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John: we are back with your question and then the comments co-authors of the book "shadowbosses" elizabeth factor. mallory factor. and teen nine from the illinois policy institute. now from facebook : >> the answer is yes of violation of first amendment rights. we all believe in them >> we all believe in first amendment rights dont we? we realize we have a right to speak but only one group has the absolute right to be listened to. and thats government employee onions. nobody has the right to be

Policy. this is a fred who took that no bell prize who was handed to him six weeks or so when he came into office and let it go to his head. and his foreign policy was going to be based on the charm of barack obama. he goes overseas, tries to ingratiate himself by apologizing for the u.s. and in doing so just erodes all the respect for the u.s. which is so necessary for stability. what is happening in the world today is because the foreign policy of barack obama is an absolute, unmitigated failu...

Sdp >> i get goosebumps just thinking of that morning, of that day. it was chaos everywhere, especially not knowing where this person was. who did this? how could this happen? >> a lot of people were freaking out. everybody didnt really know what was going on. it was kind of like a big shock. the news started broadcasting that there was a killer running around south beach, and it was total fear. absolute, unbelievable shock that this was a public figure in our neighborhood that was murdered in a...

They want to get rid of the new deal. this will starve the beast. this budget will starve the beast in their words. it will set the table for getting rid of a new deal. here comes a young conservative who will give a vision of own your own health care and retirement and education. its your own society. so go do what you want. i think it connects with some of the stories of hey weve got a bunch of people at the republican convention that have talked about pulling up the boot straps. they made it....

but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they dont keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they dont. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. hes kept 37% of those promises. hes working on 23% of them. hes broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he has...

We are talking about 14% or 15% nor for mitt romney. those rules changed the norms of how reeats report themselves and theres a connection between those two things. in that sense mitt romney is remarkably representative, not just of who mitt romney is as a person, but actually of an entire class that has loosed itself from the bounds of a kind of norm of good conduct of following the law in its intent and spirit. >> in the seeing of their own behavior is nationally related to the health of the c...

will join me in a minute. ill ask him whether mitt romney was absent or sleeping when he approved that claim. but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they dont keep. we tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. hes kept 37% of those promises. hes working on 23% of them. hes broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot ...

Because when the topic is energy policy, the politics whether theyre regional, push politicians towards the absolute, worst, most craven positions. protection of the incumbent fossil fuel industry thats slowly cooking the planet. ill note that july was the warmest month in the u.s. in to recorded history. but the distinct and strange contours of this years political map are changing the political incentives around energy policy, at least in a few crucial ways. in colorado, one of the most import...

Ant things that give us laser eye surgery, that make us the leader in research and innovation, those were done as government research programs, private sector cant do it in and of themselves. everybody understands that distinction. theres no successful government on the planet. >> but every government is run by taxpayers -- >> let me finish the point. theres no successful government on the face of the earth that does not have a successful partnership between the public and the private sector. ev...

Company still listed him as ceo. michael steele and joe klein writes about the -- full journalistic integrity here, absolute. this issue, do we know what role at the point romney played in outsourcing? >> no, we dont and it really doesnt matter. in the end. what the obama campaign is doing is building this giant box that theyre locking mitt romney in. and the lock on top of that box is his tax returns. in boxing, they call this kind of thing a paint job. its when a fast, really dexterous fighter...