• Guest: Victoria Schofield. The Kashmir conflict and how it may relate to last week's attack in Mumbai. Transcript.


• On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus.


• Guest: Dr. Walter M. Brasch. The Media Auto Know Better: Fueling the Anti-Union Fires.


• Guest: Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine. Author, "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope".


• Guest: Jonathan Tasini, Executive Director, Labor Research Association. Robert Rubin: Coward Or Liar--Or Both?


• Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Recap and update on his case. The court will hear his appeal on December 9.

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Quote: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hour One - John Berlau www.cei.org Topic: Thom challenges John who says - DE-regulation is the answer!

Hour Two - Stephen Moore economist & founded Club for Growth www.opinionjournal.com Topic: Thom and Stephen debate - Tax hikes…help for the middle class or death for the economy?

Hour Three - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Will Carrie go into shock when Thom calls for living wage not a minimum wage?

The Kashmir conflict and how it may relate to last week's attack in Mumbai.

Quote: "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves; the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy" - Ivan Illich, Austrian-born philosopher

Hour One - Jennifer Wheary www.demos.org Topic: report on the declining middle class

Hour Two - Larry Beinhart author of Wag the Dog www.larrybeinhart.com Topic: Body Politic: Alan Shrugged

Hour Three - Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC www.cepr.net Topic: Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around

Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong!" Mary T. Browne "Wall Street's Psychic Adviser" Author www.marytbrowne.com

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


• Guest: Mayor Mark Begich. Democratic senator elect for the US Senate from Alaska. Transcript.


• Guests: Peter Yarrow, singer/songwriter of "Peter Paul and Mary" and his singer daughter Bethany. Politics, performing and the future of our country. Operation RESPECT.

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Live from "It's Time To Talk Day" radio row at Liz Claiborne Inc in NYC

Hour One - Dr. Christian E. Weller, Senior Fellow at American Progress www.americanprogress.org Topic: America's middle class continues to lose ground

Guest: Jim Martin www.martinforsenat.com Topic: Today's special run-off election today against Chambliss... please vote & call your friends to vote!

Hour Two - Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week Magazine www.businessweek.com Topic: Can Obama keep new jobs at home?

Hour Three – It’s Time to Talk Day

Thom and Mark discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead and the economy.

Quote: "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." Winston Churchill

Hour One - Victoria Schofield www.victoriaschofield.com Topic: The Kashmir conflict and how it may relate to last week's attack in Mumbai

Hour Two - Dr. Walter M. Brasch www.walterbrasch.com Topic: The Media 'Auto' Know Better: Fueling Anti-Union Fires

Hour Three - Jonathon Alter Senior Editor, Newsweek Magazine www.newsweek.comTopic: book "THE DEFINING MOMENT: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope,"

Guest: Don Siegelman Former Governor, State of Alabama www.donsiegelman.org Topic: The court will hear his appeal 12/9

• Thanksgiving, best of Thom Hartmann show.


• From the 05 November '08 show...


• Obama won the election. America won the election.


• Thom received calls from all over the world.


• Guest: Mark Thomson, Sirius Radio.


• From the 13 November show...

• It is Thanksgiving tomorrow.


• Guest: Kenneth C. Davis, author of "Don't Know Much About

Quote: "Light one candle for all we believe in, that anger not tear us apart...And light one candle to find us together, with peace as the song in our hearts" - Peter Yarrow (Lyrics from "Light One Candle")

Hour One - "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov Topic: Economy, another bailout, auto industry, etc...

Hour Two - Mark Begich www.begich.com Topic: Thanks and the future ahead in the US Senate

Hour Three - Peter Yarrow www.monkeyandrat.com Topic: Politics, performing and the future of our country

Quote: "I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Stewart

Hour One - Kenneth C. Davis author of Don't Know Much About® History www.dontknowmuch.com Topic: So you think you know about the First Thanksgiving

Hour Two - Scott Horton Contributing Editor, Harpers Magazine www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment Topic: Justice After Bush: Prosecuting An Outlaw Administration (his piece in the December issue of Harper's)

Hour Three - "Everything You Know is Wrong" Jeff Golden www.unafraidthebook.com Topic: What would the world be like if JFK had survived?

Guest: Larry Scott www.vawatchdog.org Topic: Veteran's issues

• Guest: Tax attorney Roni Deutch. Economic crisis and your 401K, should you cash it out or ride the market waves?


• Guest: Thomas Bowden, Analyst at the Ayn Rand Center, focusing on legal issues. Should we ban fast-food TV ads if it means saving our children?


• Guest: Mark Anderson, CEO of The Strategic News Service. Did Japan just drop an economic neutron bomb on the United States?

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Quote: "There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious." - Bono, 2002

Hour One - Roni Deutch Attorney/tax expert www.ronideutch.com Topic: Economic crisis and your 401K, should you cash it out or ride the market waves?

Hour Two – Should we ban fast-food TV ads if it means saving our children? No more “I’m Loving It!”

Hour Three - Mark Anderson www.stratnews.com Topic: Did Japan just drop an economic neutron bomb on the West?

• Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women's Forum. If the Obama kids get school choice