David E. Haynes, The Cochran Firm DC, joins Thom Hartmann. A former Maryland gynecologist who allegedly took pictures and video of his patients without their knowledge was found dead in his Baltimore area home on Monday - from an apparent suicide. Allegations surrounding Dr. Nikita Levy's actions first came to the surface earlier this month, and he was subsequently let go from the staff at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Since the news surrounding Levy broke - more than 60 of his former patients have come forward - including Tyesha Bell who saw Levy for six years.

Neil McCabe, Human Events Online & Adam Bitely, Net Right Daily join Thom Hartmann.

Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8. In other words - Republicans want to say, "You still have to cut things, Mr. President, but instead of cutting them the way we voted for, we're going to give you the Sophie's Choice of what to cut. And, that way, you'll own the cuts, instead of us owning them."

If this new election-rigging scheme had been in place last year, then President Obama would have only gotten 47 Electoral College votes from the battleground states, while Mitt Romney would have won those states with 59 votes, even though he got hammered in the popular vote in each of those states. And if all the states in the nation had gone along with this election-rigging scheme, then billionaire Mitt Romney would be our president today, even though he lost the national vote by millions. Billionaires and Republicans know they're a minority in America. Their hard-right bigotry toward gays and women turns off young voters. Their xenophobia and mistrust of non-whites have turned off the growing minority electorate. And their economic principles, including Reaganomics and devastating austerity, are slowing destroying our country. We must do something to head off this billionaire takeover of our presidential elections. And the best way to do this is with more democracy. There's a way to eliminate the power of the Electoral College that doesn't require amending the Constitution. It's pretty straightforward: replace the Electoral College with a system of more democracy - a national popular vote that elects our President based on which candidate got the most votes nationwide, plain and simple, and more importantly, Republican rig-proof. Nine states have already passed National Popular Vote laws, meaning that their electors will vote for whichever candidate wins the national ...