In Your Take/My Take - Thom Hartmann answers back to Roseanne Barr who said "Last night i watched my formerly fave pundit Thom Hartmann on fstv mention my green party candidacy with all the smug sexism of a rt winger."

The Democratic Governor of Minnesota - Mark Dayton - vetoed a voter ID law last year - but the millionaires and billionaires are trying to get it passed as a ballot measure now in November. If successful - Minnesota will join eight other states who've passed or strengthened voter ID laws in just the last year - from Kansas - to Mississippi - to Rhode Island - to Wisconsin - to Alabama - to South Carolina - to Tennessee - to Texas. According to the Brennan Center for Justice - more than 5 million eligible voters will be disenfranchised this election thanks to these new laws. And those are mostly minorities, the poor, the elderly, and college students - mostly people who'd vote for Democrats and support stronger middle class policies. 5 million people - wiped off the voter rolls. This is an all-out assault on our democracy - and it's all happening under the radar of the mainstream media.

Gerry Swanke, AFGE joins Thom Hartmann. The Conservatives' war on labor continues..Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are close to cutting $15 billion dollars from federal employee's retirement funds to pay for unemployment benefits. Republicans also want to cut $45 billion from federal employment retirement funds to pay for new road construction. And let's not forget that federal employee wages have been frozen for two wars - costing the employees over $60 billion dollars in lost wages. So why are federal employees being hit to pay for the mess made by corporate greed and bad governance?