who was arnold rothstein? >> guest: arnold rothstein was the father of modern organized crime. gangland figure. a mobster figure. but he is not one of those dees, dem, and does guys. he doesn't have a scar on his cheek or brass knuckles or commanding as part of his main business an army of thugs. although he will employ the muscle guys to collect debts and such. but he is, as one of his earlier biographers called him, the big bankroll, and he is a gambler when gambling is big and farcable and semi legal in new york and moves into so many things from there, as his big bank roll, where he is putting together the money for rum-running and bootlegging and financing both side of organized labor disputes, even financing at one point the folks from the communist party. i guess the shipment of cash had not come in fro moscow that month. but he is lending money to build broadway theaters and put broadway shows on and financing the modern drug trade so he is involved install -- involved in all of these things, no to mention fixing the 1919 world series, fixing a few high-stakes horse rac

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>> guest: rothstein is often not in favor of anyone. [laughter] [talkingver each other] >> guest: there's a great divide between conservatives and libertarian. i do know that there was some issue as to whether reagan should have had a little more control over the federal reserve, and in that case, rothbard. unless they had completely messed up, he would ask for them -- they would ask for their head. up until that point, he was kind enough to let them have their head. >> host: marine from san rafael, california, yuan with david pietrusza. >>aller: good morning for the day. my question is about the provenance baseball team in providence, rhode island. do you have any history could talk about as this version history of that team. 1898 through 1902, i know from postcards, there was not a lot from one of the players sent. >> guest: why your personal interest in this? >> caller: i had a great uncle who was a player and he wrote my great aunt and he was from the providence braves. that is all i know about him. there is a picture of him in a ba

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and the most interesting from paul rothstein professor of law and georgetown, and teacher. and went on the radio in washington, talking about everything influenced by roberts other than the constitution. he didn't want to see him being uncaring or unresponsive to health care. and he had good health care, he was in business for a while and to do with the constitution-- >> the media did little coverage of, for example, only the l.a. times covered the two justices, scalia and thomas were fetted at a conference all we hear is impugning roberts-- >> it's not impugning, it's observing as cal says, on roberts come our way, come our way and howard kirsch summed it up. the media's man crush on roberts. and what about that, judy, because prior to the issuing of this ruling in much of the media, onroberts was a conservative patsy and then all of a sudden, he becomes a man of the hour when he votes to uphold obama care with the majority. >> and talk about flip-flop, i mean, this was the media almost on that, flipping on this man who had been satan incarnate just before the decision. i