here now to analyze monica cawley and alan colmes.ho made the decision at the honor academy to make it optional? >> one said it would be optional thing. others west point and other say v. it optional. they said we are happy to do that as well. >> so everybody is happy with this? are you you happy with it. >> i am not happy with it because i think they were subjected to an intimidation campaign by this guy nice weinstein who heads up this religious freedom group. they put the skews like they have so many other organizations there he is and they caved into the pressure. >> you know, look, let's look at it from the atheist point of view. if you are in the air force or army, navy, marines, whatever, you can be a atheist, you are not barred. so you go in and you believe there is no god, so what do you have to say so help me god? doesn't it make sense? i think in that case you were never forced to actually say it you could stop the oath before so help me god. so help me god george washington when he was first inaugurated as president impuls

let's discuss it now, alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes show and author of "thank the liberalsor saving america." >> you make me laugh. >> arthel: tammy bruce is the radio talk show host. great to have you here. tammy, i want to start with you. we had the house passing this bill that says let's give back pay to the furloughed federal workers, but yet again, it wasn't clean, so it's another one of the so-called piecemeal bills. so you know the senate was bound to reject it. they just did. they're not even going to touch it right now. what's the house strategy here? >> you know, they may have fallen into -- i don't think they had a strategy in the beginning. i think they've fallen into a dynamic that those who have to change their budget all the time. why they don't want to deal with line item by line item, they don't want everyone to realize exactly what we can cut. this 40% slowdown of the government is showing americans how big government is really not even needed. the people aren't missing it, which is why obama is going overboard with closing open air monuments to tryople fe

let's talk about it with jim pinkerton, alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show.x news contributors. what do you think about the premise? >> i think there's a lot of piling on right here. we can't say that obama didn't know about it and that's bad or he did one thing that he did know about and that's good and i think that's a very one sided picture of what's gone on here. for one thing, in terms of benghazi, this has been promoted by republicans in an attempt to win the election last time. that has turned out very well. we hear about the i.r.s. scandal. they find out there were progressive groups as well. the president can't know everything about everything that goes on. a good leader delegates and by the way, the "wall street journal" conservative publication, reported today that president obama, once he found out about the tapping on andrea merkel's phone, he put an end to it. if this started 10 years ago, did the previous president know about it. let's get the whole story here. jon: there are reports in the german media and the european media are making a big,

here now fox news analyst monica crowley and alan colmes. lmes, is healthcare a constitutional right? >> it is not because it's not in the constitution but i think it should be. i think it should be a human right. fdr said everybody should have the right to adequate healthcare. half of the countries in the u.n. have it. you're gray has it it we don't have it. it makes us a less advanced country. >> if say there was a constitutional amendment to include healthcare as a basic constitutional right, which would take two thirds of the states to ratify. then by extension, you would have to have good food guaranteed because you couldn't be healthy without good food. stay with me. good food guaranteed by the federal government. >> i think food, housing and i believe that healthcare should be everybody's right. >> so healthcare, food and housing. good housing. >> nobody in this country. >> not slums. >> don't have to live in a high rise overlooking d.c. >> not slums. so you are a communist. you are a communist. >> no, a communist is someone. >> becaus

mark tiff fin and alan colmes are here with their plan.nt, we're told, was unaware of nsa spying on our allies, so is he a good delegator or just way too out of touch? is tweet us your thoughts. and apple selling 34 million iphones in the fourth quarter. who made money on that, all this and more in the next hour of "markets now." ♪ ♪ dennis: well, i'll be darned, cheryl, turns out half of the 14 million americans who buy their insurance individually not through an employer, half or 75% could receive mailed notices saying you're losing your insurance. cheryl: we're going to be talking more about the political fight over obamacare and now these hearings, which i have a feeling we're going to get a lot more of these hearings to a television screen near you as the obamacare exchanges become more and more controversial and still don't operate. dennis: one of those fights coming up right here, as a matter of fact. every 15 minutes, nicole petallides at the floor of the new york stock exchange and, nicole, earnings, economic data, stocks are nice

martha: alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes radio show.ie pavlich is news editor at townhall.com and both are fox news contributors. good morning to both of you. it is not a good morning for these families. you look at the young faces of these brave young men and women. let's pull their pictures up now and take a look at their names as well because we have joseph peters, cody paterson, jennifer moreno, jeremiah collins and patrick hawkins, all of whom have given their lives for our country and no doubt for their families the foremost thing in their mind is the loss of their loved one but added to that he have this the injury not receiving the benefits that is supposed to allow them to come to the base this morning, to travel there and carry out the grim work that lies ahead of them, alan. how does this happen? >> it happens because somebody, and i don't know who, felt there was some flexibility in terms of what could or could not be paid for. whoever made that decision that this would be one of those things upheld or until the such time as

so let's talk about this alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and mary catherine ham, editor-at-largehotair.com, both fox news contributors. good to have you both here. alan, i'm going out an him you will say, this is opportunity to say the government is too big. >> see ya. thanks -- martha: however an opportunity to say maybe the government is too big because you look at this and how we're doing things and i think about when the president did the state of the union address years ago and he said do you realize we have three agencies that handle salmon? you have the upstream salmon agency, the downstream salmon agency. he said, you know we need to trim this government. we've got to trim it. i'm thinking, i don't know i bet all three agencies are still in place. >> you could say are there any jobs that could be cut? sure. is there any fat anywhere in the public arena? of course. but simply to say, well 800,000 jobs, that sound like a lot of people therefore we must be able to cut it and we're surviving okay right with a government shutdown. it isn't affecting one particular person perso

with us monica crowley and alan colmes.t do you think of the gibbs sound bite. >> i think he is right. we are talking about two different things here the implementation it problems. those people should be fired. versus the policy itself. to say obama that care itself is not work something one thing which is not true. so say that the implementation is not work something a different issue. two different issues. >> i don't think if obama care can be working if americans can't sign up. >> many of them are. >> how many? >> well, there has been i think 800,000 so far. >> where did you get that figure? >> that's what's been reported in the news? >> by whom? who reported that? i never heard that. >> press service. >> the government will not give out any stats and numbers. >> however, what really is going to happen is that eventually people are going to like it and get into it. >> how do you know? >> because people have already decided they like no punishment for preexisting conditions, portability, staying on until 26. >> why do th

. >> here to react monica crawley and alan colmes. shouldn't everybody tone it down? >> i think so.lmost like -- holding something hostage to another piece of legislation is a typical expression. nothing terrible about saying that. >> a lot of that stuff is angrily -- >> yeah. >> yeah, it doesn't help at all. what do you say? >> i'm probably going to take a contrarian view because -- well, i think -- i think it's fair play because we've had this language used in politics since the beginning of the republican. founding fathers were talking about each other, talking trash so it's always existed. the distinction is here if you're talking about a talk show host, that's one thing but the president of the united states, the senate majority leader, the house northridminority leader t he different because you're talking about people in high authority positions and should be setting a higher standard. >> if you watch spielberg's "lincoln" movie and you see the language -- >> what that is what i mean. >> when they were trying to get rid of slavery, oh, my god so it's the same but there's a me

with us monica crowley and alan colmes.t do you think of the gibbs sound bite. >> i think he is right. we are talking about two different things here the implementation it problems. those people should be fired. versus the policy itself. to say obama that care itself is not work something one thing which is not true. so say that the implementation is not work something a different issue. two different issues. >> i don't think if obama care can be working if americans can't sign up. >> many of them are. >> how many? >> well, there has been i think 800,000 so far. >> where did you get that figure? >> that's what's been reported in the news? >> by whom? who reported that? i never heard that. >> press service. >> the government will not give out any stats and numbers. >> however, what really is going to happen is that eventually people are going to like it and get into it. >> how do you know? >> because people have already decided they like no punishment for preexisting conditions, portability, staying on until 26. >> why do th

jim pinkerton and alan colmes weigh in. health care exchanges, open but shaky.entions overseas, somalia, libya, special operators underway. the details and fallout coming up. bill: interesting stories from overseas. you got it, jon. >> thanks, bill. bill: supreme court is back in session. which controversial caress have made the cut for the supremes? you thought the parking rules in your neighborhood were tough. ask the little girls who drive this bar by doll car. ♪ -- barbie doll. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us give you great rates and service. i'd like that. a new way to bank. a better way to save. ally bank. your money needs an ally. martha: this is great. two little girls got a parking ticket before they could even drive a police officer finding this barbie jeep on the sidewalk, i ki

alan colmes, fox news contributor. an editor at the daily column and post of fox press weekend. to both of you. i want to start with looking at a little piece of this "chicago tribune" put together here. this is a quote from one of the people who have been exploring the health care system trying to find out what is best for his family. so, this man, who was a nurse practitioner. he says when you take $10,000 out of my family's pocket each year, that is disposable income, retirement savings that will not be going to the local economy. i want people to have health care, just didn't realize i would be the one paying for it personally. >> w we're paying for it personally because we pay more money to cover those who don't have it. there are some problems in that, every state is different. those states with the most exchanges, you are seeing lower premiums. one of the things it has to be straightened out is it varies from state to state, county to county based on specifics that can't be controlled. they really have to get it so that it is better around the country. mostly the blue sta

about it with jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine, alan colmes of "thank the liberals for saving america." >> you're welcome, by the way. jon: what do you think about the coverage so far, alan. >> >> first of all, there's not equivalency. we have to cover the democrats' responsibility for this equality to the republicans' responsibility for this. as john mccain said on fox news, this is a republican issue. it's their strategy that did this, so i don't see that we have to give equal time to who caused it to each side because it's not equivalent. jon: all right. >> the republicans did it. jon: jim, what do you think about that? >> the question i'd be asking is whose idea was it to cancel the death benefit for our service people in iraq and afghanistan? whose idea was it to close down the world war ii memorial? to shut down the bureau of labor statistics while camp david stays open? the media narrative has been unbelievably anti-republican. brian williams and nbc news two nights in a row led with their own poll, turning it into news, that the column