Daily Topics - Tuesday November 17th, 2015
By shawnt56
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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: How the Billionaires Are Scamming America
Hour Two: Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Syrian Refugees? John Malcolm, Heritage Foundation
Comments
#2
Rep. Luis Gutierrez just spoke in Congress, saying what Thom did in his daily post yesterday: Republicans, don't overreact and give Da'esh what it wants.
#3
John Malcolm implied that the sanctuary city programs are done without federal approval. Is that the case? Even if it's not official, it seems that those programs wouldn't really be in effect if the federal government weren't going along with them.
#4
We may need a comparison of CEO stock options, which seem bad, and ESOPs for lower-level employees, which I'm on the fence about.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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I started thinking yesterday that if any of the pathetic Republican candidates gets elected President, I would have to consider democracy a mistake. Then I realized that this fits exactly what Republicans do with every aspect of government: break it, then declare that it's so broken we have to get rid of it. It actually serves the right-wing agenda to put up such unpresidential candidates, regardless of their policies,