may you behold them. a horse nation, they will dance. may you behold them. stallion's voice was not loud, but it filled the universe. it was so beautiful that nothing anywhere could keep from dancing. the leaves on the trees, the grasses on the hills and in the valleys, the water in the creek and the rivers and the lakes, the four legged and the two legged and the wings of the air all dance together to the music of the stallion song. when black elk awoke, the fever was gone. later, he danced a vision for his tribe in a grand reenactment of the knowledge he was given calling on horses and riders to assemble in the formation he had witnessed during his fever dream. as the horse nation had danced in the spirit world, so too did it dance ons earth. in harmony and connection and might and about 10 years later, it would dance again, as hoofs thundered across the greasy grass where all visions white and red were converging. what comes next in our american tale of the wild horse is the battle of the little big horn. the indian wars by then, by 1876, had reached thei

we ordained this our present parliament to begin and behold and that are city of westminster the 11th day of may in the 54th year of our rain, on which day the parliament was begun and is now hold on. as far as we have been informed that the lower house of our parliament have lately made a choice of our beloved and faithful john bercow esquire in the room of our beloved and faithful michael john martin, as far, to be speaker of the lower house of our parliament. we are graciously pleased to approve this choice and to allow and concern the same and for as much as the causes and considerations we cannot conveniently at this time be prevalent in our royal person in our said parliament. we come a trusting in the fidelity and care of the most reverent father and my god and our faithful counselor, ryland douglas, are well beloved and faithful counselors, john strawn, chancellor of great britain. thomas galloway dunlop. tom lord macnally. frances gertrude claire. and other lords of our privy council, but the tenant of these we grant to them or any three or more of them for power in our name

it may be in the eyes of the beholder. i think that as a possible downside of this kind of rule. it has some potential of constraining costs. at the supreme court level, one can see there is another theme of the roberts court. one person would have called it the path of verger -- virtue. looking at procedure issues and getting rid of the case before deciding constitutional issues. we see that right across the board in this term. we have already discussed the voting rights case. that was a manner to avoid the constitutional issue. justice alito decided the courts will no longer be required to decide the constitutionality of an action before beginning to the qualified immunity issue. that allows this to court and appellate courts to decide whether somebody is qualified by immunity in. another area is standing with the court in this term. these are ways the court manages to avoid taking strong positions on constitutionality. i think it is in keeping with the attitude we saw from justice roberts. that may be his most passionate interest. justice roberts wrote one law review article.

speaker, the iranian regime 's full palette -- brutality is on full display for the world to behold. i rise on behalf of those that have been injured or killed protesting the outcome of their election. i salute the leadership of the generally from florida, and the gentleman from california -- the gentle lady from florida and the gentleman from california. it is america's moral responsibility to speak out on behalf of the protection of human rights wherever they are violated. regardless, mr. speaker, of the outcome of the election, make no mistake where the power lies. it lies with the clerical regime who conducts its most egregious activities in the dark. hidden from the world's eyes. it escapes the media attention -- escapes media attention. iranian centrifuges enrich uranium are often hidden -- and are often hidden from inspectors -- from inspectors. this is the regime that we are talking about. this week, the true colors of that regime are on broad display. we must rally the world around the cause of the iranian people. i urge the administration, i urge president obama to follow t

these companies are still paying excessive compensation and extensive -- extensive is and i of the beholder, but people like an aig one sees something it does not like. host: chicago, the morning on our independent line. caller: when i look at these banking stocks, it seems like anywhere from 60 percent up to 90 percent of the stock is owned by mutual funds, and yet the mutual funds never have to report back to the people in the funds how they vote for these boards of directors. and so, is anybody looking to control that? my second question is, why can't i get my checks backed -- when i write a check i never seem to be altogether the original check back anymore? guest: on the check thing, most banks these days will have an electronic copy that you can access if you do it online banking. you can usually get an image of your check. i think they stopped in many cases -- it is a money saver just to have an electronic copy as opposed to just sending out all of these checks to all of these customers out there. so, that is one thing. as for institutional investors such as mutual funds, your mutual

i knew it was overpriced come overvalued and lo and behold the prices have dropped 40 or 50%. people who jump in four or five years ago said this is a great investment have lost half of their money and furthermore they cannot get out. we have nobody that will buy them that is a very unpleasant feeling. but this is why one must me cautious in terms of real estate but again in terms of refinancing real-estate cbn is on our crew be said i lowered my monthly expenses by $800 to refinance the mortgage and got an extraordinarily good rate and a nice package that worked well for him. he is not going anywhere for the rest of his life he will not sell the house and for him it is wonderful. if somebody is going to move in one month or one year or two years and may not be a good deal. all of this is here in the book "right on the money" and some of the chapters i would like to read to you just to show you what is here but first it says why aren't i rich. [laughter] and the second one says why do i run out of money and the one says where do i get credit where credit is due? what's my scor

tiller and, lo and behold, he would be elected to something or other. that -- you would be elected to something or other. they made a demon out of this man, a member of their community, and they attacked him for 20 years. it is a testimony to some aspect of the kansas personality that the man took it. you know, he would not give up. he was stubborn and he stayed there, by god, in wichita, and they shot him in his church. it is monstrous. ok, i am being quiet now. >> i just have to say that i agree that it is incredibly effective because that is how they ended the old civil-rights thing, just by killing king and everything else. i mean, it is really effective. my question is just that, there is this missing thing, and i know this session is not about that, but i feel like it is, too, because the story that we write about the past is not include the people going to jail, it is going to -- you look at nixon and he did not get impeached for war crimes. had he gotten in peace for a carpet bombing cambodia -- and these guys, how can we write the story if nobo

standard or reasonable suspicion standard for pleading, that is may be very much in the eye of the beholder and people may divide ideologyly. this is part of the downside of this rule even though it has some potential of constraining costs. speak supreme court level, one can see this as very much connected to another theme of the roberts court. what another one -- would have called the passive virtues. avoiding constitutional issues by getting rid of the case before deciding constitutional issues. i think we see that right across the board this term. we have already discussed the voting rights case where they interpret a statute, in perhaps not a completely textump al manner. justice alito decides no longer is the court going to be required to decide the constitution a lot of an action before it against to the other issues. it allows the other courts to decide whether someone has qualified immunity without actually taking a position on the law itself. and finally, another area, and i think this will segue into our discussion of environmental law, is standing in which the court again in this

i religiously read "mother jones" and as far as i'm concerned by this is all in the eye of the beholder. but if you take away the spotlight and the sound and you get to the text -- that is what journalism has failed the american people with the most. we're looking for a 32nd psalm by. we do not really care about the real details. host: and earlier caller mentioned a gay-rights issues. "the new york times" has this story. the political shifts on their rights are lagging behind the culture. for 15 minutes in the oval office one of president obama's top campaign lieutenants tell the president about the herd, anxiety and anger that he and other gay supporters felt over the slow pace of engagement with gay issues. but on monday 8250 day leaders are to join mr. obama in the east room to commemorate publicly the 40th anniversary of the birth of modern rights of the gay movement. by contrast, in march 1977 when they first met someone in the white house it was when president jimmy carter was nowhere in sight. the conflicting signals from the white house about his commitment to gay issues reflect

we made a decision that to take money from government would either make us behold and to that government or a pier that we had doing their bidding. so it would be inappropriate for us to do that. so we take money from foundations or from individuals. so if we receive money from the ford foundation and others, i hope you join the ranks. >> does human-rights watch have any experience in car for? >> we have worked on guard for. we attempted to expose what was going on. we have numerous reports on our web site and i welcome you to look at it. one of the other things we are trying to push for are things like no-fly zones so that the government is not able to go in and bomb civilian populations from helicopters or planes. these are things that are easy for them to do and hard to stop. if you will allow me. one of the things -- i personally find it difficult, something that i see, often times especially with regard to africa, human-rights abuses i looked through or view through a racist lens. look at how the united states responded to the crisis in kosovo when albanians were being killed, nato

and we saw this with the pay restoration act which was submitted to congress and lo and behold, there were four or five provisions that were introduced that were very restrictive on judges and guess what? the pay didn't pass but the restrictions, many of them, did. [laughter] >> and so you say -- you know, take it to congress, no. [laughter] >> i'm leery of that. >> and i should adjudge wilkinson speaks as one who actually ran for congress. right? >> and i should say that the various judicial conference committees of the u.s. judicial conference do deal with legislation and so there is a mechanism in our administrative office and we have someone in the office of legislative affairs that monitors -- that monitors legislation that's going through the federal courts. and in these various committees certainly judges discuss things that they would like to see improved but we're very judicious in terms of trying to get legislation introduced -- >> judge tatel? >> i think -- i agree with everything that's been said but i think there's one issue in which judges can be playing a constructive r

gingrich stated he was not a citizen of the world, with much fervor and fanfare, yet, low and behold, mr. reagan, president reagan stated in front of the united nations that he was a citizen of the world. could you tie and the disconnect -- those who espouse reagan and yet strobel -- strobel in a plea at attempts to carry the banner of reagan -- struggle ineptly to carry the banner with shenanigans and over the top sound bites. guest: thank you for the assignment. i will look at it, and i appreciate your kind words about my work. i think the question you raised is a fascinating one, not just for the republicans in 2009 but any political group at any time looking back at certain leaders for inspiration, for solace. particularly, parties who are not having a particularly easy time of it are particularly prone to try to look back and find a plan and playbook and hope that that leads them out of the wilderness. it is completely understandable human and -- reaction. i'm a great admirer of president reagan. he was the president of my childhood and his examples in some ways got me interested

speaker, the iranian regime's brutality is on full display for the whole world to behold. i rise today in sympathy with the victims of iranian political oppression who have been injured or killed protesting the outcome of their election. and i salute the leadership of the gentlelady from florida, the gentleman from california in bringing this resolution forward as well as the gentleman from indiana in his leadership on this and in so many issues the way that the gentlelady from nevada spoke. it is america's moral responsibility to speak out on behalf of the protection of human rights wherever they are violated. and regardless, mr. speaker, of the outcome of the iranian election, make no mistake where the power in iran lies. it lies with a clerical regime who conducts its most egregious activities in the dark, hidden from the world's eyes and thus escaping media attention. the iranian revolutionary guard corps funds terrorist groups from iraq to afghanistan, to lebanon to gaza. iranian centrifuges at plants hidden from weapons inspectors. and terrorist groups make voyages t

for many years they considered lincoln an enemy and lo and behold, including frederick douglass but years later he says he was a hero and he was a great man and greater demands peter even though he didn't do everything he wanted. his american politics and reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. it's the same thing. truman wasn't a zionist and he reacted viscerally against militant pressure because he was tremendously pressured from the other side. and there was relentless day in and day out. i mean, the reason jacobsen was so important, the only -- if you look at the difference between the way that rabbi silver would talk to truman and address him and the way that weizmann would address truman in the letters he treated him with respect and admiration as a fellow leader who wanted justice for the jewish people in the world where silver would say you're selling a house out, you are a bastard, don't you know what's right? and he would seek weizmann, give a direct order i will only see and talk to ian weizmann. do not let sulfur and those people in

the tradeable derivatives, there were shifts from a place where it shouldn't be in the mind of the beholder reflecting the risk preference of taking the risk allowing him to shift it someplace else and we wanted to set up a framework where the market participation would be a guide to good behavior. you could look at the financial difficulties that we have around the globe today and ascribe them to a particular product, credit default swaps. i'm not sure that gillian has done in that your book. he talks about cds but she also talks about cdos. these collateralized debt obligations are heavily securitized. so both of those things are involved in some ways here. i would test the this if every person was current on his mortgage payments and i think the answer is clearly no. ask yourself if we would have these problems in the financial system if credit default swaps had been outlawed on the date they had been invented and had never come in to existence, the answer is definitely yes. the problem we have is a housing finance problem. it's not a credit default swap problem. if there were no credit

and lo and behold including frederick douglass but years later frederick douglass said lincoln was aero and he was a great man and a great emancipator even though he didn't do everything we wanted, his american politics and his reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. well, it's the same thing here. truman was not a zionist and he reacted zealously and it was relentless day in and day out. the reason why jacobson was so important -- if you look at the difference between the way rabbi silver would talk to truman or address him and the way hiram weitzman, he treated him with respect and admiration as a fellow leader who wanted justice for the jewish people in the world. where silver would say, you're selling us out. you're a bastard. don't you know what's right? and he would see weitzman, he gave a direct order. do not let silver and those people in the white house. >> there was a famous incident where he shook his finger at truman's face and he was extremely face and told the person after that i never want that s.o.b. in my office again and t

lo and behold the f-22 became a jobs bill. it's what i call weaponized keynesianism. only if you're building weapons, particularly ones not used, is there a stimulative effect on the economy. secondly we are told we have to deal with the deficit. the president made a beginning in trying to curtail military spending on weapons he says we do not need. if this bill goes through as it apparently will because we could not even debate it, his efforts will be undercut. the floodgates will be opened. and any effort to have reasonable constraints on military spending as we have on police and fire and emergency medical and other things that are important for health and safety will be undercut. this is a terrible decision and a terrible precedent. of course to add injury to injury, they did it by taking money out of environmental cleanup. mr. diaz-balart: i simply want to point out to my friend -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i wanted to point out to my friend that despite the fact that we support the committee having maintained the produ

going forward of this new plausibility strd for pleasing, that it may be very much in the eye of the beholder, and so i think that's a possible downside of this kind of rule even though i think it has some potential of constraining costs. but at the supreme court level i think one also can see this as very much connected to another theme of the roberts court. $what alexander bickle would have called the passive virtues, avoizing the decisions on constitutional issues by civil procedure issues of getting out, getting rid of the case before deciding constitutional issues. and i think we see that right across the board this term. of course, we've already discussed the voting rights case where they interpret a statute and, perhaps, not a completely textual man tore avoid a -- manner to avoid a constitutional battle. no longer is the court going to be required before getting to the qualified immunity issues. so it allows district courts and, of course, the supreme court itself to decide whether anyone has provided immunity without taking a position on the law itself. and finally, another lawyer, a

brought on convictions that no sane jury would have credited, on evidence that was simply incredible to behold. they were all the same kinds of pieces of evidence because in all of these cases, the prosecutors had an interconnected link of intelligence -- the same charges in every case. they had clowns, bad people dressed in costumes, children were made to watch animal sacrifices. i ask you in how many places... so it was nonetheless the case that the prosecutors in every case said, this case is different. it's not like these other cases. in every case, all the evidence was the same. that's because -- i have to stress this -- they had expert witnesses, and the expert witnesses would travel from trial to trial to serve the prosecutors. and they all came up with the same list of charges. now, you can ask yourself why did the jury believe these things? how could the jury believe that, as in the amirault case, old mrs. amirault, one of the most upright of citizens, had suddenly turned at the age of 67 into a child molester who raped children? she was accused and convicted of inserting a stick into

financial institutions to be wary of doing business with a particular bank in macau that was thought to beholding north korean accounts that were dirty. that was a very isolated action but it had the effect of causing many other banks around the world and regulatory agencies to ask, why is the treasury department doing this? when they understood the reason for it dade then under their own initiative started to either freeze north korean accounts or ask these accounts not be held in their banks such that you had a tremendous ripple effect in the world that greatly impeded north korea's ability to do business. this isn't the average north korean because the average north korean does not have an atm card that they can take money out of a local citibank. this affects largely the leadership. the second thing i would mention with regard to these financial measures is that, when the bush administration did them, they were largely a u.s. action war united states was going to other countries and regulatory agencies in europe and elsewhere asking them to take certain actions. the big difference now is the

the credit world worked let alone add up how it all fit together who was not in some way entirely behold into the system or did not have a vested interest in preserving it either because being paid by the system or because they were a regulator and a word if they started rocking the boat it might start coming -- come crumbling down. so then, of course, this summer of 2007 happened and our were as concerns about the excesses building and the financial system that came only too true. in and in subsequent months in between the sheer maelstrom of trying to cover what was happening as this world fell apart and many were also scoring around like a list chicken's trying to work out what has happened and going to happen and what happened i was very keen to try and find some kind of vehicle to tell a story about how the financial system has gone so badly out of control and perhaps make points about what could be done to try to avoid that in the future and so i returned back to the original morgan caveat idea that had been bubbling with me ever since i had gone to the conference in nice. and the r

chief executive officer, fritz henderson, and lo and behold the facility has a new lease on life according to "the wall street journal." mr. frank, of course, is chairman of the house committee that recently orchestrated paying $62 billion in taxpayer money to give the u.s. treasury 60% ownership of general motors and 8% ownership of chrysler. now for the second car czar award, there are many deserving contenders. for example, this afternoon my distinguished colleague, the honorable chris dodd, mr. frank's senate counterpart, is chairing a banking committee hearing featuring two of the administration's chief meddlers in washington-owned auto companies. one is mr. ron bloom, a senior advisor on the auto industry at treasury. the other is mr. ed montgomery, white house director of recovery for auto communities and workers. and tomorrow over in the house of representatives, the financial services committee will hold a hearing on salaries of workers in companies the government owns. another obvious contender for the car czar award today is the administration's new chief price fixer for the cos

significant change and as you described to us, a 2-centimeter mass grew to 7 centimeters and lo and behold you had to have your lymph nodes removed and i guess some of those for positive by the time he finally got operated on. is that the case? >> yes. >> well, let me, with that information, let me just add this question, and it relates to hugh in particular but it relates to everybody in general and i would appreciate your thoughts on ways that you think that we could strengthen the private market, so that other people, anyone with chronic illness can find affordable health insurance or do you think we should turn over our healthcare system lock, stock and barrel to the compassion and efficiency of our federal bureaucracy? >> me? all i can say is that i did go many many different places trying to get help and i spent hours and quit working and did all of my focusing, instead of focusing and getting well and focusing on my cancer eye focused on trying to get treatment and i went to every hospital in dallas. i went to county hospitals, i went to fort worth, i went everywhere and i don't kno

lo and behold, they're finding chinese drywall now in day-care centers, in commercial buildings, and even reported in virginia, they're finding it in a hospital. so this is going to be a big issue in front of the consumer product safety commission. they have the authority under law to do something about it. they've lacked the leadership. now with inez tannenbaunm, they ought to be able to start doing the regulatory authority that the united states government should have been doing in the first place with these defective, imported products in our country. and that's why i think we need to go ahead and get mrs. mrs. tennenbaum confirmed as quickly as possible. madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: how much time remains on our side in morning business? the presiding officer: 18 and a half minutes. mr. isakson: i'd ask that that time be divided between myself and senator mccain. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. isakson: thank you, madam president. to the senator from florida who left quic