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marc harrold roger hickey adam violate thank you all for joining me tonight. one day after israel action president obama ordered yet another drone strike in yemen killing an alleged al qaeda operative in the process our nation's moral standing in the world was further downgraded family members of the man killed are outraged and be willed and wondering why their loved one was sentenced to death from above rather than arrested and put on trial they say that while odd non al qadi may have held an extremist ideology and may have lent some low level support to al qaeda he was not actively engaged in any terrorist activities relative say the drone strike was a complete shock and that al qaida he could have easily been arrested and had he known he was being targeted he would have cooperated with the authorities the details of this latest drone strike a period of violate the rules of engagement that were laid out by our president's own counterterrorism adviser john brennan who in april suggested drone strikes are only used when a significant threat might be posed by a

it's friday you ready to join me for tonight's big picture rubble are marc harrold libertarian comment commentator attorney and author sam sachs progressive progressive commentator contributors truthout dot org and horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research which is such an official sounding name for us to indeed i'm sure ok let's start with michigan late yesterday at the instruction of governor rick snyder and funded astroturf groups americans for prosperity in american legislative exchange council the michigan state house and senate passed a controversial right to work for us law eight people were arrested outside the capitol staters expect to sign a law next week but just as a fact just to do to put this into context and right to work for less states the average wage is fifty three hundred dollars a year less. twenty one percent more people lack health insurance and right to work for less states and fifty one there are fifty four percent more workplace deaths and injuries how can republicans try to get the rust belt vot

tonight neil mccabe senior reporter human events online editor of the guns and patriots column marc harrold libertarian commentator attorney and author of the book observations of white noise acid test for the first amendment and sam sex progressive commentator and contributor to truthout dot org let's talk about a labor union rates are dropping and as they have ever since the well arguably since since the early fifty's after the passage have tartly in forty seven but they really started dropping fast after the after the reagan presidency. so has the middle class a sure of income you know wealth goes down and as you know the wealth of individuals in fact we have a chart so we've unionization rates here we go you notice the the red line is union membership rate the blue line is aggregate income of the middle class those two follow each other and then the green line is the income of the top one percent about the percentage of sitcoms on radio i think that also felt the same rates this is starting in sixty seven by that time all those accounts were going to radio jean shepherd you know he was

i'm sitting with harrold and he said you can. if you wrote one of them and taking it home.s a little weird. you can take the rose petals, if that's your thing. what's going to happen it's the order of the awards. we will learn the winners of young people's literature then poetry and non-fiction and then fiction. this does not mean that fiction is the most important. it just means that the fiction writers hold their liquor better than the poets. [laughter] [cheering and applause] there you go. i love that corner. i want to share something quickly that i think can benefit everyone the room. i heard story on public radio the other day. there's a certain branch of publicly that is enjoying the robust sales. apparently coffee table books are at that. i heard this on marketplace. who is applauding for coffee table books? [applause] table 33, is the coffee table book table. okay. so because we're all in this for the money, clearly, i'm thinking harrold next year it's the naicialt coffee table book awards. that's a makeover. right? but why wait? with a few tweaks, we could, you kno

los angeles he's a senior fellow at the campaign for america's future and here in the studio marc harrold libertarian commentator and attorney and author of the book observations of white noise an acid test for the first amendment welcome to you both richard marc thanks for coming out to be richard you were an article for the huffington post yesterday and you argue that wall street is behind a lot of these should you kind of reform out quick yeah i mean i think it's more you know to say wall street's behind it sounds a slightly more conspiratorial i think it's what the israelis call the conspiracy of shared values or in this case shared interests you know i think there are a lot of people who are outraged at the n.r.a. because wayne la pierre the head of the n.r.a. makes it very convenient target because he's so outrageous but a lot of people are making a lot of money off the gun industry and a lot of people are doing very well politically by being allies of the gun industry so you have you have it for example severus capital which is run by steven feinberg the republican contributor whic

other bags of a great role joining me tonight are marc harrold vince colonies and there are indeed alexander bullock let's get back to it michigan is developing a reputation as the most anti-democratic as in small d democratic state in the nation following the passage of right to work for less legislation this week the law was passed undemocratically by surprise like both here it is through pressure from corporate corporate oligarchy as u.a.w. president bob king said in the end that divide us and the extreme right wing control what's going on in this state and the koch brothers americans for prosperity was in there and it was a lot of money pushing for the passage of this legislation threatening the governor and threatening to defer presenting his past as part of a big budget appropriations bill that you're more difficult for voters to repeal and the republican lawmakers in the state legislature passed that also passed a law making it harder to recall elected officials cutting down the numbers of days to collect signatures so i want to start with you. this is your own state sure and mine alt

neil mccabe senior reporter of human events on line and editor of the guns and patriots column marc harrold libertarian commentator author attorney author of the book observations of white noise an acid test for the first men and sam sex progressive commentator and contributor at truth org gentlemen thank you all for joining us and let's get right into the stuff let's start out with the taxes let's talk taxes. how about a financial transaction that there's so much money floating around that you know that we could be using to fund the functions of government and our tax collections are at a low they're below where they were in one thousand fifty and fifty two when eisenhower took office and you know how about a financial transaction tax as a starting point this is we had this we financed the spanish-american war with this one thousand eight hundred six until one thousand somewhere you opposed i don't remember. it we and then we put it into place one hundred fourteen world war one and and got doubled one hundred thirty five when we started the s.e.c. in order to fund the f.c.c. and the studen

today being friday let's turn things over to our big picture rumble on our panel tonight marc harrold libertarian author commentator attorney vince colony's senior online editor with the daily caller and the reverend d.l. xander boehlert president of the detroit chapter of rainbow push will be joining us and so the shooter was armed with a nine millimeter six hour handgun in the early reports there were nine millimeter glock handgun and he had a semiautomatic rifle in his car both handguns were registered to his mother which . really feeds the story that we see so many times about it's the handgun in the family that the kid uses to accidentally shoot himself or. intentionally kill himself or kill somebody else. but with regard to just this whole idea of the right to bear arms when that was written seventy nine he wanted to the constitution. the state of the art of guns was if you took a long rifle and important gun powder and then you tamp it down with a rod and then you drop a ball in there and then you tamp that down with a rod and then you flip the thing up you poor little gunpowde

bag big picture rumble on the panel tonight neil mccabe marc harrold and sam sachs let's get back to let's talk about economics free trade for example i find this canard bizarre mark why would anybody ever say a we should have absolutely free trade we should have free trade why it's liberty it's economic liberty is the opposite of what adam smith pointed out and well you know economic liberty i mean i do understand you. even so there's no record of. the market the market's going to bear the most if it for the most people over time even itself out in it's not always perfect well that's one of the more it gets in the bar and the government's always or the market's always perfect but the government's worse regulated markets don't work as well as free markets over time i mean it's i know it's somewhat ideological when you can find a place here to place there that it's detrimental to individuals for certain periods of time but free market is definitely a better system than a regulated market where the government's defining how the market should run it's not really a market if it's not a f

in 2007, the harrold county sshool dissrict adopted - policy --callee the guardiaa plaa--essentialllers who have a concealed handgun picense can carry a gun with them to school. the teachers will prevent a tragedy like the massaare in the plan was adopped to keep kids ssfe bbcause the nearest &plaw enforcement agency is 30 3 my mantra has been this: ss school persoonel with children here we aae our first goal is if someooe tries too & come in and hurt my little pnes that hey are killed. 3 3 pte guardian plan has been in ppace for five years... and n that time, there's been no incidents t theeschool. -3 3 earlier we asked ....what should be done to prevent another tragedy like the one at sandy hook elementary school? school?barb writes on ourr facebook page..."arm the principals and the sscurity ggardd in thh schools." -3 schools." but lanier writes..." you ccn't stop crazy."" 3 a big response on this... nd a ot oo interesting answers &pso far. go tt fox-bbltimore dot coo and tell us what you thhnn. 3& facebook. senddus a tweee.. text your annser to 45203. enter fox45a for yess. or &

back in harrold, texas, parent approve. >> i'd rather have someone at the school protecting my children to stand there and hide them in a closet and have no way to protect them from somebody that comes into school with a gun. >> reporter: superintendent won't say which teachers or how many have guns, part of the secret he says of keeping students safe. charles had lock, nbc news, harrold, texas. >>> this morning on nbc's "meet the press" the nra executive vice president wayne lapierre led the charge in defending his organization's stance on gun control in the wake of the tragedy in newtown. in response to a question about legislating against high-capacity magazines, lapierre had this to say. >> i don't believe that's going to make one difference. there are so many different ways to evade that even if you had that. you had that for ten years when dianne feinstein passed that ban in '92. it was on the books. columbine occurred right in the middle of it. it didn't make any difference. >> here with me now is james florio, former democratic governor of new jersey, now senior fellow for publi

erosion of our civil liberties in the face of an ever expanding police and surveillance state marc harrold a former police officer author political analyst and author journalist sorry i thank you for coming on to me on fresh air of course used to be. you just kind of heard us break down this case that knowing both side of the story you're also an attorney what do you think the a say and the man accused here did wrong if i well you know it's not clear we don't hear a lot of conflicting stories with this point what we have is a trial most times what they're going to say is look we can't talk about this there's a trial going on but there seems to be a real hasn't see for real information to come out of the situation whether he did something wrong well the bottom line is when the police officer came up to the house if he had a warrant if there was an exit in z. inside the fact that the police officer stayed outside the house in other words you open the door may or may not have been a reason to have a weapon out but let's say you do have the weapon out when the occupant inside if you really hav

sitting in the boardrooms but working on the factory floor joining me now for more on this is marc harrold libertarian commentator and author of the book observations of white noise an acid test for the first man mark welcome back thank you so after nine eleven the economy went in the crapper you're right what did george w. bush say to the american people well one of the things that was said early on is that you have to give up this was said later but i think again it was he had to give up market principle or i'm going with this he says go shopping at what he did to go shopping of course he said go shopping because that's what stimulates the economy by shaab creators of the people spending money there would stimulate the economy george bush knew that he asked people to go shopping so when we look at the math on this every time there's a one dollar wage increase and i used to live in oregon where the minimum wage is and about two bucks higher than the federal minimum wage as it is many states and there was a big debate when i was there about apply. and this to restaurant workers the waiters

. >> steve: superintendent of the harrold district schools in, texas. for joining us. >> thanks for having >> steve: what do you think about that e-mail with fox and friends.com. it only cost a hundred bucks and so why is medicare charging a thousand for a back brace? that story will get you revved up straight ahead. he is a free agent sort of tim tebow is back on the market maybe. ♪ ♪ you just he to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. can i still ship a gift in time r christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. and with my bankamericard cash rewards credit card, i love 'em even more. i earn 1% cash back everywhere, evertime. 2% on groceries. 3% on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. that's 1% back on... [ toy robot sounds ] 2% on