Jimmy Carter was the finest president of my lifetime, perhaps one of the four best presidents in American history behind Roosevelt, Lincoln & Washington. When he passes, America will be the poorer...

It's Presidents' Day, so I wanted to share a few things you may not know about my favorite president.

Jimmy Carter has always been one of my heroes, and not just because he was the only president willing to come on my radio program and speak bluntly about the Supreme Court and American oligarchs (among other things).

— He was one of those rare Christians in political life who actually lived the values Jesus taught.

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-Thom

Part III: How Not to Fail

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

—John F. Kennedy

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-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News

— How the Senate is fine-tuning anti-democracy minority rule.
— Senator John Fetterman's brave admission of his clinical depression and hospitalization for it will almost certainly save many Americans' lives.
— Did rogue mostly Israeli contractors help put Trump into office and push Brexit on the British people on behalf of Russian and/or American billionaires?
— Women in Kentucky who order abortion pills through the mail or travel to other states to end their pregnancies may one day soon be facing imprisonment and lethan injection for murder if a new bill becomes law.
— Why does Rite Aid employ pharmacists who refuse to give Covid booster shots?
— Will the Michigan GOP survive the ongoing assault by religious zealots, gun nuts, racist and homophobic bigots, and openly Nazi followers of the Confederate "lost cause" mythology?
— It's the John Brown Gun Clubs to the rescue of drag shows!
— Geeky Science! Can preventing dementia and cognitive impairment just be a few thousand steps away?
— Crazy Alert! Ann Coulter welcomes Nikki Haley — the American-born daughter of Indian immigrants — to the 2024 presidential race with the classic racist slur, "Go back to your country."

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-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The GOP Is Just Obnoxious - It's why the party keeps losing elections
- David Frum, Staff Writer - The Atlantic / Author of 10 books, most recently "Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy" / former speechwriter & special assistant to former President GW Bush

Article: "The GOP Is Just Obnoxious" by David Frum.

Article: "Right-wing pundits leap on Ohio disaster as proof Biden administration is ‘waging a war on whites'" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Mehmet Oz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Fetterman" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Biden in Ukraine: How the president's surprise visit was kept a secret" by Sarah Smith.

Article: "Pro-Russia party holds protest in Moldova amid coup fears" by Raphael Minder, Roman Olearchyk.

Article: "Full List of Republicans Backing Matt Gaetz's Resolution to End Ukraine Aid" by Lauren Giella.

Site: La Prensa.

Article: "Neoliberalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jimmy Carter Reflects the Best of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: "President Jimmy Carter: The United States is an Oligarchy...".

Article: "Ocean Heat Content Rises" by NCEI.

Article: "Energy Production and Consumption" by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser.

Tweet: "Do you remember the world's very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada's capital? Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!" by Jeff Lundeen.

Article: "Jimmy Carter on gay rights: Jesus didn't discriminate" by Bob Allen.

Book: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Jimmy Carter and the end of democratic capitalism" by Robert Reich.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Energy and National Goals: Address to the Nation" by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Fact Check: Did Jimmy Carter Stop a Nuclear Reactor From Destroying Ottawa?" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Jimmy Carter Facts" by The Nobel Peace Prize 2002.

Article: "Carter Proposes U.S. Health Plan" by Robert Reinhold.

Article: "Carter To Present Health Plan Paying Costs Above $2,500" by Martin Tolchin.

Article: "Biden Visits Kyiv, Ukraine's Embattled Capital, as Air-Raid Siren Sounds" by Marc Santora, Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear.

Article: "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline" by Seymour Hersh.

Article: "Claim That US Blew up Nord Stream Pipelines Relies on Anonymous Source" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "U.S. Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2023" by Macrotrends.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages at 'Fool' Joe Biden Over Kyiv Trip" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Law and Order star's wild final words before death at 78" by Ben Kesslan.

Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.

Law: "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022".

Article: "Lobbying" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Origins of 'Lobbyist'" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Centrist Democratic PAC's Sole Funder Is a Republican Megadonor" by Akela Lacy.

Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Is the WI SCOTUS race the most important election in America to set the stage for 2024?
- Ben Wikler, Chair - Wisconsin Democratic Party (WisDems)

Article: "A Wisconsin Supreme Court race holds high stakes for abortion rights and the 2024 election" by Tierney Sneed and Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "What's Next For Lawsuit Over Wisconsin's 1849 Abortion Ban?" by Sarah Lehr.

Article: "The Wisconsin Supreme Court says ballot drop boxes aren't allowed in the state" by Barbara Sprunt.

Article: "5 Things to Know About the Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case" by Michael Li, Thomas Wolf.

Law: "2011 Wisconsin Act 10".

Article: "Right to Work" by AFL-CIO.

Article: "Meet the candidates running in the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court primary" by Zac Schultz.

Article: "Uline" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Diane Hendricks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Site: Wisdems: phone banking.

Article: "Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Taking Budget Advice From Trump Official Who Wants to Cut $2 Trillion From Medicaid" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene fears GOP base believes too many 'liars and grifters'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "‘We Need a National Divorce': Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Republican States to Secede From the Union" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "The Problem With Russia Is Russia" by Oksana Zabuzhko.

Article: "The Guardian view on coup fears in Moldova: another front in Putin's war" by The Guardian.

Site: California's Civil Rights Agency.

Site: Random Lengths News.

Site: LA Progressive.

Article: "Viktor Yanukovych" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Orange Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA)".

Article: "How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project" by Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman.

Article: "Russian Oligarch Cancels Funding In Kentucky Aluminum Project, Mitch McConnell Not Happy" by Ursula Faw.

Article: "Veto Russia's UN veto" by Victor Rud.

Article: "Kamala Harris Accuses Russia of ‘Crimes Against Humanity' in Ukraine" by Michael Crowley and David E. Sanger.

Hour Three: How corporate hooked American on the myth of the "magic of the marketplace"
- Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science-Harvard University / Co-Author w/Erik Conway - "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe the Government & Love the Free Market" (Their previous book was " Merchants of Doubt".)

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mont Pelerin Society" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "United States antitrust law" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Theodore Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Howard Taft" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gifford Pinchot" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Invisible hand" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776) (online).

Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759.

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, 1759.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Association of Manufacturers" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Road to Serfdom by Fredrich A. Dr Hayek.

Article: "Americans' support for Ukraine aid slips in new poll" by Lauren Sforza.

Article: "War in Donbass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donbass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Maglev" by Wikipedia.

Article: "High-speed rail in China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News host blames diversity initiatives for Ohio train derailment" by Media Matters.

Article: "Alex Jones warns of liberals 'eating babies' based on out-of-context video" by David Edwards.

Article: "For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest" by Gabriel Popkin.

Article: "Klebsiella planticola--The Gene-Altered Monster That Almost Got Away" by Ron Epstein.

Tweet: "President's Day 2023. Zelenskyy can't even wear a tie as he greets the President of the United States. He gladly takes our money in sweat shirts and t-shirts, but Biden is dressed up. So insulting. America Last!!!" by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Article: "Court Lets Lawsuit Against Fox News Move Forward—Here's Where Dominion And Smartmatic's Defamation Suits Stand Now" by Alison Durkee.

Case: "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan", 1964.

Article: "Murdoch granted leave to expand legal case – as it happened" by Jordyn Beazley and Natasha May.

Article: "Social democracy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democratic socialism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ohio train derailment: EPA administrator visits East Palestine, asks residents to 'trust the government'" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ohio train derailment: Buttigieg pens sharply worded letter to Norfolk Southern Railway" by Matt Foster, Sasha Pezenik, Sam Sweeney, and Morgan Winsor.

Article: "Federal Trade Readjustment Allowance Definition" by Will Kenton.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do

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