Lois Beckett, ProPublica joins Thom Hartmann. And Ohio has 16 new congressional districts thanks to the post-census redistricting process. But is it merely a conincidence that 12 of the new 16 districts favor Republican candidates?...

No, the world is NOT coming to an end, but I do agree with Newt Gingrich AGAIN. No, really, Newt's right. We need a president to take on the Judiciary that has grown far too powerful. Here we have on the Supreme Court - nine unelected officials - who serve for life - and have the sole power to strike down or create new laws in America. They took that power way back in 1803 - in the case of Marbury versus Madision - when Chief Justice John Marshall claimed the right of Judicial Review - which allows the high court to strike down laws passed by Congress and signed by the President. In other words - give the Supreme Court supremacy over the other two co-equal branches of government: the legislative and the executive. Thomas Jefferson even agrees with Newt. Horrified by the Judiciary's power grab - Jefferson wrote in an 1820 letter to Mr. Jarvis, who thought Supreme Court justices should have the power to strike down laws, "You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy....The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal... I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves."

The Good! Congressman Barney Frank. If you like seeing Conservative commentators get their lunch handed to them - as they do so often on MY show - then you would have loved to have seen what Barney Frank did to George Will yesterday on ABC's "This Week." The Bad! Bill O'Reilly. GOP TV's favorite talking head weighed in on the Ron Paul presidential candidacy this morning on an interview with NBC. And the very, very ugly...Rush Limbaugh. So guess who Limp-balls is picking on now? Try children living in poverty

Between the insecurity of our voting machines - and the right-wing push for strict voter ID laws - the right to vote and have that vote be counted - which is the beating heart of our democracy - is in trouble. That's why today it's more important than ever to listen to what Thomas Paine said about voting rights more than 200 years ago... Paine explained why the right to vote is so important, "To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case. The proposal therefore to disfranchise any class of men is as criminal as the proposal to take away [their] property." Paine said the only time we should ever deny someone the right to vote, "The only ground upon which exclusion from the right of voting is consistent with justice would be to inflict it as a punishment for a certain time upon those who should propose to take away that right from others." In other words, Paine said we should stop Republicans, the Koch Brothers, and Scott Walker from voting!