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TSA Expansion Program

Season 9 • 08/13/2013

The TSA can finally secure America's vulnerable rodeos.

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02:55

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Innocent Tourist Mistake

An American tourist snaps the finger off a 600-year-old Italian statue while trying to compare hand size.
08/12/2013
02:06

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Better Know a District - New Jersey's 12th

New Jersey's 12th congressional district is home to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, meaning that Clarence Thomas insists he's from there, too.
08/12/2013
03:08

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Badonkadonk Journalism

The Today Show gives Flo Rida a forum for discussing his love of big, juicy butts.
08/12/2013
05:22

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Sheldon Whitehouse

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse shares his book, "On Virtues: Quotations and Insights to Live a Full, Honorable, and Truly American Life."
08/12/2013
00:06

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Sign Off - Goodnight

Stephen gets down to business.
08/12/2013
00:07

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Sign Off - "The Better Angels of Our Nature"

Stephen reads Steven Pinker's book on how violence has declined.
08/13/2013
05:13

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John Lewis Pt. 1

Civil rights pioneer John Lewis remembers the March on Washington and the 1965 Selma march.
08/13/2013
04:26

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John Lewis Pt. 2

Thanks to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressman John Lewis has been getting in trouble for more than 53 years.
08/13/2013
04:45

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TSA Expansion Program - Steven Pinker

Neuroscientist Steven Pinker shares his book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined."
08/13/2013
02:59

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Stop-and-Frisk & Mandatory Minimums

An unelected activist judge rejects New York City's stop-and-frisk program on the bizarre theory that minorities have a constitutional right not to be manhandled.
08/13/2013
03:06

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TSA Expansion Program

Despite rises in agent misconduct, the TSA invades stadiums and passenger trains.
08/13/2013
07:44

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People Who Are Destroying America - Johnny Cummings

Openly gay Mayor Johnny Cummings helps Vicco, KY, become the smallest U.S. town to pass an LGBT fairness ordinance.
08/14/2013
03:18

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Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

The International Olympic Committee responds to Russia's anti-gay propaganda law by asking gay athletes to knock it off for a couple of weeks.
08/14/2013
05:41

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Kevin Spacey

"House of Cards" actor Kevin Spacey explains why he should get an award for TV even though his show is on the Internet.
08/14/2013
02:48

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Big Mother Government

The White House hires "nudge" experts to influence Americans' behavior and to get Joe Biden to stop drinking from the toilet.
08/14/2013
00:36

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Intro - 8/14/13

Small town values come under attack, the government tries to get inside people's heads, and Kevin Spacey discusses his political drama series, "House of Cards."
08/14/2013
04:06

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The Word - Gag Gift

Range Resources pays a Pennsylvania family $750,000 to relocate and keep quiet about health problems they experienced near a fracking site.
08/15/2013
04:56

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NSA Press Conference on Domestic Spying

Edward Snowden ruined President Obama's plan to throw a surprise transparency party.
08/15/2013
03:27

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Obama Rodeo Clown

There is no higher honor than having a cowboy clown wear a grotesque mask of your face while the announcer asks, "Who wants to see this guy trampled?"
08/15/2013
05:40

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Richard Brodhead

Duke University President Richard Brodhead talks about his report on the humanities, "The Heart of the Matter."
08/15/2013
00:33

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Sign Off - Second Installment of cOlbert's Book Club

Stephen assigns anything other than "The Catcher in the Rye."
08/15/2013
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