the most repeat book by aei press. women's figure and illustrative guide to economic women in america. you have another book coming out. what is it? >> regulating disaster. how green jobs pots damage america's economy. that's how the focus of green job alternative fortuning is imposing cost on america's economy. costs that proponent of green jobs are not acknowledging. >> and for the most part, you write a lot about gender policy and politics. and is this a branch out for you to write about green job displs. >> i also written my book have been in the area of gender. i have written a lot also in energy economics and in taxation. i'm a monthly column nist for this. i edited a bock called overcoming barriers to imeerpship. i wouldn't say it's a radical thing. social security something i've been thinking about it and writing about far long time. thank you for joining us on booktive. >> it's great to be with you. >> coming up from booktv coverage from the annual libertarian contest. economist george talks about new edition

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some of them are blogs, some from the aei, an independent group. >> these are very credible sources. >> one of them is from a guy who is a blog from a guy who was a top advisor to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> that was top romney advisor ed gillespie. more on that in a moment, first, i want to begin at the beginning. with what romney has been promising. >> under no circumstances will i raise taxes on the middle class of america. we will keep our taxes down. >> what mitt and i are proposing is a five-point plan -- >> there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit but i do want to reduce the burden being paid by middle income americans. >> the combination of limiting deductions and credits and exemptions. >> you can cut tax rates by 20% and still preserve these important preferences for middle class taxpayers. >> it is mathematically possible. >> that's the promise. keeping them honest, though, neither he nor his running mate paul ryan have ever specified which tax deductions they will cap, which loopholes they will close or frankly give out many details a

. >> the good news is that five different economic studies, including one at harvard and princeton, aeiple at the wall street journal all show that if we bring down our top rates and actually go across the board, bring down rates for everyone in america, you can remain revenue neutral. you cite a study. there's six other studies that looked at the study you described and say it's completely wrong. >> six different studies have said this is -- >> what gives? if you're not right about your projections? >> because first of all, i've got princeton, harvard, "wall street journal" and aei all saying actually that we can bring down the rates. >> six studies have guaranteed, six studies have verified that this math adds up. >> keeping them honest, though, not quite. the suggestion is that these are full-blown academic studies. actually, three are blog posts, one is a "wall street journal" op-ed. in the "wall street journal" piece, martin feldstein, a campaign advisor, makes the math work but only by using a different definition of middle class than mr. romney uses in his own plan. in another st

these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> harvard an aei and other studies -- >> you went say aei is aive think tank. >> i would say it is a right-leaning think tank. it doesn't make it not credible. >> chris: it doesn't make it nonpartisan. >> it does. it's not a partisan organization, i can tell you, there are many instances where there are things aei came out with and said, i didn't find to be necessarily -- in line with the republican party. >> chris: you say brookings institution is nonpartisan. >> left leaning and nonpartisan. >> chris: the president will be more aggressive tuesdaynight. how does the governor plan to do that. >> he'll talk about his agenda and policies and there is a choice election here between president obama's policies and governor romney's policies and it became clear in the first debate and the second debate and it was clear in the vice presidential debate and this is a big choice election and, the fact is, what we saw was, even if we changes his style, and whatever political tactic the president settles on as being in his best interest for the debate he can

some from the aei which is hardly an independent group. >> these are credible sources and -- >> chris: one is from a blog from a guy who was a top advisor to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> if you look at harvard and aei and other studies they are are credible sources. >> chris: you wouldn't say that aee is a conservative think tank? >> i would say it is a right leaning think tank. that doesn't make it not. >> i it doesn't make it nonpartisan. >> it is not a partisan organization. there are many instances there have been things that aei came out with and said that i didn't find to be necessarily helpful to the republican party. i do believe in the interest of the republican party. >> gretchen: would you say the brookings institution is nonpartisan. >> they are left leaning and nonparsitan. >> chris: you know the president will be much more aggressive tuesday night in the next debate. how does the governor plan to handle that? yes. >> doll what he did in the last debate. talk about his agenda and policies. they are in sharp contrast. a big choice election here

we've been watching at aei, ohio for very long time. and i want to refer you to a book written by our emeritus colleague and the great, richard, in 1970. they wrote a book called the real majority. and in that book they identified as the key to the election the dayton housewife. she was from the middle of the country, had a mid-level education. she was a 47 year old catholic married to a machinist, and she was going to be the key to electoral politics in ohio. she became so famous in that election cycle that dick cavett, the late-night talk show, actually sent a team of producers to ohio to try to find the dayton housewife. and after that, the dayton housewife appeared on the dick cavett show pronouncing about the election. she had a cigarette and it was really quite an experience. but anyway, we've been watching ohio for a very long time here henry, and now you can tells what it will be the dayton housewife, a cincinnati housewife, what should we be looking at? >> nowadays will probably be likely to be the columbus separated woman with

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that aei is a conservative think tank? >> it's a light leaning think tank but that doesn't make it uncredible. >> it doesn't make it partisan. >> two blogs from the conservative think tank, american enterprise institute. another nonpartisan study is from the conservative think tank, the heritage foundation. their own website said that it's a paper written by, ready for this one, a former bush adviser. study number five, five says -- is written by "the wall street journal," an op ed written by an adviser to the romney campaign. and lucky number six is another blog post written again by the same adviser to the romney campaign. this is the kind of campaign he's running. i mean, have we ever seen anything like this in politics? mr. romney wants the american people to trust him. but how can you trust a man who has no problem bending the truth to 67 million americans? joining me now is joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com and an msnbc political analyst. and democratic strategist bob shrum. let me thank you both for being he

. >> i wouldn't say aei is a credible think tank. >> it's a right leaning think tank, doesn't make itble. >> what is this man talking about? this is the kind of guy who would produce six studies and claim that his body fat percentage was 6%. but he wrote all the studies. >> there's all kinds of problems with the aei study in terms of what it presumes how the economy will grow. i think you're right. i think that the president does have to take down the mythology and take off the halloween costume that has been romney in the last two weeks on the tax plan and everything else. i think the president also has to make the case that this economy has turned around. you look at the auto industry, the financial industry, you look at nearly every single economic indicator, the news came out on friday about consumer confidence which shows it's way up. we have talked about how gdp has been turned around by a net positive of about 11 points and jobs a net positive of about a million jobs a month. the president has to make the case as to how he's turned a very bad situation around. i think the presi

it's a great pleasure to be back here with friend at aei. this paper or this talk is based on a paper that i've done with judge robert bork, my former colleague here at aei, and i want to acknowledge mrs. bork, mary ellen and bob, jr., out in the audience. let me say at the outset, this presentation and the paper that, its based upon which i will available today if not already available on aei website and also the criterion website is work that was commissioned by google but the views that are expressed and the conclusions that are reached in the paper are sole those of judge bork and myself. well, the title of the paper presents this question of the chicago school perspective on these questions of search and google. so i thought before we dive into issues of internet search, we have some common understanding what the chicago school of antitrust analysis is. i got associate the chicago school with the writings and teachings of a number of people at chicago but also a broader, i'll call it the honorary chicago school that maybe did their ph.d

we've been watching at aei, ohio for very long time. and i want to refer you to a book written by our emeritus colleague and the great, richard, in 1970. they wrote a book called the real majority. and in that book they identified as the key to the election the dayton housewife. she was from the middle of the country, had a mid-level education. she was a 47 year old catholic married to a machinist, and she's going to be the key to electoral politics in ohio. she became so famous in that election cycle that dick cavett, the late-night talk show, actually sent a team of producers to ohio to try to find the dayton housewife. and after that, the dayton housewife appeared on the dick cavett show pronouncing about the election. she had a cigarette and it was really quite an experience. but anyway, we've been watching ohio for a very long time here come henry, a new you can tells what it will be the dayton housewife, a cincinnati housewife, what should we be looking at? >> nowadays will probably be likely to be the columbus separated woman wit

it is a pleasure to be back here at aei. this paper -- talk based on a paper i have done with judge robert bork, a one to a knowledge mary ellen and bob jr. in the audience. this presentation and the paper it is based upon which i think will be available today if it is not already available on the web site and also on the criterion website, was commissioned by google but the views that are expressed in the conclusion that are reached in the paper are solely those of the judge and myself. the title of the paper presents this question of the chicago school perspective on questions of search and google. i thought before we die into issues -- dive into issues, we would have some antitrust analysis. i associate to kabul school with -- and so should the school with -- in taking a degree of their, discovered economics. and of course by the late 70's, the writings of the school started influencing the supreme court agreed deal. -- a great deal. i think some of the distinguishing characteristics of the chicago school of antitrust ana

i'm here at aei thank you for a stimulating presentation. i have two questions for you, if you wouldn't mind. the first is if you could talk about we're talking about to some extent the politicalization of science. most of which what happens in public policy political discussions. i'm wondering what your thoughts are on the politicalization of science in academia, if there has been say a slight, i don't want to for lack of a better word say corruption of some scientific disciplines because of the interaction with politic. i haven't -- in my climate science. i think there could be other. >> i would hard to believe it's in gmo because of the biological the chemical, the physical sciences are about as far removed from political ideology as you can possibly imagine. my daily routine at the lab was to grow bacteria and do very bizarre things to them. and then get results from that. okay. my political philosophy played no role in what i did on a daily basis. i would say that on biology, chemistry, physics, agreology, strong my, politics probably p

so thanks to rick and to aei for hosting this event and for all of you for being here.his is, obviously, a contentious campaign season so far, so it's nice to be talking today about an area in which there's actually some common ground between the two candidates, and for importantly, i think, genuine prospects for bipartisan collaboration after november 6th. both candidates, agree, first of all, that our or nation need to address challenges, essential to our long-term economic success and to making good on our collective commitment to educational opportunity. only three out of four freshmen complete high school on time. for african-americans and hispanics, the number's close to one in two. and the latest data from the act shows two-thirds of students who do graduate do so utterly unprepared for college-level work. meanwhile, postsecondary training is becoming at once more essential and less affordable than ever. both candidates also agree that the federal government has an important role to play in addressing these challenges, but their visions of that role are quite dis

other to thank aei, kenneth green, our mascot at uw. john m.simon kenneth green has been instrumental in getting me here. one final slide. in this book, we talked mostly about barack obama here. rush is one chapter piercy imagine how much information they packed into this the paper talk about organic food, genetically modified food in the future could come environmentalism, solar power, vaccines, european science, gender research, science journalism, false equivalence, wore an excellent and important issues for 2012 and beyond. that said, that's all i have. thank you very much. [applause] >> by the book. it's worth the investment of me. i have a bunch of questions, but i'm going to go to the floor after only asking one of them. could you talk a little bit about how natural gas went from being clean burning natural gas in the environmental movement to the point where we now have a war on natural gas from the mainstream? >> that's a great question. john and sign has a great answer to this. natural gas is to be a turning of the environment must th

some from the aei which is an independent group. >> these are credible sources. >> one is from a guy was a top adviser to george w. bush. hardly nonpartisan studies. >> some print folks had noted he's not been independent studies but wallace didn't let it go by without challenge. here's one about crime fighting in the digital age. the pottstown mercury has set up a board on pinterest with updated mug shots of suspects wanted by police. tloek local authorities report a 58% jump in arrests a few months after the site went up. readers can post comments that may provide the police with valuable tips. >>> the "new york times" magazine suspended andrew goldman for a month for something he wrote on twitter. in a times interview he asked an actress if she thought of having sex with an director to advance her career. when she tweeted the questions seemed to be sexist. she said she would have liked the opportunity to sleep her way to the top and used an obscenity in response to another critic. we have gotten a lesson how tweeting with first and thinking later can be dangerous. that's it for th

some of them are blogs, some from the aei. >> these are very credible sources. >> one of them is from a blogger to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> if you look at harvard and other studies, they are very credible sources for economic analysis. >> you wouldn't say aie is a conservative think tank? >> it's a right-leaning think tank. that doesn't make it not credible. >> those six studies don't hold water. besides the blog posts, two of the studies had had to change romney's tax plan to make it work. these aren't the only numbers the romney camp is lying about. there was vice presidential candidate paul ryan's claim about unemployment in the debate. >> you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is? it's 10%. you know what it was when you guys came in? 8.5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> rob portman was asked about it and he defended ryan. >> what he was saying is the truth. unemployment is higher today than it was when he took office. in the meantime, we have created net zero jobs. >> just throw it out there. it doesn't matter. something is go

diane frn foreign defense stois at aei, brett stevens, "the wall street journal's" jurial and the public policy of the national university of singapore. welcome back to all of you. bill, what did you make of what was billed as romney's major foreign policy address? >> the interesting thing to me was when you strip away the rhett rinne and the high-minded talk about leadership, he's not that different from obama and on a couple of points it seemed to me he moved a little closer to president obama, play-by-play analogous to the way he moved to the middle on domestic policy in the first debate. >> diane, you wrote an article in the op-ed times calling him the kind of stark substantive contrast or at least a vision, wasn't so clear it was a contrast. what did you think of it? did he deliver for you in. >> i thght he delivered to me up to a point. i think he made a lot of effort to be more pacific than he has. you know, the campaign on foreign policy has really been plagued by a certain vagueness in this obama has run on his record and romney has run as not obama but none of it has any real t

wi me isthe vp of foreign and dfense studies at the aei. thanks so much for coming back to the show. i want to ask you right out of the gate, you think is is a credible threat? do you really think they're considering this? >> i really dot. i can imagine to myself that as they were laying out scenarios for themselves about the things that they could do,his might have been one o them b but i think the country that would be targeted and hit most by any such action would actually be iran. they wouldn'te just shooting themselves in the foot. they would be shting themselves in the head. melissa: we're trying to bloc it actually makes more sense to me than that. they're trying, w're trying to block their sale of oil. so ostsibly y they have some oi sitting around they're having a tough time moving. it's unclear whether they care about the environmental imct. they would slow down the shipment there are some tankers that pass through there every day. i think 13 on average go through there. it is a very narrow strait. they may dirtying their shores b

other thing is as mitt romney, he's going to make some sort of big foreign policy address next week, aeibastion of liberal thought came out and said a blog post titled -- that's the fundamental problem here, right? there is a hunger for an alternative foreign policy plan but mitt romney isn't prepared to give any specifics. >> and to the extent that no one has -- it's like his economic policy, it has uncomfortable shades of the past republican administration, so, you know, if there's a need for a lot of new aproechls to those various foreign policy points they are not a return to neocon dog ma from the bush administration. i will say the argument for why -- i don't -- i do not believe they are engaged in a conspiracy, but the argument for why you would want to be engaged in a conspiracy is that president obama's foreign policy, largely rest on the notion he's largely decapitated al qaeda over the last four years and if al qaeda is still a dangerous force in the middle east you would lose ground on the strength of the claims he's made, not just? killing osama bin laden but in decapitating

some of them are blogs, some are from the aei, which is hardly an independent group. >> these are veryredible sources and -- >> one of them is from a guy who is -- a blog from a guy who was a top adviser to george w. bush. these are hardly nonpartisan studies. >> do you like that? governor rendell, you didn't see the face of ed gillespie, it just fell because finally one of the people just nailed him on this bs about these six independent studies. they're bloggers and the american enterprise institute, the most neocon organization on the planet. your thoughts. >> remember, it's not even $5 trillion in deductions have to take away, it's the $2 trillion in additional defense spending that they have to balance off, and there aren't $7 trillion worth of deductions even if you swept away mortgage interest and everything else. it just doesn't add up. >> i think you're picking a point, governor. just kidding. it's so obvious. we only have a moment, but i know the late arlen specter just died this weekend. he was such a big part of my life, your life, but you were a close friend of arlen's. te

three of those six studies are blog posts and one of them is by a research assistant at aei, which is one of the big ideological marketing organizations that pitch you their view of the world just the way companies advertise other products. but blog posts, those are studies that prove things? that's hilarious. >> why doesn't the plan add up? why doesn't his so-called plan for america, the 20% cut, add up? where's the flaw? >> well, it does add up for the very rich. if you listen very carefully to what romney always says, he says he's going to cut rates 20% and then he's going to see to it that those at the top don't pay a larger share of the total tax burden. well, that means that they're going to get a huge decrease in their tax bill. that's the important element. that is the ryan/romney plan, it is to create dynastic wealth which i think would be devastating to having our history of entrepreneurialism and strivers in this country and allow people who are already rich to collect income and interest dividends, capital gains, tax free or as romney has put it, not taxed on the first $20

senior fellow and director of economic policy at aei. christine romans is host of "your bottom line." president obama and mitt romney want to expand domestic oil production. >> we're going to get a north america energy independent where we don't have to buy any oil whatsoever from the middle east or from venezuela. >> in 2010, it was under 50% for the first time in 13 years. >>> next, cnn's fareed zakaria with his own road map to energy independence. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] its lightweight construction makes it nimble... ♪ its road gripping performance makes it a cadillac. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with advanced all-wheel drive. [ engine revving ] it's bringing the future forward. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 h