Bonus Episode, March 14, 2013

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Talk about the California law that forces bars to close at 2am.  Some lawmakers are pushing for the last call to be around 4am.  Cenk talks about how he was used to the debate in Miami to be whether or not the closing time should be 10am or ever.

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The Young Turks, March 14, 2013

The Young Turks: March 14, 2013

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Videos of the clown Conservatives from CPAC.  Marco Rubio claimed they don’t need new ideas, the idea is America.  Rand Paul offered ways the Party can have further reach.  Pat Toomey claimed that the American people agree with them.  Video of Louie Gohmert claiming that we would’ve won Vietnam, but Washington wouldn’t let it happen.  Tom Cotton claimed that we’re not fighting too many wars and that we can afford the wars we’re fighting.  Grover Norquist compared Repubs that vote for tax increases are like rat head in a bottle of Coke, it damages the brand.  Al Cardenas told the crowd that they need to go harder on the Conservative line.  Rand Paul did point out that bailing out banks is not a Conservative thing to do.  The Chairman of the Nat’l Org for Marriage used Chief Roberts’ adoption situation to claim that adoption is a serviceable 2nd best option.  Videos of TYT’s Lauren Windsor interviewing Daniel Ellsberg about President Obama’s similarities to John Yoo and reasons he could be, but won’t be impeached. New poll out on religion shows that the group of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 8% to 20% since 1990.  This number equals the number of evangelicals, so Cenk thinks they should unite and gain more political power.  Hugo Chavez’ successor has a theory that Chavez is already talking to Jesus about the new Pope, and it shows that its finally South America’s time.  Rep Kris Crawford in SC said that even though portions of the ACA help Americans, its good politics to vote against the Black guy in the White House. It will cost U.S. employers $1 billion if their states opt out of the Medicare expansion portion of ObamaCare, so these Republican governors that railed against it are rethinking their position of not picking it up.  In the Judiciary Cmte of the Senate, Sen Cruz got under Sen Feinstein’s skin with a smug question about the Constitution.  A lobbyist for gun groups said that they shouldn’t worry about gun control laws, since they will be able to weaken them once the “CT Effect” has passed.  Video of the NRA President disagreeing that the lobbyist should apologize for his comments.

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46 protesters in Brooklyn over the Kimani Gray case were arrested when things got out of control.  Billboards being posted by a pro-choice group illustrate a child asking a teen mom if they think their boyfriend will stay with them, pushing them to go ahead with an abortion.  Planned Parenthood is one group against this campaign.  A company wanted to mine for ore in a small town in Texas, but the EPA told them they couldn’t do it since it would pollute one of the few water sources there for the people.  After John Podesta’s sister lobbied the EPA to allow this, they flipped and allowed it.  Mississippi has banned legislators from bringing forward any bill that would force restaurants to post calorie numbers or force them to limit portion sizes.  They’re calling it the “anti-Bloomberg” bill based on his soda ban. A town in TN had issues with racism in their law enforcement, so they cleaned house and decided to use a polygraph test to determine if their officers are racist.  TYT Supreme Court.   A certain breed of monkeys have proven to shun the mean ones. Top porn searches state-by-state.  In southern states, "ebony" is the top search term.  In Holland, a court ruled that forcible tongue kissing is not considered rape anymore.

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