• What is rational tax policy?


• Guest: Dr. Edgar Browning, professor of economics, Texas A&M University. Author, "Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit".


• Guest: Roni Deutch, head of the nation's largest tax resolution law firm. Who has a better tax plan - McCain or Obama?


• Taxes, investment.


• Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Update on his case. Karl Rove has been subpoenaed.

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

Anything Goes! Friday

"Brunch with Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov taking your calls

Jon B. Eisenberg www.eandhlaw.com Topic: FISA - Jon's current case against the Bush Administration for the illegal warrantless wiretapping of Al - Haramain

Event Coming up - Thom is visiting Grand Rapids, MI on July 18th. Come meet Thom from 630p-730p for a booksigning and dinner courtesy of Lannings Catering at the UAW Regional Offices.

Hour One - Bishop Harry Jackson www.thetruthinblackandwhite.com Topic: Dilemma for black conservative voters...vote with their race or their faith?

Hour Two - Tom Hayden www.tomhayden.com Topic: election, politics, progressive issues and his books

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

July 18th - Grand Rapids, MI - Thom broadcasts from affiliate WTKG...then 6:30-7:30pm, booksigning & dinner buffet courtesy of Lanning's Catering at the UAW Regional Offices

• How badly will the conservatives destroy America before Obama becomes President?


• Guest: Allison Kasic, Independent Women's Forum. Does overturning DC's gun ban "empower women?"


• Guest: Barry Siegel. Author, "Claim of Privilege".

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

Hour One - Jonah Goldberg www.jonahgoldberg.net Topic: Thom is challenging Jonah who is saying Obama's National Service plan is Slavery.

Hour Two - Howard Ruff www.rufftimes.com Topic: "How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years In The 21st Century"

Hour Three - "Everything You Know is Wrong" Stephen Cass www.discovermagazine.com  Topic: Surprise: NYC Air amy be healthier than you think.

Hour One - Dr. Edgar Browning www.econweb.tamu.edu/profInfo.asp?id=8 Topic: Thom is challenging Dr Browning on his new book "Stealing From Each Other" and why he thinks Obama's economic plan will cost America it's future

Hour Two - Roni Deutch www.ronideutch.com Topic: Thom and Roni debate who has a better tax plan - McCain or Obama?

Hour Three - Former Governor, State of Alabama Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org

• This was a "best of" show.




• Welcome to new affiliate 92.1 The MIC, Madison.
  
• Guest: Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee Peterson, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. What Role is Race going to play in the presidential campaign?
  
• Profits over Humanity - How low can we go? (transcript)
  
• Guest: Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy. Should individuals convicted of terrorist acts against America get the death penalty?
  
• Guest: Rich Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. AFL-CIO Working Families to McCain: Actions Speak Louder than Words.

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

• This was a "best of" show.
  
• Guest: Stephen P. Halbrook, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute. Supreme Court second amendment case.
  
• Guest: Anthony Romero, National ACLU Executive Director. Their largest civil rights and liberties fundraising campaign in history.


• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women's Forum. Will deregulating the health care industry turn it into the wild, wild west?


• Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. Drilling for oil. Transport.

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

• Marc Maron guest hosted the show today.


• Guest: Sarah Posner, American Prospect. Author, "God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters".


• The framing of what Barack Obama is saying about his faith-based ideas.


• Do Republicans want Obama to inherit the mess that the country is in rather than McCain?


• Guest: Elizabeth Royte. Author, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It".


• Guest: "Planet Bush Bureau Chief Lawton Smalls" (Kent Jones).


• Guest: James Wolcott, Vanity Fair. Author, "Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News In a Time of Terror".

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

Quote: When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hour One - How badly will the conservatives destroy America before Obama becomes President?

Hour Two - Allison Kasic www.iwf.com Topic: Does overturning DC's gun ban "empower women?" And, is the Fair Pay Act unfair?

Hour Three - Barry Siegel www.barry-siegel.com Topic: His new book "Claim of Privilege" uncovering the foundation of the "States Secret Privilege" now used frequently by the Bush Admin

• Thom's home from Denmark.


• Welcome to Rational Radio 1360am in Dallas and Green 1640 AM, Atlanta.
Guest: Dinesh D'Souza. Michelle Obama's Inferiority Complex.

• What is patriotism?


• Guest: Ron Paul.


• Declaration of Independence rant.

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

• Marc Maron guest hosted the show today.


• McCain's mental state and lack of executive experience.


• Guest: Joe Conason, Salon, The New York Observer. Author, "It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush".


• Guns. Second amendment. Militia.


• Guest: Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate. Supreme Court decisions.


• Guest: Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology. "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods",

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

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week. The show was "live" from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Danish TV did a special on Thom.


• FISA Roll Call.


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


• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The economy is approaching a disaster.


• Guest: Mogens Lykketoft, former member of the Danish parliament, former tax minister, former finance minister, former foreign minister, leader of the Social Democratic party. How to make a country work, particularly with regard to trade?

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

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week, broadcasting from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Guest: Flemming Rose, Cultural Editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He published the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy.


• Guest: internationally renowned, progressive architect Bjarke Ingels.


• Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute.


• Guest: David Miller, chairperson, Democrats Abroad Denmark.

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

June 30 - July 4 2008 Radio Guest Highlights for the Week

Monday - Guest Host Marc Maron filling in for Thom

Tuesday - Guest: Dinesh D'Souza www.dineshdsouza.com Topic: Thom and Dinesh will debate FISA - Security vs PrivacyGuest: US Congressman (R-TX) Rep. Ron Paul www.paul.house.gov

Wednesday - Guest Host Marc Maron filling in for Thom

Thursday & Friday "Thom Hartmann Recycled" include: Thom's gun debate with Stephen Halbrook; The "Wild West" state of Healthcare; The Role of Race in the Election debate with Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson; Should Terrorists get the Death Penalty? with Frank Gaffney; and Thom asks the question - Have We Made Profits more Important than Humanity?

It's the 4th of July week - here's a video from the 1940s that's still relevant today:

http://www.archive.org/stream/DontBeaS1947/DontBeaS1947_256kb.mp4

July 7- 11 2008 Radio Guest Highlights for the Week

Monday

Guest: Thom will be moderating a debate between the President of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke and pro-gun Dr. John Lott on the impact of the supreme court's ruling on guns