There’s a lot in the news today. The Obama administration is saying that if the FBI just says some magic words they ought to be able to look at anything on your computer or pretty much anything. I’ve got a problem with that. I think the tea party would too. Maybe we should join forces.

Thom Hartmann: Well, Bill O’Reilly says that if the Montana sex ed program is passed, that 2nd graders in Montana are not going to be able to discuss, nor anybody for that matter, going to be able to discuss Jeffrey Dahmer because he was a gay cannibal. Oh my god we can’t have that!

Thom Hartmann: Well the class war is on full bore as Warren Buffet points out and his class is winning. Should the Paris Hilton Tax, the Rich Brat Tax be brought back? It’s dead this year. Right now if any wealthy person dies their heirs receive all of the cash free of taxes.

Thom Hartmann: You know, when I was, just to very quickly get back to this topic of psychological variations, let’s call them that. And ADHD, I started writing my books on ADHD in part because my son was going through this crisis and then I saw in it myself, and in part because 15 years before that I had been the executive director of the New England Salem Children’s Village and I’d seen it in all of our kids, most of the parents of the kids that we had and in fact I wrote in 19, what was the year, 1979?

Thom Hartmann: Well it’s been alleged that BP is behind letting the Lockerbie bomber out of jail and sending him back to Libya. We know that they basically have nuked the Gulf of Mexico. What else are they up to? There’s a report from a TV station, KLAS TV 8 in Las Vegas that, the last wild horse round up, BLM's last wild horse round up, was the bloodiest operation in history and that the BLM proceeded with this round up in violation of advice from a federal judge. Why?

Thom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you. In our program today in the 2nd hour of our program William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute is gonna come on, we’re gonna be talking about all that global warming that’s falling in Washington DC. He’ll be followed by Bill McKibben with 350.org on the same topic. In our third hour, Carrie Lukas is dropping by with the Independent Women's Forum.

Thom Hartmann: So given how the Supreme Court has turned our government over to corporations, should progressives, and we’re seeing apparently some evidence of that in the way that the Obama administration is rapidly backtracking on things like raising taxes on wealthy individuals and on the banksters, should progressives perhaps even join the far right militia movement in pushing back against any sort of government intrusion into our lives because it will simply become corporate intrusion at some point which may be even more destructive.

Thom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you. Our quote for the day from justice William J. Brennan: “If the right to privacy means anything it’s the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion.” Our first hour guest Dr. Yaron Brook will certainly agree with that. We’ll have him on in just a moment.

Thom Hartmann: Welcome back to our program. Alan Grayson, congressman Alan Grayson will be here shortly, he got called off to a vote. But first I want to talk about stories. The importance of stories. We just, you know, we were just talking to Dan Gainor in the last hour. You get a sense of the stories that he tells himself about the world. I think many of you are familiar with the stories that I tell myself about the world.

Thom Hartmann: Well, the oil spill continues as I mentioned earlier. There’s at least one scientist who is a member of the president’s panel that is trying to determine the flow rate, the Flow Rate Commission, who says that based on what they’re seeing in satellite photos, the current flow rate, since they cut the pipe, could be 100 thousand barrels a day, of which about 10 thousand are being vacuumed up, whatever, by BP right now. Nobody knows, really. Maybe BP knows and they’re not telling.

Thom Hartmann: Can Obama seize the energy moment? Will we get our CO2 levels back down below 350 parts per million? Bill McKibben on the line. In fact, Bill, first of all, welcome Bill.

Bill McKibben: Good as always to be with you Thom.

Now there is a primary happening tomorrow. A lot going on politically right now. And all over the United States. It’s going to decide a lot of things. For example in Nevada it’s going to decide whether the chicken lady or another one of the tea party crazies is going to go up against Harry Reid which should be very interesting.

Thom Hartmann: You know how sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don’t know and sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know and sometimes what even as the Firesign Theatre says, everything you know is wrong. “You know that you’re wrong but you fear you’re right, you suspect you’re out of sync. You think that you’re out of your mind. Everything you know is wrong.” Is it possible to pray away the gay?

Thom Hartmann: Okay so who are the real vampires, you know, you’ve got vampire movies, and vampires all over the place, who are the real vampires? I would submit to you that we have some and they are by and large economic. We have with us Andrew Langer, he’s the president of the Institute For Liberty, a conservative think tank, InstituteForLiberty.org the website. Andrew, welcome to the show.

Andrew Langer: Thanks Thom. Are you gonna confront me about being a vampire?

Thom Hartmann: Shane Brooks is with us, Shane has been on the program before, OperationPitchfork.blogspot.com. Shane, you are a self-avowed tea partier. I have that right?

Shane Brooks: Yes, sir.

Thom Hartmann: Okay, welcome back. And as a Texas-based tea party activist, you are, you were planning on going to Nashville to protest what’s going on there. Did you get out there? Or are you still in Texas?