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The Immigration Battle - Corporatists vs. Racists
Friday, 31 March 2006, 10:54 am | Thom Hartmann
The corporatist Republicans ("amnesty!") are fighting with the racist Republicans ("fence!"), and it provides an opportunity for progressives to step forward with a clear solution to the immigration problem facing America. More >>
Hartmann: When Americans No Longer Own America
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 1:21 pm | Thom Hartmann
The Dubai Ports World deal is waking Americans up to a painful reality: So-called "conservatives" and "flat world" globalists have bankrupted our nation for their own bag of silver, and in the process are selling off America. More >>
Hartmann: Alito - It's the Constitution At Stake
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 12:32 am | Thom Hartmann
Samuel Alito is a big booster of presidential power. Other "constitutional scholars" have been less sanguine. On April 20, 1795, James Madison, who had just helped shepherd through the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and would become President of the United ... More >>
Global Warming: The Signs and The Science
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 12:18 am | Thom Hartmann
m. International recording artist Alanis Morissette hosts and narrates this cautionary and empowering look at the forces of climate change, a co-production of South Carolina ETV and Stonehaven Productions. More >>
Jefferson Would Have Stood With Cindy Sheehan
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 1:09 pm | Thom Hartmann
Nationally, it was clearly a phenomenon when several truckers called into a radio show on Sirius Satellite to say that they were interrupting trips through central parts of the USA to head to Crawford, Texas. More >>
What Did Bush Know, And When Did He Know It?
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:14 pm | Thom Hartmann
Political smears by right-wingers are nothing new. In the election of 1800, John Adams had a surrogate newspaper publisher write an article about "Dusky Sally," the half-sister of Thomas Jefferson's deceased wife, who was also one of the Jefferson ... More >>
Supreme Court - Possible "Fascist" Play
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 2:38 pm | Thom Hartmann
The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they're working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception. While ... More >>
They Died So Republicans Could Take the Senate
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:46 am | Thom Hartmann
Richard Nixon authorized the Watergate burglary and subsequent cover-up to advance his own political ambitions. Because Nixon's lies were done for the craven purpose of getting and holding political power, his lies - in the minds of the majority of ... More >>
Thom Hartmann: Dean Just Told Them The Truth
Monday, 13 June 2005, 12:10 am | Thom Hartmann
This morning I called the Democratic National Committee to tell them that I support Howard Dean's modern-day version of Harry Truman's dictum that, "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." More >>
Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway
Monday, 30 May 2005, 5:23 pm | Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann: Thom Hartmann here with you on AM 620 KPOJ in Portland and we're also going to record this and play it on our national program. Thanks so much, Mr. Galloway for being with us today. More >>
Progressives and Democrats: Assert Your Brand!
Monday, 14 February 2005, 2:38 pm | Thom Hartmann
Politics is all about branding. And brands are not about issues or details - they're about identity. More >>
Thom Hartmann: Nobles Need Not Pay Taxes
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 5:15 pm | Thom Hartmann
A new aristocracy is taking over not just the United States of America but also the world. Proof of how far along it has come was in an article by Glenn R. Simpson in the January 28, 2005 edition of The Wall Street Journal. More >>
Thom Hartmann: The Robber Baron's Party
Friday, 21 January 2005, 3:53 pm | Thom Hartmann
The Robber Barons are back. They're staging a celebration of their power in Washington, DC, where they help write the majority of legislation and hold captive all but a very few of our nation's legislators. More >>
Thom Hartmann: First They Came For The Terrorists…
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:49 am | Thom Hartmann
The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It's much bigger than that. More >>
Thom Hartmann: The Power of Nightmares
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 2:24 pm | Thom Hartmann
What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? More >>
Thom Hartmann: Scalia To Synagogue
Monday, 6 December 2004, 11:58 am | Thom Hartmann
Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part ... More >>
Thom Hartmann: How To Take Back A Stolen Election
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 11:02 am | Thom Hartmann
''Never again!'' says the slogan in an email I received from an activist friend. ''Never again will we allow a stolen election in the USA!'' But how are we going to stop it? More >>
'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Fraud in Florida
Friday, 19 November 2004, 1:53 pm | Thom Hartmann
There was something odd about the poll tapes. A ''poll tape'' is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the numbers on ... More >>
Hartmann: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked
Monday, 8 November 2004, 5:58 pm | Thom Hartmann
When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. More >>
Hartmann: The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy
Friday, 5 November 2004, 3:22 pm | Thom Hartmann
The hot story in the Blogosphere is that the ''erroneous'' exit polls that showed Kerry carrying Florida and Ohio (among other states) weren't erroneous at all - it was the numbers produced by paperless voting machines that were wrong, and Kerry ... More >>