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Barack Obama might have been named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year...
Dec. 19, 2012 8:58 amBy louisehartmannBut he’s also making a run at capitulator of the year. Fallout continues one day after the White House proposed turning the austerity knives on Social Security Insurance in their latest “fiscal cliff” proposal.
Daily Topics - Tuesday December 18th, 2012
Dec. 18, 2012 11:54 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!Hour One: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns...
Hour Two: The NRA has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda...when will America wake up?
Hour Three: Why are we doing nothing to ban violent video games? Rene Sandler, Sandler Law LLC
Not only does the gun lobby have no shame...
Dec. 18, 2012 8:35 amBy louisehartmannFollowing the Sandy Hook massacre of twenty first graders with an assault rifle, but the gun lobby is now threatening violent revolution. Appearing on MSNBC on Monday, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt, argued that the right to bear arms is necessary to make our democratic government cower in fear of gun owners.
Daily Topics - Monday December 17th, 2012
Dec. 17, 2012 11:37 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!
Hour One: "Israel & Switzerland" solutions to gun violence? Dr. Janet Rosenbaum, School of Public Health-SUNY
Hour Two: Media's rush to judgement on what caused Newtown tragedy - Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com
Hour Three: Obama's defining moment...
NOW is the time for leadership.
Dec. 17, 2012 10:48 amBy louisehartmannIn a memorial speech on Sunday for the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Obama called the nation out. He asked the question of whether or not we as a nation are doing enough to keep our children safe.
Daily Topics - Friday December 14th, 2012
Dec. 14, 2012 11:54 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Was Right-to-Work-Less Just a Distraction?
Dec. 14, 2012 8:20 amBy louisehartmannWe all now know about Right-to-Work-for-less laws in Michigan, thanks to Republican Governor Rick Snyder and the corporate oligarchs. But, believe it or not, Right-to-Work-for-less may not even be the most radical, anti-democratic law that passed in Michigan this week.
Daily Topics - Thursday December 13th, 2012
Dec. 13, 2012 11:45 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!
Hour One: Even the GOP hates the GOP / Plus, Geeky Science - How do we warn future earthlings?
Hour Two: Why we should be lowering the medicare age...not raising it - Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) / Plus, exposing the GOP's REAL motives for cutting Social Security - Peter Ferrara, The Carleson Center for Public Policy
If you aid and abet terrorists...
Dec. 13, 2012 8:34 amBy louisehartmannYou’ll end up dead in a drone strike or indefinitely detained in Gitmo. But, if you’re a big Wall Street bank and you finance terrorist activities, then guess what? You get a slap on the wrist fine and then…well…that’s it.
Daily Topics - Wednesday December 12th, 2012
Dec. 12, 2012 11:20 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE M-F from 3-6pm ET!
Hour One: Was the AFP tent attack faked? Tom Duckworth
Hour Two: Who is really behind the latest Ground Zero mosque Islamophobia? Bill Keller, Live Prayer
Hour Three: Medicare...could this be a Todd Aiken moment for Obama?