Quote: "Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance." - Nikola Tesla

Hour One - Lou Engle, Evangelist & founder of The Call www.thecall.com Topic: Is the gay marriage debate really about religion or civil rights?

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Do Obama's "green jobs" discriminate against women?

Hour Three - David Horowitz www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org Topic: "What are the limits of hate speech and at what point do you criminalize it?"

Guest: Joseph Cirincione www.ploughshares.org Topic: Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President (Mark Green's book)

Reinvent America's currency, banking system. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. America should print its own money instead of selling debt to the Fed which prints the money to pay for it, and then leverages it by a factor of 10.

Thom Hartmann interviews Ellen Brown, 09 December 2008

Alexander Hamilton

REPORT ON MANUFACTURES

DECEMBER 5, 1791

Thom and Senator Barbara Boxer discuss the economy, the need to rebuild infrastructure and switch to renewable energy. They also discussed the auto manufacturers bailout and the hypocrisy of those senators whose states have subsidized foreign auto manufacturers at a much higher rate than the American auto makers are asking for, yet are threatening to filibuster the bailout.

Quote: Activism is my rent for living on this planet - Alice Walker

Hour One - Susan Powter www.susanpowteronline.com Topic: Her new book "The Politics of Stupid: The Cure for Obesity"

Hour Two - Judge James "Jim" Gray www.leap.cc Topic: Why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it (also the name of his latest book)

Hour Three - Gene Stone www.genestone.com Topic: The 12 Step Bush Recovery Program (A Lifesaving Guide to Shaking Off the Horrors of the Last Eight Years...)

Topic: GEEKY SCIENCE ROCKS!!

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

• Show live from Air America, New York.


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


• Guest: Lamar Waldron, author, with Thom, of "Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination",


• Atheist display for Christmas.

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

Hour One - Dick Kay Host of "Dick Kay – Back on the Beat," www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com Topic: Blagojevich…a betrayal of public trust if proven true

Hour Two - How is the public served by exposing political corruption?

Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Alex S. Key www.TheThirdBasicInstinct.com Topic: What Makes Us Tick

• Show live from Air America, New York.


• The fate of the middle class.


• Guest: John Berlau, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Deregulation.


• Guest: Wall Street Journal editorial page's senior economics Stephen Moore, founder and former president of the Club for Growth, co-author, "The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen".


• 'Creating a middle class' rant. Transcript.


• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women's Forum. The middle class.

Thom explained that a middle class is necessary for a democracy, that a middle class is not a normal thing, and the ways one can be brought about.

Quotation:

• Show live from Air America, New York.


• Guest: Jennifer Wheary, Senior Fellow, Demos. "From Middle to Shaky Ground". Report on the declining middle class.


• Guest: Larry Beinhart, Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts. Transcript.


• Guest: Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research.


• "Everything You Know is Wrong!": Guest: Mary T. Browne, "Wall Street's Psychic Adviser". Author, "The 5 Rules of Thought: How to Use the Power of Your Mind to Get What You Want".

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

Quote: "When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." - John F. Kennedy

Hour One - Dr. Yaron Brook www.aynrand.org

Larry Beinhart observes that looking at US data, top rate tax cuts lead to boom then bubble then crash, bank failures, and recession or depression.

Thom Hartmann interviews Larry Beinhart, 03 December 2008

• Show live from the "It's Time To Talk Day" radio row at Liz Claiborne Inc, Manhattan, to raise awareness for domestic violence.


• Guest: Dr. Christian E. Weller of the Center for American Progress who says America's middle class is still losing ground.

Anything Goes! Friday

Hour One - "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Hour Two - Lamar Waldron Co-author w/Thom of "Ultimate Sacrifice" and now, "Legacy of Secrecy" www.legacyofsecrecy.com