This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. Tom Hartman here with you and it is

anything goes Friday. We are going to have Dave's iron is going to drop by and

Will Durser is going to drop by very briefly in our second and third hours but you know

it's anything goes Friday there are a couple of interesting stories I wanted to

share with you just to kind of kick the day off and then we'll pick up your phone calls on whatever you

would like to talk about.

But there are a few things I would like to talk about.

Number one, just juxtaposing headlines, right? Just consider these two different headlines.

Colorado of course you know a largely blue state

decriminalize or legalized recreational marijuana,

one of the very first states to do so.

It's got a thriving marijuana industry.

But I don't think this is just that.

Colorado also has you know a

healthy state income tax and they they you know they have good infrastructure

and good government and good governance and and uh and pay attention to things.

So that's Colorado, right?

It's basically a blue state.

Indiana, Mike Pence sold off the toll road to some company in Australia as I recall,

you know, a whole bunch of other, I mean,

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