Transcript: World Views, Dec 07 2006
The core differences between the conservative worldview and the liberal worldview.
Transcript: Katharine Debrecht, how the Liberals stole Christmas, Dec 04 2006
Katharine Debrecht is the author of "'Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit's Nabbed the Nativity! (or how the Liberals stole Christmas)".
Transcript: What makes a progressive? Dec 04 2006
This is the first part of a rant Thom did. He expanded on the theme in the following segment.
Transcript: Happiness, Being in the Present, Nov 22 2006
The baseline for happiness and learning to appreciate what you have. It's just so important say, 'Yeah, OK, that's our goal; that's what I'm working toward, but right now I'm here and now.'
Transcript: Drugs, Depression & Chimpanzees, Nov 22 2006
Are antidepressants good for a boost if you're already healthy? Depressed chimps study. The use of drugs.
Transcript: Jim Motavalli, "Is there really a Birth Dearth?", Nov 14 2006
Jim Motavalli is the editor of E Magazine, the Environmental Magazine.
Transcript: Terry Tamminen, "Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction", Nov 14 2006
Terry is the special advisor to Arnold Schwarzenegger, former head of the California EPA and the author of a new book, "Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction".
Transcript: Election Day, Nov 07 2006
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." "From the consent of the governed." Today is the day that we exercise that consent. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends" - those ends being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Transcript: Operation Falcon, Nov 03 2006
Yesterday, Alberto Gonzales announced that 11,000 fugitives were arrested in one week-long sweep. It was called Operation Falcon III; hundred murder suspects, thousand sex offenders who were unregistered. So why did the government, why did Alberto Gonzales have the government find these people over a period of many months and then put the public at risk, assuming that these were actually criminals who should have been arrested, put the public at risk by leaving them free for weeks or months so that they could be arrested all on one day?
Transcript: Myron Ebell: Global Warming, Oct 26 2006
Myron Ebell is the director of energy and global warming policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who wrote recently, "The attempt to subvert Christian evangelicals into supporting energy-rationing policies that will consign the world's poor to perpetual poverty is being financed by left-wing foundations such as the Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Pew Foundation and organized by major leftist pressure groups. People who front for this effort should be ashamed of themselves. They should also check the factual case against global warming alarmism presented by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance".
Transcript: Thom and Heidi review Al Gore's Rose Garden event, Oct 25 2006
Al Gore spoke on "An Inconvenient Truth". Thom introduced the event. His big carry home message was that we're screwed if we don't do something fast and there are things we can do.
Transcript: Bernie Sanders: environment, alternative energy & jobs, Oct 13 2006
The environment, alternative energy, and the jobs it would create.
Transcript: Libertarians, Unbreakable Rules, and Prevention, Sep 22 2006
Jeff in Denver, Colorado asked Thom: "Listening to your guest and listening to other Objectivists and Libertarians, they seem to be very much against rules, yet there are some rules where they adhere to more than anybody. I'd be very curious, because they keep saying, 'That's not right', what are those things, you know, what is that fundamentalist thing, what are those fundamental rules that they feel that you can never break? They keep talking about the individual."
Transcript: Two kinds of cons, Sep 11 2006
They consider themselves great American patriots. They love this country just as much as you and I do. Their vision of how it should be is different than ours - their rationale and their reasons are different than ours - but they think that they are doing the right thing. In fact, they so think that they are doing the right thing, that even if it involves lying to achieve their ends, that the ends justifies the means...
Transcript: Last Election? Sep 01 2006
If the Democrats do not win and least one branch of government, there will be no investigations into the high crimes and misdemeanors fo the current administration.