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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Progressive Caucus Wants a Resolution on Iraq (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

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One night only!! Don't miss Thom & Dan Sisson, Co-authors - The American Revolution of 1800 - Busboys & Poets, 5th and K St., Washington, DC this Sunday September 21st at 5pm ET.

 

Need to Know: The Progressive Caucus Wants a Resolution on Iraq
- Zoe Carpenter, The Nation Magazine    

 

Screwed: Palin Family in Drunken Brawl
- Shannyn Moore, Anchorage Dispatch News  

 

 

Actor/Activist Mimi Kennedy on the Iraq War
- Mimi Kennedy, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) / Mom on CBS    

 

Everything You Know Is Wrong: Phone Sex Operator Tells All!
- Wednesday Lee Friday, Kinkly.com  

 

 

Monday's Daily Stack 

Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Hillary Clinton stumps for Iowa Democrats, and herself" by Dan Merica.

Article: "Washington Post Makes Massive Factual Mistake in Editorial Against Marijuana Legalization" by Jon Walker.

Article: "ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports" by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Sen. Lindsey Graham Says US Army Must Defeat 'Radical Islamic Army' ISIS Before It 'Opens Gates of Hell on the World'" by Anugrah Kumar.

Video: Sanders on Meet the Press, Sep 14, 2014.

 

One night only!! Don't miss Thom & Dan Sisson, Co-authors - The American Revolution of 1800 - Busboys & Poets, 5th and K St., Washington, DC this Sunday September 21st at 5pm ET.

 

PLUS, From the Ground Up
- Filmmaker & 9/11 survivor Andrea Garbarini (special screening tonight on Free Speech TV at 9:30pm ET).

Site: Tuesday's Children.

Site: Project Common Bond.

Hour Two: Did one PA county just save separation of church & state?
- Bryan Fischer, American Family Association  

Article: "Allegheny County Council rejects 'In God We Trust' motion" by Kaitlynn Riely.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution".

Letter: "Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Monticello" by Thomas Jefferson, September 23, 1800. " for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Article: "Commentaries on the Constitution 3:�� 1865--73", 1833 by Joseph Story.

Site: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.

Quote: "When the U.S. was established...the motto was 'IN GOD WE TRUST.' That is still our motto and we still place our firm trust in God." Radio Address as Part of the Program "Religion in American Life.", October 30, 1949 by President Harry Truman.

Quote: "The guiding principle and prayer of this Nation has been, is now, and shall ever be "In God We Trust." "Remarks at the Dedication Breakfast of International Christian Leadership, Inc." by John F. Kennedy.

 

Article: "'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback" by Steve Clemons.

Speech: "Remarks by the President at the National Defense University", May 23, 2013.

Article: "The Jefferson Bible" by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Bible: "Mark 12:14-17" "render unto Caesar".

Book: "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Establishment Clause" by Wikipedia. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Speech: "Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960". "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute"

Book: With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military by Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Article: "Paris meeting backs Iraqi govt against ISIS".

Article: "Iran: US planning a war 'to dominate the region'" by Justin Sink.

Article: "FBI's face-tracking program up and running" by Julian Hattem.

Article: "The Queen Tells Scots To 'Think Very Carefully' Ahead Of The Independence Vote" by Gregory Katz.

Article: "Scots, What the Heck?" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "After Saying Women On Medicaid Should Be Sterilized, Russell Pearce Resigns From Arizona GOP" by Paige Lavender.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/15/14" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 9/12/14" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Time to end the bloody Ukraine conflict
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation 

Article: "Time to end the bloody Ukraine conflict" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "Germany urges Ukraine to accept federal solution with separatists" by Roman Olearchyk in Kiev and Jeevan Vasagar.

Article: "Ukraine cease-fire begins, amid doubts that it will last" by Michael Birnbaum and Annie Gowen, September 5.

Article: "Yatsenyuk: NATO only option to protect Ukraine" by Interfax-Ukraine.

Article: "Ukrainian president offers rebels major concessions to end uprising" by Anthony Faiola.

 

Letter: "Letter to Thomas Cooper" by Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814. Here, then, was a space of two hundred years, during which the common law was in existence, and Christianity no part of it.

Article: "The Ten Commandments" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Climate Change Activists Organize New York March Ahead of UN Summit" by Geetika Rudra. (21 September, other events around the world)

Movie: "Disruption" (climate change).

 

Article: "The Senate Tried to Overturn 'Citizens United' Today. Guess What Stopped Them?" by John Nichols.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "At AFL-CIO Convention, Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax" by Michael Briggs.

Article: "Bush-Era Dragnet Memos Show 'Virtually Unlimited' Presidential Power" by Nadia Prupis.

Article: "'Victory': Federal Judge Stops Ohio's Cuts to Early Voting" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "How An Innovative Nonprofit Uses $700 To Prevent Families From Becoming Homeless" by Scott Keyes.

       

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I'll have a conversation on the top issues of the day with attorney Mike Papantonio, host of Ring of Fire Radio...

 

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Thom discusses why Republicans in Congress don't want to get money out of politics with the Campaign for America's Future Richard Eskow and domestic violence following the Ray Rice video with Political Strategist and Author Sam Bennett. In tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks economics and climate change with "YES!" Magazine's Co-Founder David Korten, author of the international best seller "When Corporations Rule the World."

Caller: Hysterical Lindsey Graham Wants Another War!

ISIS is Really Not Our Problem...

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