• Guest: A.C. Thompson, an award-winning journalist on the staff of ProPublica. "Katrina's Hidden Race War".


• The house prices index fell by 18% last year, a record.
  
• Guest: Alan Jablonski. Consumer Rights Attorney, California Mortgage Broker and author of

• The Middle East situation.


• Guest: Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street, the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.

Quote: "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance ~ it is the illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel Boorstin

Hour One - Jeremy Ben-Ami Executive Director J Street www.jstreet.org Topic: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: "A Modest Conservative Wish List for 2009"

Hour Three - Ed Rampell www.politicalfilmcritics.blogspot.comTopic: Announcing the nominees for the Progie Awards for the best Progressive Pictures

• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon.


• Guest: Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO). Should health care providers be able to deny you potentially life saving treatment because they object on moral or religious grounds?

• Guest: Wendy Gelberg, Gentle Job Search & Career Services. Author, "The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career". How to keep or get a job in a recession.


• Guest: Jim Sues, Executive Director, New Jersey Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.). 5 Muslims Convicted - The Fort Dix Verdict: A Victory for Pre-emptive Prosecutions?


• Holiday tipping...who do you tip and how much?


• Guest: Sandra Swirski, president of the Philanthropy Collaborative. What is the nature of charitable giving in the U.S.?

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• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon.


• Guest: Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the National Association of Realtors

Giving Well ... who's giving, who's getting and who needs your help. Are charitable foundations a good thing, and/or a symptom of the social ill - massive inequality?

Thom Hartmann interviews Sandra Swirski, December 23, 2008

• Thom was snowed in, so the show was live from on the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon, with Higgins the cat.


• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont. Bernie talked about the economy, the bank bailout and the auto bailout, and answered questions from callers. Transcript.


• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. His 4 point plan for turning the economy around. Why throwing money at banks doesn't work. Listeners' questions. Transcript.


• Guest: Sarah Rosen Wartell. Acting CEO of the Center for American Progress and Executive Vice President for Management of American Progress.


• "Geeky Science Rocks"

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Professor Ravi Batra, a Professor of Economics at the Southern Methodist University, wrote "Greenspan's Fraud" and "The New Golden Age

Quote: We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Hour One - Congresswoman (D-CO) Diana Degette www.degette.house.gov Topic: Should health care providers be able to deny you potentially life saving treatment because they object on moral or religious grounds?

Guest: Melissa Etheridge www.melissaetheridge.com/home Topic: "The Choice Is Ours Now”

Hour Two - Rabbi Michael Lerner www.tikkun.org Topic: Chanukah & Christmas: When Hope Triumphs Over Cynical Realism

Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Santa Claus is here!

Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org Topic: Vets issues

Guest: Kenneth "Ken" Davis www.dontknowmuch.com Topic: Christmas trivia and traditions

Quote: "Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man." - Stewart Udall

• The choice of pastor Rick Warren for the inauguration invocation.


• Guest: Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. "Twas the night before Christmas" Bush spoof.


• Guest: Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona. How to deal with depression in the face of the holiday season, and how to heal.


• Guest: Law Professor Peter Edelman. "Economic Opportunity for All or A New Gilded Age?"


• Guest: Gene Stone. Book: "The 12-Step Bush Recovery Program: A Lifesaving Guide to Shaking Off the Horrors of the Last Eight Years, with Practical Advice on Relapse, Remission, and Recounts".


• Guest: Christy Harvey, Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress.

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