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Thom Hartmann

Reagan's Anti-Government Kool-Aid Has Poisoned Civil Public-Option Dialogue

Bill Mann | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: France, Canada, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Thom Hartmann, Conservatives, Federal Government, Gop, Politics News
Bill Mann

The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.

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Foiled eBay Bidder Challenges Palin to $100,000 'On the Record' Dinner for Veterans' Charities

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Jeanne Devon, Ken Morris, Sarah Palin Dinner Auction, Oprah Winfrey, Ariana Huffington, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, Bill Kristol, Palin, James Carville, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Frank Rich, Shannyn Moore, Mudflats, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Ebay Dinner, Jane Hamsher, Politics News
Jeanne Devon (

Former banker Ken Morris will donate $100,000 to veterans' charities for a dinner with Sarah Palin and guests, on-the-record and taped so as to minimize misrepresentations.

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Will the Corporate Supremes Now Dance on Democracy's Corpse?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, John McCain, Corporate Power, John Roberts, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

The contradiction between human rights and corporate power is at the core of the cancer now killing our democracy.

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Cable News Encouraging Town-Hall Temper Tantrums

Bill Mann | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Fox News, Birthers, Deathers, Media News
Bill Mann

Temper tantrums are what you get today when you elect an adult, Barack Obama, President. He's arguably the first adult we've elected since Jimmy Carter.

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Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks

Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Thom Hartmann, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Corporate Greed, Business News
Thom Hartmann

What part of being a CEO could be so difficult -- so impossible for mere mortals -- that it would mean that there are only a few hundred individuals in the United States capable of performing it?

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The Great Tax Con Job

Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Ronald Reagan, Thom Hartmann, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

High top marginal tax rates on rich people actually stabilize the economy, prevent economic bubbles from forming, prevent economic crashes, and lead to steady and sustained economic growth.

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Debt is Not Money

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Thom Hartmann, Currency, Debt, Money, Reaganomics, Business News
Thom Hartmann

If followed, the Summers/Geithner policy can have only one of two outcomes: inflation or another, more serious crash. It's possible we could have both.

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Clean Coal Lesson or Peril?

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Clean Coal, Carrie Lukas, Thom Hartmann, Home News
Thom Hartmann

Clean Coal - Lesson or Perils? Thom mixes it up with Carrie Lukas on shutting down the coal industry www.iwf.org Thom can be heard daily on his ra...

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Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless

Rob Kall | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Man Throws Shoes at Bush, The Rachel Maddow Show, Thom Hartmann, Bloggers, Satire, George W. Bush, Politics News
Rob Kall

The security organization took a preemptive position, requiring that all bloggers and journalists would be required to remove their shoes before entering secure zones.

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Thom Hartmann Defends the Auto Workers on Countdown

Thom Hartmann | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Auto Bailout, Video, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, United Auto Workers, Business News
Thom Hartmann

Hartmann defended... the workers, calling Republican refusal to help the auto industry an attempt to break the unions and calling our current economic crisis the direct result of Reaganomics.

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Reclaim the Media: Bring Back the Elites

Thom Hartmann | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Media Coverage, Politics, John McCain, Elite, Jfk, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Media News
Thom Hartmann

America loves its elites -- we love our sports stars, our movie stars, our rock stars and even our political stars.

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How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying the Dollar

Thom Hartmann | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Thom Hartmann, History, Economy, Henry Paulson, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Great Depression, Business News
Thom Hartmann

Create an agency to fund the bailout, loan that agency the money from the treasury, and then have that agency tax Wall Street to pay us (the Treasury) back.

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Third Eye on the News: Talking to Buddhists About the '08 Race and the "Rough Old Trade" of Politics

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Wes Nisker, Robert Thurman, Spirituality, Ken Jones, Anne Waldman, Sulak Sivaraksa, Tricycle, Buddhism and Politics, Spirituality and Politics, Buddhism, Roshi Bernie Glassman, Politics News
RJ Eskow

These election years are especially challenging: One candidate plays dirty, the other occasionally disappoints, and the media rig the game. It seemed like a good idea to ask some Buddhists for guidance.

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Obama - Is Oregon the Bellwether for the Nation or Just a Bunch of Latte Liberals?

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kari Chisholm, Liberal Stereotypes, Barack Obama Oregon, National Public Radio, Thom Hartmann, Radio Station, Oregon Primary, Barack Obama, Obama Oregon, Oregon, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

Referring to Oregon as a largely white but affluent state is about as incorrect as you could possibly get. And the subtext to this in my mind is, frankly, racist. They're back to using the old pejorative definition of the term "liberal."

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