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Republicans say they're pro-life, but in reality, they're pro-death. Earlier this month, while no one was watching, Republicans in the House voted to extend a bunch of corporate tax breaks and subsidies, adding up to nearly $75 billion in tax breaks over the next decade. And, while they scream that the cost of food stamps or unemployment benefits must be "offset" by spending cuts elsewhere, they didn't ask for any offsets or increased taxes at all to pay for the billions to big corporations.
 
Of course, Republicans doling out tens of millions of dollars in corporate tax breaks and subsidies at the expense of American taxpayers isn't surprising. And it's also not surprising that Republicans across the country are following in the footsteps of their Washington colleagues.
 
Take Republicans down in Louisiana for example. Gov. Bobby Jindal and his Republican colleagues down in The Bayou State cut a nice $70,000 check, and send it the Robertson family, stars of the hit reality show "Duck Dynasty, for every episode that airs. That's because Louisiana offers some pretty hefty tax breaks for television shows and movies that use that state as a backdrop. To date, as AddictingInfo.org points out, "Duck Dynasty has suckled on the government teat for a whopping total of $4.5 million over 64 episodes."
 
Ironically, members of the Robertson family have railed against government welfare for poor people repeatedly, but apparently they're just fine taking $4.5 million from big government. And to make matters worse, the Robertson's were already millionaires long before "Duck Dynasty" hit the airwaves. They certainly don't need any more money from the Louisiana government.
 
Meanwhile, as the already super-rich Robertson family is getting richer, the rest of Louisianans are suffering. That's because Gov. Bobby Jindal has refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare in his state, putting politics ahead of people's lives. Right now, hundreds of thousands of Louisianans fall into the "Red-State Donut Hole," and are without access to affordable and potentially life-saving healthcare.
 
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Hour One: Iraq War cheerleaders
Quote: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill.
Book: "War is a Racket" by Smedley D. Butler.
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Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.
Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."

Hour Two: Detroit...welcome to 3rd world America
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PLUS, Apartheid in Detroit?
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Quote: "we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society" - Martin Luther King, Jr.".
 
Book: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.""
 
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Article: "Constitutional amendment to regulate money in politics" (California) by John Diaz.
Article: "Iraq must form new government, Kerry warns in Baghdad" by Borzou Daragahi, Richard McGregor and Erika Solomon.
Article: "Veterans neglected for years in VA facility, report says" by Nelli Black, Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin.
Article: "Obama's day: Summit on Working Families" by David Jackson.

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Clip: "Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world's oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.
Article: "2000 Cochabamba protests" (Water War in Bolivia) by Wikipedia.
Article: "King, Martinez battle over minimum wage increase" (NM) by Steve Terrell.
Tweet: "Apology to Keith Olbermann" by Thom Hartmann.
 
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