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June 05 2008 show notes
- Show live from the United Nations.
- Guest: Max Schulz, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Energy Policy and the Environment. Cap and trade.
On the Program - June 9th 2008
"If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well." - Sister Helen Prejean, author "Dead Man Walking"
Hour One - Guest: Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson www.bondinfo.org Topic: What Role is Race going to play in the presidential campaign?
Hour Two - Profits over Humanity - How low can we go?
Hour Three - Guest: Frank Gaffney www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org Topic: Should individuals convicted of terrorist acts against America get the death penalty?
Guest: Rich Trumka www.aflcio.org Topic:AFL-CIO Working Families to McCain: Actions Speak Louder than Words
June 04 2008 show notes
Show live from New York City.
- The stakes.
- Obama is the presumptive nominee.
- Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. McCain. Obama. Guest: John Perkins. Author, "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption".
- Guest: Karl Grossman. Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes!
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
June 03 2008 show notes
- Show live from New York City.
- Hillary is to acknowledge that Obama has the delegates tonight. But will she concede?
- It has been a historic race. We should honor Hillary.
- Guest: Sheila O'Connor-Ambrose, fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI). Gay marriage...Is true marriage by definition and by history only one man and one woman?
- Guest: John Berlau, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Competitive Enterprise Institute. Should the government have a fingerprint registry and should corporations have access to it?
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - June 6 2008
Anything Goes! Friday
Hour One U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders "Brunch With Bernie" www.sanders.senate.gov
Hour Two - Dan Hynes - 3 term Illinois State Comptroller…ran against Barack for the Senate primary and then was one of the leading voices calling on him to run in '07 www.friendsofdan.com Who is Barack Obama?
June 02 2008 show notes
- Show live from New York City.
- Guest: Pat Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.
- Michigan and Florida Democratic delegates to get half vote.
Article: In Rare Move, 3 Candidates Join in Pledge on Darfur. - Guest: Richard A. Clarke, "Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters".
- Guest: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida. Primaries tomorrow. Who will win?
- Guest: DNC Deputy Chair Susan Turnball.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - June 5th 2008
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" - Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
Thom is "live" from The United Nation's Plaza in NYC
Hour One - Guest: Max Schulz www.manhattan-institute.org Topic: Do we need government legislation to regulate emmissions or should the marketplace police itself?
Hour Two - Guests from the UN
Hour Three - Ted Sorensen: John F. Kennedy's legendary right-hand man— www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsorenson.htm Topic: His new book "COUNSELOR: A Life at the Edge of History"
Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News under the Radar
On the Program - June 4th 2008
Hour One - Primary wrap up
Hour Two - Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Issues of the Day
Hour Three - John Perkins www.johnperkins.org Topic: "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption"
Guest: Professor Karl Grossman www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/29/9268 Topic: Lieberman/Warner's sneaky deal to include $544 Billion in Subsidies for Nuclear Industry disguised in climate change legislation bill
On the Program - June 3 2008
Hour One - Election news/news of the day - Primaries in ND & MT today...
Hour Two - Shelia O'Connor-Ambrose www.theahi.org Topic: Thom and Sheila debate Gay marriage...Is true marriage by definition and by history only one man and one woman?
Hour Three - John Berlau www.cei.org Topic: Should the government have a fingerprint registry and should corporations have access to it?
May 30 2008 show notes
- "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
- Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. 25% + inflation in Vietnam, inflation in Iceland, Latin America food prices, Economic bubble.
- Guest: Senator Tom Daschle, Center for American Progress. Author, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis".
- Guest: Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. Video "The Real McCain 2", GI bill video and Expose of McCain endorser Rod Parsley.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.