Basically, if you're a poor child and your family depends on welfare to survive, you better keep your grades up or you and your family will suffer. No pressure or anything.
Cliff Schecter joined us to discuss how the Hagel debacle shows once again the urgent need for filibuster reform and Cliff's frustration with Harry Reid.
As Michele Bachmann continues to refuse to pay her former staff from her 2012 presidential campaign, her former staff continues to dish the dirt on what went on inside her campaign. This includes claims that her campaign violated federal election laws.
News broke late Wednesday that Current TV was being sold to Al Jazeera. This would give Al Jazeera its much sought after U.S. market. So what does Time Warner Cable do the very same day? They drop the channel.
Liberty University, the Christian college diploma farm in Virginia, received good news from the Supreme Court late last month. They can continue their fight against Obamacare over "religious freedom" and birth control.
This is probably the most insane story of the year. We spoke to Matt Taibbi about HSBC laundering hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in drug cartel money and how they will not be prosecuted. Here's Cliff Schecter talking about it in his weekly news review segment with Sam Seder.
