second amendment was originally founded and that language in pennsylvania is constitution that ben franklin signed in seven hundred seventy six that said standing armies there in times of peace are the route to liberty. but in the debates that part got dropped off so they simply said well it will have regular a well regulated wall called militia and that's why the second amendment says that the right to bear arms as is all part of the necessity of a rather regulated militia so the bottom line is it was never intended overthrow the government the chilling phrase of the world the militia movements are simply wrong and what's going on here is the national rifle association and smith and wesson these other weapons manufacturers they're making enormous profits and they're making those profits at the expense of people like you have real difference . coming up a daily take on how keeping the faith is screwing america's public school systems but accommodating private institutions. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think. either one well. we have the government says they

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there's a legend that ben franklin applied to harvard and was rejected.he'd start a college of his own. and he did. founded in 1740, it was called the academy of philadelphia. later it was renamed the university of pennsylvania. today, penn has more than 23,000 students on campuses that sprawl over hundreds of acres. its wharton business school is world famous. and while there are many other excellent colleges around the country, for some, only the ivy league will do. applications are at an all time high. and only a fraction of those students will be accepted. but the more challenging it is, the more attractive it becomes, and that's one of the reasons the ivies are more popular today. dean stetson adds that students and their parents shouldn't obsess on the ivies. they should broaden their options to find the college that best meets their individual needs. >> there are plenty of other options out there. >> the man who became famous for his experiments with electricity would probably be shocked to see how his little college became one of the country's top

it is not called ben franklin anymore. i have grown up now. my whole thing is, i can remember hearing the stories about jim jones and how he rated the black community of their properties and businesses. it is very painful to see that. i was born in the 1980's and i saw i whole lot of black businesses when i was growing up, but now, even back then, elders were telling me things were not the same. now that i've grown up a little bit more, and i come from the fillmore, i am seeing less and less black businesses. to me, it is not the same. it gets even deeper than what they were saying. i am seeing less black businesses. please find them if they have good ideas. support the use and support the community. please support them. it is important. the western addition, the fillmore, would not be the same without the african-american community. san francisco would not be the same without the black people. i will just ask you respectfully to support that. it is very important. thank you. >> thank you, everybody. for those of you in line, we only have a fe

especially our privacy rights on the chopping block over and over and over again a paraphrase of ben franklin about how those who would give up freedom to get safety deserve neither comes to mind. coming up but i guess we're conservative rules or liberal views originate from here's a hint it's near the place that coordinates your balance of vision and hearing. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. even well. we have the government says they're very safe get ready because you're going to their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some of the part of it and realized everything you thought you know i'm sorry for the big picture. it's the good the bad of a very very extremely ugly person the good icelandic voters after two thousand a financial collapse thanks to irresponsible banks toure's the government of iceland is trying to repay its bank debt to the u.k. in the netherlands but on saturday the voters said no way and they rejected a national referendum it's actu

mind back in seven hundred seventy six the year that the declaration of independence was written ben franklin helped at that along with john adams and john j. it was written by thomas jefferson franklin also was the president of the constitutional convention in the state in which he lived his adopted state for what pennsylvania was in philadelphia and he signed the constitution of pennsylvania and seven hundred seventy six and here's a phrase this is a quote from this article eight of the pennsylvania constitution seven hundred seventy six this was essentially the basis of our second amendment it said that the people have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state and as standing armies in time for peace are dangerous to liberty they ought not to be kept up and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil. and we accomplished subordinate in the military to the civil power by making the president of the united states a civilian commander in chief of the military. and we established that people had the right to buy guns or to o

where there's a fight at the fair to mad you know as your employees do you actually do as as as ben franklin pointed out at the opening of the constitutional convention where there were thirty four members of your coronation if if it should be an odd thing if five nations of ignorant savages which was meant as a slur have been able to survive in peace for a thousand years and should be an amazing thing of thirteen. colonies of educated englishman going to do the same and what the iroquois had done is they had for hundreds of years only the women vote because there were a decision is made based on the seventh generation you know i'm not trying to make your head explode kerry but but seriously i think frankly the most i think we've got a problem here is what is really going to be that iraq thing that in fifty minded people we have we got through to you know one thing that i will thing is that i think back issues like fair pay really at this point are family issues and they should be ones that men and women prioritize generally and i think when polled the american people are very excited about

with your i demand you know as your employees do you actually do as as as ben franklin pointed out at the opening of the constitutional convention where there were thirty four members of your coronation he said if if it should be an odd thing if five nations of ignorant savages which was not as a slur have been able to survive in peace for a thousand years it should be an amazing thing if their team. colonies of educated englishman cannot do the same and what the euro court had done is they had for hundreds of years only the women vote because every decision is made based on the seventh generation you know i'm not trying to make your head explode kerry but seriously i think the most i mean if we've got a problem here it's not really like the red iraq thing if you mind the good people we have one thing that i will thing is that i think back it seems like fair pay really at this point are family issues that need to be ones that men and women prioritize generally and i think when polled that american people are very excited about this issue and i understand that it's a it's a pocket. tha

walter, who wrote about albert einstein and ben franklin will publish an authorized biography. there were be several unauthorized. the books about something else like about the mac. other business news, lots of people went to see "hop" over the weekend making it number one. it's made by universal, is same company that owns this tv station. weird thing, russell brand succeeded and bombed at the box office. he's the voice of the rabbit, hop. that's his win. but, he was also the star of one of the bigger bombs of the weekend. the remake of "arthur." entertainment weekly wonders if brand's star power is over. what's a guy got to do. i have the number one movie in the nation this weekend yet somehow everybody is questioning me. 5:25 now. back to you. >> the rise and fall of russell brand. >> maybe he should start an internet thing and go around the country like charlie sheen. >>> how students got their hands on alcohol and drugs on a weekend class trip. >> reporter: the jury in the barry bonds trial gets ready to review key testimony in day two. a live report is coming up. >>> plus,

i love what we did on ben franklin. i was fascinated with woodrow wilson mainly because of him having a stroke and his wife -- for three months. it was fascinating but the one that really ripped me more than anyone else was warren harding. i couldn't believe that somebody who was such a philanthropist and such a doofus, he was not bright at all. and elected to the warehouse, at the understand anything about taxes. don't talk to me about taxes. the difference between harding and wilson is wilson -- there is a lot of truth about that. he was picked to run for the senate, handsome looking man in the center and ran into the senate and the presidency. we got elected. one of the first things to do is change the national emblem from the eagle to the chicken because he said there were more chickens than eagles. >> host: telephone call for our 2 co-authors from las vegas. you're still on. >> caller: i just want to say that this was an attempt by larry flynt to normalize bill clinton. his deviance has nothing to do with sex. enga

within a generation, john adams, george washington, ben franklin all did inoculation.e did it. it became accepted. it took someone brave enough to step forward against popular opinion and do what he felt was right. we need more people like that. we need more people in washington who will lead instead of following. [applause] i think we have a president who is not leading the country. he has abdicated his role in leading our country and is not doing what needs to be done in our country. [applause] some would say the issues we deal with today have no moral equivalency to slavery or do not have the infectious urgency of smallpox, but i would say that there are questions we should ask. can a civilization long endure that does not respect life? will we be judged at some point in time on whether we stood up and said that the law and the land should respect the unborn? will we be judged for that? [applause] we face a day of reckoning. not only a day of moral reckoning, we face the day of fiscal reckoning. it is fast approaching. whether we be able to continue to pay our bills

within a generation, john adams, george washington, ben franklin -- they all did inoculation. it became accepted. but it took someone brave enough to step forward against popular opinion and do what he felt was right. i think we need more people like that. we need more people in washington who will lead it instead of following. [applause] i think we have a president who is not leading the country. i think we have a president who has abdicated in his role as leader of our country and is not doing what needs to be done. [applause] some would say that the issues we deal with today have no moral equivalency to slavery or do not have the infectious urgency of smallpox. but i would say that when we think about things there are questions we should ask. can a civilization long endure that does not respect life? will we be judged at some point in time, whether we stood up and said that the law and the land should respect the unborn? will we be judged for that? [applause] we face a day of reckoning. not only more reckoning. we face a day of fiscal reckoning. we have significant problems

within a generation, john adams, and george washington, ben franklin, all did inoculation.t became accepted. but it took someone brave and bold enough to step forward, against popular opinion, and do what he felt was right. we need more people like that. we need more people in washington that will lead instead of following. [applause] i think we have a president who is now leading the country. we have a president who is basically abdicated in his role as leader of the country and is not doing what needs to be done. [applause] now, some would say that the issues that we deal with today have no moral equivalency to slavery, or do not have the infectious urgency of small pox. but i would say, when we think about things, we should ask, can a civilization long indoor that does not respect life? will we be judged at some point in time, whether we stood up, and said, the law and land should respect the unborn. will we be judged for that? [applause] [applause] thank you. we face a day of reckoning, not only a day of more reckoning in our country. we face a day of fiscal reckoning.

with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with us. [cheering] >> these are the conservatives and liberals from our area. everyone is upset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for coming, god bless. >> thank you, david. if you want to sign this afterwards seeking add during to the list. next we have congressman louis gohmert from texas. [applause] [cheering] >> well it's great to be here with you. i'm telling you what, you bring calcium to those who need it for their backbones. [cheering] you make a difference. you know, for so long in washington when somebody had some little idea that we needed to throw money at the would always add at the end it's for the children. i'm telling you

with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with us. [cheering] >> these are the conservatives and liberals from our area. everyone is upset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for coming, god bless. >> thank you, david. if you want to sign this afterwards seeking add during to the list. next we have congressman louis gohmert from texas. [applause] [cheering] >> well it's great to be here with you. i'm telling you what, you bring calcium to those who need it for their backbones. [cheering] you make a difference. you know, for so long in washington when somebody had some little idea that we needed to throw money at the would always add at the end it's for the children. i'm telling you

with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklinsaid we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with u [cheering] >> these are the conservatives d liberals from our area. everyone iupset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for coming, god bless. >> thank you, david. if you want to sign this afterwards seeking add during to the list. next we have congressman louis gohmert from texas. [applause] [cheering] >> well it's great to be here with you. i'm telling you what, you bring calcium to those who need it for their backbones. [cheering] you make difference. you know, for so long in washington when somebody had some little idea that we needed to throw money at the would always add at the end it's for the children. i'm telling you what, you

ben franklin was a postmaster in 1775. they've arranged to have mail delivered from philadelphia to new york, the same day service. >> yes. he did it representing the king. >> yes, but he still did it. what you have to do is adapt. the post office is becoming a dinosaur and will soon be extinct if it does not adapt. we have to find a better way to deal with -- the $15 billion credit limit is about to run out. no more coming from here. >> the time is out. next. >> thanks for your testimony. i have a special interest in this hearing. i represent the global hub of ups. it is our largest single employer. i am an honorary member of the letter carriers union. i am proud about. the least you can spend anything with ups is $5.17. the lowest price fedex will deliver anything is $7.22. what do you think would be the impact on american business, charities, local governments if for every piece of mail they had to send out, it would cost $5.17 ? bac >> we are happy that we have been able to hold our service down to 44 cents. >> one per