we have great reading signed up with john and larry baliles next week. and michael owls well as the night of staff recommendations leader in the month. also, you may have noticed we are filming tonight. so if you could please make sure to turn off all sell phones and things like that, any machines you may have. you can follow all of our defense through the web site, brooklinebooksmith.com or you can purchase bugle editions. as we move into the presidential year you can be sure to hear a lot of butter were founding fathers, but they believed, but they said, what they meant to say, and certain parts of the constitution will doubtlessly be quoted again and again. tonight is not about any of that nonsense. it's about the other nonsense. because tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming back jay wexler, professor of law at boston university. in his first book, holy helabalouse he discovered the humorous road trip. in his new book the odd clauses he examines the foundation of the government, the u.s. constitution permits strange and rarely provisions from the

so again, thanks to my colleagues for joining us here, and thank you, governor baliles and heather and joann, and jeff, for your work here at the miller center. if i think we'll take a few questions, right, governor? and i would only make a couple observations on the. first of all, having visited centerburg in virginia, west virginia, there are some democratic bridges. [laughter] but that was, that's a good example of bipartisanship. he and i put a number things together. i love to tell the story. jeff knows it i think, but i said we were going to west virginia, chairman of the appropriations committee, i've got to be a time. so i am half an hour early to the airport to go with senator byrd to west virginia. and i'm waiting around the coast guard, use the coast guard airplane. he said the senator is already on board. true story. half an hour early. is sitting in the airplane just as though he did. he has his seatbelt on. he has his papers on the front of his chair, not very reply. always politically nice pocket i was late, a half hour early. [laughter] but the gray line is that while i

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common sense tenure reform will even have kristopher that achievement because we place a number raises baliles recorder of a million also act on the tenure reform. let's display the six of ropes. when the chance a life filled with opportunities buy not how hard you are willing to work but why were you happen to believe. let's face this fact more money does not necessarily lead to a better education we spent 12,000 will receive high school diplomas in four years. in the park was smaller, poorer people cost almost 40 lives or nearly 75% of year, the state average but the dropout rate is almost times state average and math sats chorus. it is time to admit to that the supreme court's current experiment with her children about 63% of state aid over the years has gone to the average. the schools are predominantly failing. what we've been doing is working for children in these districts and is on share fundamentally unfair to the under school districts and taxpayers to spend more than almost every state in america. basic human decency. this simple common sense. it's time for a better approach. [appla