Daily Topics - Thursday October 1st, 2015
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Our newest video is here! Watch RESTORATION - plus check out CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Hour One: Thom Endorses Village Idiot For Speaker...
Hour Two: GOP's Kevin McCarthy...King of the Hill? Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Hour Three: Free Speech Gets the Death Penalty - Dahr Jamail, Truthout/The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible
Comments
#2
To caller Paul's point, the heat created by burning fossil fuels is ultimately radiated by the Earth as a whole. If we weren't infusing the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, creating heat by itself wouldn't be a problem, because the equilibrium temperature of the Earth would be the same.
#3
Shouldn't Rep. Darrell Issa be prosecuted for the Benghazi investigation as well as Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Harold "Trey" Gowdy?
#4
Have the 100 or so members of the progressive caucus all sign a request for an ethnics investigation. (We've just got to get organized!)
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A caller was mistaken that no one had invented free trade when John McCain was in his prime. FDR made free trade one of his tenets for rebuilding the post-war world.