2008 Archives

Posted at Buzzflash on Dec. 19, 2008

A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties By Bill Eppridge

Bill Ayers is doing interviews with Chris Matthews, John McCain based his campaign on his Vietnam War service, and Barack Obama is constantly compared with JFK or RFK. As much as time has passed, the Sixties are still with us.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 18, 2008

Three Cups of Tea for Rick Warren

Rick Warren is providing the invocation for the presidential inauguration. As a pastor whose books have been read by tens of millions of Americans and whose voice is respected by an equal or larger number, he has tremendous influence and power.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 17, 2008

Caroline Kennedy as Jimmy Stewart?

The bloviators say that Caroline Kennedy doesn't have enough "experience" in the political world to be a US Senator.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 16, 2008

Alexander Hamilton’s Advice To The Obama Administration

Alexander Hamilton, in 1791, proposed to the United States our first true industrial policy.

Posted at Buzzflash on Nov. 25, 2008

Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects By Dmitry Orlov

I read two books yesterday. The first was Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” a dense, profound, and insightful academic/archeological discussion of why civilizations have a stubborn habit of crashing. Following that, I read Dmitry Orlov’s “Reinventing Collapse,” about how the USSR collapsed and how the US is on the verge of doing the same – for many of the same reasons – any day now. What Tainter did for academics and archeology wonks (I confess I’m one), Orlov did for you, me, and Joe The Plumber.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 4, 2008

If I Can

Thirty years after the Civil War ended, former Colonel Alexander K. McClure began compiling sayings of the man he believed was a great national healer, Abraham Lincoln.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Oct. 31, 2008

One-Party Rule? (Don't Buy It.)

"Sending Jeff Merkley to the U.S. Senate could give one party a blank check … again," says an announcer in an ad for Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, a Republican in a close race with Merkley, a Democrat.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Oct. 22, 2008

What Does Anti-American Mean?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: So you believe that Barack Obama may have anti-American views?

Posted at Buzzflash on Oct. 11, 2008

Blood and Oil (DVD) By Michael Klare

If you want to understand what’s really behind the current goings-on in the former Soviet state of Georgia, immediately buy Michael Klare’s DVD, produced by the Media Education Foundation, “Blood and Oil.”

Posted at Buzzflash on Sep. 30, 2008

Robert Kuttner's 'Obama's Challenge' -- The Thom Hartmann 'Independent Thinker' Review of the Month

Given this point in the election cycle, the title of this book, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, is easily misunderstood as having to do with the challenges Barack Obama faces in becoming president. That’s not its topic, however.