only one of which actually cut through. that call was important. dulles confirmed to eisenhower that the soviet union had in arms you with each of. i can get the bold move would open a new chapter in the cold war and ike and dulles agreed the president should send a message to soviet premier bogeyman. but the president want to think about it overnight heard he told dulles he would call him the following morning. that phone call was never made. i equipped back to golf for his game deteriorated it is that it won't on, the president experienced growing discomfort. he declined his usual evening drink, the black tape for dinner and retired early. in the middle of the night, i could. by amy said site. i've got pan across the lower part of my chest he said it since he complained earlier about indigestion, amy gave her

husband look magnesia. at 2:54 a.m., a.m., and he called dr. howard staying in the presidents physician who rushed to the white house is neither initially put out the word that this was a digest to upset when he knew it was a massive heart attack. he waited until midafternoon that day before transporting the president to the hospital. even then, i equipped to his car instead of calling an ambulance. if you want more details on the mismanagement of the situation come you got to read the book. we don't have time tonight. eisenhower was in the hospital first six weeks. in those days, the gold standard for treatment of heart attack patients was total bedrest. i asked doctors would not permit him to read the newspaper, watching movies, listen to a football game on the radio, let alone too much serious presidential business. he did not take a step across

his room for a month. this incredibly active man felt like a caged animal. so at the very moment the soviet union attempted to change the balance of power in the middle east, eisenhower was out of commission as secretary of state, john foster dulles was on his own, unable to consult with the president as he normally did admit that john foster dulles main american foreign policy in the eisenhower years. everyone close to both men said i've talked with you that ike was in charge. dwight eisenhower was out of the white house. dwight eisenhower was out of the white house for three and a half months. except in tonight funnest way to recuperate in gettysburg. drama number two is the one for heart patients are respected in his other activities, obsessed

about whether he should run for a second term in 1956. i'm satisfied that i always intended to run. in the age of roosevelt, he had to have a second term to be a great president and i wanted to be a great president. but the heart attack raised the enormous question of whether physically he could run. ike repeatedly disguised possible successors, none of whom have the smallest chance of getting nominated, let alone elected or the other republican with sufficient stature to run this chief justice earl warren of the supreme court appeared if you want to know why i threw cold water on that option, you have to read my other book on eisenhower and celebrate. chapter five will tell you all about it. eventually, i shut down every argument against running and convinced him he would be healthier saving them retiring. i also feared that no one else

could prevent a nuclear holocaust. in january 1956, eisenhower was informed that in a nuclear exchange with the soviet union, 65% of the american population would be casualties. years later, chief of staff sherman added set but surely applies to president obama today, the real reason the president wants to run again, adam said, it's because he doesn't think anybody else can do a good job as he is doing >> coming up next on booktv, david stokes recounts the murder trial of j. frank noris, considered one of the leading fundamentalist voices at this time can the river north preached. in 1976, river north shot and

killed an unarmed man in his office. david stokes reports on the ensuing trip up and engage the nation. this is about 45 minutes. >> well, back in july of 1926 from 85 years ago this month, this country was celebrating its sesquicentennial, 150th national birthday. here in texas, i imagine it was quite a big deal. it incorporates access, just a reason here, the festivities were overshadowed somewhat by a growing local battle, one that involve political religious business and civic leaders. the catalyst of this battle was a preacher of the issues for both public and personal in the citizens found themselves polarized. some type of conspiracy and others about troublemakers. on july the 17th 1926 count it all came to having a successful

businessman, someone connected to the movers and shakers of the town went to pay a visit on a local pastor. but this was not just any pastor. a typical man the car with the multifaceted personality drooling over a religious empire. more than just a preacher, he presided over the largest protestant congregation in america, and in many ways, america's first make a church. he was a radio broadcasting pioneer in the publisher of the times political tabloid newspaper and was viewed by many even be on texas is the emerging leader of a movement then you apex, the movement called fundamentalists. as the businessman argued that the preacher that day come in the became hot and within a few months gave way to gunshots. he felt was left for dead are known in the church office and there were about 20 people working at the moment approached to what is meant to offer help.

simply select an amnesty for the man on a stretcher reached a local hospital, he breathed his last. a dead man was named dr. elliot ships come in now in its transfer to everybody. the preacher was the reverend jack dirt don franklin norris, well known is j. frank norris or the texas tornado or too many in fort worth simply as batman. the story of what happened that day 85 years ago in for the following six months or so is likely what i call the most famous story you've never heard. the story reached all the way here to austin because eventually the trial, one of the most celebrated trials of the decade, a decade now for famous trials like the scopes trial and of course leopold and loeb and then said he forth. this trial was one of the most cap debating at the time. but it has been lost in history. as a footnote in a lot of books,

history that's made it into someplace, but never received a full treatment i think. the context of courses the 1920s, which i've always found to be a fascinating time. it was a time just after the world changed when the soldiers said, you know, here -- just this year in march, the last living soldier of world war i, a man 110 years old with. arlington national in the terry. there are no more from that era and of course, this year we say from the greatest generation. in the 1920s, people came back to world war i and they had a changed view, somewhat influential of what they saw in europe. but we know about the 1920s is your two things happening at the same time. one is the tremendous revolution in manners and morals in the country. they're sort of casting off restraint. you have one encoding and you have a lot of independents.

a bit of a revolution that goes on. you have all the media that go on. radio courtship. become a very popular media. eventually becoming the media of the day. tabloid newspapers are still very strong. movies. the film industry have been around for a few years, that really reached at traction in the 1920s. and along with that, the cult of celebrity came on andy warhol would later describe as 15 minute offense existed long before that in the 1920s and sports figures, golfers and baseball players and movie stars and ken davis. in fact, you had this reaction to that revolution and it was described in an odd place that was created at the beginning of this decade by warren harding who in 1920, when he said we want to get back what we call normalcy. there is no such word. he was the first republican to

make up words. but he said normalcy, getting back to the way things used to be. a lot of people saw the country sort of fallen apart. a lot of the values they hold for changing. so you had a number of things to camelot at the same time, the sort of emerge. one was a movement called fundamentalists on. when you hear the word fundamentalist and, what you think of as it is associated with islamic fundamentalism and terrorism and of course also people joining with christian fundamentalism and often make the mistake of using fusion chocolate and is interchangeable and they are not completely interchangeable. fundamentalism was a reaction to the modern world. and it began his illogical movement that was the reaction to the theological changes taking place in mainstream protestantism, but became also a cultural thing. it was something for people to get involved with. i think it's hard for us to

imagine today, but it was such a pervasive movement in the 1920s at the same sage of baltimore, the baltimore journalist said in the middle of the 1920s that if you were to even ate from a pullman car anywhere in america, you are bound to hit a fundamentalists in the head. there were millions of people who embraced it. it was much more than religious. it was a cultural reaction to the way things have changed. another movement that was very big, at least for a time in the 1920s and certainly here in the state of texas was the ku klux klan. it had seen a revival. there have been many manifestations of the client even up to our time, many of the marginal, but the most significant emergences of that particular movement were of course during reconstruction that the original clan. but in about 1915, there was a regrouping of the plan and by the time you come into the 1920s, this group very

featured gothic, very pro-america, very anti-immigrant , anti-foreigners kind of thing really takes hold in the culture. for a moment in time, there is a blending together of a lot of the commonality here a fundamentalist but who? clan. this is something that evangelicals -- and i am one, have a difficult time in on gene. one of the reasons to have a difficult time repudiating is because they are difficult time imagining that it was in fact a part of the past. there was a lot of affinity between the clan. the claim is basically about three things in the 1920s. it was of course a racist organization as it's always been, but it was also anti-semantic as it's always been. but that was very prominent, anti-zionists. the zionists that was coming on at that time. this is with us dori comes in from a particularly in texas.

it was also anti-catholic, sort of a throwback to the old know nothings. romanism and rebellion. it is this anti-catholicism that really i think was part and parcel of its popularity, particularly in the american south. so you have the 1920s. now it's sort of the breeding ground and the fertile ground for the coming along of demagogues in history tells us this was always have, sometimes in the name of religion. along comes this complex carrier, j. frank norris and "after america: get ready for armageddon" is about 10, john franklin norris or simply known as j. frank. he was born in 1877 in alabama, but moved at the ceiling at a young age to the hill country of texas, where he grew up, survived a gunshot when it that almost killed him. his father was a hopeless alcoholic, but his mother was

extremely devout and the driving force of his life. we is in his late, he experienced a religious conversion and came to the call of the ministry. he went off to baylor university, which were a baptist kids went at that time he did his undergraduate work and graduated with honors in many which the seminary in louisville kentucky and began to take its place as one more baptist preacher in america. but he was a gifted person. he was a person who is fiercely ambitious. he was a perpetual -- are prototypical young man in a hurry. he called the notices something nomination are leaders in the southern part to spread. at a young age, was passed because of his writing skills to the editor of a major baptist periodical that is still publishing today called the baptist standard.

and it's during this particular time he develops a flyer for a public controversy and he decides to write a series of articles against racetrack gambling in dallas and fort worth and is credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20 to 30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. he becomes a pastor of a church that was a celebrated church called the first baptist church in fort worth texas in 1909, one of the wealthiest congregations in texas woman known as the turk of the church of the cattle kings and there were 12 millionaires in the church. and norris was one of the highest-paid clergymen and america at the time. when newspapers without voted him the best dressed pastor in america. and he began a ministry that was

the first pretty sedate, but eventually he decided he would turn into and more for themselves and to sort a composite. as an a lot of radio interviews here the last few days trying to give people a feel for what this person was like. and i want you to think about a personality where you take a little bit of something that maybe you'd know or don't know, but take a little bit of billy graham. cannot see that a little holes of william randolph hearst. he was a very famous in his liebermann and also someone who had the polling on mac tendencies. add to that a great deal of pt barnum, a name familiar to you was sensation and showmanship. and because this is the 20th and because of norris and the things he did, put a little bit about capone in there because he was very much into winning battles and fighting battles.

he had built first baptist church from a few hundred people in 1909 to a church that would draw sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 1920s. there are churches in america bigger than not now, lots of churches. but at that time there were. this was unheard of back then. it really was before the name is used the first mega-church in america. but it didn't do without controversy. there was an area in fort worth that during the days before world war i clubhouse half-acre. it is for the were commonly gambling houses, all the parts weren't so forth. and it was a place that all the cattlemen coming up the chosen trail that stuff. so is endless. the famous picture which cassidy and the sundance kid was taken in fort worth. nor is decided he would take

back on and try to shut it all down. so he got to be this crusading kind of local pastor, cleanup the city. along the way he made a few enemies and one day his church blew up and burned. and rumors were circulating around for birth, how did this happen? was it the work of the enemies? eventually many people believed that j. frank nor is it burned his church down for the notoriety. in fact, he was charged with arson and then he was indicted for perjury. in fact, he was indicted three times, had two trails and was acquitted on all accounts. but he was never fully proven what exactly happened in a detail that in the book. that's not destroy a focus on. that in itself is another fascinating story about this

guy. he leverages the notoriety of celebrity and becomes this mega-church pastor of the middle of the 1920s. they read a passage -- just a couple quick passages in one of them illustrates that the media thought about him during this particular period of time. and it is a description from 1924. early in the year in january 1924 come a popular periodical called the worlds were devoted to national from international news at a penchant for muckraking from a profile boris is a prospective leader both fundamentalists and the country. and this is the passage. potential leaders abound and among them the strongest, truest and most romantically adventurous is j. frank norris of former texas. the opinion says one section says he took the gun. the other says the toes to count. many frank's former foes adored

him as half of the community come in buildings covering a block with his success in auditorium alterations are complete will hold 6000 apposite hearings with the choir 700. crowd gathers, paragon of advertisers and sensationalist of the first-order, norris has created a new profession, that is church efficiency expert and his most brilliant practitioner heralded as the texas cyclone, he will enter any city you choose to name, may hold of some doddering dead or alive downtown church, draw crowds, galvanize them coming at the glorious revived institution financed and direct a living, lasting monument to his abilities. after witnessing his performance in cleveland, dr. w. w. pastor declared nor is his genius would be worth $50,000 a year. so that's what this gives you a glimpse of some of the press clippings around the country

that many of you don't know, that was an emerging figure. on the story, the reason you don't know if the whole story would have been. i think most folks are familiar with some of the parameters that would happen in dayton, tennessee. the issue is evolution. the lawyers pitted against each other were clarence darrow and william jennings bryan. william jennings bryan had been a democratic candidate for president in 1896. he was the nominee three times. in fact, the first time is only 36 years of age. he was a gifted lawyer and a hero's people called him the great commoner. by the middle of the 19 strong he is his 60s and has been relegated to a side role in democratic party politics and he becomes the leader really of this movement called fundamentalism. and the apex of this is in the big trip to vegas in dayton, tennessee.

of course william jennings bryan goes out there to work with the prosecution. a footnote this is one of the preachers, in fact the man most responsible for getting william jennings to go to dayton tennessee was frank morris. one of the last things that brain dead before he died just a few days after the trial, while he was still in tennessee was write a handwritten note to jay frank torres, thanking him for his help, encouragement and going to the trail and norris opened by a handwritten note after he'd gotten the news that william jennings bryan had died in a printed note in his newspaper which at that time of 50,000 subscribers and is there a way to link himself and his gold very much was to become the air and the leader of the fundamentalists we might call conservative christians in america at the time. and it very well might have happened, except that within a year he got into a battle with

local city leaders in fort worth, texas. he's always fighting about something. particular issue this time had to do with taxes. it was an interesting little story because the first baptist church in fort worth on a tremendous part of a downtown block. an entire downtown block in the city of fort worth and also a part of another book. and for the buildings they were using, in fact, the jcpenney store rented space to first baptist church to the pub was the first baptist church was not paying taxes on those parts of the properties being used strictly for income and business purposes. and so as a result of that, norris was taxed -- the church was taxed, as other churches were in jay frank morris resisted this and vowed to fight. so he got into a heated data with the city leaders, including the mayor. the mayor was a man died

nietzsche. if you no fort worth, meacham airport is named after him. he's the city credited for bringing aviation to fort worth, texas factor in that time. are we okay? already. want me to keep going? already. and norris would really use his newspaper, radio and poet for personal attacks. he wouldn't be about preaching a sermon, where he would accuse the mayor of all sorts of things, including having an affair and other things. this is before there was an xtc. the fcc didn't come along -- the first part, long before 1937. you could say anything you wanted to say on the radio. well, things are cheated. this is the period of time 85

years ago in fort worth. what happened is a friend of the mayor by the name of d.e. chipps said i'm going to speak to this preacher and get them to stop and defend my friend. so he went to see norris on july the seventh team, 1946, basically they had a heated argument. sitting to stop preaching sermons and stop criticizing my friends. nora said he's going to keep on doing it. would have been in the next moments was debated, analyzed, testified one way or another. a lot of controversy about what really happened. the facts are that norris picked a gun from his desk, a roll top desk with a picture of william jennings bryan. and i have a picture of this in the book as well as the gun and shot four times. three of the bullets went in the

late ins lawyer. to put it in his, you have heard of the mega-church preacher, rick warren or the televangelist like pat roberts. how big a story would it be -- for whatever reason, even in self-defense shot and call the person in the office, i think in this day, this would be probably kesey anthony who? airwave make it all go away. at the bigger the story it was. that was saturday. by the next morning, every newspaper in america because the wire services, which is another part of the story just coming along at the paper out to every necking creamy, every small paper, large paper had a headline about the minister in texas, this ambitious leader of shooting and killing a man in his office.

he was indicted and he was charged with first-degree murder, which meant that if he was convicted he would've faced the elect kercher in texas. the mayor wanted to make sure that norris was convict did, so decided out of his pocket to hire some extra lawyers, some special prosecutors throughout the district attorney. and so, what you have in the beginning is this big legal battle that is going to come along with some of the most powerful and influential lawyers at the time. and they have a hearing in fort worth, but it is clear that he can't get a fair trial there because the opinion about him is so pronounced tiers of the vote to move the trial to austin, texas. the judge said the deeper january january 1927, somehow not realizing they do a nice, he

makes sure that this trial, which would be one of the most celebrated takes place the very same week, the youngest ever governor in the history of the state of texas, a man by the name of the annuity is inaugurated as the governor of texas. either way, a lot of the campaign trail from a few days after norris killed because first baptist was the biggest auditorium in town. all sorts of events there, spoke from horses pulled that is part of his political campaign. so you have the inauguration. at that time about 50,000 presidents, sort of a sleepy, quiet university town state capital that hasn't been a boom that of course has been seen these days later. and the trail is moved to austin, texas. it draws every media outlet you can possibly imagine to the trial and as a result of this trial, and norris is -- his

cases brought before the jury. it becomes sort of a tool between lawyers, the most celebrated players feared names forgot today for the prosecution, bill maclean -- wild elma klima column. sort of like an fpb lee of the day. ironically and interestingly, norris is cheap lawyer with the man by the name of david moses. so so you've been lied in the wilderness of this trial by dayton knows this. as a result of all of this, the trial took pace. i read about it in the shooting salvationist. it comes to the point of verdict and just like we sometimes see in trials the verdict doesn't turn out the way a lot of people who seem to know the facts think it should turn out. norris does not die in the electric chair. in fact, he lives until 1952.

and he never reaches the place that he wanted to reach because he is always going to be marred by this story. but he is still a gifted man. he begins to pastor to churches. my michigan, one in fort worth texas. this in the 30s. 25,000 members between the two churches. after world war ii, he gets involved in anti-communism and he realizes that hey, roman catholics here in the same page and this man who was against the catholics in the 20,000 audience with pope pius the 12th in 1947. so he was an interesting pragmatist, a man who could change. but take some questions if you have been the something i didn't care. in the 1940s, but endorses students always having young people, log. a very charismatic kind of individual sort of wanted to be

like him and had a reputation for not taking anything from anybody and so forth as a young man by the name of john birch. that is a name that you may know. john birch became a missionary set up a norris this church to china. while he was in china, bait 30s to early 40s, when the war was heating up, john birch got involved with military operations and became an intelligence a. john birch was actually very interesting individual himself. when doolittle's raid, 30 seconds over tokyo dropped bombs and store in china, john birch helped recover several of the pilots and take them to safety. john birch was murdered in china right at the end of the second world war by at the end of chinese communists. they shot him to death and norris greve. he changed the name of the hall at his church, birchall.

by that name is familiar to you is because there is a group called the john birch society. that group did not start until 1958 been banned by the name of robert welch. there is a display about it at president johnson's library at the university of texas. while proper welch did is use the named john birch because he said he was the first casualty of world war iii. he was killed by the communist and used his name to create the john birch society. what is interesting is one of the great features of jay frank norris' work was that -- and you see this throughout the book, there is always a conspiracy against him. it was always this group or that group. you know, in the 20s it was the mayor and the catholic interest and tom are against him. and then of course, john birch's

name, name associated with norris in history, but a man who died in one before the society associated with a group that is known for their love is a good conspiracy. so i think it is a fascinating story hiding in plain sight. like i said, the most famous story you've never heard, but it was the 1920s and i'm grateful i was able to take it out and nobody had gotten to it before me. thank you very much. [applause] i'll take a few of your questions if you have any been enough to talk with you and then i'd be happy to send a book for you. raise your hand and we have one over here. autonomic or phone over to you, sir. >> how did she get onto the story? what brought you to the issue itself? >> guest: well, i told you earlier and administer them a background of practice.

i am from detroit, michigan. and my mother grew up in a church that he pastored in detroit, michigan later on when he pastored these two churches. so i heard the name. a norris died four years before born. i heard the name and norris -- but he remembered my mom saying he preached on messages. the grandmother said she used to pack a lunch because he preached to our sermons. but one day and a chance encounter with somebody, i told somebody where he went to church. even though the things that happened long before, this guy said identical to that church because that were the pastor was to kill that guy. what was he talking about? i asked my mother and others and they didn't know the story completely. as it happened so many decades before and nobody talked about it. yeah, that was dr. norris anita favors limiting the 20s until the guy. that's how i heard about it for

the first time as a teenager. when i went to college i studied baptist history with that description came across his name, as most will when they study these things in death and developed an interest in along the way i had a file folder and it is at all articles. you got more stuff. and about 2007, by this time it was several boxes. my wife said do something with better roasts. and so i did. eventually i collected 6000 pages of court records, newspapers. i have a complete run of norris disney's papers, which he published weekly. a lot of the stories in his own words and i think that makes it very interesting from an original source trying to standpoint. that's how i came to know the story. anyone else? >> what did you find that was the most difficult thing about writing the book? >> i think after i had gotten it done, it inking i was done --

that was the most difficult. going through edit and rewrite. it was sort of like when my first daughter was born 45 years ago, i made mistake of saying i'm glad that's over. the doctor reminded me, you're just getting started. when i thought it finished the manuscript a couple years ago. below we have here is so much better obviously then the raw footage of what i had written. though it's probably the hardest part. and the research. i could just spend all day long doing that stuff. i liked the actual writing of the book, but going through the post-book when you think you have it done any editing, probably the most difficult part. who else? yes, sir. >> what about the last year or two of his life? how did he die in what was his house like? anything else? >> is interesting because in 1948 -- he died in 1952, almost 75 years of age.

in 1848, when the great international debate was going on and whether or not there's going to be a new nation for the jewish people in palestine and eventually in may of 1948 it comes to be in harry truman 12 minutes after midnight, when it happens, is the first country where they recognize the state of israel. actually, norris by that time had become a bit of an expert on middle east politics and history, certainly from a biblical standpoint. he had an exchange of correspondence with president truman on this. interesting little footnote. in the 1930s -- this is a cool story found out later. pretty boy floyd, a gangster -- and you can see this in public enemies, burrough spoke about john dillinger that was made a while back, apparently pretty boy floyd was a fan of frank dorris on the video i took her other son, jackie i believe his

name is, to be baptized by norris. doors for a brief time played intermediary for jay edgar hoover trying to effectuate the surrender of pretty boy floyd. i didn't have it, but i thought that was an interesting postscript about norris. he was always find in a way to get involved in public events. he had issues in the late 40s, a couple strokes and a lot of the stuff he had ot sort of splintered off, alienated people around him. by the time he lived, very serious splinter groups. the group dundas independent fundamental baptists, sometimes called isp really is the first one of the particular group and they splintered in a lot of different ways. he died at a youth camp. he was speaking at a youth camp in august of 1952 and his body was flown back to fort worth texas. he's buried in greenwood cemetery not far from where d.e.

chipps is. as well. a little interesting closure to the story. anyone else at that question? [inaudible] >> amon carter from dallas, fort worth was the publisher of "the fort worth star-telegram," president of the fort worth club. the fort worth club was a big place for the movers and shakers, what i would call it the oligarch support worker that time. even carter was one of the pallbearers at ge chips, a friend of chips. he managed -- he was a pretty wise person. he managed not to allow himself to get baited and drawn into jay frank dorris is wet. but i do with him a lot in the book. it's a fascinating court there. after mayor nietzsche died, mayor nietzsche's daughter married carter and they were a very big power company until carter died -- probably in the

early 1930s. they were married when he died in the middle of the 1950s. that was his wife and i was the of mayor nietzsche. to this day, the papers are together. a little interesting part of the story. [inaudible] >> everybody forgot about it. that's the story went away. it was an embarrassment to them. nor is didn't want to talk about it. texans didn't want to talk about it because photostory brotman and some other clan speech as soon forget about. without any people around to continue telling the story, sort of gives. under the silk of time and not very spent. >> did morris of her talk about the clan and just say later that that was a mistake? >> i never found evidence 30 doublet that particular issue. certainly the clan went away. certainly norris or maybe

years -- >> i don't know whether he was a member or not, but he certainly spoke at their rallies. the local grand dragon of fort worth was a member of his congregation. in 1925 come here again cannot put them on a staff while he remained the grand dragon of the ku klux klan. but you know, times changed and he monitored he sees as did. in fairness to me go back and look at major figures in the 1920s. robert byrd who died a few years ago, had a record with the clan and so forth. it is unfortunate and those repudiated. i did find were norris had where he said i'm so sorry. a lot of it was just in the body language. he showed his change by doing things differently. from a man to go by being an anti-catholic to having an audience with the pope and

getting a blessing is a big paradigm shift. but he was an opportunist is what he was. that's my view of him. i think, was he sincere? i can't put myself in anybody's shoes. i certainly think there were some things he believed in, but i also think he believed in themselves and i think he was an opportunist and used the moment and i think the cautionary tale is of the cult of personality come when people take themselves too seriously and other people follow people blindly. i think that's part of the difficulty. anything else? yes, sir. >> have you read any of robert harris' books? >> no, i have it. but you could probably build a case and i can't comment on that. >> to think dorris might've been a sociopath? >> one of the marks of that is people don't experience regret.

you know, they don't seem to have anything. i don't know that i go that far. nor is probably did the recut things. people who knew people who knew him, that he never got over that particular moment. in his public persona, i think he liked that controversial task i kind of thing. this was a day and age, before world war ii when people sit and talk about their feelings very much. not very transparent about things. i think he sort of enjoy that persona, even though deep inside he may have troubled him for some of the things that happened in his early ministry. okay, one more over here. two for one tonight. >> does your book cover the back story of the history of "the times"? order to focus more -- >> that's a great question. i wish i could've asked it asked that question. that's how good it is. and i didn't. what i wrote this, i am not from

fort worth, texas. after michigan. i'm a yankee. that's even worse. i spent all of my life in the new york city area and in the washington d.c. area and east coast. so i knew i'd be writing a lot about fort worth texas. i wanted to make sure i got that way. i wanted to make sure that if somebody grew up around there, new people i would read the book and say this guy did his homework and research. there's a lot about fort worth. in fact, some people said maybe i put too much detail in. i don't think i have. but there is a lot about the city, something i grew to appreciate. that's what groove bob schieffer, who wrote the foreword graciously. he said he heard these things when he grew up. in fact, he said if he had grown up in fort worth, he would've thought somebody made of the stuff. but he said nobody did. it really happened. and he was gracious and kind.

i thought that was a nice complement to somebody who let fort worth that much we take the work seriously enough to do that. okay again, thank you very much. i appreciate you taking the time to come and listen. and i hope you enjoy the book. [applause] >> david stokes on the murder trial of j. frank norris. visit the shooting salvationist.com. >> around the 90s in the first decade of this century, this other paradigm emerged for how to create a champion, which is to basically turned loose on the internet and have it observe what people say to it. you can almost imagine this martian landing on the earth inseminate, and say hi and the martian poles of his rolodex and says humans often begin conversations by saying hi, interesting.

last night and then, the martian walks down the street and concept to someone and says, hi. and then that person says hey, what's up? humans must say hey, what up when you say hi. it's a very painstaking process, but over the course in many cases, decades of hanging out online, waiting for people to cross the path and talk to it, it builds this massive database of real stuff that people say. and you find when you interact with this kind of software, this theory uncanny ability to respond to all sorts of things. so for example, i attempted to see if that would apply to me if they spoke in french. and i found that my french was not only understood, but actually corrected. sort of condescendingly, it told me that grammatically correct version of the sentence that i given in.

and you often find if you try to give its song lyrics, it will send back to you. so i had a conversation where i started typing in lyrics from bohemian rhapsody. so i said, scaramouche, scaramouche. and replies, will you do the funding go? [laughter] and there is something truly eerie about a program that can do this. but part of what you learn as you interact with these programs is that it's not so much that you are not talking to a human as that you are not checking to a human. and that turns out to be a really critical distinction. if you ask a question as to which there is a correct answer, it will generally have that answer. if you say what country is paris and? belsey. but if you start to ask questions about itself come you

get this very strange sense to you are talking to several thousand people that are being quickly cycled in and out. and this was what i discovered when i started to ask clever about his life. i say do you have a boyfriend? clever bot, not at the moment, but i hope you find one soon. so a venture, i would like to be her boyfriend. [laughter] clever bot: i would be difficult since i am happily married. [laughter] curious, i asked again for clarification. me: do you have a boyfriend? no, i am still looking for love. do you have a husband? i don't have a husband because it would be illegal for me to have one sent by e-mail. what gender are you? female. once again, just for good measure, do you have a

boyfriend? .at the moment, but other than hope. can i be her boyfriend? no, i am straight. >> .next, syndicated columnist, mark steyn argues that the united states is destined for financial collapse and the decline in the role as a world leader if current political and cultural norms continue. the author contends that american dad has placed the country in a precarious position and that regulation and lack of innovation have become hallmarks of the countries business climate. mark steyn speaks at the new hampshire institute of politics and political library st. anselm college and manchester, new hampshire. [applause] >> wow. good evening. looks like a lot of people happy to be here.

very excited. everybody here to hear the movie theater critic? [laughter] you think i'm joking? one thing you're going to learn tonight, ladies and gentlemen, is that the guy you are here to say, who is named mark steyn is a disabuse her of false notions. most of you think you are here to hear a critic and author, a commentator. let me begin by just reviewing a little bit of his life because i think one of the neat things about mark steyn is his very existence is a found in the act to conventional wisdom into things you thought you knew. mark steyn is from toronto. like any wise and intelligent person come he got out as quick as he could. and they mean as quick as the

code, like 16. unfortunately, he made the mistake of going east instead of south. so he wound up in london. back and forth between canada and england and a little bit. now, can you imagine leaving home as a teenager, bopping back and forth in the great british empire, what are you going to do-it-yourself? so the sky becomes lots of different things. rock 'n roll dj, classical music dj, musical theater critic. see? he makes documentaries. he writes about opera. this guy lives in the woods in new hampshire. he is a culture critic. you know, i like opera. nothing wrong with opera. i've ridden in a car when i take the kids camping.

it gives them a little culture as we are about to go kill fish and stuff. so this is just a little bit about how culture and how very deep background mark steyn has. this is the guy you were going to hear from. people will tell you, especially people who don't like mark steyn, he's a conservative critic. they dismissed him by saying conservative critic, like saying that is something people shouldn't aspire to be, but is it that or demeaning. as if he just criticizes people. and i think does mark steyn a great injustice. sure come he is a best-selling author. by the way, those of you who are here holding copies of his latest book may be interested to know it was just announced that it may well debut as number five on "the new york times" nonfiction hardcover list.

[applause] pretty good for a conservative critic. but mark steyn, once he popped to round into his teaching and his theater criticism in documentaries, somehow wound up being diverted into this life of what is i.t. businesses will call a conservative critic conservative critic for conservative commentator. they are also wrong. again, his life, his work proved him wrong. this guy is not a cultural critic or conservative critic. she is -- and i'm not exaggerating, a human rights activist. now, some of you might laugh. right? your idea of a human rights activist is somebody who might have dreadlocks, hasn't paid for a couple of days, holding a sign protesting that we need to take money from the free societies and give it to dictators.

that is that people who commonly associate human right activists with. well, mark steyn is in fact a human rights activist. his writing, his work is dedicated to promoting liberty, to making people as free as they can be. and he doesn't just walk the walk. this is a guy who is writing about issues of freedom of oppression was brought up on charges was brought before the canada right human mission and accuse the ticket tree. but as he said things about muslims, he wrote things after 9/11 about islam, radical islam that some of the more sensitive people in the islamic community and canada took offense to you. so they took him for three different human rights

commissions. now we in the united states might find this baffling because we enjoy the freedoms to be able to criticize and call other people out when we think they're doing wrong. in canada, they are the human rights code that says you are not allowed to talk about a group, a person or group in a way that would subject it to patriot or ridicule and so forth. so this group said hey, mark steyn is making people think bad things about muslimscome as they brought them up in front of human rights commissions. each time it was thrown out. this is what i love about mark steyn. when it was thrown out of the canada human rights commission, dey said vote, nothing he said here really rose to the level of the something we can lock him up

for her since he is writing for her. although in canada i think it's kind of frightening that there is such a thing as a human rights commission that has such a power, as the people who brought them out to the commission wanted to direct him in his publication and what to say. they tossed it out. and someone got mad and said wanted to lose. i wanted to lose so you would take it to court, a real court with realize, so we can put this notion to rest and we can free the people of canada. that's the kind of person that mark steyn is. that's the kind of human rights activists and they think is so critical and so important today and make you with a two-year lot about. at that, let's please welcome, mark steyn. [applause] [applause]

>> thank you very much, true. it is wonderful to be here in -- what the state are we in again? my stay, my state, new hampshire. it's weird. i never recognized the bit with indoor plumbing. we were supposed to be getting that in my part of the state under the stimulus package, but it fell off the back of the truck somewhere around 93, so we never did. he mentioned opera, drew in his introduction. and it is true. i use to introduce opera on the television a long time ago. in a neighbor of mine up north, who does sugaring and the opera were coming. i notified him that the upper were making a rare appearance. some opera company in new

hampshire. so he thinks, because these are the words, this opera thing is all about. we get a couple of tickets and he is on his way down there in his pickup truck, with his wife. and he gets pulled over by the cops for speeding. and the guy asked his wife for license and registration. he opens the glove box and three guns fallout. it's not in there. he pulls up the thing in the middle and pulls out another five or six guns. he says i know it's around here somewhere. so he paused around the back seat, tossing other fibers seven guns over on top of his wife. eventually the cop gets bored and says okay, forget it. just bring it into the police station in the next seven days. by the way, where are you going in such a hurry? he says, to the opera.

[laughter] now, you laugh. it makes sense to pack heat at the opera. have you ever been to the first night at la scala late, and those nights get serious. i want to say something before we get going tonight. if you are from new hampshire and you listen to me very, very, very carefully, you may just hear a very, very faint trace of just a little smidge meant a day we found and india accent. it might lead you to believe that i am not a granite state natives. i don't want you to worry about it. it is a malfunction in the sound system. ..

take my breath away so i fell in love with the land, and then i fell in love with a system of government. i saw what alexis de tocqueville saw one the self-reliant citizens governing themselves in their own townships.

tocqueville was smarter than me. he certainly would never have all bought my house, believe me. he probably got the ski condo surfaced in the mountain he's there every february. on the channel - key report when they talk about fresh powder they are referring to his wake. [laughter] actually, that has been a lot of sports bars he played the tocqueville shtick just dies, and believe me. [laughter] so i came from the sweet land and i stayed for the liberty which kind of snuck up on me and it's a little in peril which is what i'm going to talk about this evening. my book is called "after america : get ready for armageddon." so a little way from little house on the prairie. i was going to say it's available tall good bookstores but i see most of them have closed down. this very day borders has gone out of business. it only stocks my books lay out

the back propping up the one leg of the table for al gore's tvd box said. an inconvenient truth, the director's cut, but this time borderers is so reluctant to carry the book at all the taken the precaution of going out of business. [laughter] if you go to the bigger borders, and today is the last day. i don't know whether they are keeping the 10:00 closing bid might have decided -- if you go to the borders in concord for the first time ever my book is in the front window because even the looters didn't want it. [laughter] when you are launching a book you always want a bit of a publicity boost in the news cycle that gives you a lift and a lot of the books about the fiscal collapse. so today's before the official release date s&p downgrade america from its aaa status for the first time in history.

if you are an author you can't buy publicity like that. [laughter] you can if you have $15 trillion you are willing to toss it down the whole of the federal treasury but other than that it gets pretty expensive. then part of the book i compare brereton's declined with what america might be and that is chapter 5. it's called the new britannia the depraved city. two days before my book was published in the united kingdom, the british welfare deadbeat's decided to reenact chapter 5 in my book on the streets of london by banning half the cities to the ground. decant by publicity like that. [laughter] i used to be a musical theater critic. this is like chapter 5, the musical. if you've ever been to a musical with a cast burst on the set and then into the orchestra, it was fantastic. you can't buy that. but then it moves on and by the end of the week everyone is all

about the audio was straw poll of the presidential candidates and congresswoman michele bachman has gone up and down the state, indianola, waterloo, quoting my book at every stop and wins the iowa straw poll and on meet the press so the downgrade and the london raw goods and michele bachman i had a great opening week publicity wise. if you have read the ultimate chapter with its big nuclear-free mali you might want to be out of town when we do the publicity tie in for that. [laughter] you don't write a book called after america because you want it to happen. you write it in order to prevent it happening. the total societal collapse is not to read your and author of the destruction of the banking system makes it harder to catch the royalty check so i want to prevent the dawn of the post america world, and i hope you do, too. if you are in favor of the post

american world, if you are a tenure lefty professor at an american college campus, i don't think you would enjoy it as much as you think you will. i'm often asked by fellow conservatives why i am being such a hysterical old queen about the whole business because if you recall president obama's now forgotten that commission i don't know if you remember them all very bipartisan and a blue ribbon. just a few months ago they produced a report melodramatically emblazoned the moment of truth. and after that dramatic title they propose such cost corrections as raising the age of social security eligibility, raising the age of social security eligibility to 69 by the year 27 b5. [laughter]

so what we get calls like that we can roll over and sleep in for another half century, right? [laughter] but some of us have been here before. we know the smell of decay. we have lived it and when we get it in our nostrils in america today that is a very well sign. we have an advantage where the canaries in the coal mine we know what that means. let me quote another foreigner who spends part of the year in the border in massachusetts. last year miles ferguson, a professor at oxford and harvard joint sun should eminent thinkers at aspen ideas festival as barbra streisand and james brolin and professor ferguson told streisand having grown up in the declining empire i do not recommend it. it's not a lot of fun actually, and of quote, and he's right.

it's not, it really isn't. you don't want to go there and you're well on our way heading for the fall and one hell of a fall. greece or portugal or iceland, the scale is entirely different. no one uses the keyword trillion in lisbon or dublin. that is unique to washington. when the multi trillion dollars catastrophe slides off with a bigger fuss than iceland or portugal. one of the saddest aspects of the debate is the assumption that american decline will be as comfortable for americans as the british decline was for britain when the tax britannica yielded to the tax americana after the second world war. dream on, that was the smoothest transfer of the global dominance in history and it isn't going to go that smoothed the next time around it's already under way. by 2016 according to the imf, the world's leading economy will be a communist dictatorship.

that is in five years of time. think about that. if the imf is right, the guy that he let next november will be the last president of the united states to preside over the world's leading economy and instead the preeminent economic power will be a one-party state with a communist. presiding over a largely peasant population with no genuine market, no human rights, no property rights, no rule of law, no freedom of speech, no freedom of press, a land whose legal, political and cultural traditions are as alien to its predecessors as could be devised and it wouldn't merely mark the end of the to centrally anglo economic dominance, but even more civilization and unlike the americans and the british and the dutch and the italians before them, the leading economic power will be a country that doesn't even use the roman alphabet. it's very silly to assume that this is just a matter of dollars

and cents and debt to gdp ratio. when money drains, power train means remorseless leak. the week before my book came out everyone was very excited about whether we would reach a so-called deal on the debt ceiling before the clock chimed midnight on august 2nd and all the big fuss about august 2nd is looming it is coming is approaching. august 2nd at midnight if we didn't reach a deal on the debt ceiling the coach would turn back into a pumpkin. air force one would turn back into a large zucchini with to wings of president obama's beloved aruba flapping as it tried is to get airborne. i may be over extending the metaphor a little bit. [laughter] this is classic bellmon nonsense the debt ceiling was entirely irrelevant. the problem is not the ceiling. it's the debt. cinderella negotiating to extend

the deadline to maintain the illusion to 2 a.m. doesn't alter the fact that it is an illusion. the debt ceiling debate in perspective there was the dispute between john boehner and the congressional budget office about the so-called scoring of the plan. he said his plan called for $7 billion of cuts for the 2012 budget. the cbo said the plant produced the 2012 budget by a billion dollars. who cares. the $7 billion john boehner calls kaput, the real enforceable cut for the financial year 2012 represents what the government of the united states currently boroughs every 37 hours. in other words, between now and the time at the end of the week we will have borrowed back every diana diane of those. if the cbo scoring is correct that it reduces the 2012 deficit

by just $1 billion, then the cut represents with the united states borders every five hours and 20 minutes. in other words less time it takes to drive from might have uptown and back and the time it takes to watch harry potter and the deathly hallows part one and two with a bathroom break in between three of the savings of this painstaking negotiating plan will have been borrowed back. 7 million or 1 billion. who cares what's right, that is the choice between did or more dead. the shuttling back and forth between the to the capitol and the white house were real enforceable cuts of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are more relevant. within a decade the united states will be spending more of the federal deficit on its interest payments than on to read that is to say more on the debt service than on the armed services and according to the cbo's long-term budget outlook

by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 to 20% of its revenue in the debt interest and defense spending will be down between 14 to 16%. so america just to get this in perspective, america is responsible for that 43% of the world's military expenditures. within a decade america will be spending more on the debt interest. when you get your mastercard at the end of the month you can't pay any of the debt all you can do is stay current with the monthly interest charge. our monthly interest charge will be more than the combined military expenditures of china, britain, france, russia, japan, germany, saudi arabia, india, italy, south korea, brazil, canada, australia, spain, turkey and israel. you add up all the military budgets plus the interest charge on the debt by 2015, widely,

they said historic lows they would return to what they were, with its average in the last 20 years about 5.7% america will be spending more than the of the entire military budget on the debt interest. by about 2015 we will be covering the entire cost of the people's liberation army of china. that's what you have to pay for. small businesses in bedford, suburban homeowners in nashua will be paying for the entire budget of the chinese military. no president on that anywhere in history, the roman empire's are pretty stupid in the last year's but they didn't say to the room and tax payers that as a matter of policy you are going to have to pick up the bill not just for the roman of the tree but the military as well and if they had it wouldn't have been as bad because the budget was mostly

just pelts. so they still got a better deal than we do. it is the illusion of every age. we are not just outsourcing of the economy, we are outsourcing power and as america power fades from its outsourcing the future to a very dangerous plan that -- planet. this is bleak and i understand it is a depressing scenario. i don't want to give away the ending of my book but when we do the musical version that they seem to be encouraging we will focus the focus groups for mali and the previews and change it to a happy ending in which michele bachman sees the error of her ways and settles down with joe biden to run a scene on the department of the community organizing ground applications in chicago it will warm your

heart. but until we close the deal on that particular project, let me state being gramm it starts with of the money that never stops there. that be spelled out for the post american world leaves. it's for addiction. we spent too much. it's not a revenue issue it is a spending issue. the united states joined the rest of the world in voting itself a lifestyle it was not willing to pay for and indeed can never pay for because when you spend $4 trillion but you only take $2 trillion which is the federal government model you can never close that dealt with revenue. when the government spends on the skill washington has gotten used to it is not a spending crisis it is a model one. there's nothing virtuous appearing to be a caring, compassionate progressives demonstrating how caring and compassionate and progress of the art by spending money yet to be earned by the generations yet to be born. we are leaving the future to the

present. indeed we have lifted the future to such an extent is no longer clear that we have one and that is what the so-called fiscal conservatives often miss. it's not a green eyeshade issue. increasing the dependency is incentivizing the self-reliance of the citizenry from the responsibility to their actions of the multi trillion dollar debt catastrophe is not the problem but merely a symptom and this is where i disagree with mitch daniels and others. it's not about balancing the books. it's about rebalancing the very structures of society. it's for the redistribution. they talk about the redistribution of wealth. when you read is to be from the future to the present you are redistributing the wealth that is not yet being created, wealth and that does not exist. meanwhile day by day we see an unprecedented transfer of resources from the productive class to the obstructive class to the government to the regulators come to the bureaucracy so if much of this

does not exist with exactly are we redistributing? we are redistributing liberty delivering the self public to their plan regulators, bureaucrats and social engineers. just this week the formerly golden state of california, a broad jurisdiction whose rapacious government and dependency class are driving what's left of the productive clause to flee the borders just last week the state announced that its burning pretty is that it needs to regulate bed sheets and motels and hotels. it will be illegal under the california sheet regime for motels and hotels to put long fitted sheets on their beds and so there will be a sheet regulatory regime with the regulatory enforcers taking down the door of the room 73 of the motel to check their in compliance with of the

california sheet regime you can try to resist but they will kick off the sheet out of you. [laughter] there is a apocryphal orwell quotation to describe the way the pacifists, even pacifist's assume the soldiery to fill in defined the realm. people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf, and of quote. people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because the state agency of the sheet regulation stands ready to do violence to the innkeepers. by the way if there's any ku klux klan members tonight i know you t party guys, i know what it's really about.

when we are planning on flying in for a large meeting with a grand in california we will need a fitted sheet. okay. when canada decriminalized the thomas schiraldi said the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation but california says yes we do if you are consummating your same-sex marriage on compliance sheet. [laughter] and so it goes i was talking to an undocumented immigrant from tijuana, and he says that california is already a sheet government. these are not trivial things. they represent the remorseful redistribution of liberty, seven-year-old was selling lemonade in portland oregon when

the officers demanded to see a temporary restaurant license which would have cost her $120 when she failed to produce at these offices threatened her with a $500 fine she's a seven-year-old girl and they also made her cry. when i read these stories there was another one in the papers just the other day. the u.s. fish and wildlife, and 11-year-old girl in virginia had rescued a woodpecker and spent a few days nursing get back to health before releasing it. an agent of the united states department of fish and wildlife arrived along with an escort of the virginia state troopers to deliver a 535-dollar fine to the little girl who rescued the woodpecker for the federal crime of transporting the protected species of woodpeckers.

she transported out of the mouth of the cat that was eating it. serve the cat with a $535 fine for transporting illegally transporting of a woodpecker. [laughter] these are not small things. two officers shakedown the seven-year-old girl for the $500 a lemonade stand fine. officers from the two agencies, federal and state make the 11-year-old girl cry for rescuing the woodpecker. they should be ashamed of themselves. this is not a small thing. they do not understand the relationship between the citizen and the state. when i read these stories i am always reminded of saudi arabia's religious police, the commission for the promotion of the virtue and prevention of the vices. such in this case our religious police, the religion they are

enforcing is the state power. perhaps like the fears bearded man, the skulls of the permits stand could be issued with whips and scourges to flee the great school in the street the way they do in every ad and jeddah. when life hands you clemency make lemonade and then watch the state and forces turn it back into sour fruit. ask yourself this it's exactly the same thing as with gun control. gun control is not just about guns it's about control. woodpecker control isn't about woodpeckers it's about control. eliminate control is not about lemonade. it's about control. as a second grader can no longer sell homemade lemonade in the front yard without $500 worth of permits what aspect of your life can the government regulate? for more and more americans, more has been supplanted by regulation. governing set of rules not regulated by the representatives

accountable to the people what invented by an activist bureaucracy much of which is well to the left of either political party. you may remember the congress strict provisions for the end of life counseling so-called death panels out of the obama bill. but kathleen sebelius, the secretary of health and human services put them back. why shouldn't she? the new law contains the 700 references that the secretary shall another 200 to the secretary, quote, may and 139 to the sector, "determined. so the secretary may and shall determine pretty much anything she wants. puts at random, quote, the secretary shall develop all health care components that shall include trophic level surveillance, and of quote. troup level surveillance. that phrase is hitherto unknown to human history. [laughter] but it is in obamacare.

george ii never went in for the troup surveillance. it's the story is about george washington's wooden teeth were the truth, that would have killed the american revolution right there and then. i'm not sure that even colonel khadafy goes in for the true falafel surveillance. the colonial subjects to the venture servitude in the mirror corker millennium. [laughter] [applause] m is for monopoly. i mentioned a moment ago that the aspen idf festival has great thinkers like barbra streisand. so i would like to cite another, george harrison of the beatles. george harrison in the course of a wide ranging ramble briefly detour out of the lsd in to some remarks about the monopoly commission which is the british version of the u.s. antitrust division.

and he goes you know this is the thing i don't like it is the monopoly commission. if anybody, kodak or somebody is cleaning up the market with film the monopoly commission, the government send them in and say you're not allowed to monopolize. yet when the government is monopolizing who is going to send the monopoly commission to solve that one? that is one of the most brilliant observations on the government that has ever been made. there was an old joke in britain at the time why is there only one monopoly commission? [laughter] it is in fact and incisive observations on the nature of the government. we wouldn't like it if there was only one automobile company or breakfast cereal but by definition, there can only be one government, which is why when in georgia's words when the government is monopolizing it should do so only in very limited areas and that is particularly true for the national governments when the

nation they govern is more than 300 million people dispersed over the continent. but i think it gets worse than that because it is not just the monopoly of power. right now we have ruled by a monopoly of ideas, which is the most dangerous monopoly of all. in fact a kind of monopoly of gray matter as it were. take for example hour so-called meritocracy. we are ruled buy effectively not technocrats, not a meritocracy but a cartel of the con former crafts who impose a sterile monopoly about the motive ideas. you may remember the day after president obama's election he held it is probably the smartest guy ever to become president, end of quote. why would you say such a thing? and impressive talent to the self-promotion what has he ever done? evin as a legendary figure, what original fox has he ever

expressed in his entire life? yet he is probably the smartest guy ever to become president since michael beschloss and he is a presidential historian. so he should know because he is a smart guy, too and lending a hand to another smart guy to the house conservative of "the new york times" hailed the incoming -- hailed the incoming administration has a collection of super smart egghead credentials of their health, quote, if a fall in enemy attacks the united states during the harvard yale game anytime over the next four years, we are screwed, end of quote. he was right. over a quarter of obama's pub bickel appointees with ties to harvard over 90% have advanced degrees, and yet more siggerud anyway -- were screwed it any way. what kind of smart guys all think the same thing? we are governed by the come for immigrants who live in the self reenforcing bubble. we have a ruling class that

thinks alike and cannot concede that anyone other than the racist, terrorist or a mentally ill of lunatic like my colleague at fox news juan williams when he got fired from npr for accidentally wandering off of the reservation for 30 seconds they do what they do in the soviet union. they say we are just going to send you down here that the men in the white coats struck you up and you will be feeling much better. "the new york times" ostentatiously recruits by sending its editors to hire people of the african-american journalist convention, the women's journalist convention, the hispanic journalist convention, the gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered journalist convention and recruits on the basis of the diversity of race, diversity of gender, diversity of orientation, every diversity accept the only one that matters, the diversity of ideas. and if anyone could use new ideas right now, it is america's wretched elite ruling class.

[applause] >> a is for arteriosclerosis which is the shortest answer to obama. yes we can? no, we can't. the zoning committee, the planning committee, the environmental impact study. try putting that on the end. america is seizing up. i cite the most obvious example in my book, the tenure hold in the ground in manhattan which should shame everyone of us here because destroying those buildings is something america's enemies did to us. leaving a hole in the ground for a decade is something we did to ourselves. the empire state building which was the tallest in the world back then was put up in 18 months during the depression. where is that spirit today?

what can you do in 18 months today? at that ten year old in the ground there is the profound and eloquent in what it is telling us about american sclerosis. gaea's for global retreat. as britain and other great powers learn the price of the government at home is an ever smaller presence abroad. first comes the orientation and shrinking of the horizon. after the empire britain turned inward. the government expenditure on the defense fell from 24% to 7% while the proportion of the health and welfare rose from 22% to 53%. and as before 20 blair's new labor government can allow 1997 to widen the gap even further. now i sure for the 53% welfare spending you saw what a bang for the dhaka they got in the scenes on your tv screens this last

week. when they spend that within the living memory of this city in flames on the tv screens every night governed one-fifth of the earth's surface and a quarter of its population. then inverted its priorities and spend all that money on the nanny state charges at home and we got spectacular results you can see if he made the mistake of booking a trip to london in the next six weeks. good luck with that. that is the same trajectory every great power embarks upon the retreat because you can have the is entitlements at home or the global reach a broad but not both. and you can see it already in our little pseudo war in libya. i don't know how many of you remember the lydia war. it was in the papers about 48 hours. it's still going on out there and apparently and it fell off the radar screen. it's in the guinness book of records for the fastest proxmire

said there is that to be said. the president spent the first month of the war telling the american people you don't need to worry we are just along for the right. we don't go to the meetings. the point of the war is on a need to know basis and we don't need to know. it's not a war is a kinetic scope limited action. and they eventually announced reluctant to have anything to do with the scope limited action they entered the new supreme allied commander of the kinetic scope limited action was general boogerd canadian general. i'm a comedian. i didn't even know we still have genitals. [laughter] but i said on fox news as much as i like the idea of the canadian military commanders randomly invading the muslim nations -- [laughter] i really feel it should have

gone to the mexican general because -- [laughter] after all, president obama pretty much spent the previous month insisting this is a job that americans won't do. [laughter] [applause] war is held at the keck scope limited action as perjury. in the kremlin in beijing, the malae in tehran they are all enjoying the glimpse of the post american world in libya right now. the world in which the global auto maker of the last 60 years now only can enforce its will but no longer makes any serious attempt to do so. they are looking forward to that world. e is for engineering. the archaeological social engineering of the education system would be regarded as child abuse i think in any other age. aside from its others it diverts

too many americans into the frivolous unproductive activity while our competitors get on with the real work. in 1940 the majority of the u.s. population had no more than a grade eight education. by 200840% of 18 to 24-year-olds enrolled in college were on track to a world in which the typical american is almost twice as old by the time he completes his education as he was in 1940 he spent over twice as long in the classroom and got twice as much attention from his school mom because the people who teach the ratio is half of what it was a century ago. education is the single biggest structural defect in the united states right now. no country needs to send a majority never mind all as is president obama's ambition all of its children to college and no country should as the aptitude to benefit and not every child who has the aptitude wants to go or needs to and for

most to wind up there are colleges a waste of time and money and life. slacker's pretend to learn and employees pretended as a qualification. we have a trillion dollars. american individuals hold $1 trillion just in college debt. that's the equivalent of a g7 economy just in one small boutique market of debt. you will recall that before she sent it to the throne of the first lady michelle obama worked for the university of chicago hospital to issue wasn't a nurse or a doctor or even a janitor, she was taken on by the hospital to run, quote, programs for the community relations, neighborhood outreach, staff diversity and minority contracting. she was a diverse occurred, a booming industry and elite america. in 2005 just as her husband was

coming to the national prominence by strange coincidence a happy coincidence with which the ruling class in chicago are often blessed she received an impressive $200,000 pay raise and was appointed vice president for community and external affairs in charge of managing the hospital's business diversity program. she seems like a plan that america is, quote, just downright mean and you can see what she's getting at. she had to make do with a lousy $316,962 plus benefits for the job so necessary to the hospital that when she quit to become first lady they didn't bother replacing her. [laughter] leave corporate america. that's what she boasted she did. it makes sense, we've corporate america and get a job as an enforcement officer. that is where the big bucks are.

go over the river to the neighbors in vermont and if you go to any vermont college and talk to the students, the invention of most of them is to work for, quote, the nonprofit. sounds nice, doesn't it? the entire state of vermont is a non-profit. [laughter] [applause] ben and jerry's used to make a ton of money selling ice cream then they became a non-profit and worked out so well they were bought by the anglo-dutch multinational. i can't remember when they approve the deal and jerry didn't like it or jury liked the deal and ben didn't with the one who did like it said the wholly independent subsidiary is ben or jerry or something like that. and the other guy just get on with all the nonprofit stuff now so the entire state of vermont is a non-profit. so is america actually because when you're $15 trillion in the

whole you are the champion nonprofit of nonprofits. president obama now wants the rest of america to follow in his and meshaal's footsteps. this is the diversion of too much human capital to a wasteful and self indulgent activities. they don't do it in china or india and eventually those differences will tell which is my next leader. d is for decay because that formula the government position of more and more of our people is a recipe for disaster. the dependency and the decline much of the united states will be on the first track to the last thing america where there is a privilege koret eletes presiding over a vast swamp of poverty and that leads to the next stage d is for disintegration becoming the cingular united states of america. no advanced society has ever tried hyper rules for

350 million people. is it more likely that increasingly compatible jurisdictions and social groups will conclude the price for keeping 50 stores on the flag is to lactide to read the post prosperity america is going to structure. i don't just mean of the ethnic lines where you have millions of poor white americans and black americans on the one hand and millions of the poor even americans on the other and there is no job for either. i just mean cultural tension. it is not clear to me that when this country is no longer the world's leading power was that the mullahs of dearborn, what they call for mishighanistan will be of fire island. they might be better off going it alone but it's something more basic. if you take a retired federal bureaucrat in their early 50s, a retired on a fantastic unsustainable pension benefits and health benefit and enjoy the

30 years of what is a holiday weekend, she lives at 26 ellen street and the guy went to the same school was her but he doesn't get the 30 year holiday weekend he has to work of his hardware store every day until he drops dead to fund their retirement benefits of the neighbor and the retirement that he will never know. those two people cannot coexist in the same street anymore than they can in athens or london. another common young versus old. what's left of american youth will be taxed to pay for the retirement and the medical care of the baby boomer generation who enjoyed a life of american prosperity that their kids will never know. look at the flash marks and the vantage of the wisconsin states and ask yourself whether there will be more or less of that in the post prosperity america. oh is for open season. i said earlier if you find it hard to imagine eight world

without america, the russians, the chinese and five mullahs don't. the umbrella has some sort of the wealthiest nations on the planet for paying for their own defense and they've gotten used to it. the united states army lives in germany. if you like the german welfare system as many americans do, good for you because you are paying for it because you free up the german of the tory budget so they could beat their swords into the welfare checks. now we have decided, we have decided we would like to live like the swedes and the belgians but without a sugar daddy to take care of us as we took care of europe. we live on the planet in which north korea is assisting the iranians with their delivery systems and they are promising to share their nukes with sudan. north korea has an undetected gdp. it doesn't just have a low gdp. it has a gdp that is not statistically measurable when you compare.

there is no gdp. all the exports or the nuclear technology and malkoff viagra. you cannot measure north korea's gdp but it is a nuclear power. we face the prospect of a world in which the wealthiest society in history from norway to new zealand are incapable of defending their borders while the third world basket cases go nuclear. how long do you think that arrangement is going to last? and on that kind of planet it's not hard to figure out what comes next. and is for nukes. so i still love letter by letter the thesis of my book. a is prediction. r as for redistribution, m as for monopoly. a as for the arteriosclerosis. g as for global retreat from e as for educational social engineering, d as for dk, disintegration, d is for open season, n as for the nukes away,

put them all together and they spell armageddon. a-r-m-a-g-e-double d-o-n. [laughter] from one need to those fiscal to the planetary ruin and nothing is left. if you don't want that to happen need to get serious and demand your candidates get serious. it's not about putting john kerry on the congressional super committee to report back about raising the age of medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 in the year 2015. there isn't going to be 2015 if that is the best john kerry can do. the best that he can do for america is to win with nantucket and that yellow spandex. [applause] that got a bigger cheer than the

de tocqueville shtick. don't be cruel to john kerry. he thinks it does wonders for his figure. [laughter] i think that he should win nantucket until 2015. he's doing the least damage. let's not let him make landfall until 2015 and we might get out of this. those of us on the receiving end of john kerry's genius need to understand that it is not about the mid century, it is about the decade, it's about right now. the united states is still different. you know this. in the wake of the economic meltdown france right of the most modest of the proposals to increase the retirement age. elderly students in britain attack the heir to the throne over attempts to constrain the pointless universities.