The Justice Department is overhauling the way they deal with non-violent offenders. Today, Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled a plan to change how the federal government prosecutes drug offenders. The goals of his plan are to ease prison overcrowding, save taxpayer money, and limit the use of unjust mandatory minimum sentences.

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Anything Goes Friday

Hour One: Are we seeing the beginning of the end of freedom of the press? Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Indepenent Media

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Hour One: On the frontlines at ALEC summit - Brendan Fischer, Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) & ALEC Exposed

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Hour One: Chemicals, smoking hurt 3 generations away... / Plus, how Liberals will infiltrate the ALEC meeting - Nick Surgey, Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)

Yesterday in Phoenix, President Obama laid out his plan to help more Americans become homeowners.

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Hour One: The case for socialism - Len Gilroy, Reason Foundation

Hour Two: Can eminent domain save homeowners? Tanya Marchiol, Team Investments

Many hard-right conservative voters are threatening to sit out the 2014 midterm elections, because they say some Republican lawmakers aren't doing enough to obstruct healthcare and immigration.

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Hour One: Who do you want to shoot first? Noel Flasterstein, Gun Rights For You

New documents obtained by Reuters show that the Drug Enforcement Administration is helping the NSA cover up government surveillance. The Special Operations Division of the DEA, otherwise known as SOD, funnels secretly-obtained information to authorities around our nation to initiate criminal investigations of American citizens.

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Anything Goes on Townhall Friday

Hour One: Student loan debt causes loss of wealth - Neil McCluskey, Cato Institute

Hour Two: Why we need a modern day Glass Steagall...

Republicans may finally push Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to fix the filibuster. After last month's so-called gentleman's agreement between Senator Reid and Mitch McConnell, a few of President Obama's nominees finally cleared the Senate. But, Republicans couldn't keep themselves from going right back to their old tricks.

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

Hour Two: Conservative policies are driving Americans to suicide / Plus, Geeky Science - beware the brain eating parasites...

After more than a month of being stuck in a Moscow airport, NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a one-year asylum in Russia. Snowden managed to slip out of the Russian airport unseen, and then fled to a secret location. When asked where Snowden would be going, a Russian lawyer representing the whistleblower told reporters, “He is the most wanted man on planet Earth. What do you think he is going to do?

Only hours after President Obama proposed a new “grand bargain” for job creation, Republican leaders quickly condemned the idea. On Tuesday, the President spoke at an Amazon.com warehouse in Tennessee, where he unveiled a new plan that paired corporate tax cuts with infrastructure spending, in an effort to gain bipartisan support.