citizens united donors can afford the best. almost all advertisements today put independent expenditure into them. the candidates benefiting from this camper and they have nothing to do with the attacks. they wash their hands of the matter. citizens united has the potential of multiplied the money involved in american politics. no matter how expensive you think they are today, they will be more with corporate america. oftentimes there is less return on their investments. corporations spend millions of dollars on politics and sometimes get billions of dollars in tax breaks. that seems to be going ratio of these days. citizens united allows attacks by a largely unknown groups. you may never knew that that citizens united calvary or whether it was a native americans, a guerrilla warriors, the aliens. citizens united does not fit in the script you are familiar with or could imagine. do not out of the federal election commission forcing timely disclosure. it is notoriously flatfooted, attended, and we need. half of citizens united s

this is like citizens united. how do you know when you are occurring favor with citizens united? it could be anyone. if you give a speech to the board of directors or to their convention and employees, you're likely to be on their favorites list. you kind of wonder who is doing the -- for the corporations. republicans are good and out democrats are bad. we're between the two political parties. that makes it awkward for us. this is a very dangerous place to be in politics. there are only two things you see in the middle of the road. yellow lines and dead armadillos. if you are an extremist, he only have one flight to protect. everything has been done to down in this generation. it is hard for you to see. even the national journal, it costs thousands of dollars a year to subscribe to, they have been dumped down. in the information age, we are facing an information shortage because we're discovering that people don't want information because that is painful. we want to reinforce our own prejudices because that is comfortable and that makes today's environment particularly tricky. >>

finally, citizens united could reduce the role of washington lobbyist. an if you can buy direct? this may sound like a good idea. but remember, for all of the citizens of k street, things could be worse. today's lobbyist are relatively identifiable, they fend a -- they spend a relative small amount of money, millions not billions, and they are often less selfish than their bosses realize. i'm not say they advocate good government. sometimes they do advocate pretty good government. in a citizenned united, state ad agencies could beam down by satellite, cable, or broadcast. cruel messages without ever talking to voter or elected official. "big brother" makes lobbyist look better. ironically, the cure maybe the corporations themselves. this would be a welcome reprieve, because otherwise we must amend the constitution or change justices. both very difficult tasks. i doubt that most large corporations wanted the new freedom that the court gave them. will they be able to resist the temptation of using it? for a few years, at least, i think most companies will b

focused on those things. >> what you trying to win some of those seats back the margin in the citizens united case affected many of those races. any of our members in new york were among those that had double-digit leads 10 days out from election day. and these groups that had never set foot in new york put in hundreds of thousands of dollars in your to change the dynamic. we are working very hard in new york. there is one district that john kerry carried along with barack obama. there are five districts in pennsylvania, three in the suburbs of philadelphia, and two in the more western parts of the state. we are focused on those 14 states to begin with, one in the york, five in pennsylvania, and others elsewhere, and then we graduate from there. >> when president obama is sharing the ballot with a number of your candidates in 2012, would you see that as a positive or will that be a negative? >> is positive. a rising tide lifts all boats. >> are you doing anything different in your predecessor? >> had a very defined role under my predecessor. i was the recruiting chair. my style is to focus in

please welcome david bossey of citizens united. [applause] ♪ >> well, thank you all very much.olin, thank you for that kind introduction. colin hamna was one of the patriots who joined in with let freedom ring with an am my cuts brief in our case. so thank you, colin, and a lot of people in this room filed ame ca in this case. it was a wonderful victory. it's nice to have picked up 63 seats in november, and i'm really enjoying the fact that they're all mad at me, so it's nice. [laughter] i have a distinct honor and privilege today. we've all followed the extraordinary career of our next speaker. he is a grandfather, a scholar, a college professor, a best-selling author, a fell m maker -- film maker, a congressman and leader of the 1994 republican revolutioning, the speak speaker of the house of representatives. newt gingrich's resumÉ is impressive and his principles are desperately needed today more than ever. now, there's been a lot of talk inside the beltway over the last year about balancing the budget. with our climbing $14 trillion debt, we desperately need that, and there

[applause] [cheering] i am happy now to introduce you to david, the president of citizens united.y he served as president and chief investigator for the center of government integrity, the government watchdog group that invested the continent and attrition. he served on numerous campaigns of conservative organizations and congressional investigations over the past 15 years. he previously served as chief investigator for the committee on government reform and oversight in the u.s. house of representatives where he led the campaign finance and chinese espionage investigation under chairman dan burton. bossie's work was recognized by cpac in 1999 when he was honored with a ralf rig and a word. he also came to a lot of people's attention after the supreme court issued its momentum citizens united case id. [applause] many people still mischaracterized that case. the purpose of the case was to see to it that corporations who were not media corporations were on an even footing with corporations that were media corporations. it was a free-speech issue. and of course that was the case that

so this covers every suit that could be brought by any citizen against any federal agency of the united states government. i don't know how you can side with the federal government against ordinary citizens and their right to sue, especially those who have been harmed the most seriously. i urge a very strong no by every member of congress who really does believe that the federal government has to be put in its place when they harm ordinary citizens. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. miller: mr. chairman and members of the house, i think mr. markey has it right. lawsuits are brought every day that infuriate us one way or another depending on where you stand and what you know about that issue but the idea that we would take this right away from the american people to go up against the government when the government every day makes a series of decisions, not all of them are perfect. many of them are wrongheaded. many of them have repercussions they hadn't thought through w

institute and groups like americans for prosperity but thanks to the rise of the tea party the citizens united ruling and investigative reporting from organizations like think progress this year the koch's actions have gone public twenty five people were arrested out of what has been said to be more than one thousand activists who came to protest the gathering of the so-called billionaire's caucus in rancho mirage california but will this protest make any difference especially when you counter the millions that each coke conference only delivers david dayen from firedoglake cover the rally this weekend and is joining me now live from our studio in los angeles david thank you so much for joining us now. give me from your perspective what the scene was like this weekend i mean was there really a need for police in riot gear was there some kind of a threat of violence that was announced beforehand. well i mean that's what i asked andrew breitbart actually i said you know which where is the security threat here was a was a paper but a puppet or was it the lady with the umbrella that was pink you k

on it is we largely already add billionaire rule in america and she's going to get worse until citizens united the supreme court gets overturned maybe the makeup of the citizens of the supreme court changes scott walker our next topic scott walker was punk's by an editor of the buffalo beast who was in his billionaire david koch this week now the sheriff in madison must have a chat with walker about some of the things he said i guess plan to plant rabble rousers in the union crowd to cause trouble so the question is what will happen to walker now that he's been exposed as a corrupt politician and why do you have to be a billionaire to be able to chat with the guy and the rest of the g.o.p. for that matter genius i mean i saw him take his australian because barack obama has never had a union boss like andy stern in his oval office so we know what he had him more than anyone else he would never make up he's probably who are playing with words he would never see would never pick up the phone from warren buffett supporter you know what i bet he would he would never have said he would and so would

they didn't recuse themselves from the citizens united decision at all. but here's the real problem. this could be just an isolated problem to the citizens united case, or it could be much more widespread with justices conflicted on several fronts, reducing to disclose themselves when they have actual conflicts of interest. we have no idea because right now there is no law requiring supreme court justices to disclose their conflicts of interest as is required of all other federal justices. i don't believe we should be meddling in the day-to-day business of the supreme court. i get why there is great wisdom in separating legislative and judicial functions, but there's no undue burden in just requiring sunlight on supreme court proceedings. when we return to washington after the recess, i will be introducing legislation to do just that, to implement a few reasonable reforms to add greater transparency and disclosure requirements on the supreme court. i hope my colleagues will join me. my legislation will apply to the judicial conference code of conduct to t

issues, because it is about the ability of one political side to compete especially after the citizens united ruling which allows corporate donations and other donations to increase. the plain field has shifted. host: as far as the playing field is concerned and driving people out to protest at the state capital, how much would you say and that this is a pure grass-roots effort? adding to what we have been hearing about the organization, organizing for america? guest: msnbc and fox news are escalating this to a battle of good versus evil, go out and do your part. grass roots as blurred into the top down control so it is hard to categorize. guest: you wrote about wisconsin. what is happening in ohio? there are protests there as well. guest: the new republican governor is pitching new bills than they have republican control of both houses, so theoretically they could pass this. the reason things are focused on wisconsin is they had the honor of going first. that is now the battle is set. what is on board about wisconsin is that in the politics, you tend to follow the winner. wisconsin matters f

i know that speaker gingrich has been featured in several films under the citizens united production name. with that, what positive than negative impact would the case have on the future 2012 election? >> i believe this entire, highly regulated federally supervised bureaucratic model of citizenship is wrong. i believe it has put enormous power in the hands of labor unions, corporations, political action committees and a the like. i believe it has allowed some people to buy office that if you had (a real competition, you could not do it. it has given rich people an enormous advantage. i think that any american citizen should be able to donate in any amount they want to as long as it is filed every night on the internet and everybody can see the support of everybody. i would rather have the money go back to candidates and parties and get out of this model where operatives of both parties create these organizations that are part of the whole underlying mess. i think things are going to get worse until we decide on a very clean, simple election system that allows the candidate to go out

and the resources in the hands of those who oppose democracy at this point, especially after citizens unitedfor every ad on tv there were five or six trashing him, and we didn't even know who paid for them. the new york times just found 40 percent of the chamber of commerce's budget, $803 billion is paid for by the pharmaceutical insurance company, and they use the chamber of commerce as the attack dog. we never knew until now. >> and the first two chapters of your book as you are laying out the different elements of a real powerful movement that the first world war destroyed, the only ankle of people of faith that you mentioned was the social gospel and theology of walter. i wonder if you could -- something was notable, the evangelicals, the fundamentalists at the time such as william jennings. >> he was not of fundamentalist. he was an evangelical. there is a difference. >> i wanted to comment on figures such as jim wallace. could we see a return of the fundamentalist? >> well, i don't want to -- fundamentalists and evangelicals at that time were at war with each other because the fundamen

i know that speaker gingrich has been featured in several films under the citizens united production name. with that, what positive than negative impact would the case have on the future 2012 election? >> i believe this entire, highly regulated federally supervised bureaucratic model of citizenship is wrong. i believe it has put enormous power in the hands of labor unions, corporations, political action committees and a the like. i believe it has allowed some people to buy office that if you had (a real competition, you could not do it. it has given rich people an enormous advantage. i think that any american citizen should be able to donate in any amount they want to as long as it is filed every night on the internet and everybody can see the support of everybody. i would rather have the money go back to candidates and parties and get out of this model where operatives of both parties create these organizations that are part of the whole underlying mess. i think things are going to get worse until we decide on a very clean, simple election system that allows the candidate to go out

he supports the supreme court striking down campaign finance laws even more than they didn't citizens unitedso he wants the court to strike down laws just as much as liberals want the court to strike down laws. is just that conservatives and liberals disagree about where. there's another difference though. liberals don't hide that they want the courts to do this. conservatives pretend that they are doing something else. what it is amazing arrogance being presented as modesty. [applause] >> there are three examples are renegade involving the free speech clause of the first amendment. that is text. in the 2nd amendment, that is text and the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. that is text. trying to understand what that text means confines by discretion. when i moved from bad to say well this is in the ninth amendment which doesn't have any text that defines anything all of a sudden i am unmoored from the texan i get to do it every one. that is ultimately the difference. i try and grounded in the text and he doesn't think that is necessary because it ought not to be finding. >> one

after that the united states state department and embassy wanted to evacuate all united states citizens out of pakistan saying it's dangerous here but i had a lot of work to get done so. i called my wife and asked her what should i do and she said stay there with the people you love. finish up your work because you need to be over there right now. and when i was in pakistan after 911, everywhere i went i was touched by outpouring of empathy and hospitality. i remember a poor elderly widow that brought me five precious eggs and pushed them in my palm and said bring these back to the widows in new york suffering. this is all i have to share with them. i was invited for prayers of piecen the mosque and every whether i went people apologized even though they didn't have anything to do with it. finally it came time and i went back and when i got to corefa, hangele had passed away. i went to his grave and stood there look at his box in the ground and thought, how can i go on, this man had become my father, mentor and guide. he told me to sit down and be quiet and take a bath and so many thing

there are thousands of undocumented citizens of the united kingdom in america, and the united kingdom government has no interest. i would urge you to press that. there are bilateral trade agreements and millions of people working. press the slew. one final point, i would challenge the bill. at would price do we have comprehensive immigration reform. i would ask the question at what price can we not have it? >> so you would give them all the bad stuff just to get the good things? >> no, i wouldn't. but i'm reminded of what voltere said, which is let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. by holding out for the perfect, there are 12 million in a bad way in this country. >> what is the difference between imperfect and the atrocious. >> i would ask you to not let the perfect outway the we. thank you for having this commission tonight. someone once said that what leads evil to triumph over good is that good men do nothing. i think you for doing something good and not letting the evil win by sitting down and doing nothing. thank you. >> thank you. i will probably get in trouble for letti

if they bothered to mind their own business here in the states and took care of the citizens in the uniteds, this would be much better country than what it is. guest: you are raising a number of important points. i am not one who believes we should never support people abroad in other countries. i do think it is absolutely critical that we do not suredespots and dictators that brutalize their own people. the reasons we went to war in iraq is on excusabinexcusable. intelligence felt as when it came to the invasion of iraq at a time when about half of the population was opposed to war -- i think it was the two weeks around colin powell giving his push for war at the united nations, a speech he would call a stain on his career, that speech was february 5, 2003. the media watch group fare did a polling of the four newscasts. they look to the abc news, the nbc nightly news, the cbs world news, and the pbs news hour with jim lehrer. in that two-week period, there were 393 interviews done around war. only three were with anti-war leaders. three of almost 400 when about half the population was not

be getting worse, worse in the sense that there are distortions in the campaigns and with the citizens unitedses fec, we can now have unlimited amounts of money and we do not even know where it comes from. there are no limits on it. the fairness doctrine would be great. it would be great if we could have free television for the candidates in the local areas, but also one national network where each candidate has the right to debate with each other. we do not have that and i think is a problem. the distortion of a position now is corrected by the conflict, by the campaign, by the opposition. sometimes is very difficult when there is a negative ads run against an individual pushing back. aboutre going to talk civic education, we need to do a better job of educating our children and our citizens about how the process works and also, about how to challenge candidates at town meetings. i think our electorate is getting more and more alienated. not only against congress, but also with state legislatures and unwilling to learn about the details of policy. that is a major problem. host: professor thu

to areas like critical infrastructure that is critical for national security for all the citizens in the united states. transportation, banking industries, energy, utilities oil and gas are all important areas of what we do. how do we take an architecture and extended to other critical areas of the organization that are important to everyone in the world? this can be extended beyond the borders of the united states as well. and we look globally, there is very little common architecture for how we can put security architectures in place worldwide. we need to evolve to a better architecture and a better compliance model. each country does a different. each organization, each agency even does a different so how do we evolve is really key in that goes to the first pointer to you mentioned peter as well. we need standards and standards are critical. in most i.t. areas, we have standards. think about the database with what is called sql, ways to query the database. think about other areas that involve standardization bodies to regulate how and which we architect our products. security doesn't have th

lejo their adopted home town as united states citizens. >> we were going to do that on our own but then they told us that when we come back from basic, we will basically have it so, we didn't have to go through the whole process. >> as twins, they are inseparable at least until monday when they separate for basic training in south carolina. but they both know this decision will offer them opportunities they wouldn't have had otherwise. >> it is going to help us get our citizenship and open more doors for us in the army to get better jobs. >> reporter: melissa leaves for basic training on monday. she will come back into the army reserve at mayor island. her sister maylynn leaves later this month, then on to job training for her, and then, on to an active duty assignment. reporting live, jade hernandez, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> people in san francisco's castro district worry there might be an arsonist on the loose. a small fire this morning did minor tackle at a victorian home on 18th and colling comfort streets. it is only a few blocks away from the three suspicious fires we reported on

in the the citizens united world of funding, the other side has done well. in federally regulated fund raising, we had a terrific year. we raised $122 million. bells were contributions that averaged $55 each -- those were contributions that averaged $55 each. we always go back four years for the comparable period. in 2006, we raised $69 million. in to doesn't end, we raised $122 million. -- in the doesn't 10, we raised 200 -- in 2010, we raised $122 million. jane and her team and the team governor kaine put together did a terrific job. as soon as we are done, go to the website. it is $10. we had 1,067,000 separate individuals giving us money last year. that is up 61% since 2006. [applause] 400 it the thousand of them had never given to be -democrats- 450,000 -- 450,000 of them had never given to the democratic national committee before. in terms of the fund raising team, we are doing great. where we are right now, we have a $15 million bank debt. we have about $1 million in payables. we are a little ahead of them. we have a lot of work to do. we do not have

citizens may not circumvent any provision of the united states constitution. the patriot act powers are used in secret, as a result, when ordinary american citizens are ordered to turn over information to the government under these expansive powers, they are prohibited from discussing their case in public. the risk of government overreach is at its greatest in matters such as these. the second section states if a u.s. citizen argues to a court government spying violated their constitution rights, that the citizens case must be expedited. the fisa laws require that when the government seeks a court order to conduct surveillance of a american citizen, the government's request must be expedited i did the court. this provision is a basic promise of fair and equal treatment and the government should not have greater rights than the people. we took an oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. our obligations to that oath and the american people we represent are put to their greatest tests when

citizens. i respectfully disagree. the united states could neither provide for our citizens security nor promotes the cause of human rights and democracy around the world if we had to make public every step of our efforts. confidential communication gives our government the opportunity to do work that could not be done otherwise. consider our work with former soviet states to secure loose nuclear material. by keeping the details confidential, we make it less likely that terrorists or criminals will find a nuclear material and steel at for their own purposes. consider the content of the documents that wikileaks made public. without commenting on the authenticity of any particular documents, we can observe that many of the cables released by wikileaks relate to human rights work carried on around the world. our diplomats closely collaborate with activists, a journalist, and citizens to challenge the misdeeds of oppressive governments. it is dangerous work. by publishing diplomatic cables, wikileaks expos people to even greater risk

you cannot reason for promises deductive lead to answers -- conservative cases like citizens united or liberal ones like roe v. wade. the power of the courts to review the constitutionality of the statutes of executive action is nowhere mentioned in the text of the constitution. it was not explicitly discussed at the constitutional convention. it comes from montgomery vs. madison in 18 03. -- marbury v. madison in 1803. >> i take a different view. [laughter] let me start with the last one, because i don't think it is accurate. the discussion of the judicial review is part of the constitutional convention. there is an entire debate about whether to give the courts the power to strike at legislation they disagreed with on policy grounds at. during the course of that debate, which they rejected his power of revision in the courts, it was discussed that they would obviously be able to strike it down as unconstitutional. the question on the revision discussion was whether they would also have the power to act as legislators if they disagree on the policy. the convention is physically denied

. >>> and in washington, the league of united latin american citizens will honor lawmakers who have championedey issues important to latinos. among the honorees, indiana senator richard luger. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. details on wednesday's lunch meeting between prince william's fiancee, kate middleton, and her future step mother-in-law. camilla parker bowles. >>> rock legend elton john stops by to talk about his new movie and becoming a first-time father. keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry, thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

in the the citizens united world of funding, the other side has done well. in federally regulated fund raising, we had a terrific year. we raised $122 million. bells were contributions that averaged $55 each -- those were contributions that averaged $55 each. we always go back four years for the comparable period. in 2006, we raised $69 million. in to doesn't end, we raised $122 million. -- in the doesn't 10, we raised 200 -- in 2010, we raised $122 million. jane and her team and the team governor kaine put together did a terrific job. as soon as we are done, go to the website. it is $10. we had 1,067,000 separate individuals giving us money last year. that is up 61% since 2006. [applause] 400 it the thousand of them had never given to be -democrat 450,000 -- 450,000 of them had never given to the democratic national committee before. in terms of the fund raising team, we are doing great. where we are right now, we have a $15 million bank debt. we have about $1 million in payables. we are a little ahead of them. we have a lot of work to do. we do not ve as m

in january of last year, the supreme courtecided citizens united in which they affirmed that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts cannot be limited under the first amendment. i know that speaker gingrh has been featured in several films under the citens united production name. with that,hat positive than negative impact would the case have on the future 2012 election? >> i believe this entire, highly regulated federally supervised bureaucratic model of citizenship is wrong. i believe it has put enormous power in the hands of labor unions, corporations, political action committees and a the like. i believe it has allowed some people to buy office that if you had (a real competition, you could not do it. it has given rich peoe an enormous advantage. i think that any american citizen should be able to donate in any amount they want to as long as it is filed every night on the internet and everybody can see the support of everybody. i would rather have the money go back to candidates and parties and get out of this model where operatives of both parties create these organi

citizens since 1917, even though it is not a state. >> puerto rico is a territory of the united states. we are american citizens by birth, yet we cannot vote for the president and do not have a full congressional delegation. >> they do have pedro pierluisi, the resident commissioner for puerto rico. he's elected to represent the territory in the u.s. house of representatives. and he has an office in the longworth house office building, which is right across the street from the u.s. capitol. while commissioner pierluisi cannot vote on final passage of bills, he can work behind the scenes, for example, on committees. and he's using that influence to promote statehood for his people. >> we're part of this nation, we have been part of this nation for over a century and we want to contribute the same way that others do up here. in fact, with almost 4 million residents, puerto rico has a bigger population than that of 24 u.s. states have, including oregon, oklahoma and connecticut. statehood means congress would have to add some new seats, two new senators and at least seven new representati

i am sure that the massive citizens of these united states in well. washington told john j. i believe that there will always act well whenever they can obtain a right understanding of matters. let me say that i share washington's fate and the essentially sound common sense of americans except, perhaps, the coming generation whose members seem unable to figure out how to put a baseball cap on so that the brim points for work. i am not saying that when our national government under either party is capable or even desire ring of and accurately education for the citizenry about the islamists thank confronting america. americans do not simply have what washington calls the right understanding of the threats from the persian gulf region. in my writings i have sought to a quite americans with the nature of these that's what they're from iran and lebanon, the vicious marshall anti christian, anti-jewish, and anti-western brand of islamic theology or the forces osama bin laden, al qaeda, and other islamists lead and inside. i also argue that the and not been at states government is f

unrest in the middle east, particularly in libya, where today, amid more violence, the united states evacuated its citizens and temporarily closed its embassy. the white house says the libyan president, moammar gadhafi's credibility is, quote, reduced to zero. chris bury is in chicago. >> reporter: the bloody turmoil in libya and the fear of more trouble in other oil-rich nations is sending shock waves from the mid-east to the midwest. they're reverberating, right here in highland, indiana. what happens in the mideast has a direct impact? >> i think so. >> goes up all the time. >> reporter: here at the thornton station, we met up with patrick, a top analyst for the website gasbuddy.com. its spotters scattered around north america log in real-time data on tens of thousands of gas stations. >> reporter: so, here in highland, ip inn, what are you seeing? >> price is up to $3.23. almost 20-cent increase here in indiana. >> reporter: and what they found this week across the country is remarkab remarkable. u.s. average up a dime in the last week itself. so so, the price is rising very sharply. >> reporter: what'

movies that we're very proud of and the new reagan book that we're proud of and all that he did at citizens united the lawsuit last year and in the hard work he's done to help elect conservatives across the country is really, truly remarkable so i'm glad to be back with you. i also want to thank david keane who, while he has retired from that job, held together both the acu and cpac since 1983 and he deserves a big round of applause. [applause] now, as all of you know who have been here when i have been at cpac over the years i almost always start by going back to the very 2nd cpac, 1975, at a time when the republican and conservative prospects seemed at their very bottom, when the country seemed to have lost its way and when governor ronald reagan, recently out of office, came here and said that we have to have bold colors, not pale pastels. and he laid out a policy which, in a very short time, defeated the soviet empire, re-launched the american economy and rebuilt american civic pride and american exceptionalism. 20 years after that, i came to cpac as the first republican speaker in 40 years an

as americans you should be very concerned about this because these are citizens of the united states of america. and unless we do something to integrate them and bring them back into the mainstream, give them a sense of confidence, we will have problems from the community, and this homegrown terrorist phenomenon to me as an interpol but just reflects what i've described which i am not happy about at all. as a father comes someone living in washington i'm very concerned about it, so i hope that this book will generate fresh thinking. we have some rich in demography at the conclusion of the recommendation of the end to do precisely this. now of course, i must mention the team that traveled with me at work on this project and contributed to it, because without them this project would not have been completed and wouldn't have the quality that it had. two of them i mentioned are my honor students at the american university and were with me on the first project and so these were the three members of the team and since then of course frankie is going on to england to be ph.d. and i'm deligh

united states. the conundrum facing citizens is how to create a state powerful enough to protect the republic but we cannot destroy it. the constant use of the term failed state ignores the fact that such places as somalia or afghanistan have political system is, no.republic. no group of citizens committed to the rule of law, reason and justice. without a republican only a state to build on group force can survive. even such states as sensibly moral justification for their exercise of power. states all over the world rely on brute force to survive. the greatest possible difficulty evolving into republics as we see in egypt today where we have a state involved, republic based states like the u.s. often conduct international relations on the basis of state interaction. primacy to violent means to end guaranteed by force we will soon see how a federal ends guaranteed by force can rock in afghanistan but as there was a piece in the new york times that without dealing in the same terms talking about this conundrum in american foreign policy with respect to supporting dictators, one of our national sports

states as territories or possessions, khalid shaikh mohammed or any detainee who is not a united states citizen or a member of the armed forces of the united states, and is or will -- or is or was held on or after june 24, 2009, at the united states naval station guantanamo bay, cuba, by the department. section 1113, none of the funds appropriated may be used to transfer any individual detainee at guantanamo to the custody or control of the individual's country of origin. any other foreign country or any other foreign entity unless the secretary submits to congress the certification described in subsection not later than 30 days before the transfer. . for the purposes of this section, the term individual detained at guantanamo means any individual who eel located at naval station guantanamo bay, cuba as of october 1, 2009, is not a citizen of the united states or a member of the armed forces of the united states. and in the custody or under the effective control of the department. the term foreign terrorist organization means any organization so designated by the secretary under section 219 of

building a patch platform and i'm somebody who believes in civic responsibility and if the citizens of the united states, whatever book, if you can't provide a service in your community that's profitable and growing we have a problem because at that time period you have to remember when patch started the government was thinking about fundsing newspapers and the ideals of this country, we have one right here, a greek immigrant today came in, women entrepreneur, sold her company for $315 million, the original internet company in the united states. >> rose: only in america. >> only in america and this country will be successful with entrepreneurs and people allows to make those investments so patch was a personal investment that turned into an a.o.l. investment. i think it will be one of the most powerful we have as a company. >> rose: is the acquisition of the huffington post putting you on a different content path that you intended to be on before you met her? >> a more powerful path. >> rose: so it's a question of power? it gives you another... >> our blackberries both, we probably had probably 2

i am sure that the massive citizens of these united states meanwhile, washington told john jay 1976 and i believe he will always act while whenever they can obtain a right understanding of matters. let me say that i share washington state in the essentially sound common sense of americans, except perhaps the coming generations is no members in unable to figure out how to put a baseball cap on to the brim point forward. but i do not say that our national government under either party is capable or even desirous of accurately educating the citizenry about the islamists that confronting america. americans which not have what washington called her right understanding of the threats from the persian gulf region. in my writings i sat to acquaint americans at the nature of these threats called in from iran and its coreligionists in iraq and lebanon, the vicious martial, anti-christian, anti-jewish and anti-western branch of islamic theology exported under saudi arabia official imprimatur for the forces of osama bin laden, al qaeda and other sunni islamists lead essay. i also argue that the uni

each of these duties is inherent in being a citizen of the united states. each is necessary for the operation of the government itself. each has traditionally been recognized. in the united states, sovereignty rests with the people. if congress can mandate that you do anything that is convenient to its regulation of the national economy, that relationship is now reversed. congress would have all the discretionary power of a king and the american people would be reduced to its subject. the mandates defenders claim that because congress has the power to draft to into the military called it has the power to make do anything less than that including mandating that you send your money to a private company and a business with it for the rest of your life. this simply does not follow. the greater power does not include the lesser. no one claims of the individual mandate is justified by the renewal meeting of the commerce clause. the government and law professors who support the mandate rest their argument explicitly on supreme court decisions. given the economic m

each of these duties is inherent in being a citizen of the united states. each is necessary for the operation of the government itself. each has traditionally been recognized. in the u.s., sovereignty rests with the people. if congress can mandate that you do anything that is convenient to its regulation of the national economy, that relationship is now reversed. congress would have all the discretionary power of a king and the people would be reduced to its subject. the defendants of the mandate claim that because congress has the power to draft and the military, it has the power to make you do athing less than that, including mandating that you send your money to a private company and do business with it for the rest of your life. this does not follow. the greater power does not include the lesser. no one claims that the individual mandate is justified by the original meaning of the commerce clause. the government and those law professors who support the mandate rest of their arguments exclusively on supreme court cisions. given the economic mandates have

united states. i'm still an american citizen, even though i live in canada. liberal democratic states and europe, the argument applies to them as well. i braced -- embraced the term and mystique, but i've prefer the term regular migrants to the more common term illegal immigrants for reasons we can discuss later. in arguing for amnesty i am not going to challenge the conventional view that the state has the right to decide him it will admit and the right to apprehend and deport migrants to settle without authorization. let me start with a claim, an example of a claim for amnesty that i suspect most of you will accept, and this is the case of margaret, this is a true story. born in the united states, moved to scotland with her mother as the and child that age for so. a few years ago at the age of 80 she left the u.k. for the first time to go on a family vacation to australia using her newly acquired american passport. when she got back to burden the immigration officials at the airport told her that while she was not legally entitled to stay, she had four week