Steal 50 bucks in candy bars from a 7-11 - go to jail. But if you steal 50 MILLION bucks from public pensions on Wall Street - here's a bailout. It appears as though our rule of law breaks down once you pass the 6th zero in someone's bank account. But it's not just this tale of two justice systems that's weighing down the rule of law in America. It's our foreign policy strategy too. Our current war in Libya is raging for more than 2 months now without legal authority. So while the crimes mount - and our politicians and CEOs don their immunity badges - the rest of America is going head to head against monster security machines like the PATRIOT Act and the Nixon War on Drugs. So the question...When the rule of law has broken down within a nation built on laws...what is left?

There's another Republican hostage scenario unfolding. The victims this time are those who suffered through the Joplin, Missouri tornado tragedy last week and are in desperate need of government help. Republicans have agreed to send some aid money there way - but only if Democrats agree to go along with cuts elsewhere. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor explained their demands on CBS' "Face the Nation" over the weekend. Residents of Joplin are resorting to using elephants to help clean up. In a heated exchange, TJ McCormack, Conservative Commentator/Fox News Contributor turns the focus on race and claims that the Obama administration won't help Joplin residents because of the "lack of people of color."

With Guy Benson - Political Editor of Townhall.com and radio host of The Guy Benson Show, Erikka Knuti - Democratic Strategist and - Brian Darling - Director of Government Studies at Heritage - as well as columnist at Human Events. Questions this week: --So now that Paul Ryan's "roadmap to throwing Grandma off a cliff" is costing Republicans seats in Congress - isn't it time for the Party to dump Paul Ryan and the rest of the Tea Party? --Republicans in the Senate used a procedural move to keep the Senate in session through the Memorial Day recess just to make sure the President can't make a recess appoint of Elizabeth Warren - Clearly - she's qualified for the job - so why are Republicans SO afraid of her? --The New Jersey Supreme Court smacked down Governor Chris Christie - calling his massive cuts to education unconstitutional - shouldn't education remain a part of the commons - instead of just another industry that profiteers can carve up - water down - and sell back to us for a high-profit? --The Commodity Futures Trading Commission slapped charges against two oil speculators for their role in the 2008 oil price surge - So doesn't this case of a few rich guys manipulating the price of the world's most important resource show that laissez faire economics doesn't work - and that the Tea Party and the Republicans just don't know what they're talking about? --This week - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times reporter James Risen was subpoenaed by the ...

In Conversations with Great Minds Thom Hartmann is speaking with award-winning American novelist Walter Mosley whose written 34 critically-acclaimed books. His most recent is titled: "Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation"