Monday 4 March '19 show notes

Mar. 5, 2019 10:27 am

By SueN

What Will It Take For Republicans To Turn On Trump & Focus on What's Right For America?
Why Are Democrats Listening to Republicans About Moving To the Center?
A Debate! If We're Going to Do Away With Free College (as we have) - Then Why Not Do Away with K - 12? - Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President-The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do
What If Super PAC Spending Were Eliminated in Elections? - Ron Fein, Free Speech For People
Why Are Idaho Republicans Republican Refusing to Lift the Age of Consent for Marriage from 15 to 17?

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Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: What Will It Take For Republicans To Turn On Trump & Focus on What's Right For America? Plus, Why Are Democrats Listening to Republicans About Moving To the Center?

Site: Youtube outage map.

Article: "As Trump and Kim Met, North Korean Hackers Hit Over 100 Targets in U.S. and Ally Nations" by Nicole Perlroth.

Article: "Gary Hart" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Edmund Muskie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days" by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly.

Tweet: "If proven, such an attempt to use presidential authority to seek retribution for the exercise of First Amendment rights would unquestionably be grounds for impeachment." by George Conway.

Article: "George Conway Sees 'Grounds for Impeachment' in Bombshell New Yorker Report on Trump White House" by Haaretz.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: Democrats vs. Republicans On The Issues" by EarlG.

Article: "Laffer Curve".

Article: "How the GOP Used a Two Santa Clauses Tactic to Con America for Nearly 40 Years" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Republicans are deathly afraid that Democrats will prove Trump to be the criminal they think he is.." by kentuck.

Article: "Most US coal plants are contaminating groundwater with toxins, analysis finds" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Making of the Fox News White House" by Jane Mayer.

Article: "Fox News spiked Stormy Daniels payoff story before the election: 'Rupert Murdoch wants Donald Trump to win'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Trump: I've told FEMA to give Alabama 'the A Plus treatment'" by Jordan Fabian And Avery Anapol.

Article: "White House plans to strip disaster relief from California and Puerto Rico to build wall" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it's time to give democratic socialists a chance" by Uncle Joe.

Article: "A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it's time to give democratic socialists a chance" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Senate confirms Wheeler to lead EPA" by Miranda Green.

Event: Saturday, March 2nd, Minneapolis, MN: "2019 Blue State Ball".

Article: "Trump's Epic CPAC Speech Fact Checked: Two Hours of Lies and Exaggerations" by AP.

Article: "Betsy DeVos Backs $5 Billion in Tax Credits for School Choice" by Erica L. Green.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "U.S. Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar enters 2020 presidential race" by Xinhua.

Article: "Joe Biden faces heat after calling Pence a 'decent guy'" by Global News.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Hour Two: A Debate! If We're Going to Do Away With Free College (as we have) - Then Why Not Do Away with K - 12?
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President-The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do

Article: "Donald Trump Has Reportedly Racked Up More Than 9,000 Lies Since Taking Office" by Tom Nicholson.

Article: "Student Loan Debt Statistics In 2018: A $1.5 Trillion Crisis" by Zack Friedman.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Student Achievement in Charter Schools" by AFT.

Article: "Hiding in Plain Sight: PAC-Connected Activists Set Up 'Local News' Outlets" by Alex Kasprak , Bethania Palma.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "This bill would have ended child marriage for those under age in Idaho. The House voted it down" by Cynthia Sewell.

Article: "Land-grant university" by Wikipedia.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "More Americans believe GOP's climate position isn't mainstream" by Ben Geman.

Article: "China trade deal may include US tariffs, Goldman predicts" by Matthew Rocco.

Article: "U.S. and China Near a Trade Deal to Drop Tariffs" by Ana Swanson and Keith Bradsher.

Article: "Trump investigation: US House panel launches probe into possible obstruction by president" by Zamira Rahim.

Hour Three: What If Super PAC Spending Were Eliminated in Elections?
- Ron Fein, Free Speech For People

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Federal Appeals Court to Review a Case that Could End Super PAC Spending in U.S. Elections" by Ron Fein.

Case: "Speechnow.org v. FEC, No. 08-5223 (D.C. Cir. 2010)".

Article: "Political action committee" (PAC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lieu v. Federal Election Commission" by Free Speech For People.

Letter: "to Sen. Harry Reid, July 10, 2010" by Atty. Gen. Eric Holder.

Why Are Idaho Republicans Republican Refusing to Lift the Age of Consent for Marriage from 15 to 17?

Article: "Republicans in state with highest rate of child marriage vote to keep it legal" by Jessica Sutherland.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Book: The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ethel (film)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Noblesse oblige" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Peace Corps" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ex-Colorado governor John Hickenlooper runs for president" by BBC.

Article: "CBS CEO: "...may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS"" by Lee Fang.

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