Jon Stewart is going to direct a documentary on the imprisonment and torture of a journalist in Iran. (source)

WTF? In the context of sabre rattling against Iran you want to do a movie like this? WTF Stewart.

Rachel,

I'm forced to watch your show so I can keep my political
views centered. Normally, I find your show is littered with hypocrisy and
double standards. However, tonight your discussion on the history of the filibuster
was AMAZING! Keep up the good work, even your refusal to question or challenge
the POTUS.

Good show, Rachel - thanks!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give more coverage to the issue of income inequality! 90% of Americans STILL believe the LIE that the #1 most important thing to do in this country is cut spending! I know you have had some really great charts showing income inequality (please post them!)

All those cuts have a terrible affect on low-income folks; the top 1%/20% can just BUY the services the rest of us need government to supply.

It would make this country sooo great if we could get the min wage increased; fund education; rehire public-sector employees; and get a JOBS BILL passed!

None of this can happen w/o educating the public about how our economy really works! recently more than 200 economists agreed (they almost never agree on anything!) that we have done enough cutting, for now! Pres Obama has got to stop talking about a so-called "balanced approach" . . . we need to stop cutting America to shreds, into austerity, and we need to BUILD!

PLEASE HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND: We need to reinvest in America's future!

THANKS!

:-)

I have earned a Masters in Dual Language Development. Part of our studies covered language policy, and there is a part of the immigration policy reporting that your show seems to be overlooking.

Jeb Bush was governor of Florida. Florida's immigration policy had to do with the Cuban refugees primarily. The United States LOVES being pro immigration when the immigrants are coming from a Communist country. "Looky here, here's a bunch of people facing death by drowing because they so want to leave the brutal regime of Castro! Come on over!" The Cubanos are under the umbrella term of "Hispanic" and "Latino".

Also under that umbrella term are immigrants from Mexico. Here, we have an entirely different dialogue. The fact that the Western United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) were inhabited by "Mexican" peoples notwithstanding, they are seen as "other". Generations of peoples from Mexico have been connected, both historically and geographically to the country of Mexico, and the mere fact that they are "undocumented" makes them the center of the problem.

You see, this type of "Latino" or "Hispanic" lacks the carte blanche acceptance of their similarly named immigrants across the Gulf. They are villified, and demonized. In California, Proposition 227 was passed because "they need to learn English!" "They live in America, they ought to know English". Then we take away the best method of teaching them English, which was Dual Language Development. But I digress.

So, what I am saying is that it makes total sense to me that Jeb Bush as former Governor of Florida would be totally pro-immigration, but the potential Jeb Bush as Presidential Candidate would totally have to rescind and revise his immigration policy.

Sad, but true. We do lack a level of education about the facts of our country's origins unless it is written in the Western European Anglo Saxon Chistian mypic perspective.