Senator Rand Paul spoke out last week against the constitutional abuses of the PATRIOT Act on the floor of the United States Senate. He's against the government spying on American citizens - but if Muslims are attending speeches that Rand doesn't like - then he thinks they should be deported or thrown in jail. And, just for listening to one speech or being in the wrong place at the wrong time and listening to the wrong person speak - bam - you're in the slammer! Pursuing that sort of policy is like putting the PATRIOT Act on steroids. Right after the end of World War II, Chicago-based journalist Milton Mayer was struggling with the question of why good, average Germans like the local baker, butcher, and clothes-maker sat quietly as their nation was completely transformed into one that became totally and utterly lawless. How could this happen? To find out, he spent a year in Germany, getting to know very, very well ten "average Germans" - from a baker to a University professor - and he found the answer to his question in their stories. Mayer wrote in his book, They Thought They Were Free, "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of ...

The war on labor continues. House Republicans are opening up a new front against federal labor unions - going after something called "official time." "Official time" is a phrase used to describe the time federal workers who are also union representatives do union work like bargaining and meeting with employees, while still getting a paycheck for their federal job. So is "official time" REALLY a problem for taxpayers - or are Republicans just looking for another way to take a whack at unionized government workers ahead of the 2012 election? w/ Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute.

Thom explains how wealth inequality is not only a problem in America, but a global issue. Later in the show, he discusses the Republicans' reluctancy to raise the debt limit in the "Lone Liberal" rumble.

The Lone Liberal Rumble with Heather Cirmo, 440 Group Public Relations & Jamie Weinstein, DailyCaller.com. --Should the Republicans have played a fun-little game of political theatre yesterday with our nation's debt ceiling that could collapse the entire global economy? --A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows that 7 Republican Governors - including Wisconsin's Scott Walker and Ohio's John Kasich - would lose big if last year's election were held again today. How many Republicans will be recalled in 2012? --Arizona wants to charge people on Medicaid an extra 50 bucks a year if they are obese or smoke. When obese poor people are told their Medicaid costs are greater than their income and they even fall off that program - and die for lack of health-care - should Jan Brewer be charged with Manslaughter or Negligent Homicide?