host: our sunday roundtable with cheri jacobus and karen finney. bill is joins us from pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm looking out the window and there's a hummingbird out here and i think people need to connect to nature more instead of technology. everything we come up with in terms of technological entertainment require energy. when i was a kid, we played outside. we didn't have electronics all the time and we walked to school and i think we're always promoting the consumption model and we need to look at what's conservative and exploiting all the resources in order to fulfill our wants and desires isn't really conservative and we have to look around and do simple things like planting garden and walking to school and being more community minded. it's all these high energy prices do anything that's going to be good, maybe it will bring people back to urban cores to where they can walk to the store and get to know their neighbors and a political point, too, i think unfortunately the political process is broken, that we have t

host: our sunday roundtable with cheri jacobus and karen finney. bill is joins us from pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm looking out the window and there's a hummingbird out here and i think people need to connect to nature more instead of technology. everything we come up with in terms of technological entertainment require energy. when i was a kid, we played outside. we didn't have electronics all the time and we walked to school and i think we're always promoting the consumption model and we need to look at what's conservative and exploiting all the resources in order to fulfill our wants and desires isn't really conservative and we have to look around and do simple things like planting garden and walking to school and being more community minded. it's all these high energy prices do anything that's going to be good, maybe it will bring people back to urban cores to where they can walk to the store and get to know their neighbors and a political point, too, i think unfortunately the political process is broken, that we have t

cheri jacobus. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> of the obama administration faced its first appeals court challenge to the new health care law. they heard oral humans at liberty university. they're ready university is a religious college in lynchburg, virginia. it declared that mandating individuals to buy health care insurance is a violation. two other circuits have oral arguments scheduled. this is one hour and 25 minutes. >> good morning. i am on behalf of the plaintiffs. we ask this court to find that the mandates are unconstitutional for two reasons. first, the clause does not give congress to pass the mandate turned suddenly, they violate the plaintiffs' constitutional rights. it is to promote an ideal that is humanitarian in nature. but it goes beyond the limits of the constitution by regulating the first time in history non- economic activity. congress has the authority to pass these mandates for three reasons. congress lacks the authority to pass alonthe law. >> even in the first couple of minutes, yo

washington journal," a political roundtable on the 2012 presidential election with karen finneyaind cheri jacobus. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. next, a discussion on the subject of american identity. speakers include conservative syndicated columnist charles krauthammer, juan williams, and lamar alexander of tennessee. panelists analyze an 1894 speech by theodore roosevelt on the subject of americanism and how it relates to the country's culture today. the hudson institute hosted this event. it's two hours. >> i'm here to welcome you to the 2011 bradley sympos jump devoted to the question of true americanism, what it is and why it matters. national affairs is precedes to co-host the symposium together with the hudson institute's bradley center for philanthropy and civic renewal. a few quick words of thanks. to cheryl miller and above all to the lynde and harry bradley foundation which supports so many important projects aimed at advancing american ideals and understanding american life. we're honored this morning to have with us so many of the foundation's board membe

on washington journal for tomorrow, we will have a discussion of politics with karen finney and cheri jacobus to talk about the political issues of the day. we will talk about relationships of pakistan with shuja nawaz. we will talk about the current between us and the pakistan government and the killing of bin laden and it story today in the paper about the intelligence service. and matthew segal. we will talk about college graduates, their viewpoints on the job market, the kinds of jobs out there for them and what they face as they leave school. that will be at 9:15 a.m. tomorrow. all of that, the newspapers, and your phone calls at "washington journal" which starts at 7:00 a.m.. we will see you then. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up live, house speaker john boehner delivering the commencement address at catholic university at 10:15 a.m. eastern. on wednesday, former speaker of the house newt gingrich announced he is running for president. on the "road to the white house," you can see his address to