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Different. weve long known that being friends with gay people is a strong predictor of supporting gay rights. but you dont have to actually know gay people to get to that. let me explain why. the mind doesnt totally distinguish between real and imagined events. thats why you can read a good book or watch an intense movie and feel like youre immersed with the feeling they present with your heart racing. andrew sullivan found that knowing gay people via tv has the same impact as watching gay peopl...

Time. >> as part of a new secret service rule, as part of new rules, on trips, agents companionship will be outfitted with one of these. >> its minimalistic human phone and you can put your mobile phone transforming it into a physical communication medium. >> i can feel it from here. >> and she says her life is destroyed, her name is in the gutter. she is about to cash in. >> this is woman who said i didnt go through the belongings and i had been a spy, there is some organizational hooker spies ...

Establishment cause. you can freely exercise your religion and establish the religion of our choosing but cant mix it with the government. they may have a problem. >> joey is right but some where between where joey is and the freedom of religion foundation is there has to be a happy medium. they are a group of atheists. they want in god we trust off our money and the bible taken away when the president gets sworn in to become the president of the united states. i get it with the first amendment ...

The free exercise and establishment cause. you can freely exercise your religion and establish the religion of our choosing but cant mix it with the government. they may have a problem. >> joey is right but some where between where joey is and the freedom of religion foundation is there has to be a happy medium. they are a group of atheists. they want in god we trust off our money and the bible taken away when the president gets sworn in to become the president of the united states. i get it wit...

But i used a variety of the tools. a lot of it is kind of an optical illusion. >> within an hour and a half jason finishes the painting. since posting, jasons rendition of the mona lisa has gone viral with more than 11 million hits. jason says he hopes to continue to use the internet as a medium to show case his work. >> the internet expands peoples horizons and opens the world to their self-expression. the art is probably being seen more on youtube though its not making millions. its getting th...

Events. hundreds of events each year. some of them are provocative and channeling. provocative and channeling to different people. for those who dont want to take advantage of that opportunity, they dont have to. >> opponents argue screening may push boundaries but does have value. >> i think pornography is an issue. is a medium that deserves critical analysis just like many other topics at williams college. i think that this is a really good opportunity to engage in that critical analysis. >> t...

There will be a discussion about pornography, self-love and sexuality. here is a sample of what some of the students had to say today. >> we have these passionate students who care about what they think and are willing and eager to create events where they can express their views and learn about things that williamstown doesnt necessarily have to offer. i can see why the event is an exciting opportunity for that. but i question its academic value. >> i think pornography is a medium that deserves...

Because im attacked every day by left wing web sites, every day. and 95% of it is false. if i make a joke, its reported seriously. if i have a sentence, its -- the sentence is twisted around. and a lot of people believe this stuff and its led to death threats against me. its led to all kinds of defamation in books and other ancillary things. im saying to myself, you know what? there is just no control over the net at all. and now were going to get into a presidential election and its going to ha...

hooker scandal hits the hill. the first member of the obama administration getting grilled this hour on the colombian prostitution debacle. the white house saying their staff is in the clear. why do they have to testify? coverup. john edwards former top aide coming clean admitting he helped cover up edwards affair with his mist res mistress, rielle hunter. has presidential politics moved from behind the podium to on the stage? "newsroom" begins right now. we begin with startling ...

Have the -- because you get to use humor as your medium you can say harsher things? >> i think humor always works that way and allow you to say harsher things in my regular writing and the writers of veep can be really funny and use words that cannot used on this network because it is hbo. its not television. >> we had to set up one of these systems that make sure it was tripled checked that the bleep was complete because im quite sure that nobody has kept their job after not bleeping that word ...