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Where weve had people with a little bit of rational insight into what mixing politics and religion does to both politics and religion. they understand that if you have a political party thats associated with the religious party, as each one rises, it rises. but as each one falls, it falls, as well. lee atwater, thought he could drive a heart through the democratic party in the south by doing that. and you know what, he accomplished it. but the fringe is still spinning off and michele bachmann re...

Want. >> joining me tonight, mayor of lansing michigan, verge pinare. you ran against governor snyder. youre still is the mayor of lansing, michigan. in an interview earlier this week with reuters, governor snyders at midded that the detroit bankruptcy has had a ripple effect and affected other cities in the state of michigan when it comes to the municipal bond market. what are you seeing, and is this just a ripple effect because of what has unfolded in detroit? what has been thrown on these fol...

For all cities, all municipalities in michigan and perhaps around the country. these are the same folks that left michigan for dead awhile ago, ed. these are the folks that said manufacturing is dead. these are the folks that moved manufacturing overseas and left us for dead, moved out of the state, dried up our credit, but we came roaring back. the auto industry is back. michigan is back. hopefully, detroit will be back. right now, they are going through this terrible situation. but the reality...

To be president was george bush. and if you counted the votes, god wanted al gore to be president, as it turned out. you know this, youre a sportsman. god is way too busy for politics. he cares more about who wins football games or grammys. >> exactly. i dont know what happened last sunday, but it did. >> yeah. >> you know, there are some people out there that are going to think that god is a republican. i mean, some of these folks out there are absolutely worship the words some of these lawmake...

End discrimination. according to bachmann, god was going to perform a miracle to repeal obamacare. 41 attempts by the house republicans to repeal or defend -- defund obamacare. well, it has failed. god told bachmann to run for higher office, and then god told her to -- retire! still think god is a republican? joining me now for our rapid response panel, stephanie miller, host of the "stephanie miller show" and host of the "ring of fire" radio show. i have to tell you, on a serious note, this is ...

An honest broker, looking for a diplomatic solution? >> he may be. hes not doing it the right way, ed. he is being outmaneuvered by -- by the way, putin has set this entire thing up. it wasnt smart of kerry to be out front and on stage saying we have to do this now, immediately, we want your chemical weapons now. the truth is diplomacy is going to take more time and i just think this whole rush to action is not helping obama. i may be wrong. but i think as it plays itself out, i think were going...

Texas. theyre going to stay in california. thats because theyre making their money there and they like living in california. and the marginal cost of that change isnt going to hurt them. but furthermore, ed, the year that the top 1% of the top 1% have their peak was at the end of the clinton administration, when poverty was going away quickly, wages were rising overall. the bottom 90% of americans were making 20% more money than theyre making now. the people at the top need to have consumers. an...

Read what they have been doing on this for two years, i think its ridiculous. and i love that assad is making demands now like he wants israel to give up their nuclear weapons. really? you think youre in a position? we have a template, ed, for making peace through strength. and guess where it was? in iraq. thats why saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, because it worked. they disarmed him through sanctions through threat of military force back in 1991. >> all right. well see how it plays o...

To the oligarchs. they have done a very good job of selling us on the view they want to have, and keeping us focused away from the things they dont want us to think about, like a decent wage. and 20 million people who dont have full-time jobs and a lot of them not having those jobs. >> it is absolutely staggering, some of the numbers, when you see wall street. they have gone again unregulated. they have come back on fire. but its been an economy for the wealthy. middle class families and wage ea...

0 regulation that we need. this could be why new polling shows only 14% of americans have a favorable view of wall street. the practices of wall street only worsen the problem of income inequality in this country. now in 2012, the top 1% of americans earned 1/5 of the countrys household income. the rich were hurt by the 2008 collapse, no doubt about it. but they werent totally broke. and they have recovered more than ever. they have more than recovered. huge profits. from 2009 to 2012, income fo...