For decades, unions have been fighting to preserve workers' rights, but that fight just got a lot more difficult. Yesterday, two separate events illustrated just how extreme the war on labor has become. First, Republican judges on Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck down President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

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Hour One: Should corporations be able to own human genes? Dr. Elaine Schattner, Physician & Writer / Also, should we be more excited about cloning? Dr. Arthur Caplan

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have made their point – they hate Obamacare. And, just in case anyone didn't get the message the first 36 times they made that point, they're about to waste even more taxpayer time and money on one more attempt to repeal the healthcare law.

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Hour One: Memo to Bush Administration leftovers on Fox: Shut Up!

Hour Two: Where will the class be held on "stoning people to death" for worshiping the wrong god? Pastor Josh Moore, First Baptist Church of Muldrow, OK / Plus, no more trade deal sellouts! Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL, 9th District)

Yesterday, in response to recent IRS admissions, President Obama called the enhanced investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status “intolerable and inexcusable.” And, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a criminal investigation into the allegations against the IRS. But both of them are missing the point.

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Hour One: How the GOP is forcibly making working families..."flexible" - Leo Gerard, International President-United Steelworkers

Hour Two: GOP scandals & conspiracy theories...oh my! / Plus, We've been warned about the 'smooth invasion' before...

The Associated Press has accused the Justice Department of “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” That's according to one of the AP's top executives, after learning that the government secretly acquired two months of the news agency's telephone records.

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Hour One: CO2 levels at 400 PPM is a killer - Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Hour Two: Game on for the new civil war - Skip Coryell

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Hour One: CO2 level at 400 PPM is a killer - Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Hour Two: Game on for the new civil war - Skip Coryell

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, Monsanto has the right to control our food supply. In a unanimous ruling released this morning, the nine Justices sided with the agricultural giant, and held that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto's patent by planting seeds produced from genetically modified soybeans.

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first of many hearings on comprehensive immigration reform. In the seven and a half hour hearing, senators debated 32 of the three hundred proposed amendments to the bill, and adopted 21 of the changes. The proposals ranged from plans to correct technical immigration issues, to Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment to triple the number of border control agents, to Sen.

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Hour One: Free market anarchist wants everyone to have a wiki gun - Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed

Yesterday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives postponed all floor votes so they could hold their ninth hearing about Benghazi. Instead of working on any number of pressing issues effecting Americans, Republicans spent nine hours on a political witch hunt.

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Hour One: Would Community Policing have prevented kidnapping? / Plus, Why There Won’t Be Anything New In Today’s Benghazi Hearing - Hayes Brown, Think Progress