President Obama? He's a Socialist! He's gonna take your guns away! He's gonna jack up taxes! He's making America weaker overseas!

Those are some of the allegations and criticism aimed at the President these first 100 days of his term.

How much of that is true? How much is nonsense?

Play this clip. Rick and Patricia Murphy pick the fact from the fiction.

A U.S. Senate report released this week points to top U.S. officials in the Bush administration as approving, condoning, even ordering the harsh interrogation of detainees inside prisons in Iraq.

Janis Karpinski was an Army Brigadier General in command of Military Police units in Iraq at the time the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs and abuse allegations exploded into public view.

She was blamed for the abuse, disciplined, and demoted. Now, as a retired Colonel, she feels the report exonerates her and other soldiers implicated in the torture/abuse scandal.

Rick interviews a Time magazine correspondent, and Col. Karpinski in this clip.

What do you think? Is she now free of those abuse charges?

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This is a picture of a 2007 demonstration by Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, but their cause remains as strong as ever.

During one of our newscasts this week, I showed you some amazing video of a shootout between wealthy land owners in Brazil, and some disenfranchised peasants who occupied the property. These peasants are members of Latin America's largest social movement, the Landless Workers' Movement.

For copyright reasons, I can't post the video of that shootout on this blog, but it's out there, and I encourage you to find it and watch it.

Foremen from the wealthy land owner's ranch said they were protecting their property and fired in self-defense. The LWM activists said they were trying to free several of their own who were being held on the property against their will.

Members of the LWM frequently clash with ranchers when they occupy some land they feel is unevenly distributed. Often, those clashes turn very violent.

According to the LWM website, more than half of Brazil's land is controlled by less than 2 percent of the population. It's the classic HAVES versus HAVE NOTS.

I want to know what you think. Should you be able to take something away from someone, simply because you think they have too much?

I challenge you to read about this Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil. Find and watch some of their protests and clashes.

Then let me know how you feel about them.

Well, this happens sometimes. A discussion drifts off-topic slightly and gets a bit...tense.

Watch this clip as Rick tries to get a word in edgewise between columnist David Sirota and Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus. They're both great guests and very smart, but it's clear that their opinions clash from the very beginning.

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This is Carrie Prejean, Miss California 2009.

If you haven't seen clips from Sunday night's Miss USA pageant, I'll bring you up to speed:

Miss California was one of the five finalists. She was asked by one of the judges, blogger Perez Hilton, whether she felt that every state in the union should follow the example of those states that have have legalized same-sex marriage.

She replied, "I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

Cool. She was asked her opinion, and that's what she gave, right?

Well, Carrie did not win the pageant, she was runner-up. Do you think her answer to the same-sex question impacted the outcome of the pageant?

Tell me what you think.

Rick welcomes actor Michael Ealy to the newsroom. Michael is appearing in a history-rich documentary called "The People Speak". Watch the clip for their CNN interview.