Hour One - Topic: Election: Public or private financing?

Hour Two - Guest: Nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz on his latest book - Fair Tax Topic: Thom will be asking Neal - Isn't this the latest conservative strategy to make the rich richer and the working people poorer?

Hour Three - Guest: Professor Saul Landau www.saullandau.com Topic: What does Fidel's stepping down mean for Cuba? America? Displaced Cubans?

Today I had a rousing debate with fellow talk show host Neal Boortz (Jones Radio Networks), author of several books on the Fair Tax, including his latest "Fair Tax, The Truth: Answering the Critics." Neal argues that the Fair Tax is the way to go because it broadens the tax base and makes it fair for everyone. I pointed out that in my opinion it's not fair to the poor or the working class. In fact, it seems like just another conservative scheme to make the rich richer and the working people poorer. I also stated that nowhere in the world where a VAT exists does anyone stand in line to fill out the paper work to get back. I think it's a bad idea all around.

Today I challenged Lexington Institute Fellow Robby Shrum about why he thinks America should privatize the US Postal Service. I like the idea of keeping union workers in union jobs knowing they have a career, a pension and a vested interest in what they do. I also like the idea that they are accountable to "we the people." Robby says the postal service isn't that accountable, their books are being cooked just like an Enron or WorldCom. I responded by saying "let's clean it up then!" Why should we throw out a system that works so that corporate America can make some money on it...the system ain't broken! Robby argued that we need competition. I say no...police, fire and the postal service should remain in the hands of the people.

Additionally, for your consideration, a YouTube video on How The Markets Really Work:

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Hour One - Are conservative policies producing generations of damaged Americans?

Hour Two - Robby Schrum www.lexingtoninstitute.org Topic: Thom and Robby take opposite sides - Should the Post Office be privatized?

Hour Three - Guest: Tim Newman www.LaborRight.org Topic: Unsafe drugs from China? Bridgestone Firestone using child labor? Why is the world being run for transnational companies instead of people?

• Show live from KJFK, Reno.
• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Article: A Crisis of Faith, Paul Krugman.
• What happened to the anthrax investigation?
• "Anything goes" Friday.

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Thom is "live" from KJFK Reno, Nevada with Anything Goes! Friday

Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov Topic: "Brunch with Bernie" 1st hour as always....

Thom Hartmann today at 5 p.m. - Borders Books, Music, Movies & Cafe, 4995 S. Virginia St. Reno

This morning I had a debate with Carrie Lukas, Vice President of Policy and Economics with the Independant Women's Forum, about their "Take Back the Date" college campus campaign to "rescue romance from the radical feminists and their hook-up culture." I countered that the "hook up" culture is nothing new...Ben Franklin talked about it. Further, the 60's free love generation hurt women more than helped them. Carrie insists that Valentine's Day has become known as V-Day due to the presentation of the "crude" play "The Vagina Monologues." I pointed out that this is a play to make people aware of violence against women. I further asked Carrie if she supports sex education in the schools...Carrie says it's up to parents to control what kids learn and where they learn it.

• It's Valentine's Day.
• Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress.
• Guest: Carrie L. Lukas, Independent Women's Forum, campaign to "rescue romance from the radical feminists and their hook-up culture".
• Guest: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, The Broken American Male: And How to Fix Him.
• The House Republicans stage a walkout.
• Condoleezza Rice's testimony.
• Guest host Carl Wolfson, Thom's co-host from the local show on KPOJ.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Director of Strategic Communications, Center for American Progress.

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Hour One - Guest: Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: It's Valentine's Day - Thom challenges Carrie on her "Take Back the Date" campus campaign to "rescue romance from the radical feminists and their hook-up culture"

Guest - Congressman John Conyers www.house.gov/conyers Topic: Conyers Introduces Contempt Resolution, Call for Lawsuit against White House

Hour Two - Guest: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach www.shmuley.com/home.php Topic: His new book "The Broken American Male and How to Fix Him"

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

• Guest: David Horowitz. Right Wing Brings Down Progressive College President.
• Obama's and Hillary's remarks after yesterday's primaries.
• FISA bills.
• Guest: Michael O'Hanlon. When will conservatives acknowledge victory in the Iraq war and talk about ending the occupation?
• Guest: John Pinkston. Is American headed for a "One World Government"?

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This morning I challenged David Horowitz about the removal of the President from William and Mary College by the political right...the very campus Thomas Jeffereson attended. I asked him if the "political correctness right" has turned into a brown shirt movement? David blamed the left for the existence of the Christian Right...claiming there wasn't a Christian Right until Roe v.Wade became law. I politely reminded him that there's always been a Christian Right...they used to be called the Ku Klux Klan. ..and before that it was the Puritans hanging women as witches in Massachusetts in the 1600s!

Hour One - Guest: David Horowitz www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org Topic: Right Wing Succeeds In Campaign To Bring Down Progressive College President - Thom will be asking David - Has the "political correctness right" turned into a "brown shirt" movement?

Hour Two - Guest: Michael O'Hanlon www.brookings.edu Topic: Iraq war - When are conservatives going to acknowledge victory in the war and talk about ending the occupation?

Hour Three - Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong" John Pinkston www.watchamerica.com Topic: Is American headed for a "One World Government."

• Have we pimped out the news? Do you want news or entertainment?
• Guest: Dinesh D'Souza, "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left And Its Responsibility For 9/11".
• Dodd's amendment to strip retroactive immunity from telecom companies fell 31-67.
• Guest: Congressman Charles Rangel. The economic stimulus package.
• Guest: Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office, ACLU. The Protect America Act.

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Hour One – Topic: Have we pimped out the news? Do you want news or entertainment?

Hour Two - Guest: Dinesh D'Souza www.dineshdsouza.com Topic: Thom is challenging Dinsesh on his book - "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11"

Hour Three - Guest: Congressman Charles Rangel http://www.house.gov/rangel/ Topic: Economy and stimulus package

• Guest: Larisa Alexandrova, Raw Story. The Siegelman Story, 60 Minutes.
• Guest: Ralph Nader, exploratory committee for a 2008 presidential run.
• Guest: Matt Rothschild, Progressive Magazine. Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business.
• Guest: professor Peter Swire. FISA. Black Box Sensors.

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Hour One - Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com  Topic: CBS "60 Minutes" caves to White House pressure on Siegelman story

Hour Two - Guest: Matt Rothschild www.theprogressive.org/mag Topic: Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business

Hour Three - Guest: Professor Peter Swire www.peterswire.net Topic: Bush Administration Plans To Install Black Box Sensors On Private-Sector Computer Networks