[applause] >> professor powe thank you for that insightful, franken entertaining book report. we have for you a present for joining us at the book festival. it is mr. duly's opinions. [laughter] i will read the last page of his opinion on the supreme court flag cases after the spanish-american war and-- there you have the decision hennesey that ish chaiken the intellect of the nation to their various foundations, or willett they try to read it. it is all right, look over at some time. it is fine sports a few don't care for checkers. some say it leaves the flag up in the air and some say that is where it leaves the constitution. and the house something is in the air but there's one thing i'm sure about. what is that asked mr. hennesey? no matter whether the constitution follows the flag and not the supreme court follows the election returns. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> lucas powe is a government professor at the university of texas at austin. his books include american broadcasting and the first amendment and the for the state and the constitution. the 2009 texas bo

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many books have been written by vietnam veterans pows and i think i've read them all. i've been out of work since december and those two groups of books i found fascinating and particular one by bill jacobs, if not now when is the name of that book. >> host: john, let me keep you on the line. i want to see if you've read this one. max cleland's book heart of a patriot. how i found the curse to survive vietnam walter reid and karl rove. >> caller: i've read about six books about that this year. bad in history is an incredible time. one incredible effect i found about lessons in history is such few people make the decision for us to go to war. it's incredible. three people sat around a desk and decided for us to go to war in 1962. that book is an incredible book for all americans to read. >> host: thanks for the tip. here is john on our line. >> caller: besides the bible which takes longer than a year to read, i liked arguing with these. it is better than common sense for me and i just really enjoyed reading it. and there's another book that was like to read and not free

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averaging 14 minutes but called in to start this ballgame tonight again because mike scott their big 6'8" powower forward out with a high ankle sprain that was first learned about when posted it on facebook. inside they go. and knox got fouled. mike scott posted on his facebook page that he had a high ankle sprain and that is how people found out about it. we found out of course today when was not participating in the shoot around. check out talking hoops starting friday, january 15th. 9:00 eastern time. in depth look from college football from top notch experts who know the game's best. coming in january. brendon knox. see his season numbers. averaging 18 minutes, 6 points, 3 rebounds. senior out of georgetown, south carolina high school by we wayf spartanburg methodist college. >> daymeon: and knox a guy who was -- coach lebo wanted to try to go to him and try and establish an inside presence. right now, though, haven't seen a lot of that. knox a couple of passes inside but i feel like if you are auburn you want to try to get in there a little bit more. >> matt: auburn hit the first four fr

loyalties are at odds with the strong central government and with that acquiescence to external military powthe rand corporation observed recently i quote, the objectives should be to do what afghanistan says most effective historical governments have done. help the pashtun tribe, subtribes and plans providing security and justice in the areas. and help to manage the process. end of quote. meaningful progress in afghanistan is likely to require tolerance or even encouragement. of tribal administration in many years, as well as convincing tribal leaders that opposing the taliban is in their interests. and these circumstances we should explore, for example, how a cell phone and other communication technologies can be used more effectively. both as an avenue for public diplomacy for the afghan people and as a means for gathering information from them. already 7 million cell phones are in afghanistan. one for every 4 inhabitants, more or less. the taliban is bent on destroying communication towers, understanding the threats posed by these technologies. for example, cell phones could be used by s

loyalties are at odds with the strong central government and with that acquiescence to external military powthe rand corporation observed recently i quote, the objectives should be to do what afghanistan says most effective historical governments have done. help the pashtun tribe, subtribes and plans providing security and justice in the areas. and help to manage the process. end of quote. meaningful progress in afghanistan is likely to require tolerance or even encouragement. of tribal administration in many years, as well as convincing tribal leaders that opposing the taliban is in their interests. and these circumstances we should explore, for example, how a cell phone and other communication technologies can be used more effectively. both as an avenue for public diplomacy for the afghan people and as a means for gathering information from them. already 7 million cell phones are in afghanistan. one for every 4 inhabitants, more or less. the taliban is bent on destroying communication towers, understanding the threats posed by these technologies. for example, cell phones could be used by s

and this would be yet one more example of 9 arrogance of powe power -- of the arrogance of power since the democrats have secured a 60-vote majority in the united states senate. there is a better way to handle health care reform. first and foremost, it must be bipartisan. and we stand ready, willing and able to do a bipartisan bill. without the restrictions that were placed on the distinguished senator who chairs the finance committee, so it should be bipartisan. second, we cannot erode the existing system that has provided quality and affordable health care to most americans for decades. while we all agree that the current system should be improved, this bill is certainly not the answer. if the senate bill passes, the e mccain motion to recommit, we can begin to work on a bipartisan health bill that will eliminate the overwhelming medicare payment reductions and at the same time address the serious issues facing the medicare program in the near future. look, we know that insurance should cover preexisting conditions. we know that if we use 50 state laboratories by giving the states th

. >> senator kraep powe. >> i want to focus on how we should establish our financial regulatory system. this committee is working on financial regulatory reform right now. one of the biggest concerns i have is as we move forward in that that we do not institutionalize the too big to fail syndrome. i, for one, believe we have allowed companies that should have been resolved to continue with -- being propped up by the federal government or the fed and that has led to a moral hazard that we need to deal with in the structuring of our system. you've very often said that we need a new resolution authority so you and others can have the tools to deal with allowing large institutions to be wound down or resolved. and yet at the same time, i believe in your testimony you indicate that you believe we need to have the ability, you and others need to have the ability to provide necessary liquidity at times of crisis. there's obviously a problem there. my question to you is how do we make the determination of what systemic risk is? maybe to put it a different way, how do we make the determination

she put a pow reports of showing the contract by year -- she put up a power play at showing the contractby year, and is widely exceeded estimates by billions of dollars. my estimate was $17 billion or $18 billion, and the original estimate was less than a billion, and then she showed us a bar graph, and you saw a big drop after the first year, and then it leveled out, and it was still a huge amount of money, so she got to the presentation, and you could tell she was still nervous, so i was trying to help her. i was trying to be kind. kind. -- and i was trying to be kind. and i said to her, you left out what you all did to bring that contract down so much after the first year. there were is an uncomfortable silence in the room as ever when shifted and looked into each other. with god as my witness, she looked at me across the table and said it was a fluke. that is the best example i can give you of several examples of how contract thing went wild in iraq. so, here we are, in afghanistan. and i know many of you, because you reference in your testimony, have gone through siger's book of har

loyalties are at odds with the strong central government and with that acquiescence to external military pow. the rand corporation observed recently i quote, the objectives should be to do what afghanistan says most effective historical governments have done. help the pashtun tribe, subtribes and plans providing security and justice in the areas. and help to manage the process. end of quote. meaningful progress in afghanistan is likely to require tolerance or even encouragement. of tribal administration in many years, as well as convincing tribal leaders that opposing the taliban is in their interests. and these circumstances we should explore, for example, how a cell phone and other communication technologies can be used more effectively. both as an avenue for public diplomacy for the afghan people and as a means for gathering information from them. already 7 million cell phones are in afghanistan. one for every 4 inhabitants, more or less. the taliban is bent on destroying communication towers, understanding the threats posed by these technologies. for example, cell phones could be used by