• Thom's home from Denmark.


• Welcome to Rational Radio 1360am in Dallas and Green 1640 AM, Atlanta.
Guest: Dinesh D'Souza. Michelle Obama's Inferiority Complex.

• What is patriotism?


• Guest: Ron Paul.


• Declaration of Independence rant.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Marc Maron guest hosted the show today.


• McCain's mental state and lack of executive experience.


• Guest: Joe Conason, Salon, The New York Observer. Author, "It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush".


• Guns. Second amendment. Militia.


• Guest: Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate. Supreme Court decisions.


• Guest: Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology. "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods",

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week. The show was "live" from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Danish TV did a special on Thom.


• FISA Roll Call.


• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.


• Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The economy is approaching a disaster.


• Guest: Mogens Lykketoft, former member of the Danish parliament, former tax minister, former finance minister, former foreign minister, leader of the Social Democratic party. How to make a country work, particularly with regard to trade?

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week, broadcasting from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Guest: Flemming Rose, Cultural Editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He published the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy.


• Guest: internationally renowned, progressive architect Bjarke Ingels.


• Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute.


• Guest: David Miller, chairperson, Democrats Abroad Denmark.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

June 30 - July 4 2008 Radio Guest Highlights for the Week

Monday - Guest Host Marc Maron filling in for Thom

Tuesday - Guest: Dinesh D'Souza www.dineshdsouza.com Topic: Thom and Dinesh will debate FISA - Security vs PrivacyGuest: US Congressman (R-TX) Rep. Ron Paul www.paul.house.gov

Wednesday - Guest Host Marc Maron filling in for Thom

Thursday & Friday "Thom Hartmann Recycled" include: Thom's gun debate with Stephen Halbrook; The "Wild West" state of Healthcare; The Role of Race in the Election debate with Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson; Should Terrorists get the Death Penalty? with Frank Gaffney; and Thom asks the question - Have We Made Profits more Important than Humanity?

It's the 4th of July week - here's a video from the 1940s that's still relevant today:

http://www.archive.org/stream/DontBeaS1947/DontBeaS1947_256kb.mp4

July 7- 11 2008 Radio Guest Highlights for the Week

Monday

Guest: Thom will be moderating a debate between the President of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke and pro-gun Dr. John Lott on the impact of the supreme court's ruling on guns

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week, broadcasting from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Guest: Tyler Br

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week, broadcasting from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Guest: Sophie H

• Thom is in Copenhagen all this week, broadcasting from the Danish Broadcasting Network.


• Guest: Peter Mogensen, political commentator and Editor-in-chief Politiken, host of his own political debate TV show at TV2 News. How does Democratic socialism help build a middle class?

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.


• FISA passed in the House of Representatives 293-129. Roll call.


• 'Anything Goes' Friday.


• The show will be broadcast from Denmark all next week.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Guest: Rory O'Connor. Author, "Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio".


• Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute. Salmonella tomato debate...food safety measures faulted. How does the free market prevent harm in advance?


• Guest: Charlie Derber, co-author, "The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values", "Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good".


• Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress, MicCheckradio.org. "News Under the Radar".

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Guest: Congressman Peter DeFazio. The Republicans' meme of a "ban" on offshore drilling. Transcript.


• Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. Drilling for oil. Transport.


• Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong": Jessica Valenti, Executive Editor, Feministing. "He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know".


• Guest: Larry Scott, founder and Editor of VA Watch Dog.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Guest: Stephen P. Halbrook, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute. Supreme Court second amendment case.


• Guest: Anthony Romero, National ACLU Executive Director. Their largest civil rights and liberties fundraising campaign in history.


• Guest: Rick Perlstein, author, "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America".


• Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Update on his case. Transcript.


• Guests: Senator Mike Gravel and co-author Joe Lauria, "A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It",

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

• Guest: Jeremy Scahill, author, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World

• "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.


• Rant on the Supreme Court's decision about Habeas Corpus rights for Guantanamo detainees. Transcript.


• "Anything Goes Friday"

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Interesting note - the John McCain campaign is encouraging (and paying, with "points") trolls to spam blogs!