The Thom Hartmann Program Blog

Hour One: Guest: U.S. Senator (I-VT)  Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

"Anything Goes Friday"

Hour One - The Best of the rest of the News...

Hour Two - Dr. Jeffrey Feldman www.frameshopisopen.com Topic: "Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy"

Hour Three - Guest: Douglas Farah www.douglasfarah.com and www.merchantofdeathbook.com Topic: His new book "Merchant of Death"

Guest: "Taking Our Country Back" Rick Noriega www.ricknoriega.com Topic: his campaign for U.S. Senate to unseat Republican incumbant Senator John Cornyn

Firday - Chicago - May 16th - Booksigning & Talk 7pm- Frugal Muse Books - corner of SE corner of 75th and Lemont Road in Darien.

Saturday - May 17th - Chicago Green Festival 1pm- Thom will be speaking on main stage

Book Contest - Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision by Thom Hartmann. Goes to the wittiest, smartest or funniest post at www.thomhartmann.com On the Program - May 14th 2008.

Hour One  -  What's Hillary's future and what does her future look like?

Hour Two  -  The Prescription Pill Epidemic - Do People want a "pill for every ill?"

Hour Three  -  Audacia Ray www.wakingvixen.com Topic: Legalizing, regulating and protecting sex workers?

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

Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up...

May 16th - Booksigning at Frugal Muse Books 7pm, corner of SE corner of 75th and Lemont Road in Darien.

May 17th - Chicago Green Festival - Thom will be speaking on main stage Saturday at 1pm

The Seattle Times reports Michael Dudley is the son of a preacher man. He's a born-again Christian with several family members in the military. He's voting for Obama. Many traditional younger GOP evangelicals are no longer identifying with the Republican party.

The so-called millennial generation, roughly late teens to early 30s are part of the so-called millennial generation. Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times that this is the generation that's in danger of being left out of the "American Dream." This generation is faced with doing less well than their parents and that economic uncertainty is playing a huge role in forming their views of government and politics.

In 1974 the average income for men in their 30s was $40,000 (using today's inflation-adjusted dollars) - today that amount is $35,000.

According to The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe first published in 1997.

Hour One  -  Does this generation have a rendezvous with destiny?

Hour Two  -  Marc Morano www.epw.senate.gov  Topic: Is God punishing Marc Morano by killing Oklahomans?

Hour Three  -  Arthur Brooks www.arthurbrooks.net  His new book "Gross National Happiness" "Are conservatives really happier than liberals?"

Thom's Travel & Events Coming Up...

May 16th - Booksigning & Talk at Frugal Muse Books 7pm, corner of SE corner of 75th and Lemont Road in Darien.

May 17th - Chicago Green Festival - Thom will be speaking on main stage Saturday at 1pm

Hour One  - David Sirota www.davidsirota.com  Topic: Can Barack Obama win the presidency?

Hour Two  - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Why are Republicans in favor of throwing people out of their homes?

Hour Three  -  Have we passed the point where humanity is doomed?

Guest: Karen Ackerman, Political Director, AFL-CIO www.aflcio.org   Topic: AFL-CIO launches major new push to expose Sen. John McCain's economic record and disastrous health care proposals