prior to moving to france.to be done but it would cost thousands of dollars. when i moved to france that fall, it cost about $70 or 70 bureaus. -- 70 euros. there is eastern medicine that is recognized in the french health care system that is covered by their system that is not covered in america. acupuncture 0 homeopathic is independent and is not covered by health care. i benefited from what ever i could over there. i felt that i had choices. it is not that i don't have less respect for the american health- care system but a person between the ages of 20 -- at the time i lived in france, i was 22, 23, and i am looking back at the age of 30, there are many things that a young person, if your not being paid well -- i was only being paid two hundred euros per month. my rent was low and i paid 200 euros -- one of the 75 euros a month to lease my car. if you think about all the bills and what i am being paid for my salary, although i was not being paid a lot like america, i still do not have -- i was not stressed

so ladies and gentlemen, i give you author frances beinecke. [applause] >> thank you so much, lisa, and i just want to say that we are so privileged at nrdc and in the nation to have an epa administrator who is so committed to protecting the environment, to ensuring that citizens all across the country are fairly treated to healthy air, water, food, and who -- those who have suffered particularly from disproportionate impact over the years, from lack of environmental quality are so high on her agenda, so i am a huge admirer of lisa jackson, also a friend, but so grateful that the president has appointed somebody who -- for whom environmental protection is the mission of her life, who will do everything in her power to ensure that the future of this country and the well-being our citizens are protected going forward, so she is a total champ and we are so lucky to have her as part of the environmental future of this country and also here with us tonight. i have also want to thank all of my colleagues and friends from nrdc and from the environment

monroe then helped lafayette and her three children and flee france to safety. together, elizabeth and james monroe saved the lives of lafayette's wife and family. it's truly a thrilling story that i hope he will read. on his next mission to france a decade later, this time for president jefferson, monroe went with $9 million from congress to negotiate the purchase of the island of new orleans. that's all he was supposed to do. so the farmers west of the appalachians could float their grain doubt the mississippi to new orleans for shipment overseas markets. instead of buying an island, monroe borrowed 6 million more dollars from an english bank on his own signature and doubled the size of the nation, by an almost 1 million acres, the largest territory ever acquired by any nation in history from another peacefully without war. 1 million acres, and at a bargain price of 2 cents an acre. even in those days the average price for wilderness, land was $2 an acre. the louisiana purchase stretched the nation's boundaries to the rocky mountains and gave ownership of the

and france. rench health care.guest: i have experienced this as a consumer on like many people to comment about health care in this country, talking about socialized health care. my wife is from so i go to france every year and use their health care system. my point is that on a consumer level, on blood level of going in and trying to get my back looked at, the french system is much, much more rewarding than is the american system. i think people on the free market side of the aisle who have opposed a lot of democratic welfare proposals, i think that over the years, they have made a strategic error when they have said things like we have the best health-care system in the world. they say we are on the march to socialism. what they have missed is to understand how much health care insecurity in america is a fundamental problem. it is a problem that is clearing and needs to be fixed rate in america, was not able to get health insurance for more than three years. i may help the guy. this is such -- i am a healthy got.

france and ms. lindquist, one of the most disturbing things we've learned in our investigation is that hundreds of websites are selling their customers information to these bogus membership clubs. in fact, we've discovered that every time a customer gets tricked into joining one of these clubs, the online merchants gets what is known as a bounty. they literally put a price on the customer's head. mr. france, how does it make you feel to learn that the website got paid a bounty for selling your credit card information to value max club? >> it's hard to put that into words, sir. the easiest i'm disgusted that they could even do that and enjoy it. and profit off of it. and believe that they're doing right that they can even sleep and especially if they're american companies 'cause if we claim america is the greatest country in the world then it starts with taking care of our fellow citizens. and not taking advantage of them. disgust is the best way to describe that. >> and you ms. lindquist? >> i would

france and ms. lindquist one of the most disturbing things we've learned is that hundreds of websites like movietickets.com have taken they are customers information to these bogus clubs. in fact we take every time one gets tricked into joining this cause the online merchant gets what is known as a bounty. they literally put a price on the customer side. mr. france, how does it make you feel to learn that they paid a bounty for selling your credit card information to value backs club? >> it's hard to put that into words, sir. but at the easiest, disgusted. that they could even do that and enjoy it and profit off of it and believe that they are doing right or that they can even sleep. and especially if they are an american company. because if we acclaimed that america is the greatest country in the world then it starts with taking care of our fellow citizens and not taking advantage of them. so i would say disgusted with the the best way to describe that. >> and you mrs. lindquist. >> i would have to

not the procedural fixes. >> frances?conspiracy of elites of both parties. a crisis helps to divide the momentum or public pressure for change, but in order to impose pain, it is very helpful for politicians to have political cover. and divided government often looks forward to that because neither party can accomplish the goals without some bipartisan cooperation, so they have to come to the table. and so when imposing pain, you can blame the other party for the pain. both sides will do that and you have a deal that can have reduction. >> bob dole after losing his attempt to be president after running a very partisan, devisive campaign, but he said han was to call the majority and minority leaders to congress to the white house on day one and on day two and on day three and just have them meet there ef day until there was some agreement on the basic issues of common interest. can an approach -- is it naive to think that an approach like that, spending your political capital, if you really believe this is the biggest prob

we even had cases in toronto, in england, in spain, in france. i think we can expect more. >> larry: all right. harry humphreys, the preliminary fbi analysis has found the dwoes contained an explosive known as petn. what is that? >> petn is a german explosive developed around the first world war. it doesn't actually detonate. it burns very rapidly. it's used as a basic explosive for what we with call detonating cord. it it's also used as a booster in many high-level military xmro explosives. >> larry: if it had gone off inside that plane successfully what would have happened? >> i understand there was 80 grams of explosive. if the detonator, okay, in fact, was close enough -- >> larry: the button? >> well, the device that detona detonates. in fact, set it off, the petn would have penetrated the skin and certainly because he was sitting over one of the fuel tanks in the aircraft, the fuel in the aircraft would have been accelerated. >> larry: killed the whole plane? >> absolutely. >> larry: why do you think he was doing it on the ground not in the

the fourth nation is france another interesting tale how technology travels and paris france was of the core of nuclear science in the late thirties and a nobel prize winner really did some of the first experiments on understanding chain reactions as a result. the war came and france was overrun and then most of the high-tech major the scientific staff in paris left. they went to montreal. that is one of the first reactors that was the outpost of the weapons program. french scientist went to montreal they took with them the heavy water and very important. now it is july of 1944 and charles day gaulle goes to montreal to visit. when he gets there he mips -- meets with the refugees scientist despite the rules and security clearance, they all tell him what they have been doing and give him a briefing on the nuclear weapons program. and general day gaulle the leader of the french urged several of them you must come back to paris. which is what they did. so then they came back to paris but when they got there they briefed their mentor who did this thesis but unfortunately he was a card-carry

frances did a good job of mentioning mahieu who says we get through it, but it's slow.sanship. and in closing, i would just say i think you have to be realistic that we are in aÑi long budget war. this has been going on for a period and social security went bankrupt in 1983 and had to be saved. medicare went bankrupt in the late 1990's and we threw general revenues at it. we were bankrupt and threw general revenues at it. we're in it because of the recession and the boomers and it's more intense than ever, so the game's afoot. my feeling is we go through a variety of the options but the default option if we don't get a presidential program coming around in early 2010 that gives us a strategy for the future and something along the level of commission that has teeth, we're going to default toñr partisan politics, and i would see that as a long, tough fight. >> lee, just one thing before we move on. i appreciate your historical perspective and accept the fact when jefferson ran againstñr hamilton, the partisan strike may have been worse and certainly during the civil war a

frances collins of n.i.h. and we have rebecca adams and dan vergana.e's from the university of yale and university of virginia where he got his undergraduate degree. he was former director of human genome research, for how long? >> 15 years. >> and you were home schooled until the fifth grade. and you founded an institute for religion and science. >> a foundation. >> is there concern of being the head of n.i.h.? >> there was some concern, i read with it in "new york times," the concern about a scientist that openly talked about his religious base and maybe not be as hard nosed in scientific projects as he should be. anyone who worked with me in those 15 years in the human genome project would say it was not an issue. and no one would say my particular interest of religion got in the way, and i promise it won't get in the way of n.i.h.. and as a compromise i resigned that foundation, and i don't want to be distracted of what the president has asked me to do. >> time for one more round of question. >> can you say about that flack of being evangelical. wh

. >> he normally does a listing out and france and germany went into recession at same time as britain yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this, given that those countries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us what he meant, and i quote, that we are leading the rest of the world from recession. >> mr. speaker, not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize and we have taken action for the fiscal stimulus, opposed by the party. we have taken action to keep unemployment down. they have been wrong on the recession, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man, the mind-set is that of the 1930's. >> the fact is when you look at the prime minister's claims, the claim that we were to be better, that was worse. the claim that we are out of recession, we are still in recession. and the claim of boom andbust, is that the claim sdm>> -- the more he talks, the more he saves. >> mr. brown continued at a dig of the conservative candidate, richard park that would benefit f

france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the recession. they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man. the mindset -- the mindset is that of the 1930s. >> i think that one must have sounded great in the bunker. the fact is, the one policy this country needs above all is a credible program for getting the biggest budget deficit in the g20 under control. that is the view of the governor of the bank of england and he says they haven't a credible pl

they set over an area, not quite, almost the area of france.national parks, it's national forest, it's national wildlife refuges. they do it by executive order. the congress stops it before the end and roosevelt pinchot set aside another 16 million acres and they have these rangers bring in these maps to the floor of the white house. i have a scene where roosevelt describes -- he says have you put in the upper flat head valley? i remember being up there once and seeing this magnificent herd of elk so let's include. and they are drawing these boundaries all over the west and -- this is why these original forest rangers -- they were called the arrangers. they were in on creation. they're drawing the boundaries and they're out of yale and they're given these huge magnificent forests for them to take over. so they create these national forests. but there's pushback. there's tons of pushback. remember, this is the end of the gilded age. you have never in our history have we had a bigger gap between rich and poor until just a few years ago during the

frances did a good job of mentioning those who in fact said we'll get through it but it's slow.t's slow. so we have negotiated bipartisanship, not easy bipartisanship. in closing, i would just say i think you have to be realistic that we are in a long budget war. this has been going on for a period. social security went bankrupt in '83. and had to be saved. hogan won't take credit for it. medicaid went bankrupt in the late 1980s. we threw revenues at it. we're in it because of the recession and the boomers, this is more intense than ever. so the games afoot. my feeling is that we can go through a variety of options but the default option, if we don't get a presidential program coming around in early 2010 that give us a strategy for the future, something along the lines, let's say john has, we don't get a commission that has teeth we will default to partisanship politics and i would see that as a long tough fight. >> lee, just one thing before we move on. i appreciate your historical perspective and accept the fact that when jefferson ran against hamilton, partisan strife may hav

people to say, that just shows you we could cut carbon emissions to help future victims in paris, france. but of course the real point here is to say is that actually the best way to help people. if you look, this is from studies in philadelphia on the heat deaths and cold gas in philadelphia. the afternoon temperature and what you see the vertical axis is how may people die. and you will see at the top, the black curve in the 1960s. we have a situation that's very typical. you have an optimal point around 80 degrees or night which is where people die at the least. and as it gets much colder people die and it gets much warmer, people die more. that's the typical situation, basically what we see everywhere although the optimal temperature depends on where you live in the planet. but what you ask lazy as we go up, we see in the '70s, 80s and 90s. death generally declined. but also knows what happened to the heat and of the issue. dazedly it's gone away. we have very little extra deaths in the '90s. mainly because of air conditioning. we still have a fair amount of cold deaths because it is

yeah. >> and other capabilities. >> you say -- >> other capabilities like france. >> the france have the united states? >> no, but it's an international efforts. we want to do this in concert with our allies. there's 43 countries involved in afghanistan. only the few have the kind of capabilities that france and the uk and the united states and other countries have. >> now a conference on pilot fatigue. this is a little less than two hours. >> we're going to call the hearing to order. this is the hear of the senate commerce subcommittee on aviation. my colleagues will be joining me shortly. but i want to begin on time. the discussion today is on the subject of pilot fatigue. let me describe my concern about this issue. and the concern of a number of my colleagues. the issue of pilot fatigue is not new. it's been on the national transportation safety boards most wanted list for 19 years, since the list was created. pilot fatigue has consistently been an issue with the ntsb and the faa. the current flight rules i believe have been in existence with respect to duty time and so on have b

the trend on it was carrying to british -- was carrying to confederate emissaries to england and france. they were looking for recognition as a nation from france and england and the british called it kidnapping on the high seas and there was talk of war and they began recruiting trips to go to canada to fight the united states and it took a lot of effort on the part of lincoln and on the part of queen victoria's husband, prince albert to stop it. prince albert i had written a biography by the way of prince albert and another victoria. prince albert was on his deathbed dying probably of stomach cancer and despite that, from his deathbed he rode a watered-down ultimatum to lincoln that would save face for lincoln and return the two emissaries from prison, they were in prison in boston. they were released. there was no war and i think a lot of people in england were on happy that there was no war. but they continue to supply the confederates with arms and munitions despite federal blockade. a blockade runners were sent through to the south to pick up cotton and they got through the englis

terms of booby trapping and the valley is dominated by a river and canal and similar to d-day in france>> mccain and others have been critical to having a start date it pull out. and by doing that you give the taliban and others the chance to lay low and when they leave, we will move back in and take over. could you respond to that? >> yeah, first of all, as evidence of the last year or two, the taliban and al qaeda don't need a reason to withdrawal. we have had a deadline and the situation is deteriorating. so the presumption that this will make them angry i don't think is logical. second if they do go to ground, then we will minimize the casualties while we continue to take back and secure and take out their leadership and disrupt their networks. if that's the case, i think that would be a benefit. and that's the view of secretary gates also. if they want to hide and leave the country, we will build up the afghany army and secure the territory and strengthen the tribal governance to the detriment of the taliban and al-qaeda. >> talk about eliminating civilian casualties, and this is a

louis breakout that once and for all secured our beach head and launched us across france towards the end of world war ii. eisenhower's chief historian called the 30th the most efficient fighting division in europe. the german army paid the 30th a great compliment in referring to them as roosevelt s.s. it's for these reasons that we want to honor the 30th in its history and especially the recognition of the battle of mortan, france, the most important time period for our invasion to be successful and secure. madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. wittman: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. wittman: madam speaker, i rise in strong support of house resolution 494 which recognizes the service and sacrifices of the members of the 30th infantry division during world war ii. i want to commend representative larry kissell for his leadership and for his deep passion concerning the members of the 30th infantry. it

if you are in italy and want to buy from france, no problem.ey've been doing that safely for long, long time. suggest somehow we don't have the skill or the capability to do what the europeans have been doing routinely for 20 years is really in my judgment shortchanging our country and certainly shortchanging our consumers. now, we will however i think of people allege again that this is risky. it's just risky. i want to make the point about risk because i want to demonstrate something that i think most people don't know. 40% of the active ingredients of our existing prescription drugs come from china and india. 40% of the active ingredients come from china and india and in most places from areas that have never been inspected. now, my amendment does not allow drugs to be imported into this country from china or india. i'm talking about the ingredients in the pharmaceutical company acquires with? to make their drugs. we don't allow drugs to be imported from china or india as a matter of this amendment. only fda approved drugs from fda inspected

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, to really explain why priestley at that moment, we have to talk about his life and biography of france and information network and postal system and you have to talk about the carboniferous era because if you don't talk about all the different levels you haven't told the whole story. so, part of what i try to do with my work is to make those connections and make them fun and interesting so people do like that kind of a widening perspective. i think for kids this is the connection to the video games book is that way of thinking about the world is actually wonderfully taught in some very popular games out there. so the game score that cannot last year is one of the big hits of this year where as a kid a seven-year-old plays this game and they start as a single cell organism and then he falls into a creature and build a tried and then a city and come up and apologize a plan that and developed technology that lets them go to other planets and so they are thinking pleading this came across these different skills and experience comes that is the exercise, the kind of mental exercise a seven

including france and germany, uk yes yet to show signs of coming out of the recessions. prime minister's questions tend to place the blame on the prime minister. . given that those cuptries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us on earth he meant when he said, and i quote, we were leading the rest of the world out of recession. >> not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize opposed by the party opposite. we have taken action to keep unemployment down as a result of creating jobs opposed by the opposition. we have taken action for international cooperation opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the session, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man, the mind set is that of this -- is that of the 1930's. >> the fact is, when you look at the prime minister's three central claim the claim we were better prepared for other countries, that was wrong, our deficit was worse than other countries. the claim that britain was leading the world out of recessio

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wanted to know how did you ask paul farmer to follow him around, even to read his travels to miami in france one of the things that stuck out to me and helped me pitch to get money, like we did bake sales in schools, and there are women who were like, i might die in their remember something you wrote in your book saying like, we have the luxury to say we are on a diet. when there are people who can't even eat. sorry. i this one to ask, how did you get to follow paul former? >> i met him, i was doing an article for the "new yorker" magazine in haiti but american soldiers and i ran into him and i got interested in him, although six years past, i kept vague track of him for those six years and i think it is odd to me that i didn't pursue him right away because he was so clearly interested, but i think i was shocked by haiti. and i think when i came back, i spent a lot of time and energy trying to reconcile the that that they be with my own privileged american life, trying to hang on to my conviction that i had learned all of my privileges and the problem of course with an idea like that, it fal

by 1985, communist reformer, by 1988 somebody wanted to fundamentally france form the -- transform the system finishing up close to the views of a felipe gonzalez, but at the same time it was a different position from yak lev. yak lev owed everything for gorbachev. in the beginning of 1986, he was not even a candidate member of the central committee of the communist party. by the summer of 19 87, he'd moved from being outside the top 500 people in the soviet union to being h the top five. tremendously accelerated promotion he owed entirely to gorbachev. for that reason people who have stayed loyal to gorbachev resented the other's criticisms. he could be more radical, gorbachev was the leader of the country and the party, and he had to try to reconcile different groups. of course, there were zigzags. in the literature on transitions from authoritarian rule, one of the generalizations that people make, i think a good one, is that in a transition to democracy if you're going to have it, in the transition from authoritarian rule, you have to tranquilize the hard liners. gorbachev did that

almost every piece of furniture was a rare antique from 18th- century america or from france.rystal chandeliers and rugs. magnificent mirrors bedoubled the beauty of the drawing rooms. it was a charming." >> this house has an unbelievable history of great moments in history, moments of queerer wars were discussed and committed to and peace movements were committed to. >> 1950, this of blair house dining room. president truman and his divisors but critical decisions about u.s. involvement in korea. david mccullough wrote about it. "i do not want to go to war. everything i've done in the past five years has been to try to avoid making decisions such as i had to make tonight's." >> this is the temporary cabinet room. meetings were here even though the west's reco wing was not af. this became a convenient cabinet room for him because it was 20 feet away from where he was sleeping. hispatorically, this firm is incredibly significant because in this room at this table, but the first draft of the marshall plant were created. but this is also where the truman doctrine originated. we k

deos on -- commune kays and video they have roughly 40hard-core followers, and include peoe from france, germany, ausalia, i've been told, as well foreign fighte from egypt and kistan. >> can you how much popular support it has tre? i me, you're on the ground. what do you sein terms of any support for it or feeling foit on the streets? >> well, you don't seeny grfiti or outright, you know, support r al-qaeda, but you're also talking aut a country th has sent owe over the years has sent thousds of fighters to fightn afghanistan and iraq, basilly fighting to libete muslims from nmuslims. in ts sense there's this great syathy for al-qaeda, because of their core messa of protecti muslims and fighting for muslims, but at the sam time most yemenis d't want to see suicide bombs in the streets ery day. >> wt about yemen as a failed stat whether it's the kind of place whe terror groups can fill a power vacuum? what do you se again, just around the country, or lking at how govnment works or doesn't work? what do yosee? >> yeah. i wouldn't calleit a failed stat i would say it is failing state. e g

even his travels in miami and france. one the things that really stuck out to me, and would really help me pitch like we did bake sales. no, i'm on a diet. i remember something that you wrote in your book saying, you know, we have the luxury to say we're on a diet. you know, when there's people who can't even eat. sorry. and i just wanted to ask like how did you get to follow paul? >> i met him, i was doing an article for the "newnew yorker" magazine about american soldiers. i ran into him. i got interested in him. although six years past, i kept vague track of him for six years. it's odd that i didn't pursue him write away. he was so clearly interesting. i think the reason was haiti. i was shocked by haiti. and i think when i came back, i was -- i tried -- a spent a lot of time and energy trying to reconcile the fact that haiti was my own privilege to american life. trying to hang on to my conviction that i had earned all of my privileges. the problem like that, it it falls apart the minute you take it. i think i knew fr

my brother-in-law and his wife got married in france in 2002. after that trip, my wife and i met some friends and we were walking along the beach and it is blazing hot outside and we find a guy pushing a cart with some ice cream. i buy an ice cream bar, and all the wrapping of the bar -- on the wrapping of the bar is the most offensive imaging of an african with big lips, a huge eyes, a spear and a grass skirt. i was thinking that i am in spain. what am i seeing this in spain? spain is probably no more indicative of the rest of the world than any other country. it to me, race is something that is part of the human condition. my interest in it is to focus on making sure that race is not used to disadvantages' some at the expense of others. >> there are 700 or so people that work for the congressional research service. how long did you work there? >> i worked there in 1997. after i finished graduate school in 2000, i finished my dissertation of the congressional research center, i like to call it the greatest science department. researchers, many

from world war 2, france, britain, canada, not to mention germany emerged with government-run health insurance systems. president true man wanted the same thing here. >> it's about legislation to provide our citizens with the homes that they need, the opportunity for universal good health. >> but the ama fought back. the battle cry? no socialized medicine. true man's plan was defeated. 16 years ago the country was abuzz about the clinton's health plan. that suffered a defeat in 1994 forcing the health care debate out of the spotlight. i saw it firsthand n 1997 and '98 when i worked as a nonpartisan fellow in hillary clinton's office. today more than 14 million americans don't vice president health ints. and that will be the question while we are working, the senate vote on health care, a very important night, i want to bring in david gergen. good night, i guess, early morning to you. thanks for joining us. you and i have had a lot of opportunity talk about this in the past. you just watched that piece. let me ask you broadly as we get into this, when it comes to this sort of thing, i

we don't do that in france.to talk about your work with people who know what you are talking about. it was -- it was so amazing that i really wanted to keep it out of the fantasy, out of thinking, oh, if this happens, if that happens. so i really am being nominated with cate blanchett was something huge for me. so i really wanted to enjoy the present time and to enjoy it you don't have to think about what could happen. >> larry: well said. penelope, that dance that we showed. >> mm-hmm. >> larry: what was that like to do? >> it was amazing. amazing to learn it from them and to be able to train for three months. i had until i showed it. and to see how every day you can get a little farther and the feeling of freedom you get when you get to do the entire number without stopping. it's been a great experience for me. >> larry: you think that is the biggest turn on moment of the movie? >> oh, gosh. i think all these -- i think penelope is -- >> larry: there are many sexy scenes but that's -- >> that is a particularly

axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken the burke revival even further. in the death of conservatism he distinguishes between what he calls burkean realist, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments to changing conditions and those he excoriates as revanchists. ideologue seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremists prevention this-- three vanishes two the prayed for a politics of stabilizing intemperance. tanenhaus's book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a tendentious misreading of american conservatism. what tanenhaus nonstate charge is a passive, defeatist, accommodationist conservatism that politely as just in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and the arrangement as one conservative has put it, in which conservatives served as chauffeurs to liberals, tapping the brakes occasionally as the nation speeds toward soci

france's bronson was the regular of his life. she made sure that everything there was supposed to happen happened. at the peak, there was hundreds of things. the tv shows he did, all the writing assignments he had, the speeches he gave, the appearances, the parties, this, that, and the other thing. she told the story many times that there was one phone call from bill fenty have a list of things she should do. it was 13 things and then when he got to the 13 he went back to number one and said has that been done yet, not realizing they had not high up the phone and given her the chance to do it. she made that happen. he relied -- priscilla had real world journalistic experience because she worked for united press in new york and paris. a lot less intellectual types that the magazine had not really had. she knew some nitty gritty things that maybe bill did not. she also shared his views and his tastes. he could safely go to europe every winter to ski and write the book and leave the magazine in her hands. he knew she would not do so

the french president has apparently told the president no more troops from france. what is your reaction to that and his request for more troops from these allied leaders? guest: my personal gut reaction is, fine, the french are always more of a problem than a help. this has been true since world war ii. i am writing about eisenhower and he told somebody at the end of world war ii and that his greatest enemy at the end of the war was france. the germans were part of the problem, but the people that ingraham were the french. -- that ingraha

recently france and u.k. strike policies that mandate that network providers cut off subscribers who are repeatedly violating the copyright laws. lastly declines in the cost of children technologies have led some jurisdictions to consider requiring web sites and the providers to filter the content the kerry to determine whether it is a copyright. the problem of piracy is complicated by the fact that any solution will inevitably involve a wide variety stakeholders including content owners, device manufacturers, network providers web sites and software firms. the problem is those who would benefit from implementing solutions to piracy are often different from those who would bear the cost. the multifaceted nature of the problem is it hard for the industry to find common ground. congress may be able to play a constructive role in crafting a solution. the seering represents an important first up in addressing this the get the get problems posed by the piracy of bloodsport broadcasting and ipers sheet the opportun

these are consumers in these countries, patients in england, france, germany and new zealand. those patients have the same protections we do. i've been in drug stores in canada, just two hours from toledo, ohio, less than that, and you see the same drug in the same dosage, the same packaging, the same company making them. and in those -- in canada, they're 35% to 55% lower than the summit. one drug, cholesterol lowering drug, lip to, $63 in the netherlands, $32 in spain, $40 in the united kingdom. every one of these countries, $30, $40, $50 for lipitor, same drug, $125 in the united states. we pay more even though most of the -- in most cases these drugs are either manufactured in the united states or developed in some cases by u.s. taxpayers and developed certainly in the united states for americans, but we pay two and three times more. 2009 consumer report survey found due to high drug prices, one out of six consumers failed to fill a prescription, 23 consumers cut back on groceries. they choose between do i get my groceries or do i pay for this drug? consumer after consumer

encouraged by the comments made by the president of france.t barack obama announced that there would be a significant increase of the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan and in such, a situation, it is absolutely crucial to my mind thpá the other allies follow suit. and in particular, i would like to stress the following two points. first of all, the balp'ce of the alliance is at stake, our equilibrium among ourselves. it's crucial for the afghan operation not to be perceived as a purely and simply united states operation. secondly, we asked the united states to adopt eight multi-lateral approach. but i believe that the united states will begin to challenge, or have doubts about this approach if they consider that the other allies are not fully carrying their weight and sharing the burden. therefore, i would like to call on all of the allies to increase the number of their troops in >> secretary you have said that we're not talking today about actually strategy from afghanistan but president barack obama has already said he plans to start dep

i got into russia, germany, france, england, and america.ar to me that nato was an integral part of the german unification process. i have read often that it was an issue of the putin era. there is a huge section in the book on it. i will sketch out a few ideas here. on the question of whether alliances are about controlling allies as well as enemies, there was a separate organization that managed french and british expectations on top of nato. on the question of expanding nato, that comes up very early. there is discussion about moving need to be stored, into east germany and beyond. -- there is discussion about moving nato eastward, into east germany and beyond. i have a running tab of it earliest mention of nato and eastern europe. the state department started writing about it in march of 1990. there were talking about putting a toe in hungary -- they were talking about putting nato in hungary. early on, there is discussion about nato moving into eastern europe. some of this is internal polity -- policy discussion. some of it is public. t

so you learn a lot about england and france and america, all kinds of other places. which is useful, i think. i remember as a kid listening to the radio, listening to the radio on the cbc news, and the thing about the news it 6:00 on the radio and canada is that talk about the rest of the world. in canada, you cannot give a sophisticated account of what happened that day and confine yourself to a country of 18 million. not enough happened in consequence. as a little kid, i grew up hearing about africa and south america in the news every night. all these places. it is very different when you are in a country like america, where you actually can give the news every night and don't -- i am not saying it is a bad thing. america is so complex and sits at the center of so much that happens, you can have sophisticated conversations about this world just about america. it is a matter of where you are. in canada, we were forced to look outward. and that was a really wonderful experience for someone who wanted to go into business and the professionally curious. >> i will not s

france's bronson was the regular of his life. she made sure that everything there was supposed to happen happened. at the peak, there was hundreds of things. the tv shows he did, all the writing assignments he had, the speeches he gave, the appearances, the parties, this, that, and the other thing. she told the story many times that there was one phone call from bill fenty have a list of things she should do. it was 13 things and then when he got to the 13 he went back to number one and said has that been done yet, not realizing they had not high up the phone and given her the chance to do it. she made that happen. he relied -- priscilla had real world journalistic experience because she worked for united press in new york and paris. a lot less intellectual types that the magazine had not really had. she knew some nitty gritty things that maybe bill did not. she also shared his views and his tastes. he could safely go to europe every winter to ski and write the book and leave the magazine in her hands. he knew she would not do so

the senator from a national set in france, a distinguished senator of the parliament came from francer, from the caribbean, from california, from miami, every place on earth i have lived and i have lived in a lot of places. [applause] you are here and and i'm not going to say you made an old man happy, you made a young man happy. and to have my family, my wife of more than 30 years it has given me his best years of my life. [applause] my son and daughters, stepdaughters and grandchildren, cousins and so many, many others. i cannot begin to name the because it would take too long and what i think of the times the speaker has given to this and the other members of the senate and house have given to this, i cannot intrude upon their job. this is a heady thing for me. it would be for anybody. i love this country. since the day i was born, and i was born here in the nation's capital. on october 26th, 1919. most of you were not there at that time. [applause] [applause] i'm here to tell you that politics is not an evil thing. it is a good thing. when used properly, it does good things. i thi