buckley jr. omnibus.do not know what linda's experience, but omnibus, as does phellemmics, even that phrase furrows some customer's brows, mostly, i expect, from the word thwart. the read word comes from -- it means by the way hostile or commentary, it's it's the word that buckley would have given. now i have don't want to belabor the issue. on the contrary, i'd like to expose it of. bill buckley enjoyed the english language. he wanted to share it's riches. he was fond ever words and did not discriminate against any word because it was unusual or polysyllabic. every word deserved a fair chance to stand on it's feet, even if it had more than two. he was not a pheasant. he was too merry. he was a connoisseur. he used word to above all instruct. he strove for per significance. which sometimes required more than two syllables, and he did not talk down to his audience, rather he talked to them. he treated them as fellow pilgrims, equal participants in the curious journey of discovery that is life. the world is

if james buckley is not going to be replaced, what about robert churney? he did a superlative excellent job. i would urge you to consider that the atmosphere in the city on planning issues is heavily influenced by planning, development, money. we saw today in the chronicle, a complete opposite statement of the central park has no preservation control. there could be nothing further from the truth. it is a landmark. these other kinds of things that are happening in the city. the chronicle really needs a historian on board. the historic preservation commission needs an academic historian or a full-time historian. someone who has dedicated their professional career to that. that is a requirement. i urge you that in this nomination, you're rejecting someone who continues to serve our interested in the city. our tourist industry is very much a blank. -- linked. [chime] >> good afternoon, supervisors. in the city of san francisco, we have so many boards and commissions. there are no qualifications required to give back to the city. the historic preservation comm

. >> uh-huh. >> buckley v. vallejo has become the most cited case in recent supreme court history, and it involved a challenge to the campaign reform act of 1974. my co-plaintiffs and i had the temerity to conclude that the limitation on the ability of an individual to support a candidate of his choice was not merely unconstitutional, the supreme court disagreed with me and as a federal judge i defer to that, but also very bad public policy. if you want me to explain why, i'll -- >> yes, please. indeed. i think that's very appropriate. we're constantly consumed with this idea of fundraising. we're always talking about it. >> to get the full flavor of the case and to understand what is really involved in it i must first state that the campaign reform act of '74 placed limits on total spending in any federal election as well as a thousand dollar limit on whether an individual can contribute to any candidate and a $5,000 limit on what any individual could contribute to a pac, a political action committee. the peop

buckley and what is your relationship with his son, christopher buckley? >> my relationship with bill was very warm. i have in my library a picture of a sailboat in the moon light, that bill painted and i always loved that painting and one night we were having drinks at his house and i said, bill, gee that is a wonderful painting, i thought he was a very good amateur painter and he said, do you think so? and grabbed it and, there i have it and woke up the next day and, i had this beautiful painting. and for many, many years we were close. christopher, what he said about bill in his book and what he said about his mother, he shouldn't have ever said. these are things that you keep to yourself. >> losing mom and pop book. >> yes. and i think he was -- it is disgraceful and there is an element in american public life that seller underwear, to sell your parents' underwear. to prosecute yourself, anything for fame. and, christopher fell prey to that in that book. and, i don't expect he'll be in any of my book parties, real soon. >> and in fact you write about h

. >> thanks, james buckley judge on the u.s. court of appeals argues against the extension of the federal government and contends that it growth questions the original intent of the framers of the constitution. he presents at the heritage foundation in washington d.c. it's an hour. [applause] >> wow, i suppose the first thing -- i'm a little bit or 10. should we address u.s. senator, judge, under secretary of state? which do you prefer? >> is very confusing. how about you? >> a man of the people. this wonderful book, "freedom at risk," which are remarks in speeches and statements and articles which you have written over the last several years was a low bit of the disturbing title about freedom at risk. so i guess the first question that i'm sure would like to have you address is how much freedom is at risk and what do we do about it? >> i do believe that freedom is at risk if you're talking about the autonomy, the exercise of personal disclosure that have been at the root of our country since its founding. i believe that the tim

buckley's review. the bible of conservative. in september of 1992, they published an article about "the times" with the headline is it true what they say about the times? it was co-written by john and patrick, one a former operate at the new york telegram, and the other the assistant of national review. at that time, he was railing against the press, and the negativism incidentally a phrase written by william sapphire who soon went to work for "the times." richard was livid over the papers, and conservatives, some in in in democrats were upset about the endorsement george mcgovern. they were charges of left-leaning bias. conservatives long dismissed "the times" of liberalism, bias beyond redemption. the national review asked to what extent was the based? it examined five issues that they said fell along a left-right cleft. (james buckley 1970 run for his senate seat, the anti-ballistic missile treatly in 1969, and failed nomination of mr. haynesworth, and north vietnam. the national review concluded, surprisingly, where the new

there was something called buckley versus something? >> that was not legislation. buckley v. valeo has become the most cited case in recent supreme court history. and it involved a challenge to the campaign reform act of 1974. my coplaintiffs and i had the temerity to conclude that the limitation on the ability of an individual to support a candidate of his choice was not merely unconstitutional, the supreme court disagreed with me and as a federal judge i defer to that, but also very bad public policy. you want me to explain why? >> yes, indeed. i think it's very appropriate. be costly and so this idea of fund-raising. >> to get the full flavor of the case and to understand what is really involved in it, incidentally i should first state that the campaign format placed limits on total spending on the federal election as well as $1000 limit on what an individual can contribute to any candidate, to the $5000 limit to what any individual can contribute to aipac, a political action committee. the people who join together to challenge the constitutionality of the package involves

buckley will be happy to sign them all. thank you. [applause] >> for other books on the current state of the federal government, visit booktv.org and search federal government on the upper left side of the page. >> coming up, richard rubenstein professor explains why americans are amenable to war. the u.s. government sells war to the populace and examines the way that involvement in foreign conflicts are proposed to the nation. he discusses his book at the cambridge public library in cambridge, massachusetts. it's just under an hour and a half. [applause] >> thanks very much. it's wonderful to be back in cambridge. and i appreciate that fine introduction from brian core of the cambridge peace commission. very interesting organization. i'm beginning to think maybe we need a peace commission in washington, d.c., too. [laughter] >> anyway, i want to thank brian for that intro. and also thank the cambridge public library, this wonderful building and thank marilyn in particular for inviting me to be here. i also want to say a special thank

james buckley, senator james buckley. we have a bunch of great, great titles coming out. stop by our website and see what you're missing. >> one more thing, can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to start the pamphlet series? >> yes. i saw in 2008, that election cycle, the internet has become a central part of the metabolism of political debate. blogs and so on. absolutely essential to the way the messages were getting out. people were getting educated. they had a couple of liabilities. one was they were very ephemeral. i've read about myself. i know you can get hundreds of thousands of hits, thousands of commons. seventeen hours later it's gone. they have moved on to the next bank. so i want something that has the immediacy of a blog, the internet. step back a little bit. so i thought of the 18th century by common-sense. you had people commenting in a very forthright way club matters of great public moments, things that were on everybody's mind. these days, of course, it's things like health care and natural to of national sovereignty, the public-sector union

. >> my name is kieran buckley. i am here to support the project. do we have an overhead? if you look at this project, it is well in keeping with the neighborhood. this is the subject property here. this is the -- four consecutive buildings on the uphill side of lombard street have a roof decks and enable their residents to have the use of the bay and the golden gate bridge. neighbors have called the proposed structure too tall. it has too many elevators. i think it is a good idea, the elevators. it is handicapped accessible. basically, i am in favor of the project. i think it is very well designed by the architect. i would urge moving forward with the project. thank you. >> and gus mccarthy, a member of the residential builders association. i knew the -- i knew that what would be in front of us today is people upset about the demolition, not the case in front of us today. there are a lot of comments that should not have been made here. what is in front of you is a building that is proposed. as far as design goes, many people feel it is a good design. it is not a large pro

prosecutors say buckley threw a single punch hitting a nthonygerardo.e ended up daying. >>> shatara james and her sister leticia james left their children alone with a burning candle. leticia james gave birth to a baby while in custody. because shetara james will facing murder charges, he will ask for her bail to be raised. >>> she ran into a burning san jose burn only on two, ktuv's rita williams with what that good samaritan did. >> reporter: this san jose father of two love hráeu children stopped to see how he could help. >> after i had kicked the door down. the oxygen hit it. all this smoke just overwhelmed me. >> two people were in the building. >> jeremy fisher had inhaled smoke and was taken to the hospital. >> he was risking his life to save someone else. >> reporter: so his wife was shocked when this bill got to his house. >> the bill says 1,847.23 just for the ambulance ride. and the guy said i done know don't know what you can really do. and he said, i guess that's what you get for trying to save somebody. >> we're in the process of trying to

prosecutors say buckley threw a single punch hitting a nthonygerardo.e ended up daying. >>> shatara james and her sister leticia james left their children alone with a burning candle. leticia james gave birth to a baby while in custody. because shetara james will facing murder charges, he will ask for her bail to be raised. >>> she ran into a burning san jose burn only on two, ktuv's rita williams with what that good samaritan did. >> reporter: this san jose father of two love hráeu children stopped to see how he could help. >> after i had kicked the door down. the oxygen hit it. all this smoke just overwhelmed me. >> two people were in the building. >> jeremy fisher had inhaled smoke and was taken to the hospital. >> he was risking his life to save someone else. >> reporter: so his wife was shocked when this bill got to his house. >> the bill says 1,847.23 just for the ambulance ride. and the guy said i done know don't know what you can really do. and he said, i guess that's what you get for trying to save somebody. >> we're in the process of trying to

so to review senator thune and the buckley rule.servative, check, electable check, let's hear what he has to say. our friend, senator john thune. [applause] ♪ >> thank you all very much and thank you, james, for that very generous -- thank you. thank you for that very generous introduction. and thank you for the warm welcome. before i go any further, however, let me introduce my wife, kimberly, who is somewhere down here, right here, in the front, as a matter of fact. my dad told me the day i got married that a man who says he isn't afraid of his wife will lie about other things. so always important to remember to introduce the really important person in your life. i want to also just say what a great honor it is to be here at cpac with the largest gathering, annual gathering, of conservatives anywhere around the country. and i know that as we gather here in february of 2011, there's already a lot of speculation about november of 2012. and i hope, and i'm betting, that 2012 is going to be the year when we not only take back the sena

he had bill buckley and his administration. that was an interesting administration. one of the observations that should be made about richard nixon is that he really was intellectually alive in a way that other politicians aren't. bill clinton is not the least bit intellectual. he is not the least bit intellectually driven. i have had a couple run ins with him as well. if there is a guy -- and administration you compare with the clinton administration, you should compare it with the administration of parting. he loved golf and had a bossy wife. the two along well together when bill goes off to his eternal reward. >> host: you dedicate the impeachment to warren harding. >> guest: i think warren harding, hi am told ronald reagan was called -- pears another iconic republican, it is lincoln. harding is the iconic republican for the clinton administration. i'm surprised no one has picked up that comparison of bill clinton, big lovable lug of a casanova and harding, big and amiable, they were made for each other. >> host: three of your book use the term crackup. why? >> gu

steve buckley, a sportswriter for "the boston herald" revealed in his column today that he is gay. [heers and applause ] of course, this is classier than the other option, doing an hour-long special on espn to announce he's switching teams. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] he didn't do that. he could have done that. hey, listen to this. an escaped prisoner in alaska was on the run for six hours yesterday before he was finally caught near sarah palin's hometown of wasilla. [ laughter ] yeah, 'cause when i think of safe places to run, i think, "the woods near sarah palin's house." that's perfect. [ light laughter ] hey, you guys, it was a three-hour hostage standoff that ended peacefully yesterday at a mall food court in arizona. it would have ended a lot sooner, but it took the cops like two hours to find the gunman on the mall map. [ light laughter ] it's like -- "we are here. we are here. do you see a footlocker? do you see a footlocker anywhere? [ cheers and applause ] reminiscence? what is reminiscence? what do they sell there? [ laughter ] is that a candle place?" this is big

buckley will be happy to sign them for you. thank you all, indeed, and join me in thanking him. [applause] >> for other books on the current state of the federal government, visit booktv.org and search federal government on the upper left side of the page. >> this tuesday, february 23rd, visit booktv.org at 7 p.m. to watch bruce riedel live online discussing his book, "deadly embrace." simply go to booktv.org and click on the watch button under the events information in the featured programs section of the page. also, follow us on twitter at booktv for up-to-the-minute schedule updates on future, live online programming throughout each week. >> marc aronson and marina budhos examine the impact of sugar on world history. they recount the role it played in the atlantic slave trade and the industrial revolution. during this event they speak to a group of students at the brooklyn public library in brooklyn, new york. >> well, the first thing is today in about an hour we're going to cover several thousand years of world history and touch every part of the planet. are you ready to rol

buckley's book, "freedom at risk," visit his publisher's web site, encounterbooks.com and search his name or the book's title. .. he speaks with the age of society in new york city. this is about one hour and 20 minutes. >> thank you. it is a great honor to in my time with an important and difficult look like this one, so we have asked professor dikÖtter to begin our discussion tonight by giving us a short reading. i think anybody writing about a subject as huge and difficult to comprehend. inevitably he found a way to make it somehow intelligible and you break it down and write about it. and professor dikÖtter had taken a kind of mosaic approach. he uses the rich and often ghastly detail that he has painstakingly unearthed and archives across china. to come at the disaster on a number of different scales from the world of internal leadership politics in beijing and cold war diplomacy and trade that is on the large-scale to the faith of individual villages and farmers on the small-scale. and what emerges is a picture of a country convulsed not just by hunger, in fact the word famine

he had, he had bill buckley in his administration. so that was a very interesting administration. one of the observations that should be made about richard nixson is that -- nixon is that he really was kind of intellectually alive in a way that other politicians aren't. bill clinton, for instance, is not the least bit intellectually alive. he's not the least bit intellectually driven. i've had a couple of run-ins with him, as you know. but, well, if there's a guy that you should compare -- if there's an administration you should compare with the clinton administration, i think you should compare it with the administration of harding. right down to the fact that harding loved golf and had a posse wife. bossy wife. the two of them will get along well together when they both, when bill goes off to his eternal reward. >> host: and, in fact, you dedicate the impeachment to warren harding. >> guest: yeah. i think warren harding, i'm told that ronald reagan has called the icon -- if there's another iconic republican, it's, it's lincoln. i say that harding is an iconic republican for the

taylor buckley of san carlos pleaded guilty yesterday to involuntary manslaughter for the death of anld back in 2008. the two got into a fight outside the at&t park during a game. a punch caused that victim to fall and hit his head on the concrete. he died the next day. the plea deal calls for a year in jail and five years of probation. formal sentencing is scheduled for next month. >>> the fate of five uc- berkeley sports teams has been delayed yet again. the school is thinking of dropping baseball and four other teams to save money. they were supposed to have made that announcement at noon yesterday but now, the university spokesman says it's not clear when an announcement will be made. organizers of a fundraising effort say there's about $15 million worth of pledges in an effort to save those teams. >>> an east bay coach is arrested on child porn charges. randolph folcher coaches girls basketball softball and volleyball at oakland military institute. he was arrested for possession and distributing child porn. at a meeting the academy superintendent says the school is taking extra s

taylor buckley is pleading guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter. as part of the flee deal he'll go to jail for one year and serve five years probation. he punched anthony injure ordo back in may of 2008. he fell hitting his head on the concrete and died the next day. >>> changes are coming to what happens when you go to pay for things at stores. "today in the bay's" bob redell is live in san jose this morning with a look at what is different when you go to buy things. >> reporter: well, a state court has ruled that merchants can no longer ask you for your zip code. the only exception being if you are at the gas station and have to punch in your zip code when using your credit card because that's for security purposes to prevent thieves from filling up on your dime. the same for making a purchase online shipped to you. you are in store using your credit card, merchants in california can no longer ask you for the five digits. they typically do this to look up your address and put you on their markets list. that's what prompted a shopper in san mateo.

you've had great friends here, great friends in the it will a trar tradition, mailer and buckley was a friend. bill styron was a close friend. >> very close friend. >> rose: so you've lad lots of great friendships here. but have you considered america a friend? >> oh, yes, yes. you know, i grew up here in the roosevelt years which gave me a great impression of the greatness of the united states. i love the united states, the roosevelts and in the deal. when i have criticized the united states it's because the united states has not lived up to roosevelt. it has not lived up to its great tradition. that's been my criticism. the sense of disappointments and what the united states should be and was not. but now with obama i think it's good for the united states. i think it's recovered the great tradition that roosevelt and clinton and truman as some of the great presidents had. >> rose: so you're optimistic for america's future snowed >> very much. very much. it's very difficult for president obama to make the american public at large understand that the united states is no longer the so

[applause] we also addressed longstanding issues and emerging challenges, in 2001, barbara buckley led the charge to integrate the child welfare system in clark, in 2003 former senator bill read audio also pushed toward the funding plan. we will fidget -- my budget will finish the job of brands to clark county, the basic operation of child welfare services with local autonomy. in addition -- [applause] -- in addition we provide $7 million of incentive payments with welfare agencies achieved stated goals. my budget response to the national health care reform legislation passed by congress last year, i believe many aspects of the law is unconstitutional. we will fight to have them overturned. [applause] in the meantime, however, the law imposes many deadlines and we cannot wait until litigation is resolved. we must plan for a major expansion of medicaid which may cost nevada $574 million from 2014 to 2019. we must also plan for a health-insurance exchange so that we and not the federal government control program. my budget includes funding to address these issues and i have submitted leg

it has been three years since the great behemoths, buckley, left us.e is very much missed, but his legacy and wisdom remained with us. last year and particularly as the two party has emerged there has been a lot of discussion, as they should have been, among conservatives about what kind of candidate should conservatives nominate. as was so often the case bill buckley had wise words on the subject. what has come to be known as the buckley rule says a conservative should nominate the most conservative candidate who is electable. conservative and electable. .. >> he made good on a promise to sell term limit after three terms and left the house in 2002. he came within 500 those of winning the senate seat in his first challenge to an incumbent ruled democrats say. in 2004 he took on senate democratic leader tom daschle. [applause] >> and john thune one. for anyone here who may think it isn't easy to defeat -- i suggest you talk to our friend from nevada about their efforts to unseat harry reid. harry reid start his reelection 2010 falling only slightly ahe

buckley's "national review," the very bible of conservatism. and the timber, 1972, "national review" published an article about the times with the headline "is it true what they say about the times"? it was co-written by patrick means, who won a former reporter the new york world telegram, the author of the assistant of the "national review." at that time spiro agnew was reeling against the elite is the establishment press and the nattering nabobs of negativism incidently a phrase written by william safire who soon thereafter went to work for the times as there and has the conservative columnist. richard nixon was livid over the times publication of the pentagon papers and conservatives everywhere, some democrats, too, were upset by the looming endorsement the looming times endorsement of george mcgovern. the focus of the "national review" article the churches the left-leaning bias. conservatives have long dismissed the times as a hotbed of liberalism, by guest beyond redemption, the "national review" asked to what extent is this impression sof

you're committed to the concepts of ronald reagan and bill buckley i and to the free exchange of ideasg up for those time-honored principles. it's good to be here. i have been around so long that i remember a time when cpac did not exist, when ronald ray began was still an -- ronald reagan was still an actor, when barry goldwater was our candidate for president, and we only worried about socialism outside of the united states. [cheers and applause] now, i'm honored the receive this defender of the constitution award and especially to be with so many people who understand how important it is for us all to defend the constitution. people in this room, i know, keep that flame burning and inspire so many millions of americans who share in our belief in limited government, a strong national defense and a sound fiscal base for a growing economy. and, and our thoughts today are with the many thousands of other defenders of our constitution who are not in this room or even in this country. they're thousands of miles away risking their lives to protect our free society. the enemy they face is r

we all remember william buckley's conservative motto, sort of the father of the -- i would say the modern conservative movement, william buckley said once that the role of conservatives is to -- quote -- "stand athwart history yelling 'stop'." we will, in 1935 franklin rose develop passed social security. the republicans fought it bitterly and 75 years later they're still trying to undo it and privatize it. in 1965, president johnson and the congress passed medicare ensuring seniors access to decent health care. the republicans fought it bitterly and 45 years later they're still trying to you undt and privatize it t we will, to quote another famous republican president, "here they go again." by the way, ntsz that the republicans are no longer -- notice that the republicans are no longer even pretending to offer a realistic comprehensive alternative. they used to talk about repeal and replace. now they're just talking about repeal. as always, the republican approach to health reform can be summed up in five words: pray you don't get sick. so make no mistake. the fight to provide access to

from a distance, his assistant, and buckley, salt us and all we were about to come to blows.ied to diffuse the situation. the city would bring us some boxing gloves. tony said something i never forgot, "this is not personal. he has a job to do and i have a job to do." when we get into these emotional debates, all of this happens day in and day out. there are decisions that presidents and press secretaries have to make. there has to be a healthy dose of respect on both sides of the podium. without further adieu, -- >> our guests tonight have seen, shaped, and given voice to an incredible history from black hawk down in somalia to the impeachment of a president to 9/11 and the war in iraq. their jobs are complicated and may be impossible ones to represent the president, to articulate administration policy, to communicate with a skeptical world, to manage the media -- let me think about that for a minute -- manage the media, to tell the truth, or at the very least, we hope and trust, not to lie, and to do radio, television, facebook, etc. when dee dee myers stepped to the podium

it started as an intellectual movement with high-tech and bill buckley and others i admired as a college student, an intellectual and college movement, take into a retail level by ronald reagan, and a socialist -- social conservatism, the three legs of the stool, a conservative, and now into a third phase -- getting out of the beltway. we have tea party activists from around the country. we have regional and state policy counsel springing up with wonderful conservative content. so this third phase is to go out there to america and capturing all the talents and enthusiasm and bringing them under the umbrella of what heretofore was mostly beltway-centered organizations. host: are you concerned with the cuts being proposed by republicans in the house for this remainder fiscal year, and largely being driven by tea party candidates, now members of congress, saying we need to cut even more? $100 billion less than what the president proposed, about $60 billion less in 2010 funding levels. are you concerned that that amount of cutting could have an impact on what sort of candidates you can get t

buckley and ronald reagan himself because this man needs of good dose of common sense conservatism. what i mean is the fact that the media portrayed him as somewhat of a centrist, but we know he is a far left. he makes though clinton look like a right winger. host: you pointed out individuals that passed away. hartford, connecticut, democrats line. good morning. caller: he should meet with former president bill clinton who has the depth and the knowledge to give him advice now. bill clinton has experience with government shutdowns, and he has experience on the economy. he just met a couple of months ago about tax reforms. host: last december. caller: i think the former president is the one he should talk to. host: a couple of other headlines this morning. signs of a civil war in the turmoil in the middle east specifically in libya. army leaders are preparing to dispatch a rebel force to tripoli to support the uprising there. the prospect of a rebel army marching on the capital to confront loyalists members of the same ari raised the specter of all right civil war and the country alr

buckley punched an 18-year-old college pitcher during an argument outside of the ballpark in may.l and hit his head on the concrete and died the next day. more local news coming up in half an hour. the "today" show continues up next. have a great friday and great weekend. see you later on. >>> back now with more of "today" on this friday morning, the 11th day of february, 2011. a nice day in manhattan. a little bit cold. these folks came to kick off the weekend with us. i hope they don't mind but we decided because it's so cold, we -- i actually begged to stay inside. >> the good news is by sunday it will be nice and warm and sunny and you're not going to need all those heavy coats and hats. >> it's about time. thank you very much, al. we have been wanting that news for some time. i'm ann curry with al roker. matt is off this morning. coming up, talking about the breaking news out of cairo where masses are pouring into tahrir square. they have been outraged over president mubarak's declaration on thursday that he will serve out his term. although he's also talked about handing ove

that was the president's message, buckley and privately, yesterday. -- publicly and privately, yesterday. but as to who was involved in leads this process, those are decisions to be made in egypt by the egyptian people. >> does he feel betrayed by the united states at the moment? >> no. >> depending on the level of the street protest and depending on the kind of volume for the calls of change will dictate what your statements are? right now you are not making dramatic calls for change. you say that yemen needs to reform, but you are using the same measured statements. if the protests there get larger, would make a more larger call and dramatic change there? how much are you letting the street dictate what the u.s. policy is? >> no, let's go back to weeks to the secretary speech. it she advanced and enunciated a policy of the united states. we want to see it representative government. >> the secretary urged change and the secretary said you need to get on top of these movements, but it was not -- >> i would not say it quite that way. you need to respond to the political, economic, social,