Daily Topics - Monday December 30th, 2013
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Hour One: What good is 1.3 million unemployed? Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter
Hour Two: Should polygamy be legalized? Mark Henkel, Truthbearer.org
Hour Three: Follow the French on the millionaire tax...
Cutting unemployment is NOT the answer.
One point three million people have lost their unemployment benefits. Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer are suddenly without the vital lifeline that kept them from ending up homeless and hungry.
Daily Topics - Friday December 20th, 2013
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Anything Goes Friday
Hour One: KKK wants to impeach Obama - Richard Preston, Confederate White Knights
Hour Two: The REAL scandal of Duck Dynasty - Rev. BIll Keller, Live Prayer.com
The Senate is abandoning the unemployed.
Three days after Christmas, 1.3 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits. And, another two million will stop receiving assistance if Congress doesn't extend long-term benefits by June.
Daily Topics - Thursday December 19th, 2013
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Hour One: Boeing vs. the Machinists' Union - Connie Kelliher, IAM 751
Hour Two: Christians, Atheists and...Satanists?! Oh My! Dr. Michael Brown
Hour Three: Prosperty works for poverty now - Ona Porter, Prosperity Works
The "Fight for 15" isn't just for fast-food workers!
This year, we've seen massive protests for higher wages all around our nation, but this fight is not just for those struggling to live on minimum wage. It's about our rights in the workplace and society saying “No” to corporate welfare. This year, corporate profits hit another all-time high, while wages as a percent of our economy saw an all-time low.
Daily Topics - Wednesday December 18th, 2013
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Hour One: What the Fed's taper plan means for the economy - Dr. Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Hour Two: Why conservatives insist Santa is white - Kevin Jackson, The Black Sphere / Plus, What you need to know about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Michael Schaffer, The New Republic
Daily Topics - Wednesday December 18th, 2013
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Hour One: What the Fed's taper plan means for the economy - Dr. Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Hour Two: Why conservatives insist Santa is white - Kevin Jackson, The Black Sphere
Hour Three: What you need to know about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...
"Death tax" loopholes are killing our economy.
The super rich have skipped out on paying $100 billion dollars in estate taxes since 2000. And, that incredible number doesn't even factor in the billions that they saved using loopholes like capital gains, or by stashing their money in tax havens around the world.
Daily Topics - Tuesday December 17th, 2013
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Hour One: Is another GOP hostage crisis on the way? C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost…Again
Hour Two: Do progressives have a new secret weapon against Wall Street? Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Government spying ruled "likely" unconstitutional.
On Monday, a Bush-appointed Federal District Court judge ruled that the N.S.A. is likely violating our Fourth Amendment rights. In a 68-page ruling, Judge Richard J. Leon called the government's collection of so-called meta data “almost Orwellian,” and he was unconvinced by the government's argument that these massive spying programs serve the public interest.
Daily Topics - Monday December 16th, 2013
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Hour One: ARE Obama haters worse than Bush haters?
Hour Two: Is Medicare conspiring to register guns? Neil McCabe, Guns and Patriots Newsletter
Hour Three: When happiness died in America...
Our basic human rights are being violated...
Sixty-five years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Declaration was drafted by the United Nations, and chaired by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The goal of the Declaration was to strive for “inherent dignity” and “equal and inalienable rights [for] all members of the human family.” But, many people in our nation are being denied these basic human rights.
Why some Republicans are opposing the Murray-Ryan plan.
Last night, the House of Representatives voted 332 to 94 to approve the Murray-Ryan budget deal. One hundred and sixty nine Republican House members voted in favor of the plan, and only 62 voted against it, but the future of this legislation is not quite as certain in the U.S. Senate.
Daily Topics - Thursday December 12th, 2013
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Hour One: Does creationism belong in any curriculum? Eric Hovind, Creation Today
Hour Two: The Pope is a...lefty! / Plus, Geeky Science - the shocking sicko truth about your pork chops!!
Hour Three: How do you destroy a presidency?