Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann (b. May 7, 1951) is an American broadcaster, three-time Project Censored Award Winning New York Times bestselling author, and former psychotherapist. He is a lay scholar of the history and textual analysis of the United States Constitution, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), electronic voting fraud, and environmental issues such as global warming. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (575x670, 32 KB) Summary Thom Hartmann broadcasts live from Santa Fe, August 27, 2004 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thom Hartmann ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (575x670, 32 KB) Summary Thom Hartmann broadcasts live from Santa Fe, August 27, 2004 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thom Hartmann ... is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The United States Constitution The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... DISCLAIMER Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only. ... DISCLAIMER Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only. ... Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earths near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. ...

Hartmann hosts a 3-hour progressive talk radio program syndicated by Air America Radio, begun in March of 2003. Hartmann's original article "Talking Back To Talk Radio" became part of the original business plan of Air America Radio. He replaced Al Franken on the network, live noon-3 PM ET, on February 19, 2007. Former Air America logo, 2004-2007 Air America Radio is a talk radio network and program syndication service in the United States. ...

Biography

Hartmann was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up in nearby Lansing. Interested in politics from a young age, he reportedly campaigned for Barry Goldwater during the U.S. presidential election, 1964. By 1967 Hartmann was studying at Michigan State University and working as part-time news announcer at local country-music station WITL while protesting the Vietnam War with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). “Grand Rapids” redirects here. ... Lansing is the name of several places in the United States of America: Lansing, Illinois Lansing, Kansas Lansing, Michigan Lansing (town), New York Lansing, North Carolina Lansing, Iowa Lansing is the name of several settlements: Lansing, a former settlement that is part of Toronto Lansing, West Virginia, north of Oak... For other uses, see Politics (disambiguation). ... Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Michigan State University (MSU) is a co-educational public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... SDS logo The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the countrys New Left. ...

Hartmann is considered to have progressive / liberal politics (although he describes himself as part of the radical middle) ^[1]. He is the author of numerous books including Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and Theft of Human Rights, in which he argues that the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (118 U.S. 394) did not actually grant corporate personhood, and that this doctrine derives from a mistaken interpretation of a Supreme Court reporter's notes. Hartmann considers this a clear contradiction of the intent of the Founding Fathers of the United States. ^[2] He has also written on the separation of Church and State, drawing upon the Federalist Papers to argue that the Founding Fathers warned against the notion of The United States of America being a Christian nation. He contends that the 2000 American election and 2004 American election were stolen through electronic tampering, denial of the voting franchise by rigged voting lists, and limiting availability of voting machines. He also raises the issue of the erosion of democracy and of individual freedoms by the Bush Administration. This article is about Progressivism. ... This article discusses the history and development of various notions of liberalism in the United States. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Santa Clara County v. ... Corporate personhood is a term used to describe the legal fiction used within United States law that a corporation, under the concept of legal entity, has a limited subset of the same constitutional rights as a human being. ... Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy. ... An advertisement for The Federalist The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution. ... “Founders” redirects here. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Presidential election results map. ...

Hartmann is also a vocal critic of the effects of globalization on the U.S. economy, claiming that economic policies enacted since the presidency of Ronald Reagan have led, in large part, to many American industrial enterprises being acquired by multinational firms based in overseas countries, leading in many cases to manufacturing jobs - once considered a major foundation of the U.S. economy - being relocated to countries in Asia and other areas where the costs of labor are lower than in the U.S.; and the concurrent reversal of the United States' traditional role of a leading exporter of finished manufactured goods to that of a primary importer of finished manufactured goods (exemplified by massive trade deficits with countries such as China); Hartmannn argues that this phenomenon is leading to the erosion of the American middle class, whose survival Hartmann deems critical to the survival of American democracy. This argument is expressed in Hartmann's 2006 book, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class and What We Can Do About It. (Also noted: corporate deregulation and the end of enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust act. Consequent media deregulation leading to corporate media shifting the American consensus towards the acceptance of privatization, massive corporate profits -which causes the shrinking of the middle class.) A KFC franchise in Kuwait. ... Reagan redirects here. ... The word multinational can refer to: A Multinational corporation A Multinational State This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...

Born in 1951, he is the father of three adult children, and has been married to his wife, Louise, for more than thirty years.

Talk radio career

Hartmann hosted a local talk show in Portland, Oregon from 2005 until early 2007 on KPOJ, an affiliate of Air America Radio and owned by Clear Channel Communications. The local show, 6–9 am PT with co-host Heidi Tauber, is now hosted by Carl Wolfson with Hartmann as a daily participant only in the third (8-9 AM PT) hour. Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Former Air America logo, 2004-2007 Air America Radio is a talk radio network and program syndication service in the United States. ... Not to be confused with clear channel radio stations, which are AM radio stations with certain technical parameters. ...

Following the departure of the Air America network's The Al Franken Show on February 15, 2007, Hartmann's national program, on the air since 2003 in the noon-3 PM ET daypart live against Limbaugh, was chosen by Air America to replace Al Franken on most Air America affiliates. [3] Some stations, such as The Quake in San Francisco, had already dropped or moved Franken for Hartmann, who now has more total listeners than any other progressive talk show host in America, with live clearances in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Detroit, Pittsburgh and many other cities (all listed on the "affiliate" page of his web site). Randi Rhodes and Hartmann alternate from ratings book to ratings book as the number one and number two progressive talk show hosts in America in terms of both total listeners and live clearances on radio stations nationwide. The Al Franken Show is the flagship talk show of Air America Radio. ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... KQKE The Quake is a talk radio station in San Francisco, USA, owned by Clear Channel, broadcasting on 960 AM. It tag lines are The Bay Area Home of Air America and Talk Radio for the Rest of Us. They are also described as Talk Radio from the Left. Their...

He often debates members of the Ayn Rand Institute [4] and conservatives. Several of his debates, including one involving Bill Bennett at The Heritage Foundation, were carried on C-Span, although most of them occur on his own radio program. The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism (ARI) was established in 1985, three years after Ayn Rands death, by Leonard Peikoff, Rands legal and intellectual heir. ...

Other areas of notability

Of his various books, the one which won the most critical acclaim is The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. In 1999 he was invited by the Dalai Lama to spend a week in Dharamsala after reading his book. ^[5] Thom Hartmann won the Project Censored Award in 2004 for his book Unequal Protection ^[6] As a result of his book on spirituality, The Prophet's Way, he was invited in 1998 to meet Pope John Paul II. Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ... Dharamsala “Dharamshala” redirects here. ... Project Censored is a non-profit, sociological project of an investigative nature within the Sonoma State University Foundation. ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: , Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan PaweÅ‚ II) born   []; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) reigned as the 264th Pope of...

Leonardo DiCaprio made a web movie titled "Global Warning" that was "inspired by The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann" and is available on DiCaprio's website [7]. Hartmann appears in DiCaprio's 2007 documentary "The 11th Hour" about the fate and future of humanity. Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ...

He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. [8]

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Hartmann has authored in the area of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD) and he is the creator (first proposed by him in 1978, first published nationally in 1992) of the now well-known hunter vs. farmer theory - that ADD is an expected evolutionary adaptation to hunting lifestyles. These individuals have the ability to rapidly shift their focus and external attention and to hold multiple trains of thought. This causes difficulties when they must live and work in cultures in which "farming" - well-planned, predictable, organized and repetitive behaviours are typical. Hartmann has established specialized schools for children with AD/HD. ^[9] Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) previously known as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is generally considered to be a developmental disorder, largely neurological in nature, affecting about 5% of the worlds population. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... The hunter vs. ...

Bibliography

• 2006 Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class and What We Can Do About It. Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 1-57675-414-6. 
• 2006 Walking Your Blues Away: Practical Bilateral Therapies for Healing the Mind and Optimizing Emotional Well-Being. Park Street Press. ISBN 1-59477-144-8. 
• 2005 Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1441-7. 
• 2004 What Would Jefferson Do?. Harmony Books. ISBN 1-8821-0938-4. 
• 2004 We the People: A Call to Take Back America. Coreway Media, Inc.. ISBN 1-4000-5208-4. 
• 2004 (revised ed.): Unequal Protection. Rodale Books. ISBN 1-57954-955-1. 
• 2004 (revised ed. - first ed. 1998): The Prophet's Way. Park Street Press. ISBN 0-89281-198-6. 
• 2004 (revised ed. - first ed. 1997): Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 1-4000-5157-6. 
• 2003: The Edison Gene. Park Street Press. ISBN 0-89281-128-5. 
• 2000: Thom Hartmann's Complete Guide to ADD. Underwood Books. ISBN 1-887424-52-0. 
• 2000: The Greatest Spiritual Secret of the Century. Hampton Roads. ISBN 1-57174-166-6. 
• 1996: Beyond ADD. Underwood Books. ISBN 1-887424-12-1. 
• 1996: Think Fast!. Underwood Books. ISBN 1-887424-08-3. 
• 1995: ADD Success Stories. Underwood Books. ISBN 1-887424-03-2. 
• 1994: Focus Your Energy: Hunting for Success in Business. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-51689-2. 
• 1994: ADHD Secrets of Success: Coaching Yourself to Fulfillment in the Business World. Select Books. ISBN 1-59079-017-0. 
• 1992 (first edition): ADD: A Different Perception. Underwood Books. ISBN 1-887424-14-8. 

References

1. ^  Thom Hartmann's page on Radical Middle
2. ^  Thom Hartmann's page on Unequal Protection
3. ^  Thom Hartmann's Press Section
4. ^  Imagine 2004
5. ^  Thom Hartmann's page on ADD

External links

• "When Democracy Fails" Podcast on Google Video
• Hartmann's official site
• Hartmann's discussion board
• Big Picture TV Free video clips of Thom Hartmann
• Radio archive at The White Rose Society
• Website of KPOJ Portland
• LeftWingRadicals yahoogroup, for fans of Thom, and other liberal radio
• Myspace fan profile
• Thom Hartmann talks about Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It, Fora TV, September 16, 2006 (Video)