Monday 23 March '14 show notes

Mar. 24, 2015 8:48 am

By SueN

In for Thom today...please welcome progressive talkers Danielle & Shane-O
John Fugelsang, Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM ch. 121: What you need to know about Ted Cruz
Bruce Wilson, Talk2Action: Ted Cruz...Trojan Horse for theocracy?
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress & Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted: Confederate flag...free speech?
Susan Mizner, ACLU: Why are so many disabled people getting killed by police?

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- Scott Greer, The Daily Caller

Best of the Rest: Why are FL prison inmates dying in record numbers?
- Maya Schenwar, Truthout / Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

Daily Take:Are killers still in charge of our healthcare?

Monday's Daily Stack

In for Thom today...please welcome progressive talkers Danielle & Shane-O

Hour One: What you need to know about Ted Cruz
- John Fugelsang, Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM ch. 121

Article: "Ted Cruz Launches Presidential Campaign at Liberty University" by Ryan Teague Beckwith.

Article: "Ted Cruz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Disturbed Man Tries to Get Into White House" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Ted Cruz Reads ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ on Senate Floor — And That’s Not the Weird Part" by Dan Kedmey.

Ted Cruz...Trojan Horse for theocracy?
- Bruce Wilson, Talk2Action.

Article: "Ted Cruz Worked With Religious Right Founder Paul Weyrich, To Elect George W. Bush" by Bruce Wilson.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Article: "Ted Cruz: Born From The Heart of the Dominionist Christian Right" by Bruce Wilson.

Article: "David Lane" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson by David Barton.

Article: "In Video, Pastor Anoints Palin, Urges "Infiltration" of Schools, Government, Business" by Bruce Wilson, Sep 24, 2008.

Article: "Chester A. Arthur" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Natural-born-citizen clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue" by Adam Liptak, July 11, 2008.

Hour Two: Confederate flag...free speech?
- Ian Millhiser, Think Progress & Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Article: "Coming Up Monday at the Supreme Court" by Shane Farnan.

Article: "Supreme Court declines to take up Wisconsin voter ID case" by Adam B. Lerner.

Article: "Supreme Court To Decide If Texas Must Issue Confederate Flag License Plates" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Quote: "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" - Ann Richards.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt)

Article: "Anchor baby" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, renounces Canadian citizenship" by AP, Jun 10, 2014.

Article: "Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth'" by Bruce Wilson.

Article: "Video: Ted Cruz Anointed By Pro-Religious War, Antigay Pastors" by Bruce Wilson.

Article: "Obama moots mandatory voting" by Cory Doctorow.

Article: "Pac-Man" by Wikipedia.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "Obama Marks Anniversary Of Signature Health Care Law" by Loretta Lewis.

Article: "Ted Cruz: ‘I’m Running For President’" by Nicholas Salazar.

Article: "FDA approves genetically engineered potatoes, apples as safe" by Mary Clare Jalonick And Keith Ridler.

Article: "Fast food chains urged to boycott genetically engineered produce" by Lydia Wheeler.

Article: "Clinton: US needs solutions to income inequality" by Ken Thomas.

Article: "Rand Paul to Announce Presidential Run on April 7" by Katie Pavlich.

Article: "367 House members warn Obama on Iran" by Kristina Wong.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes – 3/23" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Why are so many disabled people getting killed by police?
- Susan Mizner, ACLU

Article: "City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan - Amicus Brief" by ACLU.

Article: "There Is No Police Exception to the Americans With Disabilities Act" by Susan Mizner.

Article: "Dallas police shoot, kill mentally ill man " by Anderson Cooper 360.

Article: "Albuquerque Cops Who Killed Mentally Ill Homeless Man Charged With Murder" by VICE News.

Article: "How Police Can Stop Shooting People With Disabilities" by Claudia Center.

Article: "Ted Cruz Wants You to Be Able to File Your Taxes on a Postcard" by Kate Scanlon.

Book: The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss.

Article: "14 Mentally Ill Individuals Killed by Cops in 2014" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

Article: "Faith in Values: The Religious Right Wasn’t Created to Battle Abortion" by Sally Steenland, March 27, 2013.

Article: "Who Is Aqua Buddha?" by Amy Davidson.

Article: "The Seven Mountains" by Ray Edwards.

Article: "Every Claim In This Ted Cruz Statement Is Completely False" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Jeb’s Talk Radio Problem" by Michael Kruse.

Article: "Minutemen" by Wikipedia.

The bad: "‘Your world is on fire’: Ted Cruz scares the hell out of a terrified little girl in New Hampshire" by David Edwards.

Economic and Labor News

Article: "The One Sensible Budget in Washington" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "Republican Budget Proposes Drastic Changes To Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security, And Student Loans".

Article: "16.4M gain health coverage under Obamacare: Government" by Dan Mangan.

Article: "Taxes or tolls? Five fixes for highway funding" by Keith Laing.

Article: "Scott Walker cut $541 million in taxes last year. Now his state will miss a $108 million debt payment" by Jeff Guo.

Article: "Oregon is first state to adopt automatic voter registration" by Sheila V Kumar.

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