You need to know this. House Republicans won't give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare – and now Representative Paul Ryan wants even more people approaching retirement, to be forced into his voucher scam. In a change from Ryan's prior budgets, which set the Medicare cutoff to age 55, the GOP's newest budget proposal will only allow those 56 and older, to stay in the current Medicare system.

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Hour One: Will big banks cause the end of capitalism? Austin Petersen, Freedomworks

Hour Two: Will your town force you to own a gun? Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio / Plus, Geeky Science - How salty food can make you sicker than you thought

Hour Three: BREAKING-Climate Catastrophe...closer than we think

After almost 13 hours of a real-live talking filibuster, at 1am Senator Rand Paul yielded the floor to Senator Dick Durbin. Senator Paul started speaking before noon on Wednesday, blocking the confirmation of John Brennan to CIA Director. The filibuster was a response to Attorney General Eric Holder's statement, that the President is authorized under the Constitution to use drones against Americans within our borders.

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Hour One: Right wing crazies aren't crazy anymore...

Hour Two: Iraq 10 years after the invasion...mission accomplished? Douglas Feith, Hudson Institute

Hour Three: In for Thom this hour - Dr. Mike Newcomb, The Mike Newcomb Show" (1480AM KPHX, Phoenix, AZ) will be taking your calls!

In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act to regulate the banksters on Wall Street, who crashed our economy in 2008, and many people believe the law doesn't go far enough. But Republican lawmakers have spent the past two years working to undercut and water-down the legislation, and Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama thinks the banksters shouldn't be burdened with those pesky regulations at all.

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Hour One: Conservatives DO love Big Government - Steve Deace, The Steve Deace Show

Hour Two: Why has the dollar depreciated so much since the 70's? Dr. L. Randall Wray, Modern Money Theory

Only 4 days after the March 1st Sequester deadline, people around our nation are already starting to feel the pinch of austerity. Customs and Border Protection reduced overtime for TSA agents over the weekend, and delays at some airports were up 200%.

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Hour One: Swiss KO fatcats...OK pay cuts, will we? / Plus, the sequester squeeze is on - Elliot Richardson, Small Business Advocacy Council of Illinois

Hour Two: Dead fish, banksters and the Sherman Act...oh my!

Hour Three: Time to ban "big sugar"...? Julie Gunlock, Independent Women's Forum

President Obama is negotiating with economic terrorists. And a new Reuters report shows he's giving in to their demands by offering cuts to our social safety net. In calls with lawmakers over the weekend, Obama said he will cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in exchange for a so-called compromise to replace the sequester, as long as Republicans agree to more tax increases.

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Anything Goes on Townhall Friday

Hour One: Free Don Siegelman - Dana Siegelman

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

After two failed attempts to prevent the sequester on Thursday, Congress gave up efforts to stop the austerity measures, and head out of town for the weekend. Yesterday, one day before the deadline, two rival bills to prevent the $85 billion in spending cuts failed to get Senate approval.

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Hour One: Isn't the sequester proof that government creates jobs? Lance Roberts, Street Talk Advisers

Hour Two: Should Scalia take off his black robe & put on his white hood? Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - did monkeys invent margaritas?

Yesterday, one shocking statement spurred audible gasps in the Supreme Court.

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Hour One: Has the Supreme Court become the new monarchy? Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service

Hour Two: Big Brother is watching... David Bier, Competitive Enterprise Institute and Chris Calabrese, ACLU

Hour Three: Warren vs. Bernanke: too big to fail...?

Today in our nation's capital, President Obama helped unveil a new statue dedicated to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the fight to ensure African Americans in our nation were no longer denied the right to vote.