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Follow. a students self identification should be enough and these transgender applicants very bright young women should be regarded and their application to be reviewed in the same way as the other applicants. >> a premed student with a bright future. you do a great public service by sharing your story. thanks. >> thank you. >> for this weeks call to action, we want to you weigh in. tweet at smith college and urge the school to join the other top womens colleges by changing the eligibility requi...

Understand it. a students self identification should be the central element when the office is reviewing the students application. i feel that the schools, for example, may not be supportive of transgender students. for example, my guidance office it took a lot of explaining for my guidance counsellors and administrative staff to correct all of my documents. as you might know the first time i applied to smith college and sunday in my application, were clerical errors in which they were marked ma...

Of greatness by claiming that theyre a part of al qaeda, isis or whatever other group. what the difference is now is that the bar to entry to say that you are a member of any of these groups is low. and this is what they want. so the fact that he self-identifies is irrelevant for purposes of what is law enforcement going to do at this stage, which is we now have people who are radicalizing through various means, social media, and taking hostages. im not saying he is scarier than he was on that 2...

The 1-800 number for the guy that really needs help today. they chronicled a guy for eight years that needed a psychological evaluation. as it relates to the republican party, im kind of impressed, im not that impressed i dont feel theres a vision coming out of elected officials in washington on the republican side offering a clear, distinct alternative. what do you make of the battle between establishment and key party? i would look at you as more tea party. >> sure, if you look at wyoming, for...

>> so mocking pot heads. who put that out? >> everybody here in the studio loves it. >> i know. mocking the pot heads because they are all pot heads and they know what pot heads do. thats why they are loving it. self-identification. >> he said it not me. dont show them, they will sue me. >> he they are basically trying to target the target audience. >> well, the feds pay for it but colorado put it out. the state of colorado put it out. driving while high on pot more than half of the dwi sufferin...

An important state. but, i mean, could it be someone like you even mentioned a sports figure. can you imagine sports figure i guess arnold schwarzenegger an actor. >> i dont know about a sports figure. certainly a lot of republicans looking for someone who is outside of politics. we saw that in 2012 with someone like herman cain who received a the love support as independent businessman that was his brand. >> a lot of people being critical of president obama because he didnt have a lot of expe...

They cant seem to find it in washington. >> its reflected in the self identification of what political party people self identify with. two polls in a row and until we see it a second time in a row, do we make note? a majority of folks did not identify. when we asked what party we identify with, a majority did not identify with either party. we think this is only the third time ever this happened in the history of our poll and yet two polls in a row. what do you take away from that? >> it leads ...

I was pretty convinced this was online radicalization, self-identification, but we need to determine whether there was some kind of mentor or facilitator on the other end and we need to determine whether there was any linkage or training on the other end. thats what the national security community will be looking at in the weeks moving ahead. >> theres a the lot of unanswered questions here and im sure youre right, they will be looking at that. christopher swift, thanks very much for that analys...

That the republicans self-identify as conservatives to a far greater degree than the democrats self-identify as liberals. 70% versus about 40% in round numbers. and that self-identification, thinking of yourself as a liberal or a conservative, has really changed over the past ten years. >> and that is something. so, basically, a majority of republicans self-identify as conservatives before they say the word "republican." do a majority of democrats self-identify as moderate before they say "liber...

>> thank you. >> thats what i mean, theres no inherent cross-ethnic, cross-temporal, cross-time relation. religious people are in the forefront of freeing the slaves and so on. >> no, thats -- >> i understand that, thats my point. there is, you know, i think theres very little inherent logical correlation. >> between peoples level of religious belief and their political affilation. and yet we have in problem the opposite of that. we have a strong degree of correlation between peoples political b...