• Guest: George Landrith, President, Frontiers of Freedom. The impact of Big Oil Profits.


• Guest: Larry Pratt, Gun Owners of America. Should students be allowed to carry guns on college campuses?


• Georgia, Russia, oil, ginning up a cold war for McCain.

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

Hour One "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders

Crazy Alert!! The Thom Hartmann Program demands additionsbe made to the endangered species list! (Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and theAbominable Snowman)

Hour One - Kristan Hawkins www.studentsforlife.orgTopic: Thom and Kristan debate "Does the new Planned Parenthood adtargeting teens about oral sex cross the line?"

Hour Two - Les Bernal www.stoppredatorygambling.orgTopic: Thom and Les debate "Should gambling (of any kind) be legal?"

Guest: "Taking Our Country Back" Debbie Cook www.debbiecookforcongress.comTopic: Running for Congress in California's 46th District against incumbant Republican Dana Rohrbacher

Hour Three - Economic meltdown

Guest: Christy Harveywww.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

Thom'sTravel & Events Coming Up…

SOLD OUT! August 16- Seattle, WA - KPTK 1090AM - Looking Forward/MovingForward/What Now - Round-table Forum 6:30PM-7:30PM Seattle CenterExhibition Hall

Thom will be on Radio Row at both theDemocratic and Republican Conventions:
August 26th 6pm - Denver, CO -Thom is giving a talk and signing books -Border's Books in Lone Tree Colorado in the Park Meadows Mall. 8557 ParkMeadows Center Dr. Lone Tree, CO 80124 303.708.1735 (AM 760, Colorado'sProgressive Talk www.am760.net

September 2 - AM950 TheVoice of Minnesota- Invites You to The Party forChange Join: Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, JimWard, Chris Lavoie, Ed Schultz,Thom Hartmann, and Jon Elliott, Book signings: Thom Hartmann and Bill Press,5:30 pm doors open. Party till 9:30 pm, Where: Black Bear Crossing on theLake, located in the Historic Como Lakeside Pavilion, 1360North LexingtonParkway,St. Paul, Minnesota $10 purchase tickets at door only. www.am950ktnf.com

• Are we heading into World War III? How is it that a decision made by FDR and followed by most presidents since may be leading directly to the situation in Georgia? Rant. Transcript.


• Guest: Dr. David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, former Louisiana State Representative, former candidate in presidential primaries. His calling Obama "a visual aid for white Americans".


• Guest: Donna Wiesner Keene, Independent Women's Forum. Tax reform...McCain vs. Obama...who's plan is better for working families?

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

Wonkette - was Bush falling down drunk at the Olympics?

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.


• Guest: Charlene Davis, one of the directors of the Jackson County Election Board, Kansas.


• Guest: Ron Suskind. His book, "The Way of The World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism". The forged Habbush letter.

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

Thom fits recent events in Georgia into a historical context and into the competition for oil.

Thom Hartmann's Georgia and Oil rant, 11 August 2008

Quotefor the Day:To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race orcolor is like living in Alaska and being against snow - William Faulkner

Hour One - Dr. David Duke www.davidduke.com Topic: Thom challenges David Duke – who claims "Obama is a visual aid for White Americans who just don't get it yet thatwe have lost control of our country, and unless we get it back we are headingfor complete annihilation as a people."

Hour Two - Donna Wiesner Keene www.iwf.orgTopic: Thom and Donna debate Tax reform...McCain vs. Obama...who's plan is better for working families?

Hour Three - Has WWIII already begun? Did it start with our attack on Iraq?

Thom'sTravel & Events Coming Up…

August 16 -Seattle, WA - AM 1090 Progressive Talk (KPTK) - Looking Forward/Moving Forward/WhatNow - Roundtable Forum 6:30pm - 7:30pm Seattle Center Exhibition Hall (w/fellowradio hosts Stephanie Miller, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, MIke Malloy, RonReagan and Sam Seder.)

Thom will be on Radio Row at bothconventions:

August 26th 6pm - Denver, CO -Thom isgiving a talk and signing books - Border’s Books in Lone Tree Colorado inthe Park Meadows Mall. 8557 Park Meadows Center Dr. Lone Tree, CO 80124303.708.1735

And, at the Republican Convention inMinneapolis...with our affililate AM 950 KTNF (The Voice of Minnesota)who'll be hosting "The Party for Change" featuring Bill Press,Stephanie Miller, Jim Ward, Chris Lavoie, Ed Schultz, Jon Elliott and yourstruly…Tuesday, September 2nd at 5:30pm at Black Bear Crossing on the Lakein the Historic Como Lakeside Pavilion-1360 North Lexington Parkway in St.Paul…tickets are $10 and available at the door only. www.am950ktnf.com

• The Politics behind China & the Olympics

• Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. Are programs like Social Security constitutional? Socialism.

• Guest: Dan Gainor, Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute. Does Global warming hits minorities more?


• Guest: Michael Tanner. Author, "Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution".


• Guest: US Congresswoman Diana Degette (D-CO), Her book, "Sex, Science, and Stem Cells: Inside the Right Wing Assault on Reason".

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

• Thom challenges the Republicans' framing of Obama as the antichrist or"too uppity".


• Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute. Should communities have a say over their quality of life or just corporations?


• Economic meltdown

AnythingGoes Friday!

Hour One - "Brunch With Bernie" U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders takesyour calls

Hour Two - RonSuskind www.ronsuskind.com Topic: "THE WAYOF THE WORLD: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism (Suskind revealsfor the first time an explosive falsehood underlying the entire Bushpresidency)

Thom's Travel & Events ComingUp…

August 16 - Seattle, WA - AM 1090Progressive Talk (KPTK) - LookingForward/Moving Forward/What Now - Roundtable Forum 6:30pm - 7:30pm SeattleCenter Exhibition Hall (w/fellowradiohosts Stephanie Miller, Rachel Maddow,Randi Rhodes, MIke Malloy, RonReaganand Sam Seder.)

September 2 - AM950 TheVoice of Minnesota- Invites You to TheParty for Change Join: Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, JimWard, Chris Lavoie, EdSchultz, Thom Hartmann, and Jon Elliott, Book signings: Thom Hartmann andBill Press, 5:30 pm doors open. Party till 9:30 pm, Where: Black BearCrossing on the Lake, located in the Historic Como Lakeside Pavilion, 1360North Lexington Parkway,St. Paul, Minnesota $10 purchase tickets at door only.