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Hope you can join us for The Samantha Clemens Show Saturday morning at 10 am EDT on AM1510 in Boston, streaming live at www.samanthaclemens.com.

Guest:   Professor James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminology professor AND Boston.com Community Voices blogger

Connecticut’s legislature has voted to abolish the death penalty in the Nutmeg state and George Zimmerman has been charged with 2nd degree murder in the Sunshine State….

But what are the ramifications?

Connecticut has only has one execution since 1976, will it make a difference? In the last few years a number of states have voted to abolish the penalty…will the trend continue?

• Was Mr. Zimmermann “overcharged” or “undercharged”?
• Is the second degree murder charge appropriate? Would have even been charged if there wasn’t such a national outcry?
• What about life without parole for juvenile offenders??

Join Samantha on as she welcomes Professor James Alan Fox!

The two will discuss these legal topics and more.

Be sure to call the studio line to get your comments heard and your questions asked! The studio number is 617 237 1234!

On the show:

• Samantha on the Supreme Court hearing on Obamacare 2012-03-31-samantha-clemens.mp3

• Presidential candidate Governor Buddy Roemer on why he’s running, why he’s focused on campaign finance reform, and why he’s the best candidate. He recently dropped out of the Republican primary and is now a declared candidate with Americans Elect 2012: 2012-03-31-samantha-clemens-gov-buddy-roemer.mp3

• The proposed MA ‘stand your ground’ legislation with Lawrence Harmon, editorial writer and columnist for the Boston Globe 2012-03-31-samantha-clemens-lawrence-harmon.mp3

In case you missed it:

Part 1 – Samantha’s comprehensive two birds /one stone solution for military spending and energy consumption. 2012-02-25-samantha-clemens-p1-military-petroleum-tax.mp3

Part 2 – The casino debate! 2012-02-25-samantha-clemens-p2-casinos-myers-monahan.mp3

The debate rages on the benefit of casinos in the Commonwealth…

Michael Monahan, business manager at the local 103, will be discussing the benefits.

Local businesswoman and founding member of No Eastie Casino, Celeste Myers, will be discussing the disadvantages.

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Don’t miss tomorrow’s show at 10am on AM1510 RevolutionBoston:

While a billionaire Santorum backer takes us back to the 1940s, suggesting girls should put a Bayer aspirin between their knees for contraception, Martha Coakley is giving johns who buy sex services more headaches.You think the anti-sex crowd is going to back Coakley?Santorum super-PAC backer: Women ‘used Bayer aspirin for contraception’ Foster Friess Apologizes For Suggesting Bayer Aspirin As Contraception Method Prostitutes want no part of Martha Coakley’s crackdown on johns

Samantha talks about the American Dream: Samantha commentary about the American Dream

Jimmy Tingle: Jimmy Tingle

This week:

Tired of your choices for president?
Looking for a candidate who represents you?
Do you want a presidential candidate who people laugh with, and not at?
Then cast your vote for the internationally known Boston comedian, Jimmy Tingle!

Even though Jimmy Tingle isn’t actually on the ballot, you can still listen to Samantha Clemens interview him about his faux run for president and his new video “Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream.”

Jimmy is one of the top social and political humorists in America.  He was a commentator and humorist for 60 Minutes II where he created, wrote, edited, and performed television essays for national broadcast on 60 Minutes II News Magazine television show under Supervisor and Executive Producer Jeff Fager.  He has also been a commentator and humorist for MSNBC, contributing to freewheeling discussions, commentaries, and debates with other “FRIENDS” of the show including Anne Coulter, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jonathan Alter, and Laura Ingraham under Supervisor and Senior Producer Steve Lewis.

Let Jimmy hear from his future constituents by calling the listener line at 617 237 1234!

Listen to The Samantha Clemens Show every Saturday from 10-11 am on AM 1510 and on www.samanthaclemens.com.

Martha Fuller Clark

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Glen Johnson

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This Saturday’s show:

Santorum’s Surge
Romney’s Rage
Bachmann’s Bowing Out

Join Samantha on her first show of the New Year as she welcomes Boston.com’s Political Intelligence editor, Glen Johnson!

The two will break down the recent Iowa Caucus and prepare us for the New Hampshire primary!

• Will it be Romney on top again?
• Will Santorum pick up where Bachmann left off?
• Is Perry next to go?

Also joining the show: Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Martha Fuller Clark!

This is not your mother’s New Hampshire.  Free Staters and ALEC are all having an impact on the state. Get the lowdown on how NH has changed, the tactics in use, and what it portends for other states and the country.   Check this out…

In New Hampshire, Republican state legislators seem to believe education is no longer something they should require. Via ThinkProgress:

Today the GOP-controlled Senate passed HB 542, which effectively ends compulsory education for New Hampshire students. Their House colleagues approved the measure earlier last year.

No, seriously. It ends compulsory education, and it’s been passed by both houses of the Legislature? Really? Really.   Here’s what it says.

 IX-c. Require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent’s or legal guardian’s determination that the material is objectionable. Such policy shall include a provision requiring the parent or legal guardian to notify the school principal or designee in writing of the specific material to which they object and a provision requiring an alternative agreed upon by the school district and the parent, at the parent’s expense, sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area. The name of the parent or legal guardian and any specific reasons disclosed to school officials for the objection to the material shall not be public information and shall be excluded from access under RSA 91-A.

As worded, any parent could object to the entire curriculum and substitute whatever they wanted instead, with no measurement or assessment or accountability for that “alternative material” requirement, which means compulsory education would be dead, dead, dead.  Crooks and Liars, January 5, 2012

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Join Samantha Clemens this Saturday as she speaks to Roger Shamel from the Global Warming Education Network as they discuss the latest Climate Change data.

• Has the Global Warming debate become TOO politicized?
• Has John Huntsman sold his soul by backtracking on his original comments by “pulling a Romney” on Climate Change?
• Was Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” hyperbole or factual?
• When will Worcester be a coastal city?

and…

The new Rick Perry ad…  is there a problem with a President so overtly Christian?  And of a particular sect of Christianity?  And, why are Republican men so hot for those barn jackets…

The Redemption of a Neo-Nazi

Bryon Widner was a Neo-Nazi, skinhead enforcer who helped to organize Nazi chapters all over the country. In 2006 he left the hate group with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

This Saturday at 10am, Bryon Widner will be a guest on The Samantha Clemens Show. The two will discuss life as a Neo-Nazi thug and his transformation, both physically and mentally.

Part 1:  Samantha:  her thoughts on the Rule of Law, the Founding Fathers views on ‘all equal before the law,’ occupy wall street, and power

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Part 2: Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com: his new book  “With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful”

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Part 3: The Granite State Update: Marc Fortier of Patch.com provides on update on who’s making news, who’s making boos, and who’s gonna lose.

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On the show…

We started talking about the Occupy movement – clips of comments about it – Sean Hannity, Herman Cain, participants..

Then – Takes a hero to take on the banks!  Guest: John O’Brien, Register of Deeds, and Kevin Harvey, First Assistant; Southern Essex County, Massachusetts

Is Bank of America missing in action or dead on arrival?
Are the Occupy Boston protests here to stay? Do they have a unifying message?
Will the “evil doers” ever be held accountable for their actions?

Find out on this Saturday’s edition of The Samantha Clemens Show!!!

Samantha welcomes friend of the show and South Essex Register of Deeds John O’Brien! For those of you who don’t know Mr. O’brien, he was taking on Bank of America BEFORE it was cool!

Be sure to listen and call in with your questions and concerns for Mr. O’brien. The studio number is 617 237 1234.