"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
May 2011
Thursday 5 May '11 show notes
- That's NOT who we are!
- Jamie Weinstein, Deputy Editor-Daily Caller.com. Why are we giving tax breaks to billionaire yacht owners?
- Les Rayburn, Political Realist and Highly Decorated Combat Veteran serving in every conflict since Vietnam. Torture was used to get intel on Bin Laden and it should be used...it works.
- Paul Gunter, Director, Reactor Oversight Project - Beyond Nuclear.
Wednesday 4 May '11 show notes
- John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine. Bin Laden, Cheney, Recall, oh my...
- Ryan Streeter, Editor - Conservative Home USA. Are liberals really the "secret enemies" of the poor?
- Dennis Knowles, Benton Harbor City Commissioner.
The “Deathers” over at Fox News who think Bin Laden is still alive…or was frozen – are on their own
Al-Qaeda acknowledged today that their leader is dead. An Internet statement posted on several Islamic militant websites read, “Osama bin Laden, God bless him, ... will not go in vain…We will remain, God willing, a curse chasing the Americans and their agents…their happiness will turn to sadness." That’s Not Who We Are
No-go on the death photos. President Obama has decided not to release photos of Bin Laden’s dead corpse saying - in an upcoming 60 Minutes interview – "It is important to make sure very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool…We don’t need to spike the football…We don't trot out this stuff as trophies." Daily Topics - Thursday May 5th, 2011
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Hour One: That's not who we are!
Tuesday 3 May '11 show notes
- Has Barack Obama shattered George Bush's legacy?
- Mike Ervin, Activist w/ADAPT (national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action). Holding a sit in (thru Wednesday 5/4) to protest Paul Ryan's budget plan.
- Dr. Arthur C. Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania / author.
Deathers are Demanding the Long-Form Corpse
The White House has released some new details about Bin Laden’s death. He was reportedly unarmed when SEALs raided the compound and shot and killed him. Initial reports that he used his wife as a human shield are untrue. On the decision to kill Bin Laden instead of take him alive - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, “There was concern that bin Laden would oppose the capture operation and indeed he resisted.Daily Topics - Wednesday May 4th, 2011
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Obama needs to pull us out of Afghanistan, Roll Back the lost Freedoms in the PATRIOT Act, and Restore Posse Comitatus.
Now that Bin Laden's life has ended – will our foreign wars be next? More and more Democratic lawmakers are lining up to say it’s time to get out of Afghanistan. Even Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz acknowledged that finding Bin Laden proves that we don’t need “100,00 people on the ground in Afghanistan.” Come July – the President needs to pull us out of Afghanistan. And roll back the lost freedoms in the
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