Vote – or You’ll Make This Baby Cry
It's election day, and it's Nicole's birthday! Today, we deal with both. Julianna Forlano and GottaLaff join in the fun.
10-31-14 Political Tricks & Musical Treats
Nicole celebrates Halloween with a look at one of the scariest right wing trick players in politics, Rick Berman. CMD's Lisa Graves with another expose! And for our Flashback Friday treat, we go back to May 1995 with Joan Osborne, and her first LA radio appearance.
Our REAL Epidemic
Nicole discusses the real epidemic killing Americans on a daily basis, and it's NOT Ebola! Cliff Schecter joins to talk about the latest school shooting. Howie Klein brings The Steve Israel Hour, eight days before the 2014 elections.
The Weed Scene: Going Green in 2014
It's a peculiar hypothetical, but how illuminating it would be to have a close friend come out of a coma that he'd been in since 2004 ... November 2014 rolls around, and he awakes to a country he barely recognizes. There's a confusingly unpopular but otherwise impressive black man in the White House, more than half the states in the country have legalized gay marriage and for a capper(?) -- two states have already legalized and taxed weed, and Holy Willie Nelson, more states have medical and recreational marijuana in mind and on the midterm ballot. That news almost makes [...]
Will Scott Brown Deploy the C Word at Senator Shaheen in Tonight’s NH Debate?
Image, Wonkette. It was difficult to keep our progressive and female mouths shut last week when former centerfold and Senator for Ten Minutes, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, allowed his erstwhile supporters to verbally attack opponent Jean Shaheen at a tailgater style political rally. They yelled "fuck Shaheen" and "fuck her right in the pussy", then labeled her a c*^nt while Brown maintained his pseudo-patrician composure. Ebola, understandably, had charge of the headlines last week - this repulsive atrocity, however, deserves repeating and some punitive grassroots reaction. Daily Kos ran the sorry tale, posting the incriminating video to [...]
Weird, Creepy Politics
Three weeks out from election day, Nicole talks about ugly politics. Salon's Thomas Frank guests to discuss his latest interviews with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Plus John Brody of Backus Nurses/AFT on Ebola preparedness, Wendy Davis' ad, and Alison Lundergan Grimes' voting record too.
You Oughta Know
Nicole wraps up another week with Heather "Digby" Parton talking about the latest news and what we all need to know. For Flashback Friday, we go back to Sept of 1995 when Jagged Little Pill was at the top of the charts with Alanis Morissette's visit with Nicole at LA's KSCA fm 101.9
Religion and Politics Monday
Today we did what you're not supposed to do in polite company: talk religion and politics. Then again, I never said we were polite around here. We began with religion, courtesy of Bill Maher, Sam Harris and Ben Affleck with a little Michael Steele and Nicholas Krisof thrown in for good sense ... Although I agree with most of what Affleck said, he needs to learn to shut up once in a while and let others speak. Religious scholar Reza Aslan took issue with Maher's prior Islamophobic rants... Although Upworthy cited lots of sources that back up Azlan's [...]
9-22-14 News Notes
TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Climate change protest takes New York UN climate summit: Low expectations WH security breach: Tourist screening next? Why not release the dogs? Officers don't carry Tasers Gonzalez concerned atmosphere collapsing Obama: Halt movement of terror recruits ISIS: Pols on ground troops Amb Power: U.S. won't do [...]
Fools on the Hill
The fools were out in force this weekend. From Lindsey Graham having a bit of a temper tantrum on Faux News... Yes, he really did whine, Apparently nobody's been listening to what Senator McCain and I have been saying for the last three years. Sadly Linds, we've been hearing you, non stop, advocating for US conquering the world with our military might! It's hard to ignore when you're on the TV every friggen day. We heard your pal Grampy McCain too... he told us just yesterday that he knows how to vet these Syrian "moderates" because he "knows them." He [...]