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On the Program - Dec 1 2008

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

November 27 2008 show notes


  • 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...

November 26 2008 show notes

The Thom Hartmann Program - Nov 28 2008

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

On the Program - Nov 26th 2008

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

November 25 2008 show notes


  • 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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On the Program - Nov 25th 2008

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?

November 24 2008 show notes


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

On the Program - Nov 24th 2008

Welcome Back from the Air American Cruise...

Quote: “I’ve been racking my brain to find methods of openly, actively, and legally opposing this tyrant in the making. Any suggestions?” --Fox News’ Sean Hannity asking his website visitors for their help in how best to attack Obama

Hour One – The Cruise - Who pee’d on Ron Reagan (trickle-down? Cruise) and the economic meltdown)

Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Thom and Carrie mix it up – If the Obama kids get school choice – why not everyone?

Hour Three - Martha Burk Ms. Magazine Money Editor and author of "Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women in '08"www.msmagazine.com Topic: How to avoid being a bag lady?

Guest: Dennis Rivera www.seiu.org Topic: Health care for all must be a priority for the new administration

November 21 2008 show notes


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