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0 the destruction that this program is reaping on liberty itself, on our health care, on our economy, on families, and its all across the country. >> theres competition, theres choice, theres lives being saved, and costs are being reduced. and theyre against it. if cuccinelli loses, its a clear sign that the voters want obama care? his referendum on obama care will backfire and it will be a big gift to the democrats in 2014. the last thing republicans want is for virginia to look something like ...

0 the "associated press" has done a new study of the republicans changes to the voting laws in texas. they have found that the draconian new i.d. law that republicans passed in that state is essentially a prescription calibrated precisely to solve republicans problems in texas. look at how this works in texas counties. take williamson county and hidalgo county. both of them have less than a million people. but williamson county is pretty well off and its pretty white, 65% white, which is pretty ...

0 honestly, the same thing for hispanics. latinos in texas are almost 40% of the population, thats from the census of 2010. but in that election that year in texas, the proportion that turned out to vote was not 40% hispanic it was less than half that. youre a state with 40% hispanic turnout -- 40% hispanic population with 17% hispanic turnout. and texas republicans have to be saying thank god for that, because look at how latinos in texas vote. if more of them turn out, texas republicans are su...

The unjust new voter i.d. law in texas has claimed another victim. this time is man who was just heart beats away from the presidency. democratic congressman jim wright was speaker of the house in the late 80s. second in the line of succession to the president. he served in congress more than 30 years, and he fought in world war ii. but now he has to fight for his right to vote. wright told a texas newspaper that he was denied a voter i.d. card this weekend. because he didnt have the proper iden...

0 some some things. i havent really been able to get online much to do. i was in the classroom all day. >> i appreciate your time tonight. thank you for what you do as a profession. i know your students count on you. thank you for going to the governor face to face on that. we will follow up to find out if the governor is going to spend a week in her classroom. go do her job for a week, governor. thats "the ed show." im ed shultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton begins now. good eveni...

Guest, ari berman, writing for "the nation," in his new piece, "jim crow ii," a history of the fight for voting rights and the move to restrict them once again. so we did not see the voting rights measures in 2012 have the effect that we had originally had anxiety about. if anything, they had a bit of a boomerang effect. but now do you see these laws as potentially affecting impacts? >> absolutely. its going to be a lot harder in an off-year election, a lot harder without barack obama on the bal...

>> and this was the ruunion struggle over the work rules for air traffic controllers and reagan did not give in. >> not only that, he said, if you go off on a strike and break your oath as well as your contract, youll never work for the federal government again as long as you live. >> and they didnt. >> that was how tough he was. that sent a signal. now, obama hasnt sent that signal early enough in his administration. thats a weakness on his part. i think hell do it this time. >> you point out o...

Jokes, i walked away going i disagree with him 99% of the time. but that guy loves america. >> do you want to hear a story about how they negotiated? ronald reagan would negotiate to a point. this is a little gross, mika. >> she can handle it. >> reagan is in a room and we want you to give up your baby which was reagans tax cuts. he wouldnt give them up like obama wont do with health care. he says, jim wright offered spending guts and he said but you give up your tax cut which you ran on as your...

0 without pay. furloughed until congress can get its act together to fund the government. ironically, its also the 123rd anniversary of yellowstone becoming a national park. just one of the many places forced to close until further notice. at 1:16 a.m., after the shutdown had taken effect, speaker john boehner held a press conference offering to take the resolution to conference. thats an offer rejected by senate majority leader harry reid but what did not shutdown, the sign of obama care. sign ...

you can also find online, send us a tweet or share your thoughts on facebook. you can also e-mail us -- headlineington post says -- heres what the director of national intelligence had to say -- "the wall street journal" says that -- cnn did a poll looking at how americans looka t the relationship between the privacy and security. the you care that they are snooping? with the ensuing media coverage -- are you willing to trade privacy for security? jim is our first caller this morning f...