Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, and Jimmy Dore hosting on a power panel from rebel headquarters. Rodney Conover is running as a Republican for congress in California’s 8th district and his campaign ad is pretty hillarious and unconventional. Ben just saw the new war movie Lone Survivor and has some mixed feelings about it. The NSA is currently developing a quantum computer designed to break encryption codes. With the recent revelations by Edward Snowden and others, will the capabilities of this new hypothetical quantum computer be used to violate civil rights as well? AP conducted a poll of American’s expectations on quality of life issues for the year 2050 and it turns out our outlook is very gloomy.

Ana gives member shoutouts and reads #tytlive tweets. Former Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist, now seeking another term as a Democrat, has reversed his stance on gay marriage. Crist backed a ban on gay marriage in his state when he was governor. Given the complexities of politics and the political climate on the federal and state level, where is the line between hypocracy and a politician’s genuine personal evolution on an issue? Democrats in South Carolina are backing a bill making prayer in public school mandatory! That’s not a typo. These are Democrats. In order to try to avoid constitutionality issues, the legislation proposes a compromise allowing students to pray to “whomever they want to”. Even with the compromise, the bill is still unconstitutional in all liklihood.

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