for a one point four billion dollars military bridge to nowhere and on top of all on top of it all the senators have personal reasons for wanting to see the project go through between two thousand and seven two thousand and twelve and only received two hundred fifty thousand dollars one thousand nine hundred in campaign donations from aerospace and defense industries while kaufman only received fifty eight thousand from the industry in the same time frame but the headquarters of matchsticks the firm behind the blue devils bible and they are located in conference home state of mississippi so how projects like this can be justified by senators in a time of super committee on debt reduction and psych was pretty certain on a not a damn good question. take. let's not forget that we are in a park right. i think. the oil.

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the g.o.p. primary seems to be winding down and mitt romney appears to be the candidate is going to face off with obama in november so of course both sides are now posturing on every topic imaginable to try to win over voters one of the most prized voting blocks is the rapidly growing latino vote so not surprisingly this week it's all

eyes on immigration here last week the obama administration announced that they would pursue a policy change would make it easier for undocumented immigrants who are relatives of american citizens and try to get their legal status to remain in the states and with their families while they go through that process right on the heels of that yesterday ice amounts of data arrested more than three thousand one hundred undocumented immigrants and it's six day operation that they called cross check and this operation was the largest immigration crackdown in history so some are seeing it as a way for the obama administration which has deported a staggering one million people in the last three years to maintain an appearance of being tough on immigration while at the same time and wrings latino voters and other avenues but the obama administration isn't the old me ones who seem to be playing both sides of the field appears that mitt romney is seizing the opportunity to remind latino voters of obama's campaign promise this today. let the immigrant community not forget that while he uses this as a political as

a political weapon he does not take responsibility for fixing the problems we have . now yes the latino community should not forget that obama promised to tackle immigration reform in his first year in office but they also shouldn't forget romney statements on immigration like what he was after going to beat up in support of the arizona approach to tackling the problem. so going back to the question that was asked the right course for america is to drop these lawsuits against arizona and other states that are trying to do the job right the body isn't doing. the if i will drop those lawsuits lawsuits on day one. or when in everything interview he touted his record on immigration as a qualifier to his conservative. i think the biggest misconception would be that i'm a guy that comes from massachusetts and therefore i can be conservative but you know if you look at my record of massachusetts and see that i balance the budget lowered

taxes nineteen times in forced illegal immigration laws got a militia immersion in our schools. yeah that's right because this is america we speak english right and have the g.o.p. just loves the talking point but romney didn't stop it just reminding voters of obama's broken promises he also had this to say that this will be a priority of mine if i become president to make sure we finally reform our immigration laws step by step secure the border improve our legal immigration system so we can keep people here and welcome people here who will make america a stronger nation. really so romney claims that he wants to keep people here for the interesting specially considering that he seemed pretty opposed to that stance just back in january my point is we're not going to go round and round people up in buses and ship them home instead we'll let people make their own decisions based upon their employment opportunities here or lack thereof. yeah the romney might not

want to brown people up the way the obama administration did this week but make no mistake he does not want documented immigrants that are in the country now to stay here and as for the kids undocumented immigrants well romney has quite a harsh stance when it comes to the dream act you know the bill that senate republicans struck down in december missing want those kids to be educated either. my point is we're not going to go round and round people off in buses and ship them home instead we'll let people make their own decisions based upon their employment opportunities here or lack thereof. through g.o.p. form even though he's argued time and time again that we need to make laws to get undocumented immigrants to sell to ports there is one thing they can say that the military. you know you. can be. very. you know there's. so many things that undocumented immigrants who have lived in

this country their entire lives they're not good enough for an education but they are good enough to die for our country and then maybe they can be said is that if they make it back to the numerous wars that we're currently fighting so piers operation trick voter is in full swing by both parties but making his regular double speak and the obama administration pandering one moment and de porting the next election a solid seven months away you can bet that this is far from the last we've heard from both mitt and obama when it comes to immigration but at this point looks as if the latino population is going to have to put their stock in what they see to be a lesser of two evils. now if you've ever heard of neutral or prison loaf flop loaf there's many names but something that prisoners across the u.s. and all too well the forced to eat it and one particular case in milwaukee an inmate named terrence proved became violently ill after eating it for two dates experience stomach pain vomiting a loss of weight of fourteen pounds and other health problems and last week

a federal appeals court ruled that what pruitt was served could violate the eighth amendment be considered cruel and unusual punishment not just another sign of deteriorating and inhumane prison conditions and treatment here in the u.s. so what else do we know about the food at the prison population here to discuss those needs dr jeffrey ian ross criminologist and professor at the university of baltimore if you take so much for joining us tonight tell me more about neutral i've seen the pictures and it definitely doesn't look like something that's very appetizing sure not every prisoner gets a new troop typically somebody who's in solitary confinement could be somebody in a supermax prison. and also a nutritional perp. says the person is required to feed a prisoner every day there's no guarantee that it is tasty there's no guarantees you know the texture the taste the smell typically of the neutral loaf or prison if it's called

a number of facilities is the food that is served that day it's ground up and then big in los and serve to the prisoners that day it's supposed to have the same nutritional value as the food that every prisoner eats during the day and it's supposed to not lose any of its nutritional value having been ground to be a punishment to knowing you you say that if the purity of as well as nutritional food sure how many people enjoy eating there are there any kind of meat loaf fashion every day they have no choice with respect to what goes into the meal most prisoners will get their breakfast will get their lunch will get their dinner and also have the ability to go to the commissary and get some food stuffs basic kind of junk food sort of thing to kind of round out the if not nutrition but the taste and the quality of the food they eat but here they have absolutely no say over what they're going to eat and that among other reasons is what's motivating this this

lawsuit and it's quite unusual too that this lawsuit is going forward and it's getting some traction because the prison loaf nutra loaf has been around for literary value and washing about it so that's the thing right is that we've seen this is not the first to last over news for louth and this one is actually going forward i mean i have other people had the same reactions as you know as terence perry did here with a violently ill they were vomiting you know it's one thing to say that food doesn't have to taste good for prisoners i don't think that anyone is going to expect that they made meals but it's another thing if it's actually unsafe and makes the mill the prisoners have complained about food since day one and doesn't have to be neutral over prison a lot of the prison food. that is sold purchased by jails and prisons in the united states is of substandard quality. fruits or brews sometimes it's spoiled the expertise expiration dates of past that sort of thing and the people who are cooking the food do the best they can with what they're given now prison food is

also depends upon what you've eaten before if your whole unless you've been on the street for a long time prison food might be great if you're in the army if you're used to institutional food prison food is very similar now there's a whole continuum there's places where the food is actually going to places where the food is very very poor and the food varies based on the day it can also be based varied based on the part of the country in which an inmate is incarcerated so there's a lot of variability goes on that then you would say the jets as a broad sweeping statement prison food is unconstitutional and it's cruel and unusual punishment but just looking at this case right the fact that the court has actually decided that you should get representation that it should go through you know what let's let's back in i mean for the let's say that if you don't think before the minneapolis system clearly it's going to mean that they're going to pay more attention to the kinds of food that they're going to serve the inmates but

whether or not the inmate prevails it's hard to say so that's something to something to keep in mind when we're talking about food in the prison lowson in the neutral or that sort of thing but again a lot of this is situational depends upon the prison system whether we're talking about the feds where the we're talking about the different states some states are better some some are not and also depends on you know the income level of an inmate two if they can supplement their their diet with commissary food so it's not an open and shut black and white kind of case prisoners of always complain about the food they'll continue to do it and this is just one more added dimension to the. all the of living and quality of life you know i mean is there something particularly compelling about this case or do we suddenly see some kind of a shift in attitudes because we also saw the supreme court ruling just recently. the system in california is inhumane because the prisons are so overcrowded then

again we also saw the supreme court really yesterday that anybody can get strip searched no matter what your offense is when you walk in so i mean i don't know if we have any patterns i don't think we can generalize from this just one case i mean the law's dynamic and these prison cases are dynamic too it's more difficult for prisoners to launch legal challenges now with the prison little you cation reform act it's more costly for them to do it the judges are less likely to hear these kinds of cases they see them as frivolous kinds of suits and they're more quickly to dismiss the fact that this is a big our prison population gets them more frivolous they say these types of lawsuits you know i mean that's kind of the problem sue no question and another thing too is prisons are cutting back in their expenditures and they're going to cut back on on many things we're going to cut back on the salaries that we're going to give the correctional officer if they're in a combat cutback on food living conditions and so on and i see this as part of a trend that probably will be increasing kinds of lawsuits whether or not they

prevail in the courts is hard to say i got a feeling that this is not going to prevail because you know the constitution does not specify you know what the food quality needs to be yes they must provide a standard of care that must provide a quality of living but it doesn't rise to a certain threshold and that's i got a feeling that as it progresses through the and make it there i think i well we will i will keep an eye on it actually joining us tonight my pleasure. hard fiberglass break even though with the back arizona want to criminalize annoying people on the internet. and i don't happy hour obama logs the charge of social darwinism laughing g.o.p. i think facebook helps stop the spread of. all that the break. the. story. is if you understand it and the.

other part of it and realize that everything. is a big. blow to the. but in the long itself you'll get a real headline for the time. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from their viewers and from what actually matters

to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we give you the state has been honored way too many times even passed we've told you about arizona's papers please immigration law but governors decree that allowed residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit is a bill that would allow businesses with moral objections to refuse to pay for birth control if it was for contraceptive purposes but today that only reason they call them out and has to do with house bill twenty five forty nine have a surface it's designed to combat bullying and stopping making it a crime to use an electronic device to talk to someone in a way that would care if i intimidate threaten harass annoy or offend and yes annoying someone on the internet would actually be a crime now to give you a bit of background here this house bill was designed on a framework of old state legislation it's designed to stop harassing phone calls and so the bills co-sponsor house minority leader chad campbell even admits that this is a way to modernize old language this was not an attack on any first amendment

rights you see some of the bullying problems we've had in high schools and grade schools across the country facebook post you know attacking people on twitter messages things like that again we're trying to update the stocking code to reflect the modern day. no big deal the legislators are just trying to make sure that nobody out there gets harassed with just the simple little update well the update would make it illegal to quote otherwise disturbed by repeated anonymous electronic or digital communications the piece quiet a right of privacy of any person at the place where the communications were received so basically this means that all those people on the internet leave a comment after comment on blogs or our you tube page well that would be against the law it just shows how truly confused lawmakers are out there saying that commenting repeatedly on the repeatedly on the internet is the same thing as calling somebody over and over and over and over again on the phone and it's pretty clear to anybody who's ever used the internet that it's not but thankfully the rest

of the world realizes how wrong it would be to criminalize free speech after all that is exactly what this bill is really aiming to do they're trying to say you can't use your phone your computer or any of your digital devices to say what you think about someone or something the language is just so insanely broad the anything you say on the internet could be considered a crime so those annoying lewd comments on you tube or facebook those would be a crime in arizona now thankfully groups across the country are starting to speak out against this law like the media coalition who says that it's unconstitutional and a letter calling on governor jan brewer to veto h.b. twenty five forty nine coalition writes government made criminalize speech that rises to the level of harassment and many states have laws that do so but the legislation takes the law meant to address irritating phone calls and applies it to communication websites blogs list serves and other internet communication told by the way the reason we showed you that is because the our i am the m.p. a our backers of the media coalition that's right the groups that have supported pretty radical copyright protection measures out there things like so mandatory

censor where borders searches of all personal media devices even though they think the arizona is taking it too far and it goes through code and crazies are against it think of saying something. and here's the i thing on the cake of the daily callers thomas grier points out an article arizona has its own constitution that protects free speech maybe even better than the us constitution it says every person may freely speak write and publish on all subjects not only are they violating the first amendment but they're also violating their own state's constitution but thankfully state lawmakers have started noticing at the outcry they've actually decided not to send this bill to governor brewer for signature just yet now now they want to revise the language but still h.b. twenty five forty nine in its current form passed both houses of arizona's legislator and that alone earns the state's nights time.

i got time for happy hour and joining me this evening are he learned let lauren lyster outside the capital account here on our do you sorry and nick gillespie editor in chief of reason t.v. and reason dot com thanks for joining me guys thank you so you know quite a war of words going on there so the president is back on the campaign trail he took a hit at the g.o.p. budget that's out there and take a look take a listen to what it is that you say. this congressional republican budget is something different altogether it is a trojan horse disguised as deficit reduction plans is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country it is thinly veiled social darn darwinism. then

we bailed social darwinists i mean those are pretty strong words we've heard a lot of socialism coming from the opposite side and now we have social darwinism what do you think i think it's a joke i mean this is sloganeering and you're talking about. obama wants that we're spending about three point eight trillion dollars a year now in ten years if he got his way we'd be spending about five point eight trillion dollars paul ryan would be spending and the republicans would be spending four point nine trillion dollars so any way you cut it this is not about cutting spending and you know there are all the budgets but ok well writing i think the reality is i'm sure you know the nuts and bolts of exactly what's in the ryan budget a lot better than i do but whatever obama is saying about it who cares this is not what's going to get passed him but it is that what's going to get passed it's going to be passed is probably going to be a disaster they cut a dollar or thumping at the end of the day and so who cares what you think of this is where we've gotten to right though is that like are you there can't be any other

conversation other than if you want to talk about you know some kind of a health care coverage that has to be it has to mean you're a socialist and at the same time if you look at certain republican policies which if you cut a lot from social programs. then you end up being a social welfare budget but they don't cut it all and that's like the you are your i don't have the there were no no no but they cut over expected increases because everybody wants to spend more there are budget proposals out there that say ok you know what we're going to keep spending level and you have to realize that in the two thousand we increased spending by about sixty percent so if you're talking about keeping spending level hughes to spend on no no no and that's not the point is what the reaction is the breakdown the breakdown in the budget process is that the senate democrats the democratically controlled senate hasn't passed a budget in several years and they won't they refused to what is good about that is that over the past couple years because it's just been continuing resolutions we've been spending about the same as we used to which i actually learned was

a good thing but we're not really answering our social darwinism question as. was it on darwinism would be ok i mean we haven't always had a lady but it's all right if you go when you go if you think you need to work harder in order to achieve more opportunity for themselves the problem with the public and budget though is that they're constantly saying oh we gotta cut spending except on defense obama seems like we got a good spend on about how do you budget when they talk about the spending and how much our country's in trouble conveniently he leaves out defense of his charges that are you know medicare medicaid social security where that was in the realm of . increases the sense spending even more republicans over a ten year period so it's the unreality of budget discussions. are less than one of them are right. how about having thanks peter. their ruling makes it unconstitutional to keep an eighteen year old from having consensual sex with whoever they want it may not be illegal anymore but teachers

can still be punished by the department of education if someone files a complaint a teacher to lose their license if they have sex with a consenting eighteen year old student. so i guess the law used to be that you were twenty one or had to be twenty one or to have sex now if you're eighteen or older you're a consenting adult so that means we're talking about. more of the time and small time so you. have a blanket right to make jokes about the fast that you're training that's very interesting. you know that basically just means your teacher is going to happen. i don't agree with that because it should never be against the law for a consenting adult to have sex with their teacher but come on it's still going to be the biggest scandal ever and they're going to lose their job but they're having sex with their students that's still a conflict of interest or something i'm sure that whoever is running this sort of

television to make it make yeah whatever but if you don't belong that's absurd i mean i do think you know if you believe adults can consent you know that it shouldn't be it shouldn't be a legal but you're right i mean a school by school policy i would think you would send your kids to go have sex with their teachers especially. but i was i went to catholic schools i was taught by so this was especially the case i think of holds even in public schools all right. ok first of all we see a lot of journalists out there these days that are really you know the kids of former journalists are the kids with former politicians here's one example from the thing. you often talk of. he said she was to be the next great american century in this millennia old generation deliver that great american century with just terrible unemployment numbers. yes that

a wrestler who actually got to interview for president bill clinton the father of a failed journalist i'm sorry yes you got chelsea had a short lived contract there but anyway phil griffin from us on the see when you talk on camera eight times that i'm sorry i don't care about journalists i want fair minded smart people who understand the world and interpret it for journalist great this notion that you somehow have to have done something to earn so-called journalist credentials stop i think there's a point to be made either way right as a lot of opinion shows out there and stuff like that. i don't think that bill griffin should be criticized for making a statement there is the reality of the direction that cable television news has gone in he's a businessman he is the president of amazon b.c. he has to have a profitable successful business model i mean come on people have to get realistic about what is working i do think that the credentialism that has crept into journalism professional journalism is is

a bad thing generally but by the same token there are good journalists and bad journalists i'm not sure that luke russert or chelsea clinton really fit that bill and i said if you want to thank you for your show yeah i got to wrap it up so we got to go with thanks for joining me tonight outfit good night. guitar sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life think you understand it and then he glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything is i don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big fish. come up. up. up. up. up to

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