• Population growth, food shortages.
• Obama's remarks about bitterness.
• Guest: Dr. Deal Hudson, Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States. Rev. Hagee.
• Guest: Hannah Saona, ACLU, Idaho. Idaho rejects the Real ID Act.

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In response to listener inquires, here are the documents. We'll discuss it more tomorrow....

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html - resoution to use force in Iraq

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html - Bush's letter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/dec/20/iraq.foreignpolicy2 - UN Resolution 1441

CNN story just before the invasion of Iraq started:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/sprj.irq.bush/index.html

Hour One - What do food shortages around the world and war have to do with Poligamy?

Hour Two - David Bossie www.citizensunited.org Topic: Does outsourcing military contracts contribute to terrorism? What about the American jobs lost?

Guest: U.S. Congressman (D-NY) Timothy "Tim" Bishop www.timbishop.house.gov Topic: Beach Protection Act

Hour Three - Guest: Scott Horton www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002819 Topic: Harpers article "A Tale of Three Lawyers"

Hour One - The Best of the Rest of the News...

Hour Two - Guest: Dr. Deal Hudson - McCain surrogate www.insidecatholic.com Topic: Thom is challenging Dr. Deal Hudson on his "white-wash" interview of Rev. Hagee.

Hour Three - Guest: Corey Powell www.discovermagazine.com Topic: "The Better Planet"...how we can all make a difference

Guest: Hannah Saona www.acluidaho.org Topic: Idaho rejects real id act

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• Guest: Dr. Joshua Schank, Bipartisan Policy Center. What's going on with the airline industry?
• Economic policy.
• Iraq. Iran.
• Lots of your calls.

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• The popular vote. Florida, Michigan.
• Could or should theBush administration be prosecuted for war crimes?
• Guest: James P. Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Working Class Convoy for Change.
• Guest: Madeleine Kunin, Former Governor of Vermont. "PEARLS, POLITICS, AND POWER: How Women Can Win And Lead".
• Thom's straw poll.
• Guest: Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection. The We Campaign.
• Deaths from corporate actions.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress. News under the radar.
• Upcoming Event: Apr 12 Seattle, WA. Green Festival

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• Guest: Sydney Blumenthal, "The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party".
• Petraeus, Crocker, Voinovitch on Iraq, etc.
• Guest: Jed Babbin, editor of Human Events, "In the Words of Our Enemies". The bloodshed in Iraq.
• Guests: Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, directors of The 11th hour, which is out on DVD. Thom is in it.

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• Guest: Gareth Porter, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam“.
• Guest: Regina E. Herzlinger, Manhattan Institute Center for Medical Progress. McCain's health care plan.
• Thomas Jefferson, the Boston Tea Party, slaves.
• Guest: Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). Petraeus and Crocker testifying on the Iraq war.
• Globalization.

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Quote: If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

Anything goes Friday...listener calls

Hour One - Guest: "Brunch with Bernie" U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders http://sanders.senate.gov/

Hour Two - Topic: Joshua Schank jschank@bipartisanpolicy.org Topic: What's the real story behind the airline industry meltdown?

Events Coming Up… Seattle WA

April 12, 2008 - Seattle Green Festival - Washington State Convention & Trade Center - Thom is speaking on the main stage Saturday at 4pm on - Cracking the Code

Photo from McClatchey News Service of Dick Cheney's sunglasses. What's he looking at???

Hour One - Topic: Olympics…should we boycott or go? It's time to settle the Michigan/Florida delegate situation?

Hour Two - Topic: Should Bush & company be prosecuted for war crimes?

Guest: James P. Hoffa General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters www.teamsters.org Topic: Working Class Convoy for Change

Hour Three - Guest: Madeleine Kunin, Former Governor of Vermont('85-'91) www.madeleinekunin.org Topic: Her new book - PEARLS, POLITICS, AND POWER: How Women Can Win And Lead

Guest: Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, www.climateprotect.org Topic: Major new campaign

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

Hour One - Guest: Sidney Blumenthal, Former assistant and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton www.amazon.com/Strange-Death-Republican-America-chronicles/dp/1402757891 Topic: His new book "The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party"

Hour Two - Guest: Jed Babbin, served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in President George H.W. Bush's administration www.humanevents.com Topic: Thom is challenging Jed - who is supporting the surge/Petraeus - how and when do we stop the bloodshed in Iraq?

Hour Three - Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong" Tarek Saab www.buygutcheck.com Topic: The Peter Pan Complex: Today's Young Men Don't Want to Grow Up

Guest: Leila Conners Peterson and Nadia Conners wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour Topic: DVD "The 11th Hour" is Thom Hartmann's pick of the month at Buzzflash.com

• Immediately after his own show, Thom stood in for Randi Rhodes.
• Guest: David Sirota. America's race chasm.
• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum. What is causing the "Middle Class Squeeze"?
• Conservative economics.
• Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna, Managing Editor of Investigative News, Raw Story. Has Alabama become the new Soviet Union?

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• Should we boycott the Olympic Games as a show of solidarity for the people of Tibet and Darfur… is it wrong to support the Chinese by attending the Olympics? Or, is it wrong to punish the athletes who have spent their careers preparing for these games in order to make a political point?
• Guest: Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute. What came out of the recent "2008 International Conference on Climate Change"?
• Guest: Paul Hannam, entrepreneur, author, Bright Green Talent. The business case for environmental business.
• Guest: Paul Waldman, co-author, "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media".
• Guest: Timothy Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum. Forced labor and child labor in the agricultural sector.

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Hour One: Guest: Gareth Porter http://www.fpif.org Topic: Today's article on Common Dreams "Petreaus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line"

Hour Two: Guest: Regina Herzlinger www.manhattan-institute.org Topic: Thom is challenging Regina on McCain's Healthcare Plan

Hour Three: Guest: U.S. Congressman (D-PA) Rep. Joe Sestak www.sestak.house.gov Topic: Petraeus and Crocker testifing on Iraq war

• 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination. Thom played clips from his speeches.
• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• "Anything goes" Friday.
• Guest: Lamar Waldron, Thom's "Ultimate Sacrifice" co-author. He names a person who had King killed.
• Forthcoming book: Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, Lamar Waldron, and Thom includes who killed Martin Luther King.
• Words.

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• Guest: Climate skeptic Marc Morano, communications director for Senator James Inhofe. Global Warming.
• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
• Iraq, sectarian cleansing, Senator John McCain, Zawahiri, Iran.
• Torture memos.
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress.

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