2008 October | Thom Hartmann

One-Party Rule? (Don’t Buy It.)

By Thom Hartmann"Sending Jeff Merkley to the U.S. Senate could give one party a blank check … again," says an announcer in an ad for Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, a Republican in a close race with Merkley, a Democrat.
In North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole is at risk of losing to Democrat Kay Hagan, and [...]

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Transcript: American Story rant, 28 October 2008

How do liberals and progressives control America? Is ‘control’ the right word? What is America based on? What does it mean that we’re going to have a change in government? You know, everybody, we talk about change. What does this change mean? What are the consequences of it? How does this all work? What are [...]

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On the Program – Oct 31 2008

Anything Goes – Halloween!
"Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders

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On the Program – Oct 30th 2008

Quote: "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."Theodore Roosevelt Hour One - Dick Patten www.NoDeathTax.org Topic: The Estate Tax and Joe The Plumber Hour Two – Economic Meltdown…. Guest: Brad Friedman www.bradblog.com Topic: Electile Dysfunction Guest: "Advertiser of the week" [...]

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October 27 2008 show notes

Guest: Brad O’Leary. President of ATI-News. Employee Free Choice Act.
Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women’s Forum.
Guest: Antonia Juhasz. Author, “The Tyranny of Oil: The World

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October 24 2008 show notes

“Brunch with Bernie” with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont. Alan Greenspan’s testimony. His run in with Alan Greenspan in 2003.
Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University.
Value of labor rant. People don’t create jobs, except government creating the environment for them.
‘Anything goes” Friday.
Guest: Janine Boneparth of Code Pink, who tried to make [...]

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On the Program – Oct 29th 2008

Quote: Freedom is participation in power – Cicero Hour One -Tara Ross www.taraross.com Topic: Is the electoral college obsolete? Hour Two – Dan Gainor www.businessandmedia.org Topic: Thom and Dan debate Obama’s "radical constitutional and redistributionist views" Hour Three – "Everything You Know is Wrong" Dr. Ken Olson www.trafford.com Topic: Halloween! "An Expose of Satan’s Schemes" Guest: "Taking Our [...]

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On the Program – Oct 28th 2008

Quote: All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville Hour One – Dr. Yaron Brook www.aynrand.org

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October 23 2008 show notes

Guest: Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute.
Guest: Former Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration, the honorable Madeleine Albright. “Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership“.
Guest: Brad Friedman, BradBlog. Vote purges.
Guest: Christy Harvey, Director [...]

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Fox News Diaries…

The producer from Fox News, agenuinely nice guy (“We’re all just people here on this planet,” one of themsaid to me once; it’s true), calls Sunday afternoon and asked if I wanted tocome on Monday morning at 9:15 am ET to talk with Bill and Megyn and anothertalk-show-host about Joe Biden being confronted on being [...]

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