Thom Hartmann: Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you, broadcasting live today and tomorrow from Stadtsteinach, Germany, Deutschland. And a little earlier today I had an opportunity to have a conversation with Michael Moore [...]
Thom Hartmann: And our next guest, one of my personal heroes, Dr. Andrew Weil. The first book of yours, Dr. Weil, that I read was “From Chocolate to Morphine”.
Dr. Andrew Weil: Ah, that’s a long time ago, it’s still in print, and I’m going to do a revised edition soon.
Thom Hartmann: It was [...]
Thom Hartmann: Rolf Skar is with us. He’s with Greenpeace, greenpeace.org. A Greenpeace forest campaigner. Hey Rolf, welcome to the show.
Rolf Skar: Hey Thom, glad to be here.
Thom Hartmann: Great to have you with us. In fact, for those of you who are watching our video stream, Rolf is coming in by [...]
Okay, let me just lay this out. Back in 1885, January 26th, 1885, Delphin Delmas was the lawyer who had been hired by the county of Santa Clara to argue this case before the Supreme Court. Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad. Prior to that, he had for free on behalf [...]
Thom Hartmann: Roger Pilon is with us, from the Cato Institute. He is the Vice President for Legal Affairs, the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, Director at the Center for Constitutional Studies at the CATO Institute, cato.org, of course their web site. And we have been talking about the [...]
Thom Hartmann: Mind-boggling news. Max Baucus, the wholly-owned appendage of the health insurance industry, apparently has a piece of legislation that is going to be coming out of the Senate Finance Committee. And according to Robert Gibbs, the folks on K Street saw it before the White House did. What a [...]
I want to share with you, well really, I want to share with you some insights that Matt Taibbi put together brilliantly over at Rolling Stone, about where we’re at with this healthcare legislation. Our overall question for the hour: Why does America have the most sick and twisted healthcare system in [...]
I want to talk about swine flu because my email load is starting to explode with this. In large part it’s my right wing email load. I’m also, you know, I’m on multiple email lists and you know I’ve got a giant pile of right wing email every day as well as [...]
Thom Hartmann: Well you know how sometimes you know what you know is right, and sometimes you know what you know is wrong, and sometimes you think you know what you know, and sometimes you think you don’t know what you don’t know, and sometimes what you know you don’t know, you [...]
Thom Hartmann: Sam Tanenhaus is with us. Sam is the author of a new book “The Death of Conservatism“. He’s also the editor of the New York Times Book Review, and “Week in Review”, prize-winning biographer Whittaker Chambers, presently writing a biography of William F. Buckley. That must be fascinating, Sam. Welcome to [...]