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…brought to you today from the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush: ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Former President George H.W. Bush took on Arab critics of his son Tuesday during a testy exchange at a leadership conference in the capital of this U.S. ally. “My son is an honest [...]

By now you’ve seen the video of the UCLA campus police tazering a young man who refused to show ID when asked. He sat down and went limp in the tradition of many who’ve practiced civil disobedience before him. For this protest, the UCLA campus police repeatedly shocked him with a Tazer, an allegedly non-lethal [...]

Howdy! I just finished a live interview on Thom Hartmann’s local radio show here in Portland. We were on from 7:35am-7:45am, smack dab in the middle of Portland’s morning commute. When asked “what will you show be focusing on?” I mentioned “personal privacy and civil liberties, with an eye toward so-called ‘fringe’ topics not getting [...]

I just got the chat transcript and thank you to everyone who tuned in and supported me. I thought the criticisms the judges made were legitimate – my goal going in was “I’m going to show them as many sides of me as I can”, figuring that they can train me on the mechanics of [...]

Ten minutes to air! Here we go! You can listen live at http://talkprogress.org.

Clinton’s former chief-of-staff John Podesta is a very nice fellow. Washington DC is unseasonably warm lately. Christie Harvey from the Center for American Progress is about to do a live spot on Al Franken’s show. So I’m told. I, of course, would have no way of knowing these things personally. Portland, Oregon, is a long [...]

I’ve heard it said that Georgetown is a very beautiful place. Lots of fine restaurants and you’re just minutes from all the sights in Washington DC. They even have progressive talk radio in Georgetown. All in all, that sounds really keen. What’s even better is that many of these talk stations even broadcast their feed [...]

First off, I only *’ed the “e”‘s in the title to get it past any web filters. MNESD-forbid that we use any harsh language in our free speech. Oh, and because I’m a white guy and Chris Rock tells me my N-word privileges have been revoked. Not that I’m just itchin’ to use the word [...]

Y’know, one of my favorite actors of all time is Jimmy Stewart. What’s your favorite Jimmy Stewart movie? I know what mine is. Maybe you could email me at radicalruss at gmail.com and we could arrange to discuss it over coffee.

Howdy! Just a note to let y’all know I got the call — I’m now a semi-finalist in the TalkProgress.org Nationwide Progressive Radio Talk Show contest. The Final Four. In the country. Me! Anyway, I record live 6am-8am Pacific (9-11 Eastern), the show airs on my local Clear Channel Progressive Talk Station (AM 620 KPOJ) [...]