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Next show: Tuesday, December 7 at 3 pm Eastern.
Something's Still Rotten in Congress
December 3, 2004(archived broadcast 
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Click above to hear Mark Levine on “Sound off with Sasha,” a National Public Radio station in South Florida (WGCU/WMKO), discussing Congressional procedures in the recent ominbus legislation.
Do you think Members of Congress read legislation before it’s passed? Not in this Congress.
Do you think bills supported by the majority of legislators voting in the House and Senate become law? Not in this Congress.
Do you think provisions rejected by solid votes in both Houses of Congress still become law? You bet.
Do you think that massive amounts of taxpayer money goes to fund pork to special interests who turn around and use the money to finance Congressional campaigns? Yep, barely concealed bribery.
Do you think that if the Majority Leader is indicted for taking illegal corporate cash and diverting the resources Federal Homeland Security agency to monitor Democrats trying to prevent an unprecedent gerrymandering scheme that he can still lead Congress? Absolutely. The Republican Caucus would not even allow a documented vote on this.
The $388 billion omnibus legislation and its provisions includes:
– allowing Congressional aides to examine your tax returns
– ending overtime for millions of workers
– supporting job outsourcing
– overruling all state laws requiring abortions to be part of health care plans
Dismantling the American Dream
December 2, 2004(archived broadcast )
Poverty is up. Middle class income is down. People are working longer hours for less and losing their health care and pensions to boot. The current “recovery” is the worst in American history since the Great Depression.
Why is it getting harder and harder for the average American to get ahead?
Guest: Ken Buchdahl, Author of Dismantling the American Dream: Globalization, Free Trade, Immigration, Unemployment, Poverty, Debt, Foreign Depency and More
Is the United States a "Christian" Nation?
December 1, 2004(archived broadcast )
And what about Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, athiests, agnostics, Unitarians, Catholics who care more about the poor than abortion or homosexuality, non-fundamentalist Protestants, those who are not born again, those who spend more time at football games than church, and those who prefer “Baywatch” over the “Passion of the Christ”? What about gays and lesbians? What about single mothers?
Are we merely guests in a fundamentalist Christian America that, at best, tolerates our heresy?
Mark on the "Les Kinsolving" Show
December 1, 2004(archived broadcast )
Click above to hear the archive of Mark as a guest on the “Les Kinsolving Show” in Baltimore.
The topic is the recent court opinion upholding the rights of colleges and universities to refuse to host military recruiters on campus due to the military policy preventing gay people from openly serving in the armed forces. Mark supports the decision; Les does not. Mark thinks all qualified Americans should be allowed to serve their country; Les thinks the “sodomists” and “buggers” (in Les’ words) should be kept out.
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