durant, long-range 3. 29 points for kevin durant on 3 of 18 shooting.r largest lead of the game. 19 points. so here is randy foye. it looks like caron butler will come in for randy foye. harden with a point, and he fouls. 14 point thunder lead. their to largest of the game. durant doesn't like it. hole pick up his 4th personal. >> phil: looked like a steep shot, but crawford signaling only a two pointer. you can see from that replay, yeah, he's inside the line. >> steve: antawn has struggled from the line tonight, 1 of 5. has 20 points, 12 rebounds. gilbert back off the bench durant scores again. he's done everything from the floor tonight. durant had 40 this year air against the clippers, and has 31 here tonight. miller travels. miller reached in with that left hand, again goes to his shoulder. durant for three. haywood with his 15th rebound of the game. lays it off for haywood who scores. the lead is at 12, and brooks will take a time. 8 assists for gilbert. haywood with 14 points and 15 rebounds. he had his is a career high 19 earlier this year. boss

durant with the short jumper. >> phil: you can see the height advantage he had, just elevated well above deshawn after he got into his range. >> steve: picked second overall by see at until 2007. last here he was 6th in the

will durant who wrote the multi volume history of the world once said that western civilization is caesar and christ. before christ you should go to see there. you could read virtually any roman historian, plutarch coarser tony as or caesar's commentaries, there is something about the roman world that has been with us to this day. it is important to understand. i have several books -- when i was growing up in 1960s and 1970s, one early thing that clung to me was the fear of decline. in large part it was driven by a military history because during the vietnam war i had seen the fall of saigon and i thought this could be it. social upheaval and revolution. for me when i grew up to be an active participant in public affairs, my goal is to stop -- among the books i read, you never heard of this book, it hit me right in the face. the greatness of the romans and their decline. if you can't find that book, the machiavelli discourse on living. eternal lessons from them, rant you should also read and take large parts of it with a grain of salt edward gibbons's decline and fall of the roman empire.

i'm in the process now of reading -- i have read it once, durant's history of civilization. i'm starting over on that. i really do believe that we're -- this is a historic time in the history of our country. i do believe that this has been far too long in the making and we as we have heard from senator dodd and senator harkin tonight and i believe it fervently, we're going to get health care reform. the american people need it and deserve it. think about this. last year 750,000 americans filed for bankruptcy. over half of them filed for bankruptcy because of health care costs and more than half of those that had bankruptcy because of health care costs had insurance. so this -- our great country can't let this go on. thank you very much, everybody. >> and now remarks from senators orrin hatch, sam brownback and mike johan dealing with provisions of abortion in the health care bill. this last an hour. >> i would express my deep concerns on senator rises's bill on two critical issues. these aren't the only things i'm critical about but i want to dwell on two of them. conscious