could have dreamed or mass shootings that would have sickened of the founding fathers today the only carries about the word he only cares about the words in particular the word bear. it seems silly especially since for all scalia knows the founding fathers may not have meant we have a right to bear arms as an own guns but rather simply a right to bear arms as in the arms of bears are useless clubs there's an originalist argument for you but jokes aside this is a serious debate literally a life and death of aids and for a supreme court justice like antonin scalia say this issue is settled because of one word used by our founding fathers the word bear is not just irresponsible and intellectually lazy it's dangerous saying americans have a right to hand held rocket launchers that can take down airplanes does however serve a purpose and scalia knows it can just add more legitimacy to those crackpots who believe the second amendment was written to protect the people from our government and thus we the people should be just as well armed as our government that is not what the founding

our founding fathers. >> our revolutionary founding -- >> hamilton and madison. >> our founding fatherse're into the 21st century, mr. armey. why the call back to our roots with such a resonance, such a relentlessness? >> well, quite frankly i think that's an appropriate call back to what many, many american people realize is the founding foundations that make the nation's strong. it's a matter of appreciation and respect for what i believe was, in fact, truly the greatest generation of americans. my father's generation gets a lot of credit for having been that. but generations of americans that risked their life, their property, and their sacred honor for freedom and then created the greatest government in the history of the world with exactly the correct structure and separations of powers and limitations of powers. that was a great genius generation in the history of america. in america, and what so many americans realize as they watch the government going adrift into $16 trillion worth of debt and 23 million americans out of work, and dysfunctional government that seems to not be ab

began by the founding fathers in general in relation to this. and then found jefferson much the most interesting, much the most committed in favor of the french revolution, and went on from then. and then became interested in the link between love o the french revolution and defense of chattel slaery which don't seem to be positions that, on the surface, go closely together but did in jefferson's life. >> what's the difference between french revolution and the american revolution? >> limits. the -- the american revolution was -- was always, you know, from the beginning very like the english whig revolution. it was o.k.r., people d been intruding on our liberties. we need to defend our lberties against these intrusions, these innovations. we don't want them. but the french revolution, from the -- from very rlly on, was concentrated on innovation. we are enlightened people, all this stuff, all the history that's preceded us is of tyanny and darkness and ostracism and we're going to break into a new name. it was the utopian streak in the french revo

our founding fathers believed this. america's a very exceptional country, exceptional for a lot of reasons you for this week. exceptional because we represent what i think washington called the sacred fire of liberty. i think that every time we see the torch. i was remember before and if you were born. remember that torch and it struck me. remember the phrase by washington, the sacred fire of liberty, a gift from god that we in america were fortunate enough to fight the war and start that flame and have a grown contagion around the world to be the example for people can do in terms of productivity and prosperity, in terms of charity come in terms of benefiting everyone. there is no lower class and middle-class that benefits in any other society like they do in a free-market society. there is nowhere where wealth is created to benefit everywhere everyone like it isn't a free-market society. in 1776 where the declaration of independence, political liberty and the wealth of nations. i don't and it's an accident that those

god gives us our rights founding fathers believe that. >> i believe that. >> the founding fathers never would have okayed abortion. that never would have happened. >> right, right. and they were at the constitutional convention in 1776 and someone walked in and said hey, hold it, we have to put abortions okay because a right of to privacy and constitution. benjamin franklin would have thrown them out the window. >> even better one for you. separation of church and state is not really in the constitution. >> we know that. >> it's the first amendment establish religion. >> bill: government doesn't have a right to promote religion. exactly. >> bill: do the atheist have a right to promote no religion? >> exactly. >> bill: and they do under freedom of speech. ladies, very interesting. thank you so much for coming. in the two janines. when we come right back, laura ingraham on gay activists calling for another boycott. this one of amway. also, the war on women. apparently president obama stoking it up in colorado. laura is next. [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity... to experience th

so if you want a solution to the european crisis today, you should look at the founding fathers, the debate, look at the constitutional convention, look at this hamilton model. central government with fiscal revenues. that would do it. the problem is that hamilton in addition assumed the state level debt. and that was controversial, but eventually people were persuaded because of the war of independence by the states. there was no way thier marms were going to -- germans were going to assume the italians debt. that's not going to work. so the european problem is, if anything, more difficult than what the u.s. face inside the 1780s. lady in the back. >> of course, the other big crisis in the world is in europe which, arguably, has a more cohesive social safety net than we have. i have to admit i'm one of the people in the financial community that's argued for a long time that the social safety net is unsustainable which raises the question, you know, i hate to admit that the republicans have a point, but is there something inherently debt-inducing about social safety nets? do they mak

to be an institution that at least they perform a service firm when it was established to the founding father they censored that any with the service it purports to provide. and need care of men to. >> our most libertarians libertarians, feminist? >> [laughter] how many labels? >> is the anarchist the same? is there overlap? >> there is. anarchist describe them solve the sale libertarian list they keep invoking but he said he hoot their bert -- camerons best moves libertarians that i know if there were in power to establish the minimum government into power i would haying up and grow tomatoes for the rest of my life. misstate is making the summit is too busy to grow. i don't have in. >> she is the author of "the creature from jekyll island" ruutu isps.org to joe lane when the mcelroy you will find a community of people we're trying to find out in end moon and marriage with those who have picked up a government, and that is a valid response. of the

aren't startling enough for donnelly who railed against the increase saying it's not what the founding fathers intended take a listen. as intelligent rational human beings. who live in a free society. is it too much to ask that we just police ourselves and. it just it just seems that's what the founders intended and i feel like this is just more of the nanny state type government that cost us a lot of money and it ultimately bridges more and more liberty east of course the founding fathers would have been a good against fines for texting and driving after all they didn't find people producing quails and riding a horse at the same time today. moving on and now it's time for the very very ugly the city of meridian mississippi according to the department of justice city and public school officials in meridian are running a quote school to prison pipeline and quote where teachers and principals send children to juvenile detention centers for things like dress code violations the policy while in play for all children tends to of course discriminate against black and disabled children in a statement

what the story what this story really speaks to is the fear our founding fathers had of standing armies knowing this so many previous empires that had standing armies during peace time eventually succumbed to a military coup by the very same standing army as james madison the father of our constitution wrote a standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen and in seven hundred eighty seven upon receiving the first draft the constitution thomas jefferson warned the virginia would oppose it if it didn't include a bill of rights one and one of those rights explicitly saying quote no standing armies and quote as president jefferson largely did away with our standing army taking it from over three hundred thousand men down to about three thousand by the end of his presidency in eighty eight jefferson had largely done away with america's standing army and he was thus inspired to write to his friend dr thomas cooper in september tenth eight hundred fourteen our men are so happy at home that they will not hire themselves out to be shot at for a shilling a day hence we c

that cost us a lot of money and ultimately bridges more and more liberty east of course the founding fathers would have been a good against fines for texting and driving after all they didn't fine people for using quills and riding a horse at the same time today. moving on and now it's time for the very very ugly the city of meridian mississippi according to the department of justice city and public school officials of murder in are running a quote school to prison pipeline and quote where teachers and principals send children to juvenile detention centers for things like dress code violations the policy while in play for all children tends to of course discriminate against black and disabled children in a statement the d.o.j. said quote the system established by the city of meridian lauderdale county india y.s. to incarcerate children first school suspensions shocks the conscience resulting in the incarceration of children for a legit offenses such as dress code violations flatulence profanity and disrespect . and there you have it public school in the land of the free. and the land of miss

. >> when we talk about the founding fathers, what's the era we're talking about?ab what areou the events we're talking about? >> guest: we're talking about the american revolution and ther writing of the constitution. those are the two key events, and everybody who played a major role in those events can claim to be a founding father. now, obviously, the older onessl had careers before the americana revolution. the younger ones had career that went op years after the signing of the constitution, but that'sr what we're talking about. >> host: who were the older ones?r who wereon the younger ones? >> guest: benjamin franklin born in 1706. he's the oldest. he dies in 1790. he signs both the declaration of independence and the constitution. the last is james mad madison bn in 1751 and dies in 1836, 85 years old. he saw the fight over missouri f being admitted to the union. he sees the nullification crisis. he's the last one.as well, aaron byrd dies after he does, but that's the other side. the dark side. >> host: in 2006, you wrote "what would the founders do: wwfd,"

you know, the founding fathers aren't around. i do believe that the founding fathers who belved in anonymous speech, who wrote the federalist papers, anonymously, you know, i think that these men who are our founding fathers believed in giving their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor. and you know, it really is -- those are big ideas in this day and age where you have the hustle and bustle of today. but i will tell you, they believed in anonymous speech, they believed that political speech was the singly most important thing. they didn't say corporations are individuals, but political speech. so i think that the united states supreme court is who you're kind of directing your question at. i don't know because we don't know what they were thinking or deliberating. i do know we won, and i know we had five members of the supreme court, which by the way, the left, the liberals in congress, chris von hallens and chuck schumer who pwhrab about our case on a daily basis who fundamentally want to limit peoples' free speech and want

with government but with real free-market as a fair to cage the government back up the way the founding fathers envisioned. and make the government as small as possible and of these the entrepreneurial spirit. we see it in other countries. we can create a prosperous economy. the government will not give it to us. we have to give it to ourselves. peter schiff. the name of the book is the real crash. booktv. c-span2. >> i am with nbc news. as i read the 60% of the time on the ipad and 40% hard copy. starting with nonfiction over winter break i read a book on fdr there is another one the just came out called final victory. i am obsess with this but why maybe interesting in today's time period, you read thomas to rebut seidman romney. you will see pop-up particularly the campaign of 44. forget 48. i am working on that one and also getting through the book i have been meeting to read called pinched. is about to the great recession chronicling in is culturally changing us with what kind of long-term change takes place around the country with the white male underclass. it is said good way i am thinkin

in in the painter's chair can be brought to light the founding fathers of american painting and the elusive george washington. more recently, along with his longtime collaborator, photographer roger straus gummi wrote the houses of the founding fathers in the book of the same name. he and roger are hard at it again in a sequel of sorts to be called houses of the presidents. i so envy hugh, his research trips. you should ask him sometime about his visit to bill clinton's lawyer bedroom. he turned his attention to the work 1812 of of his new book, "mr. and mrs. madison's war: america's first couple at the second world war of independence." published by bloomsbury book and a history book club of the month. most of us i suspect have a school remembrance of francis scott key, george washington and that's about it. it's a much more complicated affair. numerous fronts at a time of considerable political division. we yankees wanted nothing to do with that war. what a fascinating and diverse cast of characters. chief among them were not a diminutive and a vivacious and cunning wife, dolley. arguably

the founding fathers intended for access -- the supreme court has determined that money equals speech. i don't necessarily agree with that, but if the supreme court has spoken, we honor that. i don't think the founding fathers intended for access to free speech at overwhelming and disproportionate amount of that access to an elite handful of a few rich people. i think they intended equal access for the american people. and in obah. ma's last election, he raised $66 million after palin was named -- he raised $66 million in august and $153 million in september. two and three months after election day. an overwhelming amount was $25, $50, $150. the people throwing $100 million at these super pacs, the system is broken. and it completely undermines democracy. >> amy, i have to say i admired president obama when he made a statement against super pacs and then my admiration collapsed when he said he had to do it when the other guy was doing it. i think if he stuck by his principle if he said look, i'm not going to let anybody buy this election. it's a perfect storm for the democrats just wh

you know, the founding fathers aren't around. do believe that the founding fathers who believed in anonymous speech, who wrote the federalist papers, anonymously, you know, i think that these men who are our founding fathers believed in giving their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor. and you know, it really is -- those are big ideas in this day and age where you have the hustle and bustle of today. but i will tell you, they believed in anonymous speech, they believed that political speech was the singly most important thing. they didn't say corporations are individuals, but political speech. so i think that the united states supreme court is who you're kind of directing your question at. i don't know because we don't know what they were thinking or deliberating. i do know we won, and i know we had five members of the supreme court, which by the way, the left, the liberals in congress, chris von hallens and chuck schumer who blab about our case on a daily basis who fundamentally want to limit peoples' free speech and want t

from the very beginning when it was established after the founding fathers, the federal, the average federal less were censored. any government agency is going to serve a government purpose beyond the purpose -- purpose that it purports to provide. any government agency. government agencies, privatized. the combat. >> our most libertarians anarchists? you describe yourself as an anarchist libertarian feminists. >> how many labels can i guess? >> anarchists the same? is there a lot of overlap? >> there is a lot of overlap. henry david thoreau sense of the word. he said the government that governs best is the one that governs least. and the least government, no government. so i have that kind of -- what would be called by some, most libertarians i know, if they were in power and you were able to establish the minimal government that they wanted in power, i would hang up my credentials, go in my backyard, and grow tomatoes for the rest of my life and not go to the grocery store and buy the tomatoes at the state is making me too busy to grow. i would love that. so i don't have much of an

>> we had the day with the mad scene she wraps the founding father around her finger.nd one of my jobs in our research was to go through the counselor barracks paper that was at new york historical society. i'm in there one saturday going true the paper. the next morning after the mad scene, in her hand, which is strong and easy to read, is a letter from peggy to barracks say, if you were the army have any fund owed to my husband, please remit them to me immediately. [laughter] we had a quick recovery from being insane. >> right. and from then on she has none of the madness although it it seems to be courting sympathy when possible. she goes back, she's given the choice to go to new york to join her husband or philadelphia to join her family. he picks philadelphia. but joseph reid's peek have ransacked the papers and found that military letter, the letter from john san dry saying i'll bayou sewing supplies. some suspected it opened up the whole avenue new of communication. it didn't in fact, but it was the one thing they found that is kind of pointed toward peggy. and

in 1775, our founding fathers rose up to establish our liberty.feat of president whose actions threaten our liberty. in [applause] in this way, we are in a similar position as our founding fathers, just as there were called upon, we are being called upon. what they started, what they believed in, we must now defend. [applause] the danger for america is already here. it is in the form of the democrat leaders in washington. we have a democrat senate leader who refuses to meet his moral obligation to pass a budget for our government. we have a democrat house leader that would not allow a major piece of legislation, obama care, to be read it before it was passed. she stated, and i quote "we have to pass the bill, so that you can find out what is in it." we have a president that has bypassed the senate confirmation process in order to appoint toccountable bazaaczars enforce laws on american citizens. a president that has changed immigration laws, imposed unconstitutional burden on our state, and issued over-reaching regulation. we know the problem, ame

who had fooled the founding fathers and got off scott free. which is exactly what she did. alright, more than a century after her death, british papers in the general clintons archives are finally studied by american scholars and they figure out, well there was all this really important circumstantial evidence that indicate that peggy shippen was certainly part of of the pot and there is no smoking gun batons of circumstantial evidence, not that i think any reasonable person would agree she knew all about it and was part of the plot. but by that time she had really kind up, she had gotten a pass from history. stephen and i think wanted to bring the story to another generation and focus the story on peggy. she has been just a supporting character in a lot of biographies of benedict arnold and we just wanted to center on her and write it in a different way. do you want to start talking about her a little bit? >> imagine you were in damascus, syria. not long ago the violence erupted in the cities of aleppo and homs and it took him out while to get to damascus. you are a promin

you've all studied that in your history books, aware of the founding fathers and the sacrifices made. what oftentimes is ignored though, is those who lived in colonial america, who chose not to fight for independence, what was their rationale or the reason for not doing so? some was a commitment to the monarchy, but a lot of it had to do with the fact that they didn't want to lose their comforts. they didn't want to -- they were fearful of losing their material possessions, and, indeed, many of the founding fathers who chose to fight for independence, who chose to fight for the value of freedom and the american spirit did lose a lot materially. in the war for independence, it was the success of those who chose to fight for the spirit over the material that created and forged the american nation. move forward approximately another 80 years, and the american civil war. there were those in the north who believed that the preservation of the union, that the issues related to slavery and other issues were worth fighting for, but there were those who did not think they were fighting for, an

. >> the idea of volunteer firefighters dates all the way back to one of our nation's founding fathers -- ben franklin. we'll have more on becoming a firefighter when "teen kids news" continues. >> checking for heat. >> we're at the bergen county fire academy, following teen trainees learning to be firefighters. >> so, we're gonna force entry. >> sometimes firefighters have to be able to force their way through a locked door. >> okay, you ready? ready? >> yep. >> strike. strike. strike. >> once inside a burning building, a top priority is looking for people who need to be rescued. >> it's completely dark. and what they're gonna do is they're gonna go in and do a full primary search of the room, search for all occupants -- on top of couches, on top of beds, laying on the floor, right behind the door, underneath windows. >> there's a lot of science to firefighting. for example, these trainees are using a simple physics principle to create what's called a fog vent. that's why the water stream is aimed out the window. >> basically, they open it up into a cone shape just enough to fill the

jefferson and the painters chair he brought to life the founding fathers of american painting and the elusive george washington. more recently along with his longtime collaborator photographer robert strauss he wrote of the houses of the founding fathers in the book of the same name. he and roger are at it again in the sequel of sorts to be called houses of the president's. i envy his research trips and should ask him some time about his visit to bill clinton's blease put a bedroom. he turned his attention to the war of 1812 with his new book mr. and mrs. madison's war americas first couple in the second war for independence published by bloomsbury in the history book club selection of the month. most of us i suspect that a sort of school remembrance of the war f-18 paul, francis scott key and saving good george washington portrait and that's about. but of course it was a much more complicated affair on numerous fronts in the time of considerable political division. we wanted nothing to do with that war and what a fascinating and diverse cast of characters. chief among them was the di

from false notions, ladies and gentlemen of equality, the equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to will be ty and emancipation of difference, wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads to inform ty and then to desperatism. fellow republicans, it is because of republicanism with power, private or public. and inflicts such desperatism. it is because of republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. and so help us god, that is exactly what the republican president will do with the help of the republican congress. it is further because of reb chasmism to restore a clear understanding of the require tani of man over man in the world at large. it is hour cause to dispel with the hard decisions in the dislosing that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of harmony. if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression and. and it is if you are the the call of republicanism to remind ourselves and the world that only the song can bring peace. now i don't node remind y

we have three branches of government signed by the constitution, and if the founding fathers were to come back to see what it looked like now, they would recognize the presidency. they would recognize the congressional side. they would scratch their heads at the judiciary and say who are these guys? where do they come from? where do they get these powers

then a few minor typo we got last week the austin american property rights process all of our founding fathers put in the founding of our car and without the americans. from the ground up the ending up and saying this is wrong this was where are all this would be considered a crime by the laws and they are and by federal law you know we have that we're really not going to be much help for the marking family because our proportionally aardman is breaking almost elected officials. protecting the financial service. more important. i mean and i think that's a really really good point i mean we're talking about large corporations with large power we're talking about a problem that a whole lot of people have said they plan to deal with and and yet have and so let me ask you i mean as county clerk if elected and by the way we should tell our viewers the election is tomorrow. how much power would you actually have if you are in fact elected. well the clerk of the circuit court is a constitutional office in florida and i do not set policy but what i can do is number one with my class form educate the c

country, we have to be able to have a congress where people will talk together, just like our founding fathersid. >> woodruff: mickey edwards, a former member of congress, now with the aspen institute. thanks very much. >> thanks, judy. good to see you. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day. the chorus of republican voices calling for congressman todd akin to withdraw from his senate race grew, and included presidential candidate mitt romney. syria's deputy prime minister warned the u.s. against any intervention in its ongoing civil war. and endurance swimmer diana nyad said she would not try to swim from florida to cuba again, after jellyfish, squalls and sharks thwarted her latest attempt. and online, a question: what was the first american campaign film? hari sreenevasan has the answer. >> sreenivasan: it was called "the old way and the new," and put out 100 years ago by the democratic national committee for woodrow wilson, and you can watch it on the rundown. plus, we need your help th this yeas politicacovege. do you read or write a language other than english? sign up to be

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