April 27 2009 show notes
Monday 27 April ‘09 show
Guest: Dr. Arthur Caplan. Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; author or editor of twenty-five books including “The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics” as well as over 500 [...]
April 24 2009 show notes
Friday 24 April ‘09 show
Article: Household Wealth in Freefall.
Bumper Music: Democracy is coming to the USA, Leonard Cohen.
Discipline in combat is essential. Disobedience to the law of war dishonors the Nation, the Marine Corps, and the individual Marine, and far from weakening the enemy’s will to fight, it strengthens it. The following principles require the [...]
April 23 2009 show notes
Thursday 23 April ‘09 show
The FBI may well be the smoking gun in a positive sense in whole torture mess. The legislative branch have no police apart from within the Capitol, the executive branch executes laws, judiciary. In the executive branch headed by the president there are different divisions, e.g. DoD, domestic intelligence, police. The [...]
April 22 2009 show notes
Wednesday 22 April ‘09 show
Happy Earth Day.
Quote for the day: “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, 1855.
Article: Of Black Holes and Radio Silence, Elizabeth de [...]
April 21 2009 show notes
Tuesday 21 April ‘09 show
Don’t let up on Attorney General Holder, call about Leura Canary, the Don Siegelman case. (202) 514-2001. Call Congress.
There will be a daily prize for the best best blog, post, caller, comment in the chat room, best audio or video uploaded. It’s all free.
Article: Spain’s Falling Prices Fuel Deflation Fears in [...]
May 1 2009 Friday
Topic: “Brunch With Bernie” Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov
Topic: “News Under the Radar” Christy Harvey of the Center for American Progress joins Thom www.americanprogress.org
April 30th 2009 Thursday
Hour 1 – Should we regulate the hedge fund and financial services industries like the Europeans are doing?
Hour 2 – To stop more epidemics and to save the planet, should we as a nation challenge the religious who appose birth control?
Hour 3 – Not that Portugal has proven drug decriminalization works, how do we get [...]
April 29th 2009 Wednesday
Hour One: The Best of the Rest of the News
Hour two: “America’s twisted history of racism” Thom challenges Fox News pundit Judge Andrew Napolitano about his new book “Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom In America” www.judgenap.com
Hour Three: Jonathan Alter www.newsweek.com – Obama’s First 100 Days
Topic: “Everything You Know is Wrong” – Living [...]
April 28th 2009 Tuesday
Topic: “Torture and Democracy” Dr. Darius Rejali, nationally recognized expert on torture and interrogation, joins Thom for an indepth discussion www.reed.edu
Topic: “Obama’s foreign policy…back to the future?” Thom confronts conservative columnist Michael Barone www.realclearpolitics.com
Topic: “Worse than Watergate” John Dean, former White House Counsel under Nixon, joins Thom to discuss the Bush torture memos and prosecution for those involved www.findlaw.com
April 27th 2009 Monday
Topic: “Breaking News!” Should the failing newspaper industry get a bailout next? Thom and Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute mix it up www.businessandmedia.org
Topic: “Labor Update – On Tour for the Employee Free Choice Act” Stewart Acuff from the AFL-CIO drops by with an update www.aflcio.org
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