Last Question...Quickfire! Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Phil Mitsch should have kept this one particular piece of advice to himself - how women can keep their men from cheating on them. On Wednesday Mitsch sent out a doozy of a tweet saying, "Women, you increase your odds of keeping your men by being faithful, a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom." Mitsch has since apologized for offending anyone - particularly women - for his tweet. But that got Thom thinking what other advice should Republicans be giving to fellow Republican wives...

It doesn't matter that 75% of Americans support a particular piece of legislation - because that 75% doesn't have powerful, high-priced lobbyists working for them. But the 1% - people who don't feel like paying a few hundred extra bucks in taxes every year to put teachers back to work - they have lobbyists - and all it takes now-a-days are a few strategic campaign contributions and you can own your very own lawmaker - in particular Republicans, but some Democrats too - and make them vote any way you want them to vote. And it's not just about jobs or taxing millionaires and billionaires - unequal influence is pervasive everywhere.

Founder and producer of the Latino activist site, Cuentame.org (a Brave New Foundation Campaign), Axel Caballero joins me for our first half hour for Conversations with Great Minds. We'll discuss his mission on bringing awareness to Latino issues, to the unholy alliance between the prison industrial complex, the Republican Party, OWS, ALEC, and Herman Cain's immigrant "electric fence" so-called joke!

And forget a lump of coal... cover the ears of your children...Santa's dead! That is...the two Santa Claus theories I mean. Republican strategist Jude Wanniski died back in 2005. But his famous Two Santa Claus theory died just this month - 6 years later. And it died thanks to Occupy Wall Street