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Is the Elderly being Forced to Retire Later "Change We Can Believe In?"
Jul. 12, 2010 7:35 amBy louisehartmannSocial Security has absolutely nothing to do with the federal deficit, as it's a separate self-funding program. Nonetheless, all the conservadems in the Obama Administration are talking about the deficit as an excuse to cut and partially privatize Social Security, instead of just lifing the cap on it so that Bill Gates will pay the same percentage of his pay into Social Security as you and I do. For example, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Ber
Has Faux News Far Right-Wing Fear Mongering Paid Off?
Jul. 9, 2010 7:48 amBy louisehartmannHas over a year of Faux News right-wing fear mongering and Calling President Obama a socialist finally paid off?
Daily Topics - Friday July 9th 2010
Jul. 9, 2010 7:39 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” - Frederic Bastiat - (1801-1850) in Economic Sophisms
Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!!
Daily Topics - Thursday July 8th, 2010
Jul. 8, 2010 8:47 amBy shawnt56Quote of the day: The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. -- Lord Acton
Hour One: How much more time, money and personnel do we continue to invest in Afghanistan? Author/Activist David Swanson will be here www.davidswanson.org
Hour Two: Financial reform...change we can believe in or are we screwed again? Andy Kroll of Mother Jones Magazine will be here talks about what's next www.motherjones.com
Daily Topics - Wednesday July 7th, 2010
Jul. 7, 2010 7:28 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: Oddly enough the overriding sensation I got looking at the earth was, my god that little thing is so fragile out there. -- Mike Collins, Apollo 11
Hour One: U.S. Department of Justice vs. the State of Arizona? Playing hardball on immigration reform
Hiding it all from "The Little People"
Jul. 6, 2010 7:30 amBy louisehartmannThe Washington Post is reporting that in the entire 77 days since oil started it's volcanic gush into the Gulf, convicted corporate monopoly felon BP has skimmed or burned only around 60 percent of the amount it said it could remove in a single day.
Daily Topics - Tuesday July 6th, 2010
Jul. 6, 2010 6:53 amBy shawnt56Quote of the Day: "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." --Thomas Jefferson
Daily Topics - Friday July 2nd, 2010
Jul. 2, 2010 6:41 amBy shawnt56Quote of the day: Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis
"Anything Goes Friday!"
Hour One: Sex, spies and video tape...really?! Former CIA Officer Jack Rice will be here with the latest on the Russian spy ring
Hour Two: Latest on the BP catastrophe
BP deliberately sinks oil with Corexit as cover up
Jul. 1, 2010 7:19 amBy louisehartmannBP's massive oil spill will officially become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico this week. The volcanic oil that's gushed for two and a half months will surpass the 140 million gallon mark, surpassing the record-setting Ixtoc I spill off Mexico's coast from 1979 to 1980. Meanwhile, In a stunning interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P.