By SueN
- Show live from DC.
- Guests:
- Robert Rooks, the NAACP's Director of Criminal Justice.
- Wade Henderson, President of LCCR (Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights)
- Irish Journalist Stephen MacDonogh, his new book on the President's Irish roots.
- Topics:
- What's more important: Knowing the teachings of your religion? Believing what you think are the teachings of your religion (even if your preacher is wrong)? Simply having spirituality? Having certainty in your atheism? ...or having working knowledge of all religion?
- Have we become the United States of Incarceration?
- Should Atheists in America start training on how to burn bibles?
- How do we get the national focus back on civil and human rights?
- "Pioneers: The Frontier Family of Barack Obama"
- Bumper Music:
- Love Child, Sweet Sensation.
- You're Having My Baby, Paul Anka.
- The Mail Must Go Through, Larry Groce & The Disneyland Children's Sing Along Chorus.
- Walk Away, Kelly Clarkson.
- Tea Partay, Prep-Unit.
- Take a Minute, K'Naan.
- I'm Shipping Up to Boston, Dropkick Murphys.
- Turn It Up, Shaman's Harvest.
- I'm taking my country back, Tony Stampley, Honky Tonkers for Truth (video) (lyrics).
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." -- Robert Kennedy.
