"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
June 2008
June 11 2008 show notes
- Guest: Congressman Peter DeFazio. The offshore drilling "ban".
- Thom ranted on Republicans trying to blame the Democrats for the price of oil, plus debt plus the dollar.
- Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. Cooper Union and the art display; disgusting , blasphemous art involving a crucifix and a rosary. Funding.
- Guest: Congressman Robert Wexler (D - FL). Author of the forthcoming book Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress. Iran. Impeachment.
- Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong": Rick Shenkman. Author, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American People.
- Guest: Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter of "Peter Paul and Mary". How amazing Obama's nomination and Hillary's campaign were to those who marched for civil rights in the 1960s. We should not drop the ball now. Songs.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - June 19th 2008
Quote: I strive for the best and I do the possible. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Hour One - Guest: Rory O'Connor www.roryoconnor.org Topic: Right wing hate speak and his new book "Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio"Hour Two - Guest: Yaron Brook www.aynrand.org Topic: Salmonella tomato debate...food safety measures faulted
Guest: Wenonah Hauter :www.foodandwaterwatch.org Topic: Salmonella tomatoes...is irradiating food the answer?
Hour Three - Charlie Derber www2.bc.edu/~derber/ Topic: "The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values" (with co-author Katherine Adam) and "Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again, and the Politically Correct do Evil in the Name of Good"
Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News under the Radar
Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up…
NEXT WEEK: June 23 - 27 - Broadcasting "live" from Denmark
August 2 & 3 - Madison WI - Thom is speaking Saturday - NonStop Radio Symposium, Exhibition Hall, Alliant Energy Center, 1919 Alliant Energy Center Way www.nonstopradio.comThom will be on Radio Row at both the Democratic and Republican Conventions
Transcript: Peter Yarrow. Peter, Paul and Mary. Jun 11th 2008
Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter of "Peter Paul and Mary" was in the studio with Thom. He sang songs and explained just how amazing Obama's nomination and Hillary's campaign were to those who marched for civil rights in the 1960s. We should not drop the ball now.
Transcript: Peter DeFazio. Drilling for oil. Jun 18th 2008
Congressman Peter DeFazio of Oregon discusses the Republican's meme of a "ban" on offshore drilling, when there is in fact only a moratorium on new licenses; the oil companies are sitting on many viable leases for which they are not drilling. There is a shortage of equipment, trained manpower. And there is a field, the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, which has been proven by oil wells which have been capped, which is larger than ANWR is estimated to be.
Transcript: Peter DeFazio. Gas prices. Jun 11th 2008
Congressman Peter DeFazio explains why the high oil price does not mean we need to drill in ANWR. There's no shortage of crude oil - the price is rising when demand is falling. The oil companies have chosen not to expand refinery capacity, and are not drilling many of the places for which they already have leases. Speculation. The Enron loophole. Collusion by OPEC.
On the Program - June 18th 2008
Quote: Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow - Jeff Valdez
Hour One - Congressman (D-OR) Peter DeFazio www.defazio.house.gov Topic: Gas prices and off shore drillingHour Two - Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Are liberals trying to socialize transportation?
Hour Three - "Everything You Know is Wrong" Jessica Valenti www.feministing.com Topic: Her new book "He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know"
Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org Topic: Veteran's issues
You can find the report the Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-4) was referring to at...
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/images/stories/Documents/truth_about_americas_energy.pdf
On the Program - June 17th 2008
Hour One - Stephen P. Halbrook www.independent.org Topic: Gun debate...why would the founding fathers oppose a gun ban?
Guest: Anthony Romero www.aclu.org
Hour Two - Rick Perlstein www.rickperlstein.org Topic: In his book Nixonland, Perlstein argues that Nixon was the "grandfather of today's politics of hate"
Hour Three - Gov. Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org Topic: update on his case
Guest: Senator Mike Gravel www.gravel2008.us Topic: New book on his political career "Political Odyssey"
GOP convention button asks, ‘If Obama is president…will we still call it the White House?’
A booth at this weekend’s Texas Republican convention sold buttons asking, “If Obama Is President…Will We Still Call It The White House?”
Call Tina Benkiser - Republican Chair of Texas Republicans at 512-477-9821
On the Program - June 16th
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Quote of the Day: The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet - William Gibson
Hour One - Dozens Of Men -- Perhaps Hundreds -- Wrongfully Imprisoned By U.S.
Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Will deregulating the health care industry turn it into the wild, wild west?
Hour Three - Rick Perlstein www.rickperlstein.org Topic: In his book Nixonland, Perlstein argues that Nixon was the "grandfather of today's politics of hate"
Guest: "Labor Segment" Tim Newman www.laborrights.org Topic: Campaign against Bridgestone/ Firestone to end child labor practices
NEXT WEEK: June 23 - 27 - Broadcasting "live" from Denmark
June 10 2008 show notes
- Good for Dennis Kucinich introducing 35 articles of impeachment to the House.
- Guest: Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum. Should we have cap & trade or loot & pollute?
- 'Cap and Trade or Loot and Pollute' rant.
- Guest (Higgins alert): Dr.Leslie Lyons. National Geographic Channel show, "Explorer: Science of Cats".
- The true price of gasoline.
- Guest: Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy. Will bombing Iran bring about Armageddon?
- Guest: Former U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton who says that it would not be a war crime if the United States were to bomb Iran. Transcript.
- Guest: David Sirota. The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.
- Guest: Dr. Lewis Mehl Madrona. Why can't we all have "Kennedy Care?"
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Transcript: 'Cap and Trade or Loot and Pollute' rant, 10 June 2008
Jimmy Carter and even Richard Nixon saw the energy crisis coming, but Ronald Reagan reversed their policies. Brack Obama and John McCain have different ideas for cap ant trade to limit the amount of carbon dioxide that can be produced. Thom thinks there should also be tariffs so that corporations don't simply export the pollution to partners in China.
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