Guests:
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Congresswoman Rosa De Laura (D-CT, 3rd District).
Dr. Rishi Manchanda, Founding Director Social Medicine and Health Equality, St. Johns Well Child & Family Centers, Los Angeles.
Ben Jealous, President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP (Ben is the youngest person to hold the office in the NAACP’s 100 year history).
Ron Pollock, Executive Director [...]
Monday
Hour Three: ”Is Capitalism going to save us all?!” Thom debates mega-corporate-capitalist-mogul Steve Forbes on his new book “How Capitalism Will Save Us” www.forbes.com
Tuesday
Hour One: What is the “Revolutionary Tea Party Plan to Save the U.S. Economy From Economic Disaster?!” Thom has a rumble with Libertarian Wayne Allyn Root www.root4america.com
Hour Three: Why are right-wingers afraid of gays serving in the [...]
Thom live from radio row at the Families USA 2010 Conference at the Hyatt Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Guests:
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Author, “Failing America’s Faithful: How Todays Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing their Way“.
Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD, 4th district).
Vinny De Marco, Professor-NIH JDD, MA Professor, Johns Hopkins; President Health Behavior Society. President [...]
Guests:
Bill Bradbury, Candidate for Oregon Governor; former Oregon Secretary of State, is proposing a “Bank of Oregon” if elected.
Eric Hensal, “Designated human” at “Murray Hill Inc. for Congress” campaign.
Bill Weise, Real Estate Agent, Evangelist, Author, who says he actually spent “23 Minutes in Hell”
Conservative John Lott.
Topics:
State of the Union, Pimps and Corporate Personhood.
Bank of Oregon
Supreme [...]
Guests:
TV presenter, radio host, entrepreneur, broadcaster and journalist Max Keiser.
Conservative John O’Hara, Assistant Director of Communications at the Heartland Institute, contributor to Big Government dot com and author of “A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes”.
Topics:
Has Obama just become a Herbert Hoover Republican?
The upcoming State of the [...]
Finally President Obama got the bi-partisanship he wanted. Just one day after he asked for more in the State of the Union, uber-bankster Ben Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. There were 30 “NO” votes, including 12 Democrats and 18 Republicans in the 70-30 tally. So we [...]
The State of the Union – thoughts?
Health Action 2010 - Thom talks to progressive newsmakers as he broadcasts live from the annual Families USA Conference in Washington DC www.familiesusa.org
Plus, on Friday – “Brunch With Bernie” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spends the hour with Thom discussing the issues and answering listener questions www.sanders.senate.gov
Sam Alito had a Joe Wilson moment last night. President Obama took a shot at the Supreme Court’s ruling to roll back limits on corporate spending on political campaigns in his State of the Union. He said, it “reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign companies – [...]
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Quote: “If by the mere force of numbers a majority [...]
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Raum Emanuel told a liberal strategy group that a plan to run advertisements against conservative Democrats who were “balking at Mr. Obama’s health-care overhaul” was grossly unwise. ”F—ing retarded,” Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to participants cited by the paper. Right – asking Democrats to behave [...]