Last night, Republicans in the U.S. Senate stayed up all night to delay a vote on a federal appeals court judge. The vote to approve Judge Nina Pillard happened at 1am, and several other nominations will be considered before the upper chamber leaves for vacation next week.

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Hour One: Is technology dumbing us down?

Hour Two: Are the police out of control? Marc Harrold, Attorney / former police officer

Hour Three: Just say no to defense... Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America

House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal that could prevent the next government shutdown, but don't start celebrating just yet. Tuesday night, Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Paul Ryan announced an $85 billion dollar budget agreement.

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Hour One: Welcome to third world America...

Hour Two: Is universal healthcare a planetary right? Steve Malzberg, The Steve Malzberg Show

Regulators want to start making banking boring again. Today, five different regulatory agencies are expected to adopt the Volcker Rule, which would redraw a line between regular banking and Wall Street gambling. The rule is one of the centerpieces of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, and it is seen as a litmus test for the overall strength of the financial reform law.

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Hour One: What American conservatives should learn from Maggie Thatcher - Dr. Nile Gardiner, Margaret Thatcher on Leadership: Lessons for American Conservatives Today

Hour Two: Why conservatives think gay is a choice...

Congress hasn't done much this year, but House and Senate negotiators are close to a deal on “fast-tracking” the Trans Pacific Partnership. The TPP is a massive trade agreement among the US and a dozen Pacific nations that poses a major threat to our jobs, our economy, and our national sovereignty.

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Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls

Hour Two: Remember Nelson Mandela - Professor Patrick Bond, Centre for Civil Society

Hour Three: Celebrating the life and work of Nelson Mandela - Bill Fletcher, Black Commentator

Yesterday, the world lost a great man. Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95. In addition to being South Africa's first black president, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and human rights icon throughout much of his life. He even spent 27 years locked up as a political prisoner for trying to fight the apartheid in South Africa.

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Hour One: Are we seeing a return to Nixon conservatism? Daniel Rothschild, R Street Institute

Hour Two: Banksters adopt Walmart method of doing business - Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio / Plus, Geeky Science - dinner shocker...what's in your meat?

Yesterday, President Obama spoke to a crowd at The ARC arts schoolhouse about the real deficit in our nation – which has nothing to do with our national budget.

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Hour One: Banksters...too big to fine? C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost…Again / Plus, Detroit... bankruptcy on, pensions gone - Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium

Hour Two: What the media isn't telling you about Detroit's bankruptcy

The American Legislative Exchange Council has one heck of an agenda for 2014, and it all centers around one idea – profit over people. ALEC will meet this week in Washington, DC, for its “States and Nation Policy Summit.” The event is a closed-door conference headlined by Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, and Ron Johnson, where ALEC will push their “model legislation” for 2014.

The banksters could be forced to pay tens of billions of dollars more in settlements for crashing our economy. But, these fees are just a small fraction of the price that American taxpayers paid for the economic collapse.

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Hour One: Should we end presidential term limits? Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University / Plus, the case FOR term limits - Peter Schiff, The Peter Schiff Radio Show

Hour Two: Dear Conservative Alternet Trolls: America is NOT a Capitalist Country