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The church, really. its what we tend to look back over time to look at how papal thought develops. people asked the spokesman and the spokesman said, look, the teachings on poverty are pretty well known in the catholic church and pope benedict xvi just wrote this thing about it. but where theres ap opening is ecology because environmental d degradation disproportionately affects the poor. >> i picture conservative heads exploding at seeing this photo of the pope with an ant anti-fracking t-shirt...

Look for work. the simple fact and common sense is you have one job for every three people, either theyre going on welfare -- where are they going to go? >> lets get back to the economic point here. if you were on unemployment insurance then you get a job, you lose that benefit. that creates the disincentive. if the benefit is consistent, regardless of whether you have a job or not, you have more of an incentive to seek work. >> that doesnt make rational sense. go on. >> it makes logical sense. ...

Poor is to steal from them and take away their livelihood. it is not our own goods which we hold but theirs. joining me now our senior religion editor for "the huffington post," the reverend paul roushenbush, anthea butler, professor of theology at fordham, michael pepper, and columnist for renew america, michael c. abbott. thanks for being here. i want to start by throwing out that weve heard a lot of pope francis documents sound very compassionate and is kind of a fre freshing change for a lot...

Than the system we have, which is frites completely tangled with a lot of waste and -- >> where are those conservatives? i only hear the ones -- >> read forbes. youll be hearing about it in the next year. >> it is interesting, carmen, because it does seem bad because the economic -- it doesnt work when its put in practice, as larry just demonstrated. when you actually practice this core of austerity, you dont get the result. so how do we get away from what i think is the fact that this is just a...

Pardoning whites by a factor of four. if you are a white candidate, your chances of getting a pardon are four times as likely than all minorities combined. ? that is because of the information -- the pardons office is the one who actually knows that and knows those statistics. >> thats correct. >> and the president does not. >> thats correct. >> it would be great to see the president champion mandatory minimum sentencing reforms. i bet you could get a lot of republican support from that. theres ...

Very similar emphasis. clearly pope francis has a certain charisma that many religious leaders dont have. >> right. >> and i think thats something thats been noticeable in these past few months. >> paul, but, you know, the style changes are obviously important and the tone of the church, attracting more people, but there are some substantive changes too. talk about the significant of switching out the bishops in the congress of bishops chashgs what that means for church policy. >> its important ...

So the single by far overwhelming factor underlying peoples tipping are social expectations and a desire to live up to those expectations. >> and so given the fact it is a social norm, that essentially the server is expecting a 15% to 20% tip, is there any kind of real correlation between the size of the tip, how much you tip, and the quality of the service you receive? >> yes. there is a kor ligs. its statistically reliable but its very small. other studies have found, for example, that -- how ...

For working families where we really need to get jobs, get unemployment down. whats unfortunate in my view, speaking about economic policy, all this focus on the federal reserve board. but that is actually the weaker institution for getting jobs and lowering unemployment rate. what we have on the sideline is congress and the president who are not offering budget policy, which can actually move the dial a lot. the federal reserve board will move it a little. what we really have on the sidelines i...

Senate speak is complicated but we know when federal reserve chairman ben bernanke speaks, wall street listens. here he is from wednesday. >> the federal market committee concluded a two-day meeting earlier today. as you already know from your statement, the committee decided starting next month to modestly reduce the pace at which it is increasing the size of the federal reserve balance sheet. >> yes. to modestly reduce the pace of blah, blah, blah blash, blah. ben bernanke was trying to say th...

Pump. it weighs about, if it were on earth -- weightless up there -- 780 pounds. hes going to pull that out, and they are going to relocate it to a storage platform. now, whats so -- whats great about this is they are so far ahead of the timeline, getting the work done, that what youre seeing them do now -- and thats the helmet cam video right there from -- that is the other astronaut, mike hopkins helmet cam -- but theyre so far ahead, fredricka, that theyre doing mondays work today. so it look...