Nbc news wall street journal poll shows 44 of americans opposed to raising the debt ceiling. But only 22 in favor. That is both an upsetting and staggering finds since not raising the debt ceiling would mean a government default and all the cascading miseries after that. What this poll shows is that no one really understands what the debt ceiling means. The last time we did this in june 2011, a majority didnt want to raise the debt ceiling either, but a month later after more attention had been brought to the subject, not the least of which president obama explaining what it raem meant, those numbers flipped. Public supporting the debt ceiling. No one understands what is really going on with the budget in washington. This is the single biggest issue. The single biggest issue, the president and congress are fighting over now, poised to do battle over and no one understands. So lets just take a moment to look at why we are where we are. All right . There are two deadlines coming up. The
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university s president is calling a first step toward removing barriers in the greek system on campus. the school has been facing criticism ever since the student newspaper ran an article that said that several sororities denied membership to black students solely based on race. it s obviously an extraordinary story. i want to bring in nathan james. he s a junior at the university of alabama who s been writing columns about this subject for the student-run newspaper, the crimson white. james, thanks very much for being with us. so how long has this been going on? i mean, okay. segregation? yeah. is this the first year african-americans have actually been invited to join some sororities? there has actually been one in previous years at least that i m aware of. carla ferguson in 2003 was admitted to a traditionally white sorority. at that point in time we all thought that was the end of segregation here on campus. obviously it wasn t. the last that i m aware of and to the best