Thom Hartmann

Senator Kennedy died. I met Ted Kennedy in person twice in two milestones of my life.

One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to our economy right now would be to lower the current Social Security retirement age from the current 65-67 to 55, and increase the benefits back to where they were in inflation-adjusted 1960s dollars by raising them between 10 to 20 percent (so people could actually live, albeit modestly, on Social Security).

I understand you’re thinking of dumping your “public option” because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.

Republicans are using the T-word - taxes - to attack the Obama healthcare program. It's a strategy based in a lie.

Our economy has gone into the toilet over the past 30 years, and President Obama and his advisors think "free trade" is the solution.

There are three important stories in the news about the Bush administration.

https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2009/07/fascism-coming-court-near-you

A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about a Civil Rights pioneer who worked with President John F. Kennedy.

The irony was hard to miss. Senator Arlen Specter, checking a card changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democratic, saying that he won't support the right of working people to check a card to change from unaffiliated to affiliated with a union.

Remember the Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies and the John Wayne type westerns? Someone would stick a gun in the bad guys face and he would break down and start blubbering, "Yeah, I did it."