and george byrd grenell who is an undersung hero of merge co-founded the boone and crockett club with roosevelt and it was specifically formed in the late 1880s out in new york to save the big game of america, to save buffalo, antelope, deer, caribou from being exterminated. and they would commission articles and roosevelt would write them, see, this one's on elk. you can just turn -- and these are great old books that roosevelt got very involved in bringing out the boone and crockett club books and it was about gentleman hunters. they were working to save animals to shoot animals. and people have problems with that sometimes today. but it was the hunters of america that really formed the early conservation movement. it was done by field -- field and forest magazine and these -- what became "field and stream" magazine, but all of those sporting journals that started putting in, oh, that you've got to have bag limits. you've got to put a fish bag limit. you've got to not shoot a dove. we take it for granted now, the g grenell, he proofread my chapters on grenell, because george burns g

i think it was '05, lloyd, crockett me if i'm wrong about the date. we said, okay, if you make something in america, you'll pay lower tax rates than if you don't so specifically american manufacturers pay a 32% effective tax rate instead of a 35% effective tax rate. if you make a name plate, a microphone, a pencil, a cup, a clock or if you drill or produce oil or gas in america, you'll pay a lower tax rate. what this amendment says and what this rhetoric says is no, no, no, no. that's a huge giveaway and subsidy to oil and gas. no, it's if you make something in america, you pay a lower tax rate because we want to encourage things to be made in america. what they are saying is, no, set aside just this one industry and raise their tax rate, so if you make something in america, you'll pay the lower tax rate unless it's oil and gas. then you'll pay the higher tax rate. so all we're achieving with this policy is we're saying you're going to pay much higher tax rates than if you make something in america. we're basically increasing taxes on american-made en

was he wearing a davie crockett hat? >> i am a big fan of his sister, ashley. >> that is his sister. >> i don't know the judge lineage, but i assume -- it is a mom thing. >> the moo interesting thing about this story is he had to come up with $2500 to get on the ballot. i think that's kind of high. >> he has been there for years. >> he has done it every year. >> he has been doing this for awhile. >> bill, here is the thing. shouldn't he be allowed to attend the convention for any other reason that he is awesome. >> we need to fill the a-block every night. that's an entire week right there. at the very least we should get this guy on. we are asking questions about what this says about judd and what this says about obama. and we haven't asked the most appropriate one. what does it say about west virginia? >> don't call him a red neck. >> he says it is embarrassing for obama and our great state. which begs the question if you are a state does it mean you are great? >> i think it is time we have a president named keith. seri

battles of the alamo and san ha sin toe -- ha seen toe and the exploits of sam houston and davy crockett. the mexican war is known as polk's war. the 11th president, james k. polk, supervised it from its beginning in may 1846 to the treaty signing 21 months later. the peace treaty transferred 530,000 square miles from mexico to the united states, incredible territory. from mexico we obtained the future states of california, new mexico, arizona, nevada, utah and parts of colorado and wyoming. literally 42% of mexico's territory at that time. the major battles were fought at palo alto, monterey and buena vista, the gates of mexico city. always outnumbered, the americans won every major battle. sometimes, as in buena vista, they were at a three to one disadvantage. nearly 13,000 americans died during the war. more than 11,000 of them from disease and other noncombat causes. american officers who received their baptism of fire in the mexican war later led the armies during the civil war. among them were ewe lis access s. grant, robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, george mcclellan and james lon

he has kept some crockett budget promises, but as been a bit of a disappointment -- tap some promisesbut it's been a bit of a disappointment to civil libertarians. host: our phone lines are open. you can join the conversation on our twitter page. send us an e-mail. john brennan is the president clinton's senior adviser on these issues. he spoke at the wilson center last monday at the request of the president to talk about drum programs. is available at our website. here is part of what he had to say. [video clip] >> a different practice. identifying specific members of al qaeda and targeting them with lethal force. the pilots can be hundreds if not thousands of miles away. this is what i want to focus on today. jack goldsmith captured the situation well. "the government needs a way -- especially target is a person or sound. tell us more about the process. the more the government tells us about the eyeballs on the issue, the more credible will be the exclaims about the accuracy of the determinations and the soundness of its legal ones. all this information can be disclosed in some form

it actually raises money for the veterans of diablo valley and the crockett community services district great morning for a walk. it's nice and cool out there still. the winds aren't too bad. a little breezy in some areas around fairfield. perhaps through the delta and the strait, isolated areas may have a breeze. overall, winds are generally light. 50s and low 60s outside our door at this hour already. and then here's your midday forecast. for the coast, mostly sunny skies and low 60s. around the bay area, mid to upper 60s and low to mid-70s expected inland for your lunchtime. meanwhile, afternoon highs will be warmer than what we felt yesterday in most cases. 85 livermore today, 84 santa rosa, 67 in the city. south, 77 down into mountain view. 81 for san jose, 84 expected in morgan hill. just a good-looking forecast, with mostly sunny skies. even along the coastline where you do have clouds, we're expecting those to burn off in the next hour or two, and sunday looks to be very similar before the cooling trend begins on monday. back to you. >>> a local retailers hoping to be hit by the