• Guest: Ralph Nader. Thom and Ralph Nader discuss the presidential candidates and issues, and possible Michael Bloomberg and Ralph Nader candidacies, the day before the Iowa primaries. See the transcripts section for the transcript.
• Guest: Congressman Dennis Kucinich, presidential candidate. Campaign finance reform. Special interest money. 527s.
• Guest: David Armstrong, author, with Joseph Trento, of "America and the Islamic Bomb".
• Guest: Senator Chris Dodd, presidential candidate, interviewed by Mark Green.

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

Hour One - Joseph Farah www.worldnetdaily.com and I will be "shaking it up" about his recent attacks on Ron Paul's anti-war stance.

Hour Two - The Iowa Caucus coming up…

Hour Three - Joan McCarter www.dailykos.com
Topic: Best of the Rest of the News…

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

Hour One - Joseph Farah www.worldnetdaily.com and I will be "shaking it up" about his recent attacks on Ron Paul's anti-war stance. Hour Two – The Iowa Caucus coming up….

Hour Three - Joan McCarter www.dailykos.com Topic: Best of the Rest of the News… Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

Thom and Ralph Nader discuss the presidential candidates and issues, and possible Michael Bloomberg and Ralph Nader candidacies, the day before the Iowa primaries.

Hour One - Guest: Ralph Nader www.nader.org Topic - What Democrat will really change America?

Hour Two – Guests: Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Senator Chris Dodd

Hour Three – “Everything you Know is Wrong” Guest: David Armstrong www.islamicbomb.org Topic: America and the Islamic Bomb The Deadly Compromise

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• "Anything Goes" Friday.
• The best and the worst of the years' audio clips.
• Benazir Bhutto's assassination and elections.

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• Assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
• Guest: Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News talking about Benazir Bhutto.
• Guest: P.J. Crowley, Center for American Progress. Musharraf, Pakistan.
• Guest: Law Professor Marjorie Cohn. CIA tapes. Torture cases.
• Kansas GOP Chair Brags of Voter Caging in E-Mail.
• Guest: Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America.
• Guest: Rob Kall, executive publisher, OpEdNews.

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Thom talked with Law Professor Marjorie Cohn about the destruction of the CIA tapes, whether Jose Rodriguez will testify, and cases involving torture. Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Zacarias Moussaoui. Ron Suskind's book "The One Percent Doctrine". Bush actually scolding George Tenet. Impeachable offenses. Criminal offenses. Should Michael Mukasey recuse himself? American Freedom Campaign.

Hour One - In the News

Hour Two - Guest: Marjorie Cohn www.marjoriecohn.com Topic: Developing legal scandals in the White House

Hour Three - Guest: Tim Carpenter www.pdamerica.org Topic: Mobilizing the Progressive Vote

Guest: Rob Kall www.opednews.com Topic: The Best of the Rest of the News

• It is Boxing Day, a day to box up all those unwanted gifts and give to the poor.
• Did The Cigna insurance delay kill 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan?
• Should corporations get the death penalty?
• Ron Paul on fascism, the Civil War.
• Are we moving towards friendly fascism?
• Economic news. Debt. What do we do?
• Guest: Alex Frankel. Author, "Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventure of a Front Line Employee".
• Guest: Larry Scott, Founder and Editor of VA Watchdog.

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

Hour One - Did the Cigna Insurance delay kill 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan? Should corporations get the death penalty?

Hour Two - It's much easier for economic powers to colonize a third world nation when it's Government has become authoritarian and it's middle class has been wiped out - are we moving to friendly Facism?

Hour Three - Everything you Know is Wrong Alex Frankel www.alexfrankel.com Topic: Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-line Employee

Guest: Larry Scott- Founder & Editor of VA Watch Dog

• It is winter solstice tonight.
• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
• The shows Monday and Tuesday next week will be best of shows.
• On Sunday December 23 at noon and 10pm EST C-SPAN2's Book tv will be showing Thom.
• Winter Solstice and Christmas traditions and myths.
• Guest: Greg Palast. The Amazon and oil.

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• Is there a war on the American way, an attempt to replace law with Sharia law?
• Guest: Cliff Kincaid, editor, "Accuracy in Media". Should Michael Savage's anti-Muslim statements be considered "hate" talk or his 1st Amendment right to free speech?
• On Sunday December 23 at noon and 10pm EST C-SPAN2's Book tv will be showing Thom.
• The EPA denied California a waiver for tighter auto standards.
• Guest: Washington Governor Christine Gregoire. EPA, auto emission standards.
• Presidential straw poll.
• Guest: Naomi Klein, the Nation. "Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken ".
• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress.

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Anything Goes Friday! Happy Holidays!!!!

Hour One - Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov - Brunch with Bernie! Taking your calls.

Hour Two - Greg Palast www.gregpalast.com Topic: Greg drops in on his recent trip to Equador and the battle of the local community vs. big oil.

Plus the Best of the Rest of the News...including the real history of Santa Claus - Why does he have flying reindeer and wear a big red suit?

• How do we recover the moral high ground in America Political debate?
• Guest: Scott Swett, "To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry".
• Campaign Finance reform.
• Is the use of torture destroying the America the founders fought and died for?
• The purpose of torture.
• Guest: Bart Jones. Author, “Hugo!”: The Hugo Chavez Story From Mud Hut To Perpetual Revolution.

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