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Kick right-wing butt! Listen to this podcast for a month and you will be able to kick the butt of any right-winger in a debate. I guarantee it! Subjects will include: Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, George Bush, conservative pro-Iraq war draft dodgers, right-wing Christians doing the opposite of what Jesus said in Matthew 25, Ann Coulter, Alan Colmes, Rush Limbaugh, wealth distribution, Al Franken, Republicans, Democrats, Bill Maher. Upcoming will be interviews with live debate.
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87 - Bush's Budget Paints A Picture Of Right-Wing Greed & Cruelty / A Listener Weighs In On The Hum …
George Bush ran for President as a "compassionate conservative." Yet his proposed federal budget belies that claim. Bush would slash programs that provide critical assistance to our most vulnerable citizens, including children and the elderly. At the same time, Bush proposes tax breaks for the riche …
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86 - Iraq's New Oil Law: Proof That Bush's War IS Blood For Oil
U.S. government pre-war planning documents stated that the new Iraqi government would have to privatize its oil industry. The Iraq Study Group said the same thing after the war.The new Iraqi oil law just unveiled would do just that:A new oil law set to go before the Iraqi Parliament this month would …
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85 - War On Terrorism Truths: More Of BTR's Interview With Bush-Bashing Conservative Scholar / Emai …
Bruce Fein, a conservative scholar who's none too happy with George Bush, makes these three points in the concluding part of our interview:1. the threat level from terrorism is not insignificant, but nowhere near the threat levels we faced in WWII or the Cold War; 2. civil liberties violations are c …
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84 - A Major Defeat For Right-Wing Ideology: American Public Strongly Supports Government Guarantee …
Today we're going to talk about the prospects for universal health care in America, in other words, making sure no one lacks health insurance. We'll focus less on the nuts and bolts, and more on the public attitude towards this issue. The conclusion will be, the public is solidly on our progressive …
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83- Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience, Part 2: Poverty
Today, we're going to have installment two of our series, Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience. The subject is poverty.O'Reilly recently had as a guest Rev. Fred Candeler, of the Methodist Federation for Social Action. Rev. Candeler was objecting to plans to place George …
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82 - Third World Land Reform Would Allow Hungry People To Feed Themselves: Another Social Justice M …
Today we're going to pick up from a few podcasts ago, and discuss another example of a Third World nation's people fighting for their very lives. It's yet another chapter in the book of global economic justice. Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed a sweeping land reform bill, to ensure that like …
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81 - Cons Try To Con Us About Con Law: Bush/Cheney Claim About Unfettered Presidential War Powers I …
Today we're going to discuss the phony claim by George Bush and Dick Cheney that Bush has unfettered power to wage war in Iraq -- and one assumes elsewhere -- as he sees fit. Congressional oversight? Surely you jest. In law school you usually take at least a beginning course in constitutional la …
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80 - Right-Wing Heaven: Bush IRS Twists Rules To Let Corporations Get Away With Tax Evasion
Today we're going to discuss yet another way the Bush administration is continuing to push its radical right agenda even without control of Congress. In this case, it's the emasculate the government, cut taxes on the wealthy agenda. All accomplished through some until-now hidden workings of the In …
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79 - Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience, Part I: Iraq / Bush Health …
Today we're going to start a series entitled "Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience." Part I will be about Iraq. Included will be, some effective responses when you hear misinformation like that disseminated by O'Reilly. Did you know, for example, that 72% of US troop …
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78 - Case Study, Ecuador: Listen To Martin Luther King And Learn How To Get On The Correct Side Of …
Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed on April 4, 1967:A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and …
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77 - Worsening Income And Wealth Inequality That Might Even Make A Right-Winger Blush (If They Were …
Today, we're going to present some data about income and wealth distribution that you've probably never before seen brought together in one place. Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened. For example, let's take the wealthiest 1/10 of one percent of all Americans. There are 130,500 such ta …
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76 - Market As Deity: Reflections On The Right-Wing's Golden Calf
Today we're going to have a wide-ranging discussion of that totally misleading economic term so beloved by the right, the "free market." By the time we're finished, you'll never hear the phrase "free market" the same way again. One of the more exasperating things when speaking to a right-winger, …
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75 - Highway Deaths Continue Because Right-Wing Policies (As Usual) Fail
Today, we're going to start off the new year with some new evidence -- as if you really needed any more -- that right-wing policies cause increased human misery, suffering, pain and death. This example concerns thousands of unnecessary highway deaths from accidents involving large trucks. Safety …
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74 - Year-End Review Of Some Right-Wing Gifts To America In 2006: Poverty / Class Warfare / War Pro …
This last podcast of the year will be a review of some of the worst things the right-wing did in 2006 as covered by Blast The Right. Here's how I put together my list. You know I often say that right-wing policies inevitably cause increased human misery, suffering, pain and death. I don???t thi …
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73 - Have You Heard? We're In World War III! Right-Wing Propaganda Campaigns Fail Because The Rig …
Today we're going to look at a failed -- but still ongoing -- right-wing propaganda campaign, and analyze why it failed. Could it be because the right's actions and policy proposals prove they don't believe the words coming out of their own mouths about the war on terror? This summer, no doubt in …
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72 - The Upcoming Minimum Wage Battle: How To Counter Right-Wing Propaganda
The Democrats have proclaimed that before 100 hours have gone by in the new Congress this January, they will, among other things, raise the Federal minimum wage. The bill, which has been languishing for years in the right-wing controlled Congress, is called the Fair Minimum Wage Act. It provides …
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71 - Even After A Thumpin', Bush Continues Appointing Right-Wing Extremists / QuickBlast: Chavez La …
Today, we'll discuss how George W. Bush, even after the midterm elections, is continuing to appoint right-wing extremists to critically important government posts -- in this instance, jeopardizing the health of millions of women. Then a QuickBlast about Hugo Chavez's landslide election victory in V …
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70 - Was There Right-Wing Electronic Voting Fraud In The Midterms? Dispute In Florida's 13th Congr …
Ok, we had the midterm election, and there was apparently no nationwide right-wing electronic voting fraud sufficient to tip the scales to the Republicans, since the Democrats, thank goodness, did succeed in taking back both houses of Congress.I've been wondering, however, was there Republican votin …
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69 - Big Victory Against Right-Wing In Struggle To End Debt Slavery Of Third World Nations
Today we'll discuss another example of good news on the international economic justice front. It comes in the form of a powerful kick in the teeth against the Third World debt scam that's been perpetrated against the poorest nations on earth for all too many years. Many of these indebted nations a …
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68 - Major Defeat Suffered By The Right On International Economic Justice Front: Bolivia Prevails I …
There's good news for those of us who cheer when Third World nations make progress in their efforts to step out from under the boot heel of Western economic exploitation. Six months ago, way back in podcast 42, we discussed how Evo Morales, the newly elected President of Bolivia, had nationalized …
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