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christopher, how much does the buck stopped with him?g under a lot of pressure. he's got an ally, quoted in the article. other tories getting the guillotine ready for mr williamson. he has some enemies. this is a problem a long time coming. last week, the scottish government came out and did in about—face on this exact issue. these algorithms are judging these pupils on previous performance by other pupils in previous years, so ifa other pupils in previous years, so if a year is outperforming in the school, the kids in that year will be downgraded because of kids in the previous school years and in previous school years and in previous years, and that's what seems so unfair. in this piece on the front page of my paper, the telegraph, talks about one person who, having telegraphed three b by his teachers, got ubb. u is an unclassified grade. it is dion to fail. let's move onto the guardian, you touched on this, poorest hit ha rd est by a—level you touched on this, poorest hit hardest by a—level results. but it says that britain's equality

yates and his wife nelly who works for christopher steele at fusion gps and how this is all connected together, talk about that. >> yates said she was supposedly unaware that her deputy was talking to the guy who had in fact manufactured that political opposition research. i used to work in the justice department and the idea that a deputy would keep something like that totally ignorant from their boss i have a very hard time believing. >> talking to his wife's boss. >> right. >> do we see james comey and andrew mccabe to testify? >> i assume james comey, as arrogant as he is and as unapologetic as he is about his behavior will come to the hearing, be willing to testify because he still thinks he didn't do anything wrong. >> interesting stuff. doesn't make for great television but it is important stuff to look at so thank you,

christopher: we will see how it turns out.t is an experiment for those organizing the convention, those of us watching it. we will see how vice president biden does. we will get that side-by-side comparison because we will get the president's version next week. he is apparently speaking from the white house itself. day to day,ves from week to week. i'm not sure this is the decisive moment in the campaign for biden. there's a lot more at play having to do with cobit, economic recovery. alix: fair enough. nevertheless, vice president biden has to win over some republicans, moderate republicans. how does he do that tonight when he has to cater to the younger more left-wing base? christopher: that is a problem for any party at their convention. candidate comes in building their base for months at a time and now they have to turn to the center. traditionally that has happened both for republicans and democrats. has shifted to the left on biden over the years on medicare, social security, climate, so he has to harness those forces,

christopher wray needs to tell me how that briefing was set up for the senate intel committee. want to know who gave the briefing, i want to know who prepared the briefing memo. the briefing memo is a complete fabrication of what the subsource said. carley: got a lot of questions there. wray ordered an internal review of the flynn case back in may. todd: todd: giv todd todd: todd: ghislaine maxwell is asking to be moved out of her cell. she is accused of helping recruit underage girls for jeffrey epstein. her lawyers will not say what new information is but are asking the court to delay the release of several documents. there's stalling on capitol hill as lawmakers remain in a deadlock, days after president trump took coronavirus relief in his own hand, signing four executive orders. treasury secretary steven mnuchin says new unemployment benefits of up to $400 will be available soon. >> i think within the next week or two, most of the states will be able to execute. todd: the democrat led house will not return for votes in washington until september 14th unless a stimulus deal

state unemployment insurance this morning with christopher o'leary of the upjohn institute for employment research. can you briefly explain who you are and how long you have been around? guest: sure, thank you. this year is our 75th anniversary. upjohn institute was established in 1945 right after the war. it was established based on an endowment. the founder of the upjohn drug up a month before he died. dr. upjohn grew up on a farm. ofthat time it was a period transition from a farm economy to an industrial economy. , amployment insurances program for an industrial economy where people are separated from the land and the means of subsistence. he set up a farm outside of kalamazoo where people could set up a garden, maybe build a cottage, grow crops. they had some assets that were put into the endowment. some people did use it as that. some people got grants. then the institute operated as a grantmaking foundation. it was finally created as an institute for research in 1945 to study on and ways of dealing with unemployment. that is about the upjohn institute. host: christopher o'leary, senior economist. you have spent a lot of time studying

let's put that briefing together, christopher wray needs to tell me how that briefing was set up for the senate intel committee britt i want to know who gave the briefing, i want to know who prepared the memo. was a complete fabrication. >> sean: that's called the process crime, didn't they have predawn raids for paul manafort and roger stone for process crimes and then we already have a referral for these guys lying in congress? >> this is really unbelievable, the double standards here by the media, but telling your listeners that a year after they knew the russian dossier was no longer reliable, they told the same lies to congress, not just the court has a completely new front of legal liability and i'm going to find out what happened. >> sean: that's why your testimony from rod rosenstein and sally yates is key. neither of them would've signed those warrants. great work, senator graham. thank you. straight ahead. you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never b

joining us to give us more back ground on how this works is christopher elliott, chief advocacy officer washington post columnist. essentially airlines are pricing tickets, some airlines i should say, pricing tickets based on what they believe a customer will be willing to pay. how exactly do they determine that? >> that's right. it's called dynamic pricing. and that's where the price of a product is set according to demand. so if a company believes that you're willing to pay more for a product, they're going to set the price higher, and if they don't think it's in as much demand, they're going to set the price to be a little bit low. so customers are alleging that airlines are using technology that we have now on browsers to determine how much you're willing to pay. so if you're logging on, say, the chrome browser, they'll think maybe you're willing to pay more, or if you're logging in on your iphone, they'll say maybe that person is going to pay less for their ticket. >> ask is this technology analyze other personal information about us when we log on? >> well, it gets real tricky whe

goods but specifically food and how they essentially . all right christoph klayman with the foundation thank you very much thank you. there were wall street now where the 2nd quarter was a bloodbath for many companies but investors expected worse and that's helped push markets back up to record territory with more than 400 of the s. and p. 500 listen companies having reported earnings were 22 percent above analysts expectations for that period covers the lock down heavy months of april may and june detector the nasdaq index has already reached a new record all the s. and p. 500 is nearing its previous record set in february. and let's look into this with our financial correspondent in new york korda. yens investors seem happy but the reality is that a lot of these companies really got hit hard in the 2nd quarter is wall street's on a different page than main street. i mean clearly the stock market is decoupled from reality and then also if you look at the stock performance it's a bit tricky because just 5 big tech companies stand for about 20 percent of the

christopher wray needs to tell me how that briefing was set up for the senate intel committee. want to know who gave the briefing. i want to know who prepared the briefing memo. the briefing memo is a complete fabrication of what the subsource said. todd: wray ordered an internal review of the flynn case back in may. trademark documents revealed bytedance plans to roll out a financial services program. the company pulled tiktok service after beijing passed a controversial national security law. this comes as bytedance reportedly plans to sue president trump over his executive order to ban tiktok as soon as today. carley: the clock is ticking for presumptive nominee joe biden to announce his running mate and the top contenders are bringing in some big cash. elizabeth warren raking in the most with $7.7 million combined, from a high dollar fundraiser much like the ones she swore off during her own campaign. the massachusetts senator will host another expensive fundraiser tonight. listen to this, a navy veteran has his chihuahua to thank for saving his life. little boo boo ran for

how are you this morning? host: you are on with christopher o'leary. that i my comment is have worked all my life. at the factory i worked at. they just put us all out because they did not want nothing to do with this. there were maybe 10 of us that got hurt. anyway, i have all these restrictions because they took my -- i have all these restrictions. i finally got a job. i worked there six years. i was making eight dollars an hour. then they shut us down. my employer could not afford to open back up. she did not have the money. week on employment --unemployment. at least i have a husband that is an essential worker and i get social security, which is only a little over $1000. i feel bad for these other ladies that are working there that was not getting on employment. was not getting social security. i feel bad for people who can't pay their bills. there are a lot of people down here living intense because -- in tents because they don't have the money to keep their house. it is really sad. host: thank you for your call. guest: i want to thank you for your call. and your resilience given the challen

christopher harvey with wells fargo, you absolutely daniel the -- you absolutely nail the under ownership of apple computer. how is it possible that apple is under owned? christopher: that is a great question. it is something we have been monitoring for about two years now. we have been scratching our heads why institutional pms have been underweight apple. we talk about the underweight, , and they was growth would say, we don't care. we would say, you should. growth stock. let's move on. now a lot of people are saying, how did apple get to where it is .t this point in time that is why we think it continues to grind higher. tom: what is the behavior of fund managers as they continue to quarter and? -- to quarter end? are they forced to buy these highflying techs? christopher: i'm not sure if they are forced, but you do hear a lot of the risk managers knocking on the door and saying, you told me two months ago, three months ago you were going to take this up. he told me apple was going to pull back. it hasn't. we need to do something now. you have cash on the balance sheets or cash laying around in the portfolio

the bbc s christopher bobyn has been looking at how foreign workers in scotland have been coping.fe here. albina mendoza has been living in south queensferry for three years. her income as a latin dance teacher has been a lifeline to her mother living in rural bolivia. i was very busy before the lockdown. my work, it‘s stopped, and i‘m still trying to do my best. i‘m living on my savings, but i can‘t send something to my mum now. albina‘s teaching didn‘t meet criteria for self—employment support, in turn, leaving her mother reliant on farming her own food. albina is one of the 3.5 million non—uk nationals working in britain. in 2018, they contributed to 10 billion us dollars in remittances that were sent out from the uk to relatives around the world. danny has been fishing with scottish crews out of greenock for two years. his income pays for his entire family in indonesia. i have two children and a wife, and my wages, every week, i sent home. and the virus started coming, and lockdown, and lostjob. my wife talking about no money. despite being unable to fish for a full month beca

if you haven't yet that's how the orientation cinema goers get. director christopher nolan is the master of multiple time frame and this is another artistically ambitious and action packed epic things that seem to be unwinding can suddenly reverse. ship sail backwards across the sea and bullets or such back into guns as if by magic you're catching. nolan's new work plays with the physics of time reversal of the. conversion the hero played by john david washington learns how it all works from a secret or going to. sation. to open the right door and get a megalomaniac russian oligarch wants to use the concept to destroy the world plot could be right out of a james bond movie on the phone. trying to move them to world war 3 christopher nolan has realised a long held dream to make a spy thriller in the double 07 bold but his take makes is in science fiction elements it's classy action cinema but when it lure audiences back into the cinemas after the corona induced pre. will it indeed a lot riding on this film for a certain age and kennedy is here to talk to me about it an

how will it affect the election if at all? let's bring in "the federalist" senior editor christopher bedford. good to see you. re democrats going to push on this? >> i'm surprised they pushed this far but they will continue to push this. this is the second thing the post officer general has done to try to assuage these concerns. the first thing he did cancel moving and collection of mailboxes, the kind of routine activity that is extremely normal for the post office to be doing which has now got some kind of conspiratorial tone to it. all right. we won't do that until after the election. a lot of plans which were already in play before he came on board, before any of this mail-in ballot stuff was announced, he will say that all right, we won't touch anything. the reality of the matter is, the union, the union want as lot more money for the post office. they have been very resistance to changes in the post office which is a fiscal disaster which will something better or streamlined anything. they realize if they attach this to the election they get the attention of everyone. democrats signed on to it as well. d

there's a theory how that played out and the real smoking gun in all of this is all these tent it calls lead back to the small group including stefan halper at the center of spygate, christopher steele at the center of russia gate, none of the senate has subpoenaed or called these people to talk in four years i think that's the real smoking gun how are these people being protected and at a point so close to the election and with flynn's hearing coming up that no one has called these people and gotten to the bottom of this and the information i provides a lot of troubling aspects of this. maria: so let's talk about that, because you actually recorded stefan halper. he was aware that you recorded him because you used to do recordings but this is on january 10, 2017, two days before there was a leak in the washington post, that general flynn was going to be investigated about the logan act and you recorded stefan halper talking about flynn. let's roll that recording right now. >> if you go to the nfc, you have to consider very carefully if you feel that it's appropriate for your work. i don't think flynn is going to be around long. i mean that's just my guess, but the way these

european settlers, indigenous society, issues of justice and retribution, so how is the issue of, for example, reckoning with christopher columbus or reckoning with the man like woodrow wilson, how is that playing in latin america? >> this is a country, the united states, many, many decades if not centuries did not have a sense of history because it didn't have a history common to all its inhabitants. each sector of society had its own history. all of a sudden americans are arguing, debating, sometimes fighting over a statue of robert e. lee, over the name of the woodrow wilson school at princeton university where i studied and talked. americans are arguing about christopher columbus and columbus circle, americans all of a sudden are realizing that history is actually worth fighting over. or fighting for. >> do you see this kind of questioning and re-examination and renaming as a sign of strength and confidence, not weakness and decay? >> absolutely. as a sign of strength, american infinite capacity for reinventing itself. america reinvents itself every so many years and does so with enormous success, which is -- which

algorithm and gavin williamson needs to be considering hisjob, giving how many people this has affected in the country. christophernk? do you think you need to consider his job? i'm sure he's thinking about it but it's hard to know what elsie have done once this algorithm appear to have gone wrong as appear to happen in scotland, they have increased the grades to what teachers thought which could inflate grades which has been alleged. the problem is it's much smaller cohort of students in scotland, it's much easier to do that across all of england. it's just, the scale of it is unenviable for gavin williamson. but it is on his watch. we can all remember when we got our results will either wait a tough day for anyone who got their results. let's move onto front page of the daily express. big headline there, seeing... it is talking about there, seeing... it is talking about the increase in fines for those who refuse to wear face coverings, it will now be £3200 if you refuse to wear a mask and faiza this has come in at the same time as relaxed some of the restrictions around coronavirus when it comes to sport, beauty

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no apology need christopher because i'm interested, too. how is the proposed sovereign wealth fund different from the social security trust fund? that make sense? >> yeah, absolutely. you're not buying bonds and you're not buying u.s. government bonds. the global reserve asset. you're trying to pick up equity, equity is long-term premium 6% which is awesome when you consider the growth rates on average are 2%. the reason the get rich is the -- so the solution is tax capital at 80%. never going to happen. my sluice is why can't we all get a bit of r rather than worry who is getting diminishing slices of g. we can jump into another question i just saw here they want to address which is this is from seth. wouldn't a state run fund -- politicians in order to hike up the assets and the wealth fund making politicians into bankers. you could if you design it badly but you can design it in a passive fund that basically buys abu dhabi 0.25% of everything, and completely independent board that has nothing to do with any election cycle and then mandates t

christopher o'leary, senior economist . spent time studying on the planet. when it comes to today and what is happening right now this enemy. how many americans are currently receiving some form of unemployment insurance but are from state or from the federal government. guest: lastly, the report comes out every thursday morning. 31 million people were continuing to claim on unemployment.en 17 million were regular state beneficiaries, or the programs. there were about 13 million of the pandemic assistance which is available for self-employed, contract workers and others who do not qualify for regular state benefits. and there are several categories. pretty simple, there you might not meet the eligibility requirements. but your home taking care of kids were in school. but you could qualify under unemployment assistance. so is about 13 million people receiving that. 31 million people john, is a staggering number. john: do have a total of how much has been spent unemployment insurance additionally because of the coronavirus pandemic. has anybody told the yet. guest: will going into this recession. states that about 76 billion in r

how to build and antiracist. jordan washington a republican and christopher hugh a democrat traveled the country together and attempt to find a column common dialogue in union and wrapping up our look at the best-selling nonfiction books according to washington dc's politics and prose bookstore is me and white supremacy by good ancestor podcast host layla addresses white supremacy and racial injustice. most of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> center kamala harris is joe biden's pick for vice president and she appeared to discuss her book the truth

i see a young man, question in the back, shout it out area how did i meet christopher eliopolous? a great way to meet people is on the internet can we have a hand for every parent that brought their kidhere tonight ? you brought your child here and all we do is talk about war, i really appreciate it . every parent is going home with the best questions from their children tonight. that's my gift to you but chris eliopolous, that's a great question. chris and i, i'm going to have one of the eye handbooks . i'm chris because i lovehis work at marvel and the reason i looked him , he had this cross between it always looked to me like peanuts meets calvin and hobbes. that's what he did and he did it over and over again and it's easy for an artist to do cute and funny but chris could do heart and i knew i wanted my kids to be off their phone and i want them to be off the screen and the only way you can do it is give them something better and i gave them chris. i'm not the secret weapon, chris is the weapon area it's chris's part yourkids are calling for and i knew if i gave them that the

well as aid workers helping with the relief efforts and he joins us now via skype christopher good to have you with us how many people at the moment are you putting up at the moment we have 60 people who lost their houses. up to 30 minutes of the me my father and they're not that the 15 we have that didn't start the posting on social media that you are offering help to people in need and i'm grateful that my name voice has been and that for now 60 people are saved. because we took the initiative but no one and i mean no one is going to sleep without a roof over their heads tonight how long do you envisage having them to stay there in the hotel with you. actually 45 people have left. because only their houses but less in their houses has been shuttered and the other 15 people currently staying at the don't have they have their house completely shut so i'm gonna accept them in my own with my open hearts and open doors until they can safely go back to their house what about the hotel itself did it survive largely on a scale from the effects of the explosion ok so actually the 15 minutes drive away from the e

how much of the dollar is used abroad? christopherase we are a big global investor, so over half of our portfolio is always in the usa, we are looking at when is the right time to go overweight, developed markets outside the u.s., and eventually emerging markets. now, we could have said emerging markets have been undervalued for almost two years running, but there are going to be some opportunities. once you're are out of the the market is going to struggle to go higher. but you really do need to look at diversification and be more global in your portfolio. the concentration in these names from all the traders, those people came in and they are going to leave just as quickly. ailman, with ar view on institutional money. coming up with a view on the fixed income arctic, james karen, morgan stanley. look at that. this is bloomberg. ♪ of: this morning, the surge last weekend continues. the ftse up 22% off the bottom, the american s&p 500 up 51% off the bottom. the difference, american digital dominance. there are sure signs of inflation.

how are you this morning? host: you are on with christopher o'leary. that i my comment is have worked all my life.e factory i worked at. they just put us all out because they did not want nothing to do with this. there were maybe 10 of us that got hurt. anyway, i have all these restrictions because they took my -- i have all these restrictions. i finally got a job. i worked there six years. i was making eight dollars an hour. then they shut us down. my employer could not afford to open back up. she did not have the money. week on employment --unemployment. at least i have a husband that is an essential worker and i get social security, which is only a little over $1000. i feel bad for these other ladies that are working there that was not getting on employment. was not getting social security. i feel bad for people who can't pay their bills. there are a lot of people down here living intense because -- in tents because they don't have the money to keep their house. it is really sad. host: thank you for your call. guest: i want to thank you for your call. and your resilience given the challenges yo

drums bass and guitar christopher down vibraphone amnesty program on trombone respond as it was very exciting i spent hours really listening closely to the music and thinking how i could interpret it as if you were talking to your. normally hamburg spectacular phenomenon with its 2000 seats would be booked out for an event like this julie coronavirus pandemic the concert hall has taken huge hits it's trying to maintain contact with all. audiences of course titled side we invited artists and paid them to perform here without a live audience but we recorded and stream if this over the summer would set up a cinema he and front of the concert hall to 250 people where they can watch the performances so it's a lot of work and doesn't make us any money but we have to take every opportunity to let the music from the elder fill the money speak for the what is fair thing as a kind of. this week's beatles concert is a point of pride for handing the band's 1st of a concert was here in hamburg make light district on the 17th of all this 960 microphone to the intercom for 7 weeks john and george 3 boys from liverpool without gringos stop and met him shortly after at another

before coronavirus restrictions, newshour weekend's christopher booker set out to oregon, to learn about the state's historic timber industry and how-- if at all-- the fortunes of those who work in >> have changed. eporter: watching a tree run through the southport lumber company in ioos bay, orens the process takes 30arkable. minutes, each tree running through a 21st-century production system that would have been hard to imne just a generation ago. the mill, built in 2005, can process 100 truckloads of raw tmber a day, producing lumber and wood chipst are eventually turned into paper products. and while the mill is in every way an extension of oregon's thonomic past, it's also a window into whindustry's future is so uncertain f the stats workforce. >> so, you can see these saws, every time a log comes in, they shifpositions, chop the log into shorter stements. >> rep jason smith is the manager and one of the co-owners of southport lumber company. >> iyou look up at the screen up here, it showa cro- section and a profile of the log, what the products we're going to get out of each log, and how it's going to be positioned and rotate

christopher cuomo. >> we work two days in a row, that's how we do, we are the clean up crew. >> we have to make sure everything is right. maybe the guys before us screwed it up. i will put it that way. >> we are the clean-up crew, and we do our job with full gusto, big night, why? the democrats check the box. they have a nominee for the president of the united states. it's former vp, joe biden. he accepted in a surprise appearance. here's a taste. >> thank you very, very. from the bottom of my heart, thank you all. it means the world to me and my family and i will see you on thursday. ♪ >> thank you, thank you, thank you. [ cheers and applause ]. >> all right, but there were not that much applause, and it was weird. yeah, welcome to the new normal. this is how we have to live right now. but a big moment for him, third time is the charm. >> it was a big moment. i thought it was cool, better than just accepting it on twitter. which we thought was going to be -- these are the times. chris, we have talked about it. these are the times we are living in. chriss and i, same building, right next to each other, and in

how to be an anti-racist." friends jordan and christopher traveled the country together in an attempt to find a common dialogue in "union." and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to politics and prose bookstore is me and white supremacy by good ancestor podcast host lei that saad. most of these authors have e appeared on booktv, and you can watch them online at booktv.org. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is mitch kaplan. he is the owner of books and books bookstores in the miami area. we last spoke with mr. kaplan on march 17th when the pandemic started. and, mr. kaplan, i think you just reminded me that was the day books and books shut down, is that correct? >> guest: that's right, peter. at that point we became a virtual book shop at that point. the only business we were doing was online, and we were just exploring how to do our

text messages reveal how former senator john mccain associate david cramer who stories from christopherele the author of the fake dossier to the left-wing media. the text reads in part quote the flynn called story is picking up legs think it's time to get that other story out there. that's a reference to a column about flans contact with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. the message also say ignatius is the one i will feed it to refer to them to "washington post" columnist david ignatius. and a win for the trump campaign and i went judge rejected 50,000 absentee ballots because they were. filled up with voter information bridge earlier this month the trump campaign and republican groups of the state filed lawsuits to invalidate those ballots saying voters should fill out their own ballots to protect from fraud. joining us tonight tom fenton the president of judicial watch at his new book is a republic under assault the lefts ongoing attack on american freedom available for. order now. john it's good to have you it does. turns out there is voter fraud in this country of seemingly all fo

it's christopher hill's famous book the experience oof defeat. it looks at how parliamentarians distinguished the war. i wanted to see how they dealt with defeat. and from that chronological episode, if you will, i teased out four themes. and they all cover -- it's kind of like microhistory. i tease them out of their records of just three or four days, the first three or four days of 1802 during the first session of the congress. i began to realize what they're talking about is basically the plit si zags of everything. we're talking about socialbility, food, science and historical memory. those are the four themes i'm going to be teasing out of here. the first one, sociability. well, the social life in washington probably then is now to some extent revolves around the white house. the white house's new occupant at this point was thomas jefferson. he had been inaugurated in march 1801. and we all know from jefferson's famous first inaugural where he says we are all federalists, we are all republicans. he's trying to conciliate all parties. what he really meant wa

i called to experience defeat, it is a rip off of christopher hill as book the experience of defeat which looks at how levellers, quakers, parliamentarian dealt after the english war in the 1860s. so i wanted to see how they dealt with defeat. and from that chronological episode, if you will, i teased out four themes and they're all covering kind of like micro history. i tease them out of the records of three or four days, the first three or four days of 1802, during the first session of the seventh congress and i began to realize what they're talking about is the politicization of everything. we're talking about social, food and science and historical memory. those are the four themes i'm teasing out here. the first one social ability. the social life in washington is now to some extent revolves around the white house and the new occupant at this point was thomas jefferson. he'd been inaugurated in march 1801. and we all know from jefferson's famous first inaugural where he said we're all federalists, we're all republicans. he's trying to con silly ate all parties. but what he meant was, we're all re

idea for a for a series of boo, books that changed the world, of which my book on how the smith is what an christopher hitchens has one also on thomas paine, the rights of man. in very good it is. it was because of some at the smith come poking around in ad and smith that toby asked me to write on adam smith. >> you are on with p. j. o'rourke. go ahead. are you with us? >> new jersey, go ahead. >> caller: i am not sure by mr. o'rourke deserves to be taken seriously or be given all this time on your show. when a man who i suspect never wore the uniform and i suspect from rick about his politics in the vietnam area would a dentist artist to avoid wearing the uniform can be so utterly flippant about war. we have a war now that we should not have had by my likes and i happen to have been a republican for 50 years voting three times richard nixon and twice for ronald reagan. thousands of americans have been killed, tense if that hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed. no useful purposes is served by this war and a think it's abominable that mr. o'rourke can make fun of war and can find something