Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry. (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0)

Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss the new entrants into the presidential race, the Senate’s passage of the USA Freedom Act and whether political correctness on college campuses has gone too far.

Scheer is joined by Josh Barro of The New York Times moderating from the center, Rich Lowry of the National Review on the right and Joan Walsh of Salon and MSNBC as special guest.

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— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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