the aaup, the american association of university professors, is a far left organization, the american federation of teachers is a thuggish far left organization, the american historical association, menses logical organization. the people running it ar all going to be political leftists and another reason is of course, if you get in the way of a political leftist, they will call you a racist or a sexist or a homophobe and in the academic world, that can be career damaging, shall we say. example, larry summers,est most powerful university president in the history of the modern university, ran afoul of the left at harvard. and became the first university president in the history of the modern university to be censored and eventually fired. i was given out by his own factual. it was only 10% of the harvard faculty but probably 100% of the left wingers on the harvard faculty. his things, he asked cornel west, who has a university professor, making several hundred thousand dollars a year, and then of only 14 so designated at harvard, so you can imagine how elevated this position is, cornel

that at american university's students would be assigned books that take one point of view on any issue of controversy, and of course in liberal arts subjects all the issues are controversy all because they are all subjective and manners of opinion. when you get past the fact charles dickens wrote a tale of two cities you write during the realm of controversy or it has so many pages. i knew this was a problem because i had spoken by 2003 on 100 college campuses. and one very poignant moment came when i spoke in minnesota, and a young female student whose sister had been murdered in a state where there was no death penalty and had taken up criminology to heal her wounds asked me if there were any articles or any books that supported the death penalty. i asked her doesn't your criminology professor tell you that there are such books and she said no. that still shocks me but it is an index how widespread this problem is on american campuses. another part of the modest proposal is if the professor has an opinion or perspective, he should not or she should not lead the students to think that

university setting. and i am not actually sure i would. >> so it's all americans fault. [laughter] >> the impression that people get or jewish people get in the united states is that british liberal intellectuals are hostile towards israel, and siding with the palestinians and making the israelis in this terrible drama. and i was wondering. you sort of have a foot in england and a foot in columbia, which is another place where such views are prevalent. >> they are not. stand up when you say that. >> i'm glad to here that. so i'm just wondering if you talk about that a bit. >> well, you are right in the first part of the question. you did say liberal intellectuals. until recently because i haven't changed paper, wrote a lot for the guardian. in the independent particularly has the kind of extravagantly anti-israeli writings, for example. it's not really just the left. there is of course, you must remember the great conservative romance with purity of the desert. the sense in the kind of romantic conservatism of the last century. i meant the 19th century as well as the 20t

i crossed over between art and history as i have been doing ever since, and i found the american university much more hospitable to that coined of interdisciplinary exchange, and would flirt with anthropology and philosophy and that was really -- i -- i often asked myself, i have written so many odd books, landscape of memory, whether or not -- and embarrassment of riches -- whether i would have done that if i stayed in a more conventional university setting and i'm actually not sure i would. so it's all america's fault. >> the impression that people get or jewish people get in the united states is that british liberal intellectuals are hostile towards israel and siding with the palestinians and making the israelis villains in this terrible drama, and i was wondering, you sort of have a foot in england and a foot in columbia, which is another place where such views are prevalent, and -- >> they are not. smile when you say that. >> i'm wondering if you could talk about that a bit. >> well, you are right in the first half of the question. you didn't say liberal jewish intellectuals. you said

treasury and served as a research fellow at and author of the allocate army, study arabic at the american university in cairo, a ph.d. candidate at cannes' college documenting history of the united states congress he has published many scholarly articles and featured on tv in this country, europe also in the arabic me and has traveled widely to egypt, ed turkey jordan the palestinian territories. and those that make back most of us think of the struggle for palestine we think of israelis and arabs and jews and muslims but if i understand correctly you suggest there is another struggle as significant as violent and read it will take between place between palestinian. >> what i argue the arab-israeli conflict has been to a certain extent eclipse the by the buy that conflict between hamas and fatah. the reason i say this is we continue to hear from the current and last administration that it is time to go back to the negotiating table they need to start discussing peace after eight or nine years of violence and altered peace talks. but we can now say with certainty is on the one hand we have an israeli

from american university school it is the policy of the committee to swear you in before you testified. would you please do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? we would like to 45 minutes to make your opening remarks before questioning, and please do so at this time. >> mr. chairman, congressman flake, members of the subcommittee, thank you for your invitation to appear before the subcommittee today the professional services council is -- more than 330 member company represents small, medium, and large businesses that provide federal agencies with services of all kinds. our members employ hundreds of thousands of americans in all 50 states. we have been actively engaged in policy issues relating to the federal government's contracting in iraq since the first days of shock and all. we testified before the senate on three separate committees over the past four years, twice at hearings chaired by the distinguished vice chairman of the commission, mr. shays, when he was in the house of representatives. he was in the house of representatives. we'

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. >> host: first of all the endorsement of senator kennedy at american university in late january of 2008, why did that come out? >> guest: at the time mr. obama told me that was the most emotional time he had on the campaign. it meant a huge amount. why did it come about? for caroline kennedy and her conversation with her children. again, children talking to adults about the election cycle. that was a fairly unique thing and of course the passing of the torch aspect for someone who idealized the civil rights movement as obama did he wanted it to be a community organizer because he dreamed of a civil rights movement in that era and was too late. so it was emotional for him in doubles a huge deal not just because it was the kennedys, but because you're the party establishment was saying this is back in the primaries a long way from being over. the relationship of the is the extended. caroline kennedy played a critical role in the vice presidential selection. she grew very close to senior figures in the obama circle including david axelrod and then candidate and of course ted kennedy n

americans. the university town of laquila along with 26 other surrounding cities, towns, and villages suffered massive destruction. you already have heard of how many people were killed. 15,000 buildings destroyed. they were historic, cultural landmarks. 70,000 people were displaced. so we extend our deepest sympathies. homes and churches can be rebuilt but we can never replace loved ones. despite the aftershocks that continue to devastate the region for days after, rescue workers demonstrated true heroism by pulling over 100 survivors from the wreckage. their efforts along with those of humanitarian aid organizations around the clobe who continue to work tirelessly to return people to their homes and rebuild the region deserve commendation. after traveling to italy earlier this year, i could attest to the resiliency and strength of the italian people. i remind us again of the 2,350 troops that fight alongside our brave men and women in afghanistan. it is trying times like these that allow us to recognize the deep and binding ties between our nations, united states of america and italy. this tragedy o

it is about american values, which i believe universal values, the values of rule block, of -- rule of law, participatory democracy, individual liberty, and about justice, and it is on the back of those universal values, not american interest, that i urge this body to support this resolution, and i yield back the balance of my time. >> in about five minutes, at 6:15 eastern, we expect live coverage from the american constitution society convention here in washington. staff from the white house and federal agencies will talk about how legal change can be achieved in today's policy environment. in the meantime, some of what happened on capitol hill today in the health-care debate. house democrats unveiled legislation they said would cover virtually all the nearly 50 million uninsured americans. the associated plethoric press rights that they dug in for partisan trench warfare. senator john mccain spoke on the senate floor today saying the whole enterprise is basically a gridlock. >> i would like to say a few words about healthcare, and obviously we are innate -- accog to the committee, b

it is about american values, which, i believe, are universal values, the values of rule of law, of participatory democracy, about individual liberty, and about justice, and is on the path of those universal values, not american interests, that i urge this body to support this resolution, and i yield back the balance of my time. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> up next on c-span, the supreme leader on the presidential election and the protests. after that, president obama's remarks at the annual radio and television correspondents dinner. coming up tomorrow on "washington journal," editor in chief for the washington prism. babak yektafar. rick rosendall talks about extending some benefits to same- sex workers. nelson smith and another guest. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think about roosevelt conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside many acres of wild america, so now, as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevel

you can read all the complaints of the go to the american association of university professors and enjoy yourself how embattled they actually field even though there are such a dominant baleen in tolerant force in academic life today. thank you. [applause] >> david horowitz as founding editor of the online news website frontpage magazine and president of the david horowitz freedom center. he is the author of many books including "radical son: a generational odyssey", "unholy alliance: radical islam and the american left", and "left illusions: an intellectual odyssey". for more information on the author, please go to front page.com. the publishing imprint 12 publishes 12 books a year, cary goldstein is publicity director at 12. what are some of the books you have coming out later 2009? >> well, this summer we are publishing henry waxman's the waxman report in july. it is a look back on the landmark legislation to the congressman has been involved in, tobacco, clean air, nutritional labels and what he does is explains to us how coalitions are built, how bills could move from subcommittees'

i was a professor at tulane university. mike american studies center, the theater roosevelt center -- my american studies center. i was teaching a class on conservation. at rice university now i teach a class on theater roosevelt and conservation again. i've been informing myself on the research part of this story for a long time. it always was in my mind that the main thing i wanted to do ato write the history of theater roosevelt then fdr, carson, then u.s. fish and wildlife, stored would all, ladybird johnson, up until the present time dealing with global warming and the modern green movement. i wanted to see all that through the eyes of the presidency. as a presidential historian. using people like teddy roosevelt and fdr and if truman and lyndon johnson and jimmy carter and clinton and people that have got involved with conservation, using them as a centerpiece if the talk about these characters around them. >> when did you do the reagan diaries? >> that came out three years ago. if we did it pretty quickly. it is ronald reagan's bo

in american government from university of virginia and master's degree in political philosophy. from boston college. before beginning his academic career prof connolly worked for the connecticut general assembly and as a legislative assistant on capitol little. 1991 at 92 he was a guest scholar at the brookings institution. he has published widely numerous scholarly articles and he's also been a political commentator for news outlets such as "washington post", "new york times," usa today, national journal, npr and abc news. he's co-author of the 1994 book, chris's permanent minority republicans in the u.s. house. since 1988, professor, we has been a faculty adviser to the presidential convention and he also founded the washington term program in 1987. in 2007 he received the virginia council of higher education outstanding faculty award. professor, we will moderate and introduced the panelists so please join me in welcoming professor bill connelly. [applause] >> thank you, blogging. thank you again to the reynolds foundation for generously supporting this symposium. i would like

in american government from the university of virginia. he has a master's degree in philosophy from boston college. before beginning his academic career, he worked for the connecticut general assembly and as a legislative assistant on capitol hill. in 1991 and 1992, he was a guest scholar at the brookings institution. he has published numerous scholarly articles. he has also been a political commentator for news outlets like "washington post,""new york times,"and abc news. he authored a book about republicans as minorities in the house. he has been a faculty adviser to the presidential convention. he also founded the nels washington program in 1987. in 2007, he received the higher education outstanding faculty award. he will moderate our panel. he will introduce the panelists. please join me in welcoming him. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that. thank you again to the reynolds foundation for generally -- generously supporting the symposium. i would like to begin by acknowledging the alumni who have joined us today. i created the was

that to make it clear that state department employees ought to promote universally recognized human rights, those upon which americans agree. and that was rejected in the committee. this legislation in embracing abortion rights overseas, in embracing the advocacy of changes in laws regarding homosexuality around the world, advocates a set of values that are at odds with the majority of the american people. we deserve a foreign relations budget that respects our pocketbooks and values. this does neither. i urge its rejection. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman from florida has 30 seconds remaining. the gentleman from california has three minutes remaining. ms. ros-lehtinen: i give the rest of our time to our wonderful gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher, who is going to be in a colloquy with our esteemed chairman. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. rohrabacher: i'd like to thank the chairman and the ranking member very much for this courtesy. mr. chairman, section 826 of our bill has been caref

freedom is not an american entity. it is a universal entity and the same way that the tortures and abu ghraib for not the products of certain people, but a tragedy that belonged to america. host: this is an e-mailed question. guest: i believe that democratization in one area will lead to that in another area. i do not believe we can bring about democratization by foreign invasion. that has a danger of bringing all the violent elements, not only within the country, but within the region. i hope in coming years we see change were both iraq and iran as well as other areas will become more democratic. host: mike is next on our independent line from kentucky. caller: yes, i just want to say that i am ex-military and have been all over the world and seen a lot of bad things in my time. from what i have seen here lately in the news concerning iran, i think it is great that internally their uprising against their regime. that they can hopefully become a democracy and have the same freedoms that anyone should have in the world. and i hope that o

university. african american history, civil rights movement, black power and also in u.s. history. >> host: and this is your first book? published by new york press. >> guest: absolutely. >> rick steves author travel guide for europe and many european countries talks about his recent trip to iran. mr. stevens who was in iran filming a pbs special says the country is the most poorly understood place he has ever visited. the event hosted by the commonwealth club in palo alto california is one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. well, it's great to be here, normally when i talked to a group like this i'm talking about europe. people know me because i make tv shows on the guide book. i went to iran for none of those reasons. i went to iran because i think you should know people before you bomb them. [applause] you know, sometimes it's necessary to bomb people and kill them i guess but i think it's bad character to dehumanize our country so it doesn't hurt to read our country included is good at dehumanizing an enemy, collateral damage, you know

university of illinois press? >> we published heavily in u.s. history with specialization in african-american history, labor history, women's history, ethnic history in general particularly latino history and american music. >> how is the business model for the university press changed in the last couple of years? >> our print runs are shorter and prices are going out as a result because the market is soft. we are selling fewer copies of books and it's difficult. >> jovana is editor-in-chief of university of illinois press. >> book tv is asking what are you reading? >> david keen founder and president of the american conservative union. what are you reading? >> when i am not reading about fly fishing which is what i spend a lot of my time doing i am reading a lot of political books and novels. the most impressive book that i have read in the recent days is amity shlaes's book the forgotten man which is to read interpretation of the depression years and roosevelt administration and i'm also going back and reading things i read a long time ago but haven't recently like the road to serfdom by fr

from the american enterprise institute here in washington, she's joined by richard pildes of new york university law and michael carvin. this is about two hours. >> thank you very much for joining us at today's event. i'm henry olson. i'm vice president at the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative. the nri is an entity with aei that financially supports original research and writing on questions of domestic public policy. and is the proud sponsor of the book that's the subject of today's event. voting rights and wrongs, the elusive quest for racially fair elections available for purchase at www.aei.org, i might add. the five most important words in american political history are all men are created equal. ultimately, virtually every political question is how to apply these words to the question at hand and every one of those applications requires americans to answer three questions. who are men? what does it mean to be created equal? and does being created equal imply an inequality of fact in light of the circumstances and the question at hand. nowhere ca

university. former president of american meteorological association. david -- dr. david know he will, former chairman of the nato -- former chairman and nato meteorology from canada. dr. gerard karam, university of alaska and fairbanks. dr. yuri israel of the russian academy of sciences, a senior member of the senior academy of sciences who i met and spoke to and also a member of the ipcc, united nations report who now makes it very clear that he does not believe in that report or manmade global warming. dr. ian pill in her of the university of melbourne. dr. diean douglas, climateologist. dr. harry listen, co-chairman of the ipcc, hydroology and water resources working group. dr. antonio zakiki, world federation of sciences. dr. iber gyver. so, this idea that all the scientists are in lock step in favor of the theory of manmade global warming is a lie. not just a lie, a damnedble lie aimed at cutting out honest communication. and who's doing that? who's making this adamant statement that all the scientists are in agreement with this? well, we've had people who say

then i went into a course in american history that the university required you to take, which i thought was -- you know, i wanted to take biology and anatomy and embryology. but they forced you to take a history course, so i just willy-nilly signed up for one. i walked in, and the professor -- his name was william b. hesseltine -- had been talking about three minutes, and i wasn't a pre-med anymore. i was a history major. after that lecture i went up to him, and i said, "i want to do what you do for a living. how do i go about doing that?" c-span: why did he impress you? >> guest: oh, he was a great lecturer. he was a great teacher of writing. he was not really a very good writer himself. i continued at the university for my ph.d., and he was a real bear on writing. he would come down on you so hard. we used to go in an see him and say, "but dr. hesseltine, look at this book you've done. it's not all that good. how can you be demanding so much of us?" and he would smile and say, "you've got a better teacher than i had." he had, at one time in a seminar, harry williams, ken standt, dick

the team at harvard law school, harvard medical school and ohio university reported in the "american journal of medicine," a very representable institution. using -- this is a quote from the study, using a conservative definition, 62.1% of all bankruptcies i2007 were medical. 92% of these medical debtors had medical debts over $5,000 or 10% of their pretax family income, the researchers wrote. another startling quote, most medical debtors were well-educated, owned homes, and had middle class occupations. now that's pretty serious. i just want to ask, one of the three of you, do any of you have reactions to this study? i yield to the gentlewoman from california, ms. woolsey. ms. woolsey: you're actually telling my story. i think we all remember that i've said it so many times to all of you. mr. ellison: we never get tired of it. ms. woolsey: it was 40 years ago, my children were 1, 3, and 5 years old, their father was emotionally ill and abandoned us. i went to work. i was -- like the 45 million people who are uninsured in this country right now, 85% of them are working. i mean, imagi

appointments in the berman even bredesen and a permanent biochemistry at howard university and his past year of the american heart association on attrition, physical activity my pastor of the nutrition committee of the american heart association and past chairman of the nutrition studies section of the national institutes of health. her major sea -- major research is in cramer's, a disease in relation to diabetes and is the risk of that group and her current research projects include strong heart study, multi center study of cardiovascular disease and its risk practice of american indians and a study of the genetics of coronary artery disease and alaskan eskimos. and then finally we have serving as co-director of the quality improvement collaborative, expecting success excellence and cardiac care. research professor and director of the center for health care quality and the health policy at the george washington university school of public health and health services. at this time we will swear you in. please swear or affirm the information that you have provided and will provide is true and accurate to the

should all americans be entitled to health care as a right? universal health care for all of our people. and that, by the way, of course, is the way we have responded for years to police protection, to education, to fire protection. we take it for granted that when you call 911 for police protection the dispatcher does not say to you, "what is your income? do you have police insurance? we can't really come because you don't have the right type of insurance to call for a police car or to call for a fire truck." and when your kid goes to school, we take it for granted that no one at the front desk of a public school says, "sorry, you can't come in. your family is not wealthy enough." what we have said for 100 years is that every kid in this country is entitled to primary and secondary school because they are americans. and we as a nation want them to get the education that they deserve. every other major country on earth has said that about health care as well, and yet we have not. i think right now, and i think what the presidential election, last electi

>> guest: a political science professor at the university of oregon. i teach american politics paradigm teaching a course on comparative conservatism with europe and america and also racial politics from the mid 20th century to the president. >> host: when it comes to compared to a politics what is the difference? >> guest: one difference is america was founded on the liberal idea of the classic idea in the way that the europeans don't have. here if you looked at the origins of american conservatism you see hamilton ideas about manufacturer and capitalism and markets and a centralized power and jeffersonian they blend together into a conservative movement in the 20th century so there is no tradition the wigs lacked either an aristocracy to fight or a mob to fight against. so you don't have feudal traditions and the same way. >> host: university of oregon, from the new deal to the new right. >> hi. thank you for coming. i will read a real quick passage from chapter four and then do my little routine, am i talk. this is a chapter called the new taliban. when the end came

american landscape. i was teaching at hofstra university with the late jon gabel, a professor to died of cancer, john and i posted a presidential conference. i was co-chair on theater roosevelt. i had papers coming in from everywhere. john helped me realize there had never been a book written on theater roosevelt on conservation. there was an diversity pres forum of a little bit of notes. i had a great opening there. i realized that between the civil war, the emancipation proclamation, and the second -- the first world war, roosevelt using the white house to promote conference erasicons, involvement with the audubon society, saving birds, and the u.s. fish and wildlife in the national monument, it's changed america. anybody opens up an atlas, there is america. you see all of that green. roosevelt was there. he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america. as people are talking about environmentalism now and the green movement, roosevelt is the key figure to understand. he was the only politician of his day to had understood biology and understood that birds had migratory patterns and the mating hab

with tax reform not government mandates we can achieve universal access to care for all americans. mr. speaker, republicans have a positive patient centered prescription for america that doesn't result in a government takeover. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. speier: mr. speaker, we lost a lion of the labor movement with the passing of ambassador jack henning. he spent the vast majority of his 93 years fighting for men and women in the fields, factories and loading docks of america. the only thing i loved more than telling labor story to anyone who would hear it would be telling them to those who didn't. jack was a driving force behind the california labor federation, but he served our country in many ways. he was the director of the california department of industrial relations under governor pat brown, undersecretary of labor for president kennedy and u.s. ambassador to new zealand und

process, freedom of speech, the ability of people with -- these are universal values that need to be respected. whenever the american people see certain things, they are troubled rightfully. my understanding is that the iranian government says they will look into the irregularities that have taken place. we were not on the ground. we did not have observers there were international observers on hand. i cannot state definitively what happened with respect to the election. what i can say is that there appears to be a sense on the part of the people who were so engaged and so committed -- to democracy will now feel betrayed. i think it is important that moving forward, what ever investigations take place is done in a way that does not result in bloodshed and does not result in people being stifled in expressing their views. with respect to the united states and our interactions with iran, i have always believed that as odious as i consider some of his statements, as deep as the differences that exist between the united states and iran on a range of core issues, that the use of tough diplomacy about iran and the nature o

making of christian free enterprise", which has been released by harvard university press and we're here of the organization of american historians and no meeting in seattle having a discussion. you have been telling us the best is for free enterprise in this intriguing story of how the christian colleges got funding. it is kind of a happy story in some ways. the schools got funding and these kids out business jobs, but then you take a very dark turn in a letter chapters and you show us this model getting it exploited internationally and in particular you talk about this expansion into central america at the time when there were essentially the civil wars going on in places like el salvador and guatemala and nicaragua. can you take as to what happens there because i think we knew that counterbalance, one of the strains of the book is how you handle both sides but i think the stores might be really interested to know what the international side of the story is and the christian free enterprise. >> guest: the central american story was on a completely surprised me when it came upon a and again this was a philanthropic ou

american landscape. i was teaching at hofstra university with the late john gable who died unfortunately of cancer. we co-hosted a hofstra presidential conference. i was co-chair on theodore roosevelt. i had papers coming in from all over. i started realizing and john gable helped me realize this that had never been a book written on t.r. and conservation, t.r. on the wilderness of any magnitude. there was a little bit of note so i had this great opening. i started realizing that between the civil war, the emancipation proclamation of lincoln and world war i with woodrow wilson, roosevelt using the white house to promote conservation and nature and what he called the strenuous life to save birds, his involvement with the audubon society and the eventual creation of u.s. fish and wild life and our national monuments, it's changed machine. in this summer anyone opens up an atlas, there is america and you see that green. you're looking at roosevelt reserves, roosevelt monuments. he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentism and green movements, r

understand that the american people -- the american taxpayer right now is paying to make sure that every man, woman and child in iraq has access to universal health care coverage. now, it's inconsistent that we would pay for iraqis to see the doctor that they want to but not americans. the second p is that we have portability. is that our workers, when they get that pink slip, god forbid, that they can take their health care from job to job to job. portability, covering all people and certainly one of the third p's, one of the third p that we have in our five p's is making sure that we provide incentives for prevention because prevention should be tied into all of this with respect to healthy lifestyles and ending the chronic diseases that plague so many. . insurance companies using as a notion of disqualifying people from seeing their primary care physician. when the worker in a factory in canton, ohio, loses their job and gets hired by another factory with another set of health care opportunities and they were a diabetic, god forbid, it becomes a pre-existing condition for routine coverage. we need to end pre-existing conditions. and mak

the book is "almost a miracle: the american victory in the war of independence" published by oxford university press. you can find out more about the library by viewing other archival programs by visiting pritzker military library. thanks for joining us. [applause] >> we are back for the web cast part of the program. i have one question to follow up and a couple others. you said that georgia was the first falling state in the revolutionary war. any repercussions to day? you live in atlanta. any repercussions of georgia to they for that? is there anything different in georgia than other southern states? >> most georgians are not aware that there was a revolutionary war.

i had taken a class at the university of new mexico, african-american history.it was african-american history wan and i was addicted because i always loved history, left political science, and i remember challenging my professor, dr. curtis williams and saying every government and history book in my life lied to me or your lobbying i can't believe i've never heard this before he giggled and said where did you grow up you never heard any of this. >> host: and where did you grow up? >> guest: reno nevada and sacramento california and i was in a predominantly upper-class schools and black history to me was martin luther king and rosa parks and that was it. >> host: that was the beginning in the end. >> guest: that was it, and i had found a new frontier in african-american history and was very excited about it and to get free class i could and got a minor and african-american history -- >> host: and that leads to the civil rights law i take it? >> guest: i was interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law, and went back to the mentor of mine, dr. williams, and

i had taken a class of the university of new mexico african-american history and it was african-american history one and now so addicted to it because i had always loved history, loved political science. i remember challenging my professor, dr. cortes' williams, and sing either every history book i read it in my life lied to me or you are not telling the truth and i can't believe i've never heard any of this before. he giggled and said you poor thing, or did you brought that you never heard this? >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: reno, nevada the sacramento, california and allyson predominantly caucasian upper-middle-class schools and black history was born luther king and rosa parks. >> host: that was the end of its. >> guest: and that was it so i found a new frontier in african-american history and i was very excited about an answer to every class i took, got a minor in african-american history. >> host: that leads to civil rights law? >> guest: yes, i was very interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law. i went back to that the mentor, dr. williams, and told him i was

the save darfur council, church world service and american council on education, a coalition of all the major public and private universitiesin this country all strongly support this legislation. i urge all my colleague on both sides of the aisle to support this important legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from -- the chair: the gentleman from california reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i would like to take our time in opposition of this bill. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: some dear colleague letters sent out earlier this week to express their -- express their support on the bill tended to focus on the few attractive features of the bill, such as the improvements it would make on the initiative to assist mexico and other central american countries to fight the dangerous drug cartels. unfortunately, supporters of this bill have remained silent or ignored its fundamental problems and the fundamental problems on this bill are that the bill calls for intor by tant -- exorbitant spending in the abs

he was the first african american judge from the deep south. he graduated from columbia university in 1960. it is very rare, but it is not that rare now for a federal judge to suggest to the u.s. justice department that they are doing things wrong. in fact, and number of chief federal judges wrote eric colder that they had serious concerns -- eric holder that they had serious concerns about the with the prosecutions were going. it is not him alone, it is other challenges. there are also views from congress that will be here shortly. we have use of independent legal experts. we have views of victims who are distinguished public officials who spoke on a video created by the very noted film maker, john mctiernen

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i had taken a class at the university of new mexico. it was african american history wind. i was so addicted to it because i always love history. left political science. i remember challenging my professor and saying, you know, every history book i have read lied to me or you are telling the truth. i can't believe i've never heard any of this before. the kind of difficult. where did you grow up? where did you grow up? reno nevada. and i was in predominantly caucasian and middle-class schools. black history to me was martin luther king. that is said. >> the beginning of the end. >> that was pretty much it. i found a new frontier in african-american history. i was very, very excited about it. tick every class i could. got a minor in african-american history. >> civil-rights law, i take it. >> yes. very, very interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights. went back to that and told them. >> why are you doing this to back and i told him about discrimination and intolerance and haven't bothered me deeply and i wanted to go out and make that my life's work. he said okay. all ri

i had taken a class at the university of the mx kuhl african-american history and was african american history one and i was so addicted because i love history, law of political science and i remember challenging my professor, dr. cortes' williams and saying every history book i ever read lied to me or you're not telling the truth and i can't believe i've ever to become ever heard this before. he giggled and said to pore little girl where did you grow up? >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: we noted that the and sacramento california. i was in primarily caucasian upper-middle-class and black history to me was martin luther king and rosa parks. >> host: that was the beginning and the end. >> guest: that was pretty much it and i had found a new frontier in african-american history and was very excited about it and took every class i could and got a minor and african-american history -- >> host: and that leads to civil rights law? >> guest: yes. i was interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law, and went back to that mentor of mine, dr. williams and told him as of this gradu

additional courtesy given the fact we're trying to find ways of paying for the universal health care making an affordable to all americans. i have watched the pharmaceutical industry and a powerful army and they may be able to do so and again, but i have been around this kind of issues where we taken on the special interest for a lot of times over the years. we will do what is right in the long run. maybe not in this committee or on this bill but as some point in time because it benefits the american consumer and 50 percent of the american people that have to take prescription drugs everyday and to their benefit and sooner or later they will prevail. with that i know we will go to the same discussion and i would request a recorded vote on the amendment but i also wouldn't take too much of a time because we have a ventilated this in the past. >> i presume this is the same amount offered as part of the mccain dorgan snowe of language. >> another issue has been raised by senator enzi and the question of whether it was going to language and as part of this bill i don't know the answer. >> according to the staff is not in her

some americans think that jewish people have become superhuman and taken over the universe which is insane. i hope that it brings us together as brothers and children where we are all looked at as children of god who believe in a creator. guest: thank you. the interesting thing about these demonstrations is that they are democratic and universal. both secular and religious people from different beliefs, christians, jewish, bahai's, as well as muslims have been oppressed by this region. when religion is an ideological tool for the state it does not represent the various beliefs and interpretations of the people. another interesting thing is that nothing in this protest has been said to signify respect towards a new religion, ethnicity, or nation. the civil society is progressive enough that has forced people to come out and publicly criticized mr. ahmadinejad for his comments on the holocaust. to tell him how damaging it has been to the image of iran b. i know from reading various comments that inside iran mr. ahmadinejad was very much chided for this. the rights to life, liberty, and pursu

tomorrow on washington journal, michael eplinger from the center for american progress and john lot, the senior research scientist at university of maryland discuss the obama administration's spending policy on healthcare, carmakers and the financial system. tom guttman looks at u.s.-israel relations. and career -- from the endowment for international peace has the latest on the iranian elections. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> on newsmakers, arizona senator john kyl, the minority whip, discusses healthcare issues and the senate agenda. newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> a look at conservative leadership with remarks from rebekah hagelin from a conference at the clare boothe luce policy institute in washington. it's about 30 minutes. >> hello. my name is avila molina. i'm a summer intern with the clare boothe luce policy institute. our next speaker is a syndicated columnist, political commentator and acclaimed author. she's been married for almost 25 years and is the proud mother of three children. she served as the heritage foundation -- is currently their senior co

she lectures at yale university school of medicine, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute and author of the health disparities miss, diagnosing the treatment gap. i will need assistance pronouncing your first name. he is a professor ed kennedy school of government and a research fellow in bonn, germany. his research focuses on productivity and growth in health care, racial disparities and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. then we have dr. peter barack, a physician at the memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. his work has focused improving the quality of care for african- american patients in medicare, including cancer care. he previously served as senior advisor to the administrator of the center's for medicare and medicaid services where among other things he oversaw the agency's cancer initiatives. i am excited to have you here. this is an issue that we have needed to have a fully fleshed out discussion on these issues brought some time. i am glad you could make it here today. the next thing to take care of, we have to swear you in. please raise

university press. what is coming out this fall? >> a number of great books including the making of americans, and hersh wrote the best-selling book called cultural literacy. he cares very much about what role education has been actually defining what it means to be mayor can and this book is sort of a capstone of his career which includes many best sellers but to talk route the centrality of the reformation and knowledge and what it means to have a shared corpus of knowledge and how important it is too our national identity and how would is being threatened by the way education seems to be split across the country. of hasselhoff of voice, advocacy, to look at what the new minister shin can do about the admit the administration. >> elephants on the edge what animals teach us about humanity? >> it is a marvelous book and very moving, touching, what she does, she has quite a platform she has been on "60 minutes" and 20/20 but she tries to understand how human behavior affects global population of animals in the wild and captivity. is a touching subjects. people who have read these kind of issues will respond because actions do have consequ

appeared talking about professional organizations, the ans and the american geophysical union have way dan and i remember back in university of oklahoma and 89 bob carell gave a talk and said this is a red letter day for a climate scientist everywhere we will get lot of money let's not kill the goose laying the golden egg and a particular i'm afraid that is what will lead towards keep finding us and we will tell you what you want to hear. one of the interesting things is how things change. this is the famous hockey stick braff i will not make too much of it except one thing you have not noticed it is the pre-publication version you notice the value that 2000 was point* three degrees celsius then you'll notice a few extend that it was exceeded twice previously. by the time it came out it was at o.7 and in this case we inflated the number at the end so now we can say this is the warmest year of the millennium and 1998 was the warmest year of the decade of the millennium. over time we notice publications have changed in 2002 you will see a 0.3 at 2,003 it is 0.4 and 2,003 have pushed all the way that 0.6 negative o.7 by the t

success in universal services and communications over the next 75 years that we've had over the last 75 years, extending communications infrastructure and the benefit of communications to all americans. and i defer to your knowledge of alaska, of course, but i think historically, there's been successful universal service in alaska eni would like to see it in the future with respect to all the vast country that we have. >> let me -- and i appreciate that, because it's been very successful and useful. tribal lands incorporate tribal lands, different from reservation lands. sometimes we have to continue to point that out because our land claim settlement was much different than the traditional reservation settlement. i know i said in my statement, i didn't give you a chance, you nodded yes. i am looking toward to you coming to alaska. i just wanted to echo that because this will give you a chance to see the value of that program. >> good, i would like that. >> let me also point out, in alaska, the issue of how we provide broadband we have some concerns by satellite providers. and currently, they're concerned they will be excluded from a broadband plan. the cost is part of the equation,

moment in american history but also in moment was really gave rise to a sense of hopefulness that there would be any future coming out of the ashes of world war i. >> susan with oxford universityess, a couple of their new titles. >> we're at the 2009 book expo american booksellers convention in new york city, at the booth of blum's perry and walker books, the family of books and i'm here with peter miller. peter, what you have coming out this fall? >> the most ambitious and exciting is the one over my soldiers is a graphic novel. we don't who normally publish is but we decided to do this one because this is an historical biography of bertrand russell and as crazy as that sounds it is an interesting novel of ideas and the two people behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts so they decided to sort of a approach the idea of the foundation of mathematics and the lice -- the life of version russell as told in comic-book form because to them when a big idea of what he was pursuing was actually as a heroic and the life and death as anything you find in a super hero tail and so it is a book that's been getting a lot of attention before this convention and a lot here.

american muslims have been -- have enriched the united states. they have fought in our wars. they have certain our government. the exit for civil rights. it started businesses. but they have taught it universities. they have one noble prices. they built our tallest building and lit the olympic torch. when the first muslim american was recently elected to congress, he took the oath using the same holy koran that one of our founding, funders -- founders, thomas jefferson, kept in his personal library. [applause] i have known islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first reviewed. that experience guides my conviction that partnership between america and islam must be based on what islam is and not what it is not. i consider it part of my responsibility as president of the united states to fight it and negative stereotypes of islam wherever they appear. [applause] but that same principle must apply to muslim perceptions of america -- [applause] just as muslims do not think and stereotypes, america is not the crude stereotype of a self interested empire. the united states has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. we were born out of re