please welcome roger clay. [applause] >> thank you very much for that nice introduction and for inviting me today. thank you to the cato institute and thank you to rick sander and stuart taylor for writing this wonderful book. i will he preys on them for this book, it is terrific, makes an extremely important contribution to the debate on these issues, unprecedented contribution in many ways. i have read the book and is very readable, has lots of charts and diagrams for those who like that sort of thing. very well written, everybody should buy multiple copies and give them to friends and family, people you know, people you don't know. it is a terrific book. and something about what terrific people the authors are. you got to be smart to write a really good book but you also have to be brave. particularly more so for them to write a book like this than for me. i have few friends anyway. i don't pal around with reporters and academics and people like that very much. rick is an academic. stuart does pal around wit