winter and the Christian Right...Christian conservatives predict a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe and Muslim immigration rises.

Hour One - Guest: Kathryn Joyce www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/joyce Topic: Demographic Winter and the Christian Right...Christian conservatives predict a looming catastrophe as birthrates fall in Europe and Muslim immigration rises.
Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com Topic: Reaction to CBS 60 Minutes finally airing the Siegelman piece last night

Hour Two - Guest: Paul Shapiro with The Humane Society http://www.hsus.org & Lene Johansen www.cei.org Topic: A rousing 3 way debate - The Politics Behind Beef Recall Revealed

Hour Three - Guest: Al Regnery Topic - His new book - Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism

• Guest: Richard Miniter, "Losing bin Laden" and "Shadow War". Unilateral strike on Pakistan.
• Guest: John H. McWhorter, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress, News under the radar.

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When Republicans have lost "Okie from Muscogee" Merle Haggard, they've lost America...

Merle Haggard - America First

When the Republicans lose "Okee from Muskogee" Merle Haggard, they've lost America...

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A few weeks back we did a show on abuses in America's prisons. BBC's "Channel 4" has produced the documentary that's really worth watching.

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• Guest: John Berlau, Competitive Enterprise Institute. Economic stimulus package.
• Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate, "Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power".
• Michelle Obama, pride in country.
• Guest: U.S. Congressman D-TX Rep. Silvestre Reyes. FISA.
• Guest: Larry Scott, founder and Editor of VA Watch Dog. Veteran's Issues.
• Guest: Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. For Obama.
• Guest: Dick Gephardt, former minority/majority leader who twice ran for president. For Hillary.

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Anything Goes! Friday...

Guest: "Brunch with Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders http://sanders.senate.gov/ taking your calls

Guest: PJ Crowley www.americanprogress.org Topic: What's going on in Belgrade, why are they protesting?

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Hour One - Topic: McCain lobbyist affair? O’Reilly comment about "lynching" Michelle Obama…

Hour Two - Richard Miniter www.pajamasmedia.org Topic: Pakistan...why is a unilateral strike being touted as a "Model for US operations in Pakistan?"

Hour Three - John McWhorter www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mcwhorter.htm Topic: Race & Politics

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

• Fidel Castro has stepped down.
• Election: Public or private financing?
• Guest: Neal Boortz, Fair Tax.
• Guest: Professor Saul Landau. What does Fidel's stepping down mean for Cuba?

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In this video clip (as of the moment I'm posting this link) from Drudge's Britebart site, Michelle Obama's word "really" in "I'm really proud of America" has been deleted from the audio, although you can see her lips say it. Check it out: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=49244

Hour One - Guest: John Berlau www.cei.org Topic: Stimulus package not the path to economic recovery - If not the stimulus package, then what is the answer? What about rebuilding the infrastructure?

Hour Two - Guest: Fred Kaplan www.slate.com Topic: DAYDREAM BELIEVERS: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Hour Three - Guest: U.S. Congressman D-TX Rep. Silvestre Reyes http://wwwc.house.gov/reyes/default.asp Topic: FISA…why do the Republicans keep trying to terrorize Americans?

Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org Topic: Vet's issues

Today I had a chance to talk with John Berlau from CEI about the economic stimulus package. While we are both in agreement that the stimulus package won't work, we disagree on why. John supports higher taxes, while I support fixing America by fixing the infrastructure. During our discussion, at one point I had to ask "Am I hearing John Berlau of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute calling for more government regulation?" What a shocker! I went on to point out that in the mortgage business, there's all this competition...and folks getting so called "ninja loans"...where everyone was competing to make a buck and it wasn't being regulated. Berlau countered that banking is a highly regulated industry...although he admitted he wasn't sure what regulation would have prevented the subprime mess. I suggested we have the folks who make the loans not be the ones who hold the money...or if we do let them hold the money, then we should regulate the heck out of them. Berlau said that's why we have Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae, however he agreed that they both got caught for phony accounting.

• Are conservative policies producing generations of damaged Americans?
• Poverty.
• Guest: Robby Schrum. Should the Post Office be privatized?
• It's Presidents day.
• Guest: Tim Newman, International Labor Rights Forum, stopfirestone.org.

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