Daily Topics - Friday May 6th, 2011
By shawnt56
"Anti-Fox" Free Speech TV wants a spot on Comcast - The Denver Post
Get the new IPhone App for Thom Hartmann
Truthout proudly presents weekly installments of Thom's bestselling book "Unequal Protection"
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls! on "Anything Goes on Townhall Fridays!"
Hour Two: Latest developments...war on democracy - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
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Happy Happy Birthday Thom! Best wishes from a fellow May Baby! Of course, you're a level headed Taurus and I'm a crazy ass Gemini! =) Hope you have a wonder-filled day!
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Question for Bernie??
Would it be constitutionally legal to make all health insurance providers run as non profit organizations making only the 11.99% profit allowed to npo's
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
From Cracking the Code:
"In Cracking the Code, Thom Hartmann, America’s most popular, informed, and articulate progressive talk show host and political analyst, tells us what makes humans vulnerable to unscrupulous propagandists and what we can do about it. It is essential reading for all Americans who are fed up with right-wing extremists manipulating our minds and politics to promote agendas contrary to our core values and interests."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
What the caller Randy brought up with Sen. Sanders is a regressive tax bracket system, not a progressive tax system. The Republicans in his state may call it progressive, but that's either an intentional lie, or they think "progressive" just means that the tax rate changes with income.