campus you can carry openly at george mason. they banned carrying concealed weapons and a ban -- they banned in certain buildings and so on. but i'm part of the campus you can carry openly and they can certainly get rid of all of these silly rules. [inaudible] >> yeah, they can order you to lead the campus and stop bringing it on. they have that ability. they're just not very likely to catch you, that they can order you to stop in if you come back with your t-tango be charged with the trespass. the other thing you could do is hope the virginia supreme court changes its mind. it was unfortunate what i thought was a very ill-advised lawsuit brought against george mason, which got shot down in the virginia supreme court. so maybe if somebody was used for brow, maybe the virginia supreme court to change his mind. i don't and that's very likely, but it's possible. ultimately the federal courts if they interpreted the second amendment correctly could get rid of the whole silly business. but again, i don't think it's very likely. >> we

this this is the dean of admission of george mason university to have you here. this is the third year of this. the washington journalism and media conference. why don't you give yourself big hand and we will say goodbye. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> for transcripts or comments visit us at q-and-a.org. >> on "washington journal" we will take questions and comments. after that republican presidential candidate and former louisiana governor buddy roemer has a news conference on by his sing efforts opponent and president obama in the 2012 presidential race. today president obama begins his tour through the midwest states speaking on u.s. jobs and the economy. we will take you to his first stop in cannon falls, minnesota. watch live coverage around 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> this morning on "washington journal" andrew fieldhouse previews the previous president obama's bus tour. former assistant treasury former assistant treasury secretary

guest: i attended a conference out of george mason university among other so ago. one of the had white house staff was giving the keynote address . at the end of the address, he was asked, so give us the future. what would this mean? and he said that he believed that by 2012, we will have solved all of the cyber security problems from 2005. and i thought that was a pretty accurate and candid view of what the administration's proposal does. they are fighting the last war. and the model that they are using for dealing with the private sector is largely antiquated. it does not really recognized the move meant that we have in terms of data moving out of the control of individual enterprises and moving to the cloud. it does not appreciate the advanced nature of some of the serious threats we are dealing with, the apt , the advanced persistent threat. often, nation-centered. instead it takes a punitive approach to the private sector that we think it really creates the wrong incentives. what we really need is a positive engagement with our government partners as opposed t

>> guest: well, i atented a conference a month or so ago at george mason university and one of the head staff of cybersecurity gave an address, and at the end of the address he was asked, so give us the future? what does this mean? he said that he believed that by 2012, we will have solved all the cybersecurity problems from 2005. i thought that was a pretty accurate and candid view of what the administration's proposal does. they are fighting the last war. the model that they are using for dealing with the private sector is largely antiquated. it doesn't really recognize the movement that we have in terms of data moving largely out of the control of individual enterprises and now moving into the cloud. it doesn't really appreciate the advanced nature of some of the really serious threats that we are dealing with, things we call the apt -- the advanced persist tent threat. it's very sophisticated attacks, often nation-centered. it takes a punitive, sobbing approach to the private sector that we think really creates the wrong incentives. what we really need is a positive engagement with

thomasina borkman, professor of sociology emerita, george mason university, fairfax, virginia. keith, let's start out by letting the audience know what is the need for treatment in terms of substance use and mental disorders in this country? a lot of people aren't aware of how prevalent these conditions are, but amazingly there are 45 million american adults who meet the criteria for a mental health problem. and 23 million who meet it for substance use, alcohol or drugs. and most of those who also smoke and the overlap between those groups is about 10 million people who struggle with both of those problems. so that means at any given time one in four people in this country could conceivably benefit from treatment for mental health or substance use disorder. and actually, we're using the term now, behavioral health, do you want to explain a little what behavioral health encompasses? behavioral health is a bridging term, i mean, what is happening around the country is there's much more desire to integrate services, integrate thinking about these different types of disorders. and

millions of dollars as reported by the wall street journal that charles koch has funneled into the george mason university think tank known as the merkabah center it's filled to the brim with climate change deniers and those scientists hell bent on destroying as many environmental record regulations as they can you know regulations that make sure that the air we breathe the water we drink and the food we eat is safe in fact when george w. bush came into office in two thousand and one the koch funded merkabah center suggested more than half of the environmental regulations the bush immediately put on the chopping block so when our kids get asthma thanks to this polluter agenda we can thank charles koch for his so-called investments that benefit our societal wellbeing or maybe koch was referring to the hundreds of millions of dollars he invests in universities across the nation like the economics department as florida state university where as the st petersburg times noted charles koch can veto the hiring of any new professors if they don't subscribe to his tax cut and deregulation agenda who are

>> guest: well, so i attended a conference about a month or so ago out at george mason university, and one of the head white house staff for cybersecurity was giving the keynote address. and at the end of the address he was asked, so give us the future. what would all this mean? and he said that he believed that by 2012 we will have solved all of the cybersecurity problems from 2005. and i thought that was a pretty accurate and candid view of what the administration's proposal does. they are fighting the last war. the model that they are using for dealing with the private sector is largely antiquated. um, it doesn't really recognize the movement that we have in terms of data moving largely out of the control of individual enterprises and now moving to the cloud. it doesn't really appreciate the advanced nature of some of the really serious threats that we're dealing with, things we call the apt, the advanced persistent threat. that's very sophisticated sorts of attacks, often nation-centered. instead it takes up sort of punitive sarbanes-oxley kind of approach to the private sector tha

but that of the repeated figure of 74,000 workers idled was an exaggeration all along says george masonnomist steven fuller who crunched the number for contractors trade association. >> probably about 24,000 construction workers are out of work because of that. that is an important number, especially not those workers but it's not 70,000. >> reporter: the house republican limitation for subsidiaries to small unprofitable airports, by exercising his authority to waive the provision that cuts out communities in nevada, montana and new mexico if it would harm those communities. the ease with which it all ended belied the vitriol underlying the dispute. senate democrats yesterday using the metaphor of hostage-taking to describe the house republicans' strategy. >> it's as if someone puts a gun to your head and says give me your money. then you say why won't you give him the money? you leave out the context that there is a gun held to the head. that's not fair and not right. >> a republican returned fire today. >> house of representatives passed an extension of the federal aviation administra

the cost of government report he's a murkiness and a fellow in the department of economics at george mason university and is an associate of the tax policy director for americans for tax reform jay thanks so much for being. all right so the cost of government how is this different from tax freedom if that happened in april. i thought we paid all the polls absolutely you have access here unfortunately you haven't paid for the massive regulatory regime that's out there extra deficit spending that's going on above and beyond tax freedom day so those are the direct individual taxes april eleventh when you add in everything else you get the burris you get all twelve two thousand and eleven and that's counting all the extra days the past tax freedom day i believe on april twelfth that has to be paid at some point just right now on the backs of the children why is it so important to point this out it's i mean it's not like it's an officially recognized government holiday not like anything happens today but it's a chance to do what why do you when you print this out and i missed her why why bring

"washington journal" live ♪ this week on "q&a," a talk with participants on the campus of george masonniversity. they discuss ethics and morality in modern day journalism. >> tell me where you are from act and why you are here in washington, d.c. >> i am from minnesota. i am here to be part of the journalism conference to learn more about writing, politics, media, and how it is used to broadcast and all the things you can learn about other people to help us understand what we can do it our careers in the future if we go to college. it is possible. >> where do you go to school? >> marshall high school. > > why did you come to this conference? how did you know about it? >> i received a letter of recommendation. it was about january or so. i will be having in novel published in about three years. i want to figure out if i'm doing everything i can to be the best writer i can. >> who is going to publish your novel? >> little brown publishing company. >> how did you get that? > > i've been writing since i was younger. my teacher read the first few chapters of the novel and said it needed to

. >> the media conference at george mason university, ethics, commentary, and where journalists get their news and information in this multi-media environment. sunday on "q&a."

his doctorate -- at george mason university here in the washington, d.c. area, and edward eddie hicks was the emergency management director in morgan county alabama and president of the u.s. council of the international association of emergency managers. and with that i am going to turn it over to berrien. >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i am delighted to be here. as you can tell from the introduction of the panel we are going to range from noaa's role on the observation that forecast to the role of the forecaster and then to the role of what do people do with the information. so having eddie hicks here to be able to tell us what it's like to be at ground zero is a particular important part of this panel. i had some experience with that this past year in norman oklahoma. as the director of the national weather center this was my first year and my first day on the job if you will in tornado season. in fact that almost indicates my east coast bias that i had never really been in a tornado alley, and so the white had join

james kinter is a climate dynamics professor at george mason university. let's begin with what is climatology. guest: climatology is a study of the statistics of weather. a lot of people confuse weather and climate. they tended to think of climate is just the same thing as weather. what we do is study the long- term variability and statistics of weather. we look at temperature records, precipitation records, sunshine, cloudiness, pressure and so on in the atmosphere. we also look at how the variability in the world's oceans happen to transpire from year to year and decade to decade. host: what is done with the information? guest: there is a lot of data collected. we have an apparatus a classic mcculloh, both in the united states and -- and apparatus across the globe, both in the united states and other countries, to collect the information. we have a lot of resources deployed in the atmosphere and in the ocean to try to measure those quantities i was just talking about. all that data is publicly shared with people -- anybody who has access to the internet,

his doctorate -- at george mason university here in the washington, d.c. area, and edward eddie hicks was the emergency management director in morgan county alabama and president of the u.s. council of the international association of emergency managers. and with that i am going to turn it over to berrien. >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i am delighted to be here. as you can tell from the introduction of the panel we are going to range from noaa's role on the observation that forecast to the role of the forecaster and then to the role of what do people do with the information. so having eddie hicks here to be able to tell us what it's like to be at ground zero is a particular important part of this panel. i had some experience with that this past year in norman oklahoma. as the director of the national weather center this was my first year and my first day on the job if you will in tornado season. in fact that almost indicates my east coast bias that i had never really been in a tornado alley, and so the white had join

his doctorate -- at george mason university here in the washington, d.c. area, and edward eddie hicks was the emergency management director in morgan county alabama and president of the u.s. council of the international association of emergency managers. and with that i am going to turn it over to berrien. >> thank you. appreciate th. >> i >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i am delighted to be here. as you can tell from the introduction of the panel we are going to range from noaa's role on the observation that forecast to the role of the forecaster and then to the role of what do people do with the information. so having eddie hicks here to be able to tell us what it's like to be at ground zero is a particular important part of this panel. i had some experience with that this past year in norman oklahoma. as the director of the national weather center this was my first year and my first day on the job if you will in tornado season. in fact that almost indicates my east coast bias that i hadnever really been in a tornado alley, and so the white had joined

and associate professor at george mason university school of law. professor somin's research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and a study of popular participation. and its implications for constitutional democracy. among his many accomplishments, in its amicus brief on behalf of the urban planet scholar jane jacobs, which was cited by the sub in court in his majority opinion in kelo v. city of new london. our second panelist is j. peter byrne, a professor of law at georgetown university law center. he teaches property, flanges, historic preservation and constitutional law. in addition he is faculty truck of the georgetown climate center, and at the georgetown environmental law and policy center. and i visited georgetown last month and it's a beautiful campus. i had never been there. our third palace is not here yet. but i will get his background when he arrives so he can immediately go into a statement. hilary shelton. mr. shelby lasers at the director of the naacp's washington bureau. and senior vice president for advocacy and policy. t

. >> from the conference at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on ethics, commentary, and where they get their news and information in today's multi-media environment. throughout this month, c-span radio will be featuring lbj tapes. you can hear him talk with hubert humphrey about vietnam, the paris peace talks, and the presidential race. >> by a conscientious fellow trying to do a job. i will get peace come how or high water. >> you can listen on radio or on line. watch more video of the candidates. see what the political reporters are saying and track the latest campaign contributions. it is easy to use and helps you navigate the political landscape. includes biographies and the latest polling data. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back for the final installment of looking at jobs in america. on monday, it was work force training programs. wednesday was public-private partnerships. thursday was the federal jobs program. our focus today will be women in the workplace. robert gross is the director of the census bureau. he will give us a statistical look

this is very interesting because actually the george mason university professor, stephen fuller whosee up with that figure said that the number is actually more like a third of that 70,000 number. the white house is saying it's about 4,000 faa workers furlowed and 70,000 construction workers who are not able to do airport construction projects, but fuller saying this is a simplification at best and an exaggeration at worst, but still tens of thousands of people not working this month because of this, kyra. >> so athena, let me ask you, how are lawmakers there on cap hill reacting to the latest round of pretty bad p.r.? >> reporter: there are discussions ongoing that there was optimism that they might be able to work this out in the next couple of days. but what's at issue here is that the democrats and republicans are fighting over this temporary funding for the faa. this is a matter at has been fairly routine over the last several years. what's interesting now is this house passed bill that a republican congressman attached to a provision to that would eliminate subs sidies for small

. >> george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on ethics, the role of opinion and commentary, and where they get their news and information in today's multimedia and vermin. sunday on c-span. this week and on american history tv, who will visit the office of the darkest of the nine states as he shows historic documents that are personal interest to him. leon panetta recalls his years working the republican administration of richard nixon, eventual resignation, and switch to the democratic party. 50th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion, and author gives a critical look at you as to been relation -- u.s.-cuban relations. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from florida, governor rick scott, republican, freshman republican governor. we're pleased to have you here this morning. i would like to start with national, about the republican debate last night in the upcoming straw poll. florida will be very important in this year. are you being courted regularly by republican hopefuls? how you make your decision about whether or not to endorse someone? guest: i went

doctorate -- at george mason university here in the washington, d.c. area, and edward eddie hicks was the emergency management director in morgan county alabama and president of the u.s. council of the international association of emergency managers. and with that i am going to turn it over to berien. >> thank you. appreciate that. >> i >> thankou. appreciate that. >> i am delighted to be here. as you can tell from the introduction of the panel we are going to range from noaa's role on the observation that forecast to the role of the forecaster and then to the role of what do people do with the information. so having eddie hicks here to be able to tell us what it's like to be at ground zero is a particular important part of this panel. i had some experience with that this past year in norman oklahoma. as the director of the national weather center this was my first year and my irst day on the job if you will in tornado season. in fact that almost indicates my east coast bias that i had never really been in a tornado alley, and so the white had joined t

. >> from the conference at george mason university, expiring high school journalists on ethics, the role of opinion and commentary, and where they get their news and opinion in today's multimedia environment, if sunday on c-span. >> this weekend, of c-span3, we will visit the office of the archivist of the u.s. as he shows historic documents that are of personal interest to him. the current defense secretary leon panetta recalls his years working in the republican administration of our to nixon, his eventual resignation, and his switch to the democratic party. on the 50th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion, and operatives a critical look at u.s.-cuban relations in the 50's and 60's and the reaction of the eisenhower and kennedy administrations. get the complete weekend schedule at the website c- span.org. "washington journal" continues. >> patrick donahoe is the u.s. postmaster general and u.s. postal service ceo. general, thanks for coming on. how would you describe the financial health of the post office? guest: we are in tough shape right now. we are being affected by two ma

. >> at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on ethics, commentary, and with a getews and information. q &a." on c-span's " >> on c-span3, we will visit the office of the archivist. richard nixon, his eventual resignation from the post. and an author gives a critical look at u.s.-cuban relations in the 1950's and 1960's the. this weekend on c-span2, frederick homestead is remembered for designing the u.s. capitol grounds and central park. justin martin looks at his life as a journalist and abolitionist. and a launch party for a fox news analyst's "muzzled." pirating in the 21st century. inside the world of the pirates of somalia. >> "washington journal" continues. host: reid wilson talked a little bit about the iowa straw poll. guest: it is not entirely good predictor of who is going to be the president -- the republican nominee. saying this may be the time for the iowa straw poll to end. i would like to take some exception with him, but the straw poll is an early test. it is a monday night usually in early january, freezing cold. the last time i left i what last ti

james is the director of the george mason university's on thursday, the role of the national oceanicnd atmospheric administration. the administrator will be with us on thursday. on friday, role of the national weather service and director of the nws. today, the topic is disaster preparedness. michael greenberger is the director for the health and homeland security at the university of maryland. thank you for being part of our series. there are three phases to repair ms. and response. there is the recovery, response, and prepared ness. who is on the front lines of recovery? >> for all of those phases, it is important to emphasize, it is the knowledge throughout all federal and state levels, all problems that arise from whether catastrophes, any other human catastrophe, like an influenza, or terror attack, the first line response is the local level. then you go to the state, and if needed, the federal government comes in. in extreme emergencies, they may need to take are the eminent -- over the management. in any of these subjects. so what you're seeing now is a lot of secondary impact

he is and george mason. he has someone he can talk to i guess. one great thing he helped me with with this book course i am almost embarrassed to admit -- he told me i should read citizens which is a massive work on the french revolution. it came up in everything else i read. i forget the details runs some years earlier i read a column attacking a piece in the new yorker making fun of patriotic americans with those little flag pins and in the course of this new yorker article he cited a norwegian support nazi germany. so he is citing a nazi in order to attack our little parades. not as stirring as the fuehrer's rally. it is one of those things i noticed about the good historians which is why politically correct bureaucrats stop making references to the american indians contributions to the telephone and women's contribution to the revolution. just let historians write history. the good historians whatever their politics simon james is a fantastic historian and it is a fantastic book. call >> host: you write the stupidest students become journalis

it is from the washington journalism and media conference in george mason university aspiring high schooljournalists on ethics, the role of opinion and commentary and where they get their news and information in today's multimedia environment, sunday on c-span's duende no i make conscientious earnest fellow trying to do a job and i'm going to do it. i think i've pace at 4:00 in the afternoon i am sure going to get a come hell or high water. >> listen to c-span radio in in the baltimore washington d.c. area at 90.1 fm nationwide on xm satellite channel 119 and on line at c-span radio.org. >> jeff guinn is the author of several books about the old west, including "the last gunfight" about the the shootout the okay corral.useuin in may, he spoke at the arizona history museum in tucson for 40 minutes. historical society. i'm bruce dinges, director of publication and editor of the current journal of arizona history, and we are here to welcome jeff guinn, the author of the last -- "the last gunfight," the real story of a shootout at the o.k. corral and have it seized the american west. jeff is

derivative of a document called the virginia declaration of rights that came 30 days earlier from george mason. in that document the unalienable rights were life, liberty, and the possession of property. now, the discussion of a document between thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin was over that last part of the phrase. possession of property didn't seem quite moral enough for the most radical experiment in human freedom in the history of the world. they changed it to the pursuit of happiness because they wanted to move from materialism -- from materialism to morality. from property to pursuit. and it's time for us to make that change once again today, to remember a very founding concept of this country. modern social science research shows that our founders were right. if you want to convince people to stand up for freedom, if you want free enterprise to be paramount in our understanding of the economy, you better talk about morals, fundamental new economic and social science research shows that people are more rash -- are less rational and more moral. that the parts of the brain that actua

. >> from the media conference at george mason university, aspiring journalists on where they get their news and information. tonight, on "q&a." >> see what political reporters are saying and track the latest contributions with at the c- span website for campaign 2012. easy to use. facebook updates from the campaign and the latest polling data. c-span.org/campaign2012. >> severe drought in africa is threatening more than 12 million people with starvation and secretary of state hillary clinton spoke when at the food policy research institute about the ongoing international humanitarian response efforts. the secretary announced that the u.s. was providing another $17 million to the region, bringing total u.s. assistance to $580 million for this year. this is just over half of an hour. [laughter] >> good morning, everyone. thank you for coming. did is my honor and pleasure to welcome the secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. what brings her here is the grave and urgent concern of the humanitarian crisis on the horn of africa. more importantly, short-term responses and long-term solut

the center for ocean, land, and atmosphere studies as well as a climate dynamics professor at george mason university. let's begin with what is climatology? >> guest: climatology is a study of the statistics of weather. a lot of people confuse weather and climate. they tend to think of climate as the same thing as weather. we study the long term variability and statistics. we look at temperature records, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, so on in the atmosphere. we also look at how the variety and how the world's open transpires. >> host: what is done with the information? >> guest: there's a lot of data collected. we have an apparatus across the globe within the united states and partners in other countries to collect information. it's principally the main volume of data is coming from satellites. but we also have a lot of resource that is are deployed in the atmosphere and the ocean to try to measure those quantities that i was just talking about. all of that data is publicly shared with people in, you know, anybody who has access to the internet, or people like me who do search with

. >> from the media conference at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on where they get their news and information in today's multimedia environment. tonight on c-span's "q & a. watch more video of the candidates and track campaign contributions with c-span's web site for campaign 2012. it helps you navigate the political landscape with twitter feeds, kennedy -- candidate bios and reports from media partners. >> a recent senate conference committee covered federal transportation projects. members discussed proposals to create a national infrastructure bank. this is two hours. >> americans rely on railways. they do that so they can move goods sufficiently. states like west virginia need sound infrastructure desperately to boost economic development in rural communities and throughout the state. that is true of any state. massachusetts, too. particularly western massachusetts. you have a lot of crumbling bridges? >> yes. >> transportation is showing signs of wear and tear. much of it is in disrepair. people recognize that but thing, it will not be me. we are getti

he's now at george mason. um, so he has someone he can talk to, i guess. [laughter] really is fun to rap with people now and then. but one great thing he helped me with with this book which i'm almost embarrassed to admit -- >> host: with "demonic." >> guest: with "demonic," he told me i should read "citizens" which is a massive work on the friend of revolution. i'd seen it, it had come up in everything else i'd read. obviously, i know that he is an historian. i'd written, i forget the details, but some years earlier i had written a column attacking simon for a snippy piece he wrote in the new yorker making fun of patriotic americans with their little flag pins. and in the course of this new yorker article he cited, i don't know, i think it was a norwegian, but it was a norwegian who happened to support nazi germany. so he's citing a nazi in order to attack our little parades. yes, i suppose they're not as stirring as the furor's rally. so i had this prejudice against simon. but, i mean, it's one of the things i've noticed about the good historians which i

. >> from the media and journalist conference at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on commentary and where they get their information today. that is sunday. up next, the creators of the website twitter talk to the former editor of "time magazine" about the internet. the relaunch the obvious corporation, which developed twitter. this is just over an hour. >> i am going to introduce during murdoch so jerry murdoch can introduce me. >> i am the code-founder of venture partners, and a trustee at the aspen institute. this session is what is next for the internet. [unintelligible] steve jobs once said that if you want to predict the future, be best way to predict the future is to invent it. these three gentlemen have all had something to do with the creation of the internet and post-internet. walter isaacson, that when he was at a time as editor, released when the very first internet portals in 1984 called pathfinder. it is still out there today. biz stone and evan williams are co-founders ankle creators of blogger and twitter. both of those inventions will be feeling the

she is a graduate of virginia tech university and george mason university.lease, join me in giving a warm alpa welcome to ntsb chairman debbie hersman. [applause] >> thank you so much, paul. and you know what they say about most speakers speaking ten minutes too long? well, i know that i'm the only thing that's standing between you and some rest or happy hour, so i assure you that i will be brief if you'll just stick with me for a few minutes longer. you know, this is my eighth air safety forum here with alpa, and it is a real privilege to address so many individuals and an organization that has done so much for aviation safety. in bringing this conference to a close, i think it's appropriate to be in a reflective mood, to look at where we've been and where we're going. so i'd like you all to think back 80 years, and i know that we've got a program that's looking back at the last 80 years. it's 1931 and, yes, it's the great depression. but it's also the golden age of aviation. donald douglas is building the predecessor aircraft to the venerable dc-3, and pan

she is a graduate of virginia tech university and the george mason university. join me in giving a warm welcome to deborah hersman. [applause] >> this is my eighth air safety forum here. it is a real privilege to address so many individuals in an organization that has done so much for aviation safety. in bringing this conference to a close, i think it is appropriate to be in a reflective mood. to look at where we have been and where we are going. i would like you all to think back 80 years. i know that we have a program that is looking back the last 80 years. it is 1931, and, yes, it is the great depression. but it is also the golden age of aviation. donald douglas is building the predecessor aircraft beauty of hon. dc-3. pam am with lindbergh at the helm. 80 years ago, alpa was formed. your first president recommended creating an independent, multi member board to investigate accidents and make recommendations to improve safety. what a great idea. [applause] at the board we have five independent board members working together to improve transportation safety. w

. >> from george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on ethics, the role of opinion in commentary, and where they get their news and information. that is sunday on c-span's "q&a". up next, biz stone and evan williams, the creators of twitter. they talk to former time magazine editor, walter isaacson, about the future of the internet. stone and williams announced the relaunch of the obvious corp., the company that created twitter. this is on the aspen ideas festival. this is just over one hour. >> i am jerry murdoch. this session is entitled [unintelligible] steve jobs once said that if you want to predict the future, be best way to predict the future is to invent it. these three gentlemen have all had something to do with the creation of the internet and post-internet. walter isaacson, that when he was at a time as editor, released when the very first internet portals in 1984 called pathfinder. it is still out there today. biz stone and evan williams are co-founders ankle creators of blogger and twitter. both of those inventions will be feeling the repercussions of that

derivative of a document called the virginia declaration of rights that came 30 days earlier from george mason. that document, the annett -- inalienable rights were life, liberty, and the possession of property. the discussion of the document between thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin was over that last part of the phrase. possession of property did not seem quite moral enough for the most radical experiment in human freedom in the history of the world. they changed it to the pursuit of happiness because they wanted to move from materialism, from mark -- materialism to morality, from property to proceed. it is time for us to make that change once again. to remember the very founding concept of this country. modern social science research shows our founders were right. you want to convince people to stand up for freedom. if you want free enterprise to be paramount in our understanding of the economy, you had better talk about morals. fundamental new economic and social science research show that people are less rational and more immoral. the parts of the brain that process morality will cro

. >> from the washington journalism and media conference at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on ethics, the role of opinion and commentary and where they get their news and information in today's multimedia environment sunday on c-span's q & a. >> throughout the day today, c-span has live coverage of the iowa state fair, a key early stop for republican presidential candidates. earlier we heard from herman crane and speaking right now is tim pawlenty. a little bit later it will be newt gingrich and tonight at 5:00, michele bachmann will speak and on the drook side debbie wasserman schultz was invited to appear. she's serves as chair of the national democratic committee. you can watch these speeches tonight on 8:00 eastern on c-span or anytime online at c-span.org. and tomorrow we'll be live with more from iowa for the ames republican straw poll in ames and we begin with noon eastern for a preview program of the history and the impact of the 32-year-old event. it will be followed by the poll and speeches from the candidates and, again, that's live tomorrow on c-span

and associate professor at george mason university school of law. professor somin's research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and a study of popular participation. and its implications for constitutional democracy. among his many accomplishments, in its amicus brief on behalf of the urban planet scholar jane jacobs, which was cited by the sub in court in his majority opinion in kelo v. city of new london. our second panelist is j. peter byrne, a professor of law at georgetown university law center. he teaches property, flanges, historic preservation and constitutional law. in addition he is faculty truck of the georgetown climate center, and at the georgetown environmental law and policy center. and i visited georgetown last month and it's a beautiful campus. i had never been there. our third palace is not here yet. but i will get his background when he arrives so he can immediately go into a statement. hilary shelton. mr. shelby lasers at the director of the naacp's washington bureau. and senior vice president for advocacy and policy. t

. >> from a media conference at george mason university, aspiring high school journalists on the role of opinion commentary and where they get their news and information in today's multimedia environment. >> c-span's coverage of the 2012 presidential race continues with a look at the candidates who spoke accept the "des moines register" soap box. this is a prelude to the straw poll vote which can be sought -- which will be seen live here on c-span. we will hear from herman cain, rick santorum, newt gingrich, and michele bachmann. we will also she use some of the candidates' meeting with their dollars. this is just over two hours. this is just over two hours. >> the 20 minutes does not include the introduction. >> it does. >> get started. [laughter] >> good morning. welcome to the "des moines register" soapbox. our first candidate of the morning is herman cain. he is a former georges businessman. he is seeking the republican nomination for the presidency. let's get and i will welcome forerman cain. [applause] >> thank y. good morning. i love that kind of greeting. that is good. it's fe

professor at george mason university of law. he focuses on constitutional law, poverty law and study of popular participation and implications for constitutional deepak civil among his many accomplishments. amicus brief on behalf of scholar jacobs which was cited by the supreme court in majority opinion of kelo versus city of new london. our second panel i. j. peter byrne. from george town university law center. he teaches land preservation and constitutional law. he is director of georgetown climate center and georgetown law policy center. i visited georgetown lastmont. it is a beautiful campus i never been there our third panelist is not here yet. i will give you his background when i arrives so he can immediately go into his statement. hillary health ton. mr. shelton presently serves as director naacp washington bureau and senior vice president for ad v. cansy and policy. the naacp joined an am mick cast brief in the plaintiffs in the kelo case and testified before congress on civil rights implications of eminent domain use.

[laughter] >> i 10 george mason university. the only way to get our country back in track -- on track -- pretty believe is our strongest candidate to lead our charge? >> presidential candidate? >> yes. >> yes. [laughter] that question has become the bane of my existence lately. there are several candidates that i know and like on different levels for different reasons. i used to work for government jon huntsman, who is now a presidential candidate. i know him well from a personal standpoint. i have yet to get to know him at all as a presidential candidate. i knew him as governor when i was general counsel. i had known mitt romney for a long time. i know and like ron paul a lot. his son, rand, is one of my best friends in the senate. i am a big friend -- fan of michelle bachmann. i have gotten to know her somewhat while serving in the senate. i run into are from time to time i get always been impressed with her stance. rick perry, the governor of texas, may be getting in the race soon. he wrote a fantastic book called "fed up."

away from the extremes on one side or the other. >> the masonic temple in alexandria, can you comment on the contribution making the stature of george washington? >> that's a really good question, and washington as a mason, masonry was important to washington. he was a mason, he followed, he attended the masonic ceremonies, she was an active participant, but it's important to remember that freemasonry was extremely important in the 18th century as an entry into social life, political life really if you were anywhere in the upper tier society you are in politics or governance you have to be mason. it was a very important fraternity, and if you were not a member you were going to have trouble getting by. so, part of it was something he had to do. it appears she actually enjoyed it as well but how he felt about the freemasonry we don't really know. however since washington's death obviously they led his funeral, his funeral was a masonic funeral, and since washington's death it may have been active in promoting washington as one of them and some of their efforts they have created just like it reveals a kind of washington lithology as w

so right after george washington dies, mason weems rights to his publisher in philadelphia and he says washington has just died. millions of people large gaping to read something about him. we can make a lot of money. that is what he immediately saw come and parson weems, i will keep calling him parson weems just to be nice to him, parson weems saw the dollar bill in the washington long before washington was on the dollar will. [laughter] i'm glad you like that. i made it up myself. [laughter] but he did. he was in this for the money. he was in this to make gobs of money but he also to give him credit he wanted to bring washington to everyday americans. right after washington died, there were a number of biographies of washington that were published the best known by george marshall -- john marshall you can still get now. it's available, but was a huge ponders biography. john adams compared it to a mausoleum. [laughter] it's very dull, hard to get through, and it created a washington who's a very distant, who is that man of marvel, that statute, that image. the genius of parson weems w

. >> the masonic temple in alexandria, can you comment on the contribution making the stature of george washington? >> that's a really good question, and washington as a mason, masonry was important to washington. he was a mason, he followed, he attended the masonic ceremonies, she was an active participant, but it's important to remember that freemasonry was extremely important in the 18th century as an entry into social life, political life really if you were anywhere in the upper tier society you are in politics or governance you have to be mason. it was a very important fraternity, and if you were not a member you were going to have trouble getting by. so, part of it was something he had to do. it appears she actually enjoyed it as well but how he felt about the freemasonry we don't really know. however since washington's death obviously they led his funeral, his funeral was a masonic funeral, and since washington's death it may have been active in promoting washington as one of them and some of their efforts they have created just like it reveals a kind of washington lithology as w

the stand, casey anthony's attorneys jose baez and cheney mason, they were there as well as the prosecutor, linda drane burdick and frank george in the murder trial, this time the state agrees with casey anthony's attorneys. they do not believe casey anthony should now have to serve a year's probation. this has nothing to do with the murder trial. this all goes back to that 31-daytime period back in the summer of 2008 when casey anthony did not report to anybody that caylee was missing or, as she told investigators back then, that "zanny" the nanny had kidnapped her. at the time casey anthony was partying it up in hot body contests, drinking, clubbing, having fun and on a shopping spree. captured on several surveillance videotapes buying things for herself with bogus checks stolen from her best friend at the time who was out of town and letting her use her vehicle. well, for that in june of 2010 casey anthony did plead guilty of six counts of check fraud. the judge at the time, judge stan strickland, ordered her to serve 412 days in jail. she did that all while awaiting the trial. the judge also verbally said at the time after