In the Chron: The top one percent of the population is richer than ever while their taxes are at historic lows. Four hundred people — people — have more money than half the country combined. They’re living it up while the bottom 99% of Americans struggle with unemployment, underemployment and a political class that caters to whoever’s got...
Making sure the right doesn’t define Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is about a month old and the right, sensing a threat, is trying to define it as an anti-American, anti-Semitic communist plot. How the movement can define itself by settling on a message and defeat the conservative attempt to delegitimize advocacy on behalf of the 99%. Listen...
Anyone still think Perry wouldn’t debate White because of tax returns?
In the Chron: Last year, Rick Perry refused to debate Bill White unless White released his tax returns for years he wasn’t involved in public service. As the Chronicle reported at the time: Perry has given White until midnight tonight to release his personal income tax returns for three years in the 1990s or else there will be no debate. White paid no...
Political talk
It doesn’t have to be boring. A demo: Geoff Berg Demo by Geoff Berg And a whole show: Geoff Berg-KPFT-8-26-11 by Geoff Berg...
Christopher Hitchens makes first public appearance in months
In the Chron: Update: Video below Atheist superstar and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens appeared in public for the first time in months tonight at the Texas Freethought Convention in Houston. Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and most recently of Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, was presented with the...
It’s international blasphemy day
And we celebrate on today’s show. Plus, we talk to Nezar Hamze about what it was like to be called a “terrorist” and rejected by his local Republican executive committee. Listen here.
