in the academia they say post colognal. we are in the nero colonial period. the middle east, they say i'm from the middle east. every say i hear the word "middle east" and there's some insult to me. why we live middle east by the british colonizers. we're middle relative to london and india with the far east relative to england. so we were named by our colonyizers. i say when i go to england, i say i'm going to the middle west. [laughter] >> when i come to the united states, i say i'm going to the far west. [laughter] >> you laugh -- you are laughing about a ridiculous language. but we use this ridiculous colonial language everyday, in our writing, in our academia, in the media and nobody laugh. so we have to change the language in order to be free because if we cannot change the language, we are not free. we are dominated by the big powers in the academia, in politics, in economics, in religion. i'm supposed to be brief because -- no, because i would like to have a dialog, and a conversation with anthony and maybe hopefully with you but maybe we will not hav

angela merkel has traversed steep intellectual mountains and physics, chemistry, academia, has been ineffective and respected leader in the worlds of environmental affairs, youth, women's rights, governments and politics. always a later breaking new ground in grasping in the vision of a bigger picture as well as the minutia of detail, but never coming untethered from her corporation purposeful effort to focus on building a better world for all mankind. i recall the first time i met angela merkel, eshoo is general secretary of the christian democratic union. we had lunch in berlin and we talked about german-american relations, nato, the transatlantic alliance and her concerns about a world that she sought as drifting in a very dangerous way. that included a german american draft, attention and building in our relations affecting each other's interests. after our first meeting with left mean a deep impression of this leader and head in many occasions to meet dr. miracle in both my senate office in washington and in germany. each time i met with her i was more impressed with her insights and an ab

realize a great deal for its expertise on going outside the intelligence community think tanks, academia, and yes -- yes, contractors. i am not sure that is all bad as long as we keep contact -- to contact with the world, keep current says current and we can bring them in. a typical example our national intelligence estimates, the premier intelligence community judgments on major and important topics for virtually all of those we sent them to a group of sight readers after the government does its work and these are eckert experts in the field who do spend their whole life worrying about just that one country or that one group and then we take that on board and included in the group. i think it is true we probably don't have too many analysts who have quit that level of expertise on the subject but if we can get to it and maybe that is not -- maybe that is not so bad. when i -- during the time i spent outside of government i got to know more of these outside experts, and by and large from outside their experience with intelligence community was one of mutual respect. it wasn't that they h

koh had a distinguished career in government service and legal academia. i am concerned he spent a little too much time in the ivory tower and he wish he would return to that jurisdiction. given my previously stated concerns, i cannot and will not in good conscience vote in favor of his nomination. i recognize that mr. koh may be headed for confirmation, but i would ask those who may have previously voted for cloture to go to this nomination, think about what he said about congress, about the work that we've done here and about what he has said about america. are you comfortable having him as a legal adviser to the state department after what he said about america being part of the axis of disoh, bead snens are you comfortable with what he said about those of us who voted for the war resolution, about those of us who voted for the fisa amendments act? i'm certainly not. if he is confirmed, i would hope that for his and our country's sake, if he returns to the state department, his legal advice will be based on facts rather than political rhetoric. i yield

i just think it's -- his views are, if they were confined to academia and yale law school, it would be one thing. but the thought that he would then bring -- put these, what i would consider to be kwrouft mainstream legal -- out of of the mainstream legal theories as an advisor at the state department, to me, is a frightening prospect. he's also, in the course of his writings, taken a very extreme view with regard to the second amendment to the constitution of the united states, part of our bill of rights. the right to keep and bear arms. in 2002 and later in fordham law review in may 2003, he wrote an arld called "the world drowning in guns," in which he argued for a global gun control regime. do we really want the top advisor at the state department working through diplomatic circles to take away americans' second amendment rights to the constitution? i think not. third, professor koh in 2007 argued that foreign fighters, detainees, held by the united states armed forces anywhere in the world -- not just at guantanamo bay -- are entitleed to habeas corpus review in u.s. federal court

their views may not be controversial in the ivory tower of academia. academics often encourage each other on provocative ideas so they can write about them and get published and get tenure. but they don't want judges to experiment with new legal theories when it comes to judging. they have a more commonsense view that judges should follow the law and not the other way around. so where does judge sotomayor stand on some of these academic legal theories that i think are far out of the mainstream of the american thought? i'm not sure, but in her 2002 remarks she said this. she said, "i accept the proposition that as professor resnick describes it to judge is an exercise of power. and as professor minnow states, there's no objective stance but only a series of perspectives, no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging." if i understand her quotes directly, and there are some things i want to ask her about in this hearing, those are not the kinds of things i think most americans would agree with. they don't want judges who believe there is no such thing

the theory of journalism, and i think its practice in academia is to tell the difference between the different kinds of reporting features, news stories. difference between a news story and where the opinions should be. so why do we find, and we know where the so-called facts are supposed to be and we find a lot of facts can really offer opinions in the way they're handled, so why do we find the kind of reporting that is demonstrated so very well by you, that is not a theory in practice. and the gentleman touched on it, if i can just reiterate, and i think it's because most people don't realize and consciously or unconsciously practice it, that journalism, the media, is a very big business and they are in business to make money. and that when money is involved, you know, a lot of things, theory goes out the window. would you say? >> >> i would and i

i want to raise a point* academia and integrity in that venue. in 2004 chester douglas a professor of the harvard school of dental medicine testified before a national research council looking at the drinking water standard for fluoride saying he found no connection between water fluoridation and osteosarcoma. it turned out some diligent members went back and found a dissertation in which a signature appears finding just the opposite. in fact, one of his doctoral students dissertation found a sevenfold increase in osteosarcoma risk in young boys and pre-adolescent growth spurt phase of their drinking fluoridated drinking water. a complaint was raised about professor douglas's testimony and harbored investigated this. finding that he did not quote intentionally" end quote. conduct scientific misconduct but it has sequester dollar of the documentation around that investigation. as it turned out chester douglas to was taking money from colgate for many years and contributed $1 million to harvard's of their issues to be dealt with at the venue as wel

i have long been aware of rabbi schiff's commitment and contributions to academia, to the jewish community and to the social welfare of all residence of south florida. his spirit of optimism and determination that rabbi schiff possesses can be seen in this week's torah portion. after returning from the land of israel, caleb reports to the jewish people that we should surely go up and inherit the land for we are certainly able. rabbi schiff's hard work on behalf of the jewish community has been tireless and always with contagious optimism. no task is too large and no cause is without merit. but his greatest achievement is his family, including his lovely wife, shirley, and his three adult sons, elliott, his wife alyssa, and their children michael and brook, jeffrey, his wife,riesa and their children. steven, his wife jacqueline, and their children, jennifer and jeremy. the opening prayer rabbi schiff presented today reflects his intellectual fiber as well as a determination to improve our community and our country. i thank rabbi schiff for his invocation and look forward to working with him

quickly learned there is a huge disconnect between theory and practice, which i learned in my halls of academia. because of on the very first day when i walked into my classroom in long beach, california i was absolutely clueless. the first day i wore polka dots and pearls and as i was about to go to the 45 minute drive from my home to the city my father called in panic and said no matter what you do please do not eat apples. he convinced himself all of the apples were either leased or had razor blades. [laughter] okay, dad. as i made the drive from newport beach into the city i learned in this community there was a lot of hopelessness. 126 murders had taken place along that summer. i walked through metal detectors, went into a classroom, it was elected. there were no textbooks, no technology and there was no eager reston's like yourself ready to dive in and learn about shakespeare. and i quickly found out students knick team everyone in the syllabus white guys with tights. these students learn if they put down their fists, put down the gun or this break-in and increase education. as most of yo

used the word, it's a flexible and dynamic statute, which i think is am deke i can't for lawless -- academia for lawless and we'll make it up as we go along and it's fine for professors to figure this stuff out but i don't want people wearing robes to do it, but it also creates inevitable tension which they tried to do under the 14t 14th amendment under saw. you have a statute that says you have to create the minority-majority districts. shaw says you can't create the districts and it creates this incredible dilemma for state legislature. you have not only reached an incoherent point in the law, you've reached a law that's at war with itself. the best solution is to step back, no longer edge garage in the racial preference mandate and come to some notion of basic equality and the final not i'll make interns of what both rick and abbey alluded to, there's a case pending in the supreme court, what's going to happen in terms of the future section 5. you can go broke better, on which way the supreme court is going to come out, particularly justice kennedy. my own view is that they're greatly con

there's certainly no form quite like it, government come industry, academia to share this commitment to meeting the challenges of our times. it was an honor for me to be seated with some of the founders of this organization at the table here earlier this evening. so i would like to talk about three subject tonight. first, i will update you on some of the areas of concern we are following closer and the intelligence community. i will ellen tell you a little bit about the trip that i was on in pakistan and afghanistan, and then i will finish by talking about the priorities for the intelligence community that i have the privilege of bleeding, so let me start by talking about a few of these areas that are of concern to us in the intelligence world. one that is perhaps and usually at the head of the list now are the national security implications of the worldwide economic recession, which we are now enduring. it is one thing to look at it as a financial and economic problem, and i will leave it to others to predict how long the current recession is going to go on and when we are going to