The Media has about a 1MB memory for before Obama...who remembers the Hummer SUV? Answer: Not Rush, Hannity, not FoxNews or the other neo-natzi's. Well lets recall that when the price of GASOLINE went up under Bush...no one would buy these monsters as well as the other auto elephants....dealers could not give these cars away and THE HUMMER WENT OUT OF PRODUCTION!!!! MY GOD DOES EVERYONE ON MSNBC HAVE memory loss problems?

Matt doesn't understand that the main reason that the Ryan budget's deficit increases over time (other than the tax cuts for the certain peoples that make a certain amount of money - darwinism) is that Ryan believes that the military needs more weapons than the Pentagon is asking for...why? Maybe Ryan believes that might makes right and that in a world of social darwinism, it would be necessary to have a large military weapons cache -- that truly only benefits the property owners/corporations.

Of course, Matt already knows this and is a spinnster of distraction....well, how about you visit the Republican National Convention in Tampa this summer and count the number of dead white folk from Al Qaeda stand your ground attacks...where better to attack America, then at the convention using Florida's own laws to commit terrorism....but that is not in budget..Ryan spends astro bucks on weapons (like the C 35) that will never be used or may never actually work (like the C 35)....that is social darwinism...wasting one element of society's treasure because of the zero-sum gain lifestyle....based soley on a uninformed opinion of 'me over him' non-Christian beliefs.

So the next time you want to spin about how social darwinism and deficits don't co-exist. or are mutually exclusive...think about the F 18 that just crashed into your neighbours' apartment building and realize that that is one of the cheaper versions of death available at the hands of America.

----Point of Order - the use of mentally deranged expert killing machines that are willing to kill without order, so as to facilitate Peace within their base range, are actually cheaper and more effective to use than spending trillions on weapons that will never be produced - like the C 35....

spread the word and kill the most expensive defence program in American history...carbon shielding heats from the sun, cools from velocity, then cracks...moisture gets in the cracks and into the interior electrical system and your Billion dollar plane is toast....how many seniors had to foot the bill with the hip replacement? how many children have to go hungry because the funds fueled a plane that will never last .... spread the word --- kill the C 35...

It is your money too!

Melissa,

i appreciate your coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. please keep up the coverage as long as you feel you need to.

don't turn around!

Melissa and others at MSNBC, like Lawrence O'Donnell and Al Sharpton, have taken up the cause of the Trayvon Martin case. Congrats to focusing so narrowly on one case while young black men are dying everyday - many from black on black violence. I agree George Zimmerman should have already been arrested. I hope he eventually is, and that he is tried and convicted of his crime. But maybe in addition to all of your Trayvon drum beating, you should cover some of the other travesties like in Philadelphia about 9000 murders since 1988 and 75% of them have been young black men. Philadelphia is averaging almost one murder per day right now. Yet MSNBC is focusing on one case because it has edge, an appeal. They keep using the photos of a young, pre-17, Trayvon to remind you of his age and innocence. We get it. And they keep using the unflattering photo of Zimmerman frowning and looking like he is wearing a prison orange jumpsuit. We get it, you've already convicted him in the media court. But what I am getting from all of the coverage and comments is that we are supposed to be super angry that a latino man (originally reported and sometimes still reported as white) killed an innocent black youth. But apparently, we are supposed to just ignore the daily black-on-black violence in the inner cities. Ugh, I am just sick of the media. I am gay, democrat, liberal but MSNBC just makes me want to vomit sometimes. They are just as bad as FOX news but on the other end of the political spectrum. If Melissa wants to do something riveting, how about getting out of the studio and going to an inner city and talking to black people about murder and crime in the hood.

Please continue to keep Trayvon Martin on our minds as he deserves our outrage and demand for justice. You have given me permission to do the same with my issues. I continue to grow weary fighting the good fight but you and Rachel Maddow empower me and inspire me to continue to keep issues alive until they are resolved to my satisfaction. I feel morally correct continuing to fight injustice where I see it and refuse to be ashamed when I must stop someone from the hateful speech that they assume is acceptable to me because I am a female caucasian in senior management.. I am a 3 time lung and breast cancer survivor and am so angry at Susan G . Komen that I never in my wildest dreams thought that they would consider defunding Planned Parenthood. Abortion is a constitutional right. I didn't ask the government to pay for it, I just want the right to have one. When the question is asked if President Obama is a muslim, the correct answer is what difference does it make. Bigotry and masogeny are making me so angry that I am overwhelmed. Thank you for giving me permission to be this angry. I wish I could be more constructive by doing more than voting but I will figure that out and follow yours and Ms. Maddow's lead.

I am so happy you women are in my life. I don't know what I wold do without your diatribes that mimic my own. I wish I could have been more eloquent but it if didn't write to you soon, the guilt would have made me feel terrible. I need most everone on MSNBC to help keep my spirits up but to watch my two favorite ladies make the move from academia to commentators is truly exciting and I thank you both for validating my liberal attitudes and giving me the strength to defend it on a daily basis. Keep the faith and thank you for the inspiration you have given me. It holds me together and and makes it possible for me to factually defend my positions.

Keep up the good work. I need you.

Keep up your reports on Travon Martin until (1) Zimmerman is put on trial and (2) these disgusting laws are repealed!

Look at the comments George Bush made about the Supreme Court. President Obama was guilty of talking about the Supreme Court while black. Consider truthfully what a son of President Obama would look like, how terrible it is for parents to have their child killed. Here too, he was guilty of talking while black. Our President does a great service towards mending racial inequality in this country by being low-keyed about racial issues, in my belief. And he is now raising the level of positiveness in this country by all the things he says while campaigning. In my opinion his speeches right now are helping the USA more than constantly trying to fight the Congress would help anything. Thank-you, President Obama

The questioning of the constitutionality of the Obama Health Care act is one that affects everyone in the US. But the question all should ask themselves is why is health care not a right in this country. The contradiction of questioning the law that makes a woman give birth against the right of that creature, after that "person" grows us, to have health care is outrageous.

I was born in the mid 40s. My mother serious thought of aborting. But because it was illegal in this country she decided to have me. My father, her husband, and my mother were middle class, hard workers and my mother as religious as she was, was of the kind that thought what ever the man wanted was what was done. She had me and my little sister.

We are both in our 60s now, but knowing what we know now, and not having a choice of whether we wanted to be born or not we are living. No insurance and both having had cancer and not being able to afford re testing every year. If I had a choice right now to be born or not, I would choose not to be born.

It is said that the laws in the constitution are for people, but I would say that their purpose is to serve the people, not the people to serve the law. At this time I would prefer not to be born or to have the rights that a human being who did not have a choice to live or not.

I believe that at the minute any law becomes so burdensome on the humans it is supposed to serve, it should not be in existence. You cannot have a law that will cause suffering to humans or to cause them to actually wish not to have been born.

If the constitution allows other humans to be the executioners of humans by taking away their right to much needed health care because it is costly, then what we have in the US is not a morality based constitution but a constitution based on wealth. I am asking this country that if you do not allow me to live then at least give me the dignity and make it legal to be euthanized. I consider it inhumane to be made to live. Just condemn me to death legally and take my right to live. This is why abortion should remain legal because a mother knows what might become of her children if they are born in a place like this one.

Matt Welch's response to the social Darwinism question was misleading and a diversion from the point. Social Darwinism is all about "survival of the fittest" and it appeals to humankind's base animal instincts while rejecting the spiritual morality of "love thy neighbor as thyself." What conservatives are upholding is their claim to wealth at the expense of the poor--that all rights to money and power belong to those who are willing to abandon their consciences in order to steal the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from those who are unwilling to abandon their conscientious objections. A capitalist disregards any moral obligations that his own right to those blessings are either irrelevant to the rights of others or blindly inconsequential. It starts out small but over time has proved utterly deleterious to life and happiness. If working within that monetary system is a must, then the government is responsible for taxing the wealthy to provide for the rights of those towards whom those capitalists fail to pay living wages, provide healthcare and make education available--in others words, failing to protect the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Conservatism and capitalism and corporatism have all demonstrated to be anti-thetical to the Constitution of the United States and are unpatriotic. The purpose of the government is to protect the people from enemies--threats-- both foreign and domestic. It is time to abandon meritocracy for true liberty and justice for all!

No, there is not that much coverage. The public deserves to know a new developments on the case. This is a matter that affects our views of our justice system, the non sense laws that are coming out of states that undermines human lives and gives it so little value that takes the word of the one standing alone as victor and the righteous one without any question as to who threw the first punch. It is obvious to me that both Zimmerman and Trayvon had the right to "stand his ground". The law is moronic instigate those with a trigger finger to provoke others whom they find not worthy to stand on their ground. ALEC who helped the NRA design this law and the governor who signed it should stand and debate their side. Because they themselves will come to the conclusion there is no logic to that law.

Melissa, you ARE a star. Thanks for shining every weekend.