Senator Bernie Sanders vs Insurance
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is making history this year when – for the first time ever – he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote. As a compromise on a public-option plan that would allow states to opt out gains steam in the U.S. [...]
October 26 2009 show notes
Guests:
Conservative economist Dr. John Lott.
James Loewen, author of “Teaching What Really Happened”.
Doug Cunningham, Producer/Reporter Worker’s Independent News.
Dudley Sharp.
Mike Farrell, (MASH)/activist/author…his most recent book was “Of Mule and Man”.
Topics:
Why is it so hard to start over in America?
Is everything you learned in school a lie?
Labor news update – why are thousands of protestors [...]
Black Tuesday?
80 years ago today, on October 29th, 1929, Wall Street saw the worst day in its history. The shock of “Black Tuesday” came to an end, but the misery of the Republican Great Depression was just beginning. As a result of the disaster that followed three successive Republican administrations – and their cutting regulations and [...]
Is Leiberman just a traitor to the Democrats or merely a shill for big pharma and big banking?
Treasury Department pay czar Kenneth Feinberg last week announced big cuts in total compensation at the finance and auto companies within his control. While he cut total pay by half, he increased regular salaries, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The move reflects the complexity of regulating something that mixes politics and economics. Base salaries [...]
October 23 2009 show notes
Guests:
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Topics:
“Brunch With Bernie”.
‘Anything Goes’ Friday.
Bumper Music:
Out At Sea, Heartless Bastards.
Who Do You Think You Are? Brett Dennen.
Crumblin’ Down, John Mellencamp.
Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
It’s Your Life, Loverboy.
Paint It Black, Vanessa Carlton.
Six Of One, Half A Dozen (Of The Other), Joe Nichols.
What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
Today’s newsletter has details of today’s guests and links [...]
October 22 2009 show notes
Guests:
Congressman Peter DeFazio.
Matt Welch, Editor in Chief of Reason magazine; author of the book “McCain: They Myth of a Maverick”; and former assistant editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Marc Morano of the Climate Depot.
Environmental columnist and author Bill McKibben.
Topics:
What’s up with the public option?
Tax the rich and save America?
Geeky [...]
It’s Halloween Week! Jacob is picking the most “creative” comment to get a signed copy of Threshold- what’s yours?
We Wish it was the “Consumer Option?”
A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives on, sort of. Nancy Pelosi is calling this so-called public option “the consumer option,” suggesting new framing could help with some lingering doubts by the public, and Harry Reid has put a statewide opt-out provision into the Senate Bill. Odds are very high that a final version of [...]
October 21 2009 show notes
Guests:
Dr. John Lott, economist, columnist, author, latest book “Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t”.
Actress/author Suzanne Somers talks to Thom about her new book “Knockout”.
Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
Topics:
Net neutrality. If I don’t have to pay extra for police or fire whether I [...]
Throw the Bums out and Start Over?
The Obama administration and congress may now take on the issues arising from the near collapse of the financial system last year — how to deal with financial institutions that “are too big to fail.” A senior administration official said Sunday that Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, would make it [...]
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