. >> i will be at patriot at george mason. >> data fairfax virginia? why do you go east? >> i used to have a job there 20 years ago i have fond memories of george mason and it is little uncomfortable at times being one of the only non a concern -- one of the conservatives on campus i had a suspicion with a review for a raise may have hurt me but george mason is fairly balanced and economics department is a law school the rest is pretty close to universities but it is very balanced and that was a big attraction. >>host: you are working on another book? >> yes. this was another reason i started the book before i got their job offer at george mason but it is the expos a the time amazon the additions committee the oversight committee and i saw a illegal behavior's this is the controversial book cheating with the insiders report of the use of race at ucla's why will not make friends with that book. when pretty's surgeon i would have taken the job anyway but that definitely helped. >>host: we're talking with professor groseclose "left turn" is the name of his

george mason is of fairly balanced. their economics department definitely means to the right and so does the law school. the rest of the school is pretty close to other universities, but i would say it is balanced. that was a big attraction. >> host: working on another book? >> guest: i am. yes. this is another reason. started this book before i got a job offer at george mason, but this is an expert as they have the time that i was on the admissions committee at ucla, the faculty oversight committee for admissions and sauce and illegal behavior. this is to be a very controversial book. cheating, and insiders report on the use of race in admissions at ucla. you imagine i am not going to make friends with that but. so i think i am pretty certain the would have taken the george mason job anyway, but that definitely help. >> host: and we have been talking with tim groseclose, future george mason university professor to a left turn is the name of his

started this book before i got a job offer at george mason, but this is an expert as they have the time that i was on the admissions committee at ucla, the faculty oversight committee for admissions and sauce and illegal behavior. this is to be a very controversial book. cheating, and insiders report on the use of race in admissions at ucla. you imagine i am not going to make friends with that but. so i think i am pretty certain the would have taken the george mason job anyway, but that definitely help. >> host: and we have been talking with tim groseclose, future george mason university professor to a left turn is the name of his book, a liberal media bias towards the american mind. and you're watching book tv on c-span2. >> next professor lynn vavreck discusses her book "the gamble" in which she and her co-author evaluate the factors that impacted the top to toe presidential election. this interview, part of book tv pellets series is just over 20 minutes. >> host: the gamble is the name of the book. ucla professor lynn vavreck is a cut-author of this book. lynn vavreck, when you hear

enough bad press that i think they'll be forced to do the right thing all right michael shank george mason university professor thank you so much for coming on and weighing in on that critically. new research could shed some light on why the reaction to the crisis in ferguson may have been so polarized along racial lines research suggests it could be because most white americans have almost exclusively white social networks according to a survey by the public religion research institute three quarters of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence taking a hypothetical from group of one hundred friends each researchers found that in a white american social network on average ninety one of those one hundred friends would be white with the equivalent of one minority friend of various groups all african-americans social networks were eighty three percent black with an average of eight percent white friends while that also shows significant social segregation it does mean that while black americans have ten times as many black friends as white white americans have

program that funds these police departments i was joined earlier by michael shank professor at george mason university and co-author of a recent report on police militarization i first asked him how it's determined which equipment goes where to which police department. they actually don't determine it's a pretty simple process let's say you're a police chief of a small town like roanoke rapids north carolina sixteen thousand people live there all they really have to do is apply online there's a one page form they say we want to end up in the pentagon is able to give away almost twenty thousand rounds from the war zone from iraq and afghanistan they've given maybe a thousand so far along with one hundred thousand sold weapons but it's pretty simple process there's not a needs assessment there's very little accountability after they get it and they have to use it within the mean there's no justification that a police department has to put forward for needing a tank correct so you see towns across the country getting equipment that they actually don't even need for example a small town in geor

colonel george mason reminded the framers of the constitution that the impeachment proceeding is e designed to vindicate the rights of the people against a tyrant, but it is also provided so that there will be honorable acquitable for a public official should he be unjustly accused. whatever the outcome the aman

democrat will and face-off at george mason university's arlington campus.they are vying to win the august election. -- resigned in june to take a position and terry mcauliffe's administration. and mayor will hold a public hearing on flooding. evacuatere forced to when flooding hit the city. and damaged parts and several businesses. parks andged several businesses. and begins at 7:00 at partnership call on 5th street and laurel. some students will be in a building. ceremony at the new thomas jefferson elementary school. the school was damaged in an earthquake and had to be torn down. the students have spent three years in modular classrooms. korearancis will head to and it will be his first trip as pope. it will be his first visit to an asian country in three decades. a ferry asked and killed more than 300 and the pope will conduct a korean reconciliation mass in the capital of seoul. more on the search for an arsonist. ñoñí more breaking from prince george's county. the police believe that he is a two-year-old girl being shot this afternoon. he opened fire

that was bryan caplan fessor of economics at george mason university and blogger for in qana log time now for today's big deal. big deal time with my favorite guy mr edward carriers yes and today we're talking about burger more specifically can you have yeah after hearing years of burger king will merge with comedian based him to dodge higher taxes u.s. senator sharod brown is calling for a boycott boycott of the fast food giant so how exactly would you do burger king's home address to canada benefit their business model cancer and what's going to happen i think would a lot of this is about is not lowering income taxes. when people talk about these inversions but rather it's about being able to repatriate cash back home that they can't repatriate because some companies are doing because of political pressure etc but a lot of these other clubs to be a companies are saying to themselves look you know we have all this money that we're earning over seas we want to be able to use it for capital expenditure or dividend distribution whatever it may be if we bring it back home we'll be taxed

so learn more about the day of service. >> and this is the unofficial icon of george mason. >> fairfaxouldn't be a better place for mason to grow. it's been a great community. we're very supportive. >> shout out to the fairfax high school footbal players. the whole team came out for us. the color guard. we also have the drum line. a little cheer for you. come on, coach. >> we're number one! >> back to you. >> as a ram, i can only show you so much love. we have that competition been going on for years. mason has been very kind to me, though. >> and showing a lot of school pride. and so gre for everyone there to show up today. so thank you, angie, and all the folks out there. >>> earlier ts g, fairfax shf talked to angie about a special back to school tradition. 40 homeless children will get school supplies they need by shopping with a deputy. they team up with are for shelt in the area. it's funded threw donations from the community. >>> and amazon has set up a mobile payment system. business owners attach a credit card reader to their smartphone or tablet and then a mobile app reads yo

colonel george mason reminded the framers of the constitution that the impeachment proceeding is e designed to vindicate the rights of the people against a tyrant, but it is also provided so that there will be honorable acquitable for a public official should he be unjustly accused. whatever the outcome the american government would be purified and strengthened and in that process, all of us would become, as never before, free men in a free society. >> purposes of general debate for period not to exceed 15 minutes. >> i wish to join my other colleagues in commending you for the matter in which you have presided over these hearings. i u believe that you have been fair to the republican minority in recognizing and calling upon them when their turn has come to speak. i believe on some issues we have been successful in improving the quality of these hearings in resolutions, which the minority has supported and has been adopted by the full committee. i do wish, however, to express strong exception in the manner in which the staff on some occasions have handled these hearings. for one thing, i be

this was another reason i started the book before i got their job offer at george mason but it is the expos a the time amazon the additions committee the oversight committee and i saw a illegal behavior's this is the controversial book cheating with the insiders report of the use of race at ucla's why will not make friends with that book. when pretty's surgeon i would have taken the job anyway but that definitely helped. >>host: we're talking with professor groseclose "left turn" is the name of his book. you're watching booktv on c-span2. >>host: "the gamble" ucla professor bin is a co-author of the book when you hear the term came a change which is that means you? >> a great question to talk about the 2012 election when i did game change something fundamentally would shift it was going if you were behind and i could become the head then there really looks like you will start losing so something that would shift the status quo. >>host: is there a game change in elections? >>guest: there can be but not recently so much but that does not mean there are not ever-changing moments but a bi

david foster and richard sullivan will be aired tonight at 7:00 in founders hall auditorium on george mason university's arlington campus. that election will be held next tuesday. meantime, the corruption trial of bob donnell and his wife, maureen, injuring its third week now. the governor's chief of staff is on the stand. we were there as he walked into court this morning. he testified that the former governor was visibly upset after they interviewed his wife. i asked him not to drive a ferrari from jonnie williams' home. the governor remains optimistic. >> we're about halfway done. i am looking for to presenting our case. >> they are charged with accepting more than 155 thousand dollars in gifts and loans from williams. they could face decades in prison if convicted. jeff goldberg is still in richmond and will have more on the testimony coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 5:00. the washington redskins are wrapping up training yesterday in richmond. this is the last session for fans this afternoon at 10:00. there will be a walk-through. they say that they are a little sore after landing on

from new york, a recently discovered photograph by a graduate student, a new graduate student at george mason university. this is a man whose feet became infected and his feet were literally cut off by scissors and later they had to use bone saws to solve the bones off, and along with this picture is an affidavit that he sent to the government about what happened to him. he was at andersonville. this is another person from andersonville, another soldier, this is actually the same guy being examined in a number of different ways. i will shut these off because i don't think we really want to be staring at them. but i think it is important to understand that when we think about the trial of henry wirz, we start with these images because what americans saw at the end of the war as the prisoners came back from the south, where horrors that seemed unbelievable. andersonville was the worst of the prison camps. approximately 45,000 u.s. soldiers were held at andersonville, approximately 45,000 of them -- died while they were held at andersonville. henry wirz was arrested and tried. while he was held

twenty four thousand arrests and here's the money quote from alex who's an economics professor at george mason you don't get three hundred twenty one dollars in fees and the rewards per household from a about average crime rate you get numbers like this from. like jaywalking that low level harassment involving traffic stops a court appearance and the threat of jail for failure to pay wow so john it looks like the background story for ferguson is really about a county or a city that is milking its residents like a cash machine i mean first of all it's got to be really bad if economists are using curse words to describe it really do that number one and i've heard that islam is crazy like thirty percent of the city of ferguson's revenue comes from just these scofflaw offenses if they're even that exact it's the number two revenue sources that's unbelievable that's unbelievable i mean it seems like it's just like instead of people being innocent till proven guilty it's just they're they're just guilty for living there and they're going to get caught and then they're going to just be essentially ro

george mason in one of his letters discusses slavery a bit. for most of the southerners. slavery was a fact. they didn't see it ending. what who have within really neat if i could have gotten letters from somebody like robert king carter who actually freed all of his slaved or edward coles. he comes along later. but jefferson writes him and jefferson says, it wouldn't be a good idea to free your slaves for a lot of different reasons. and he gets the idea that he needs to leave so he actually moves to what was then, the west. he becomes -- early governor of illinois. freeing the slaves acrossing the ohio river from slave territory and free territory. and i think that letter is beautiful. i think he really understands that slaves are human beings and they are entitled to every right that a human being has. every natural right. which, of course, here again in the declaration of independence, is pretty well specified. i think it was samuel johnson that said, the people, in england during the revolution. he said the people that yelled most about liberty are the ones that have

i think george mason in one of his letters discusses slavery a bit. but i think for most of the southerners slavery was a fact. they didn't see it ending. it would have been really neat if i could have gotten letters from somebody like robert king carter maybe who freed all of his slaves or edward coles along a little later. and coles is a neighbor and writes mr. jefferson i want to free my slaves and jefferson writes back ah it wouldn't be a really good idea to do that for a lot of different reasons and coles gets the idea he needs to leave. so he moves to what was then the west. he becomes in fact early governor of illinois but frees his slaves as they are acrossing the ohio river. so there were people that did it. and here again i think that letter of edward coles is beautiful because i think he really understands that slaves are human beings and they are entitled to every right that a human being has. every natural right. which of course here again in the declaration of independence is pretty well specified. it's funny -- and i think it was samuel

as george mason wrote in the declaration of rights, "religion is the tutey we owe to our creator." think of that, religion as duty. jefferson in the statute would speak about religion as "opinion." gain, most virginiaians -- virginians believed the government rested on the citizenry, so they had to be people of virtue. but virginians disagreed about how you foster that virtue. patrick henry would say, "religion and the church foster virtue." jefferson preferred education and the schoolhouse. then again, what was the state's role in all of this? a real contentious point was, individuals have rights rights. on this there was broad agreement. but did believers, believers that formed a church, did they have any corporate rights? did they have any legal status? what if they wanted to be ncorporated? and if they did, what was that church's relationship to the political community? so there are major issues at play here early on. shortly after the american revolution, the established church of england reorganized itself into the protestant and municipal church. the state incorporated it as

our third witness, an 11th grader at george mason high school in falls church, virginia. our final witness is in the 12th grade at eleanor roosevelt high school in greenbelt, maryland. our witnesses and no that spoken testimony is limited to five minutes after was the members of the committee will have five minutes east as questions. just money will be included in the record of the hearing. i now recognize our first witness, ms. ellana crew, for testimony. welcome. >> thank you, chairman and a high-ranking member and members of the committee. i am different than most of the other kids here for two reasons, one being and legally blind cannot fully blind but not fully cited, caught in the middle definitely has changed a lot and encourage lots of things for me just being a partner of f.i.r.s.t. i have never been able to play sports. an immediate target for dodge paul. they went out of their way to try. all is the first one out. games were hard. and lots of other activities were difficult. i first heard about f.i.r.s.t. through a friend of mine who was on the team. her sister

pardon me, as- george mason wrote in the virginia declaration of rights, religion was the duty we owe to our creator. think about that. religion as duty. jefferson in the statute would speak about religion as opinion. most virginians believed that to have a republican system of government, you had to have virtuous citizenry. rested on the citizenry. so, they had to be people of virtue. but virginians disagreed on how you foster that virtue. patrick henry would say religion and the church fostered virtue. jefferson preferred education and the schoolhouse. or then again, what was the state's role in all of this? a real contentious point was individuals have rights -- on this there was broad agreement. but did believers, believers who formed a church, did they have ? did theyate rights have any legal status? what if they wanted to be incorporated? [laughter] did, what was that church's relationship to the political community? so, there are many issues at play here. after the american revolution, the established church of england reorganized itself into the protestant episcopal church in

as one economist in george mason put it, for every job they create in the export industry we lose another job, every job at boeing, delta will tell you they are lose a job. and american taxpayers, help support deltacom petors, as xh helps a turkish oil refineo it hurts valero energy, i could go on. neil: europ european's airbus tt looks after its interest at expense of a boeing, what do you say? >> i know that. you know we could get into a tax payer subsidy race to the bottom. just because other taxpayers in europe or other industrializeed nations choose to somehow support or subsidize their export does not mean our taxpayers have to do the same thing, there are many ways we can level the playing feel, national association of manufacturer will tell you half of our competitive disadvantage comes from the fact that as you know, we have the highest single corporate tax rate, of the industryizeed world. if we are going to level the playing field, bring that down. according to u.s. chamber of commerce we have almost 2.5 times liability exposure, bottom line is we could make our businesses more

i got my phd from george mason university and made the transition into academia. i am now at george mason university running us them professional development program stem professional development program for teachers in virginia. difficult to find examples of philanthropists investing in defense research and development. as rich and dan have alluded, there are areas there have been investments and defense affairs, narrowly look to defense research and development. rich looked and started googling. i did that too. started drawing venn diagrams to see what would happen. overall research and development in the united states in overall defense budget, and then i could and overallropy various types of philanthropic activities. i could see the giving to defense in certain areas, especially nowadays with help to wounded warriors and things like and jim mentioned some things there. but then i found it hard to find examples when i got into research and development. of course, when you peel the onion back, as he just did, you find there are areas out there if you look at a

and western michigan university and george mason university in fairfax, virginia, and antioch college in yellow springs, ohio. universities across the country, college students across the country did this today as part of a hands up, don't shoot, college walkout on the day of michael brown's funeral in st. louis. one of the terrible material consequences for the family of not just the death of their son, but the means of their son's death, is that they were not able to bury him until now. until more than two weeks after he died. you'll recall that this young man's body laid on the street in ferguson for hours after he was shot two saturdays ago. then there was a first autopsy done by the county medical examiner, then there was a second autopsy done by experts hired by the family because they said they did not trust the local authorities with this, then there was a third autopsy done by the federal medical examiner, and i'm sure it has been the longest two weeks of his family's life. but today, at least finally, they laid him to rest. it was a closed casket. and now finally he's buried

. >>> katherine jacobsen works with george mason hospital, you have a connection with mercy hospital there in sierra leone and you are hearing from folks on the scene about their concerns and their fears about what's happening about the outbreak. >> at this point in time, most people living if guinea, sierra leone and liberia have some connection with patients. >> they may not have seen cases themselves but they know it's around them. >> we have not had cases in the city where my lab works but we have had cases nearby in the rural areas and a few times over is the epicenter for sierra leone outbreak. >> and folks there are telling you about the sprez of the spref the disease. we think about it in specific ways but you think funerals may be the biggest concern about the spread of the disease. >> what happens is people come from across the country to pay respects to their loved ones or their friends. people may come in being exposed to the virus and taking it with them. >> do you have a sense that this is coming closer to them, that it is inevitable? >> there is a bit of a sense that i

i think george mason in one of his letters discussed slavery a bit. but i think for most of the southerners, slavery was a fact. they didn't see it ending. it would have been neat if i could have gotten letters from somebody like robert king carter who freed all his slaves or edward kohls. he comes along a little later. jefferson writes him and coles says i want to free my slaves. jefferson says it wouldn't be a good idea to do that. for a lot of different reasons. and coles gets the idea he needs to leave. he actually moves to what was then the west. he becomes an early governor of illinois. but frees his slaves as they are crossing the ohio river from slave territory to free territory. there were people that did it. here again, i think that letter of edward coles is beautiful. i think he really understands that slaves are human beings. they are entitled to every right that a human being has. every natural right, which here again in the declaration of independence is well specified. during the revolution, he said the people that yelped most about lib

one of george mason in his letters discusses slavery a bit. i think for most of the southerners that slavery was the fact. they did not see it ending. it would have been really neat if i could've gotten some letters like robert king carter who freed his slaves or edward coles. he comes along later. but jefferson writes, coles is a neighbor. mr. jefferson, i want to free my slaves. and jefferson writes back, it would not be a good idea. coles gets an idea he needs to leave. he moves to the west. he becomes an early governor of illinois. but frees his slaves as they are crossing the ohio river. there were people that did it. here again, i think that letter of edward cole's is beautiful. he really understands that slaves are human beings and entitled to every right a human being has, every natural right, which in the declaration of independence is pretty well specified. it is funny. i think it was samuel johnson that said the people, in england during the revolution, the people most about liberty are the ones that have a width in the other hand a

he holds a bachelors and masters degree in economics and a phd in economics from george mason university. david burton focuses on tax matters, entitlements, and administrative law at the heritage foundation. he was a general counsel for the national small business association for two years prior to joining heritage. he was previously chief financial officer and financial counsel of a conservative alternative to the aarp. ike brannon is a fellow at the george w. bush institute. he is president of the consulting firm capital policy and analytics and former director of economic policy and economic relations for the american action forum. he served as an economist for the john mccain campaign in 2008 and he has a phd in economics from indiana university. i will turn it over to the policy guys. >> hello. remarks is going isbe explained to you -- it going to his bike to you how the international tax system works and dan and i will tell you -- you how to fix it. -- in states is the only the united states. there are a few smaller countries that do so. chile, israel, and south korea are the three

he is a graduate for george mason in diversity. now over to jim. i'm very pleased to be here and to have you all here as well as the c-span audience. we can do a lot to advance the ball on transparency in congress. the issues are very interesting. wikipedia editing for congressional staff. there is an aversion to editing wikipedia and a mistrust within the community for edits coming from congress. we can improve the information that is available to any american people about what happens here. i want to open by doing a brief history, the sort of modern history of the transparency issue and the work we have been doing at cato, before i turn it over to michelle and then jim. michelle obviously has the numbers to prove that she can make a talented and capable wikipedia and we want to make others as good as michelle at producing information for people together to get insight into what people are -- into what is happening inside congress. what is going on within transparency? i've been working on it longer. since 2000, i run a website called washingtonwa

researchers at george george mason university say the deduction has not helped middle class home ownershipch as people think. it's a tax break that costs the government about $70 billion a year that they say helps mostly higher income taxpayers to itemize their deductions and who would probably buy a house anyway. the authors found that two-thirds of the benefits go to house olds earning more than $100,000. researchers acknowledge the politics of all this would make it hard, will make it hard to eliminate the deduction because of the voter support for it generally and the lobbying by powerful housing groups. so the authors say that washington should at least consider replacing the deduction with an annual tax credit of $900 per homeowner. as a percentage of income, that could help many more lower and middle income homeowners. >> you'd have a fixed credit that would actually continue to help you stay in your home and afford your home year after year. and once i explain that to people, they say, oh, that's a better idea after all. >> reporter: of course, some supporters of the mortgage inter

i think george mason in one of his letters discussed slavery a bit. but i think for most of the southerners, slavery was a fact. they didn't see it ending. it would have been neat if i could have gotten letters from somebody like robert king carter who freed all his slaves or edward kohls. he comes along a little later. jefferson writes him and coles says i want to free my slaves. jefferson says it wouldn't be a good idea to do that. for a lot of different reasons. and coles gets the idea he needs to leave. he actually moves to what was then the west. he becomes an early governor of illinois. but frees his slaves as they are crossing the ohio river from slave territory to free territory. there were people that did it. here again, i think that letter of edward coles is beautiful. i think he really understands that slaves are human beings. they are entitled to every right that a human being has. every natural right, which here again in the declaration of independence is well specified. during the revolution, he said the people that yelped most about lib

it's not far from the george washington masonic temple. people are still experiencing water issues. the problem started around 6:00 last night when crews shut off water to about 180 people. water service was expected to be restored today. it's taking so long, though, because crews had a difficult time locating the source of that water maiea >>> across the river in prince george's county, a boil water order remains in effect for the southern pa of the county. wssc says it's taking longer to finish testing water samples to make sure that it's good to use. flooding is hampering repairs to a water main break impacting that area. 10,000 customers are advised to boil water for about a minute before using it. if you aren't sure if you're affected by this advisory, we put a map of the affected area on nbcwashington.com. >>> and turning to the weather, wow, was a chilly start to the morning out there. nice afternoon, though, coming. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein joi us with his first midday foreca for this thursday. tom. >> yeah, a touch of autumn in august this morning. and now it'

. >>> service is restored following water main break in alexandria in an area near the george wainon masonic temple. crews h e finding the source of the leak. today all activities were cancelled ou service is restored officials told us minutes ago that russell road will remain closed until about 5:00. >>> a former church youth leader in montryn will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for abusing young boys. he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. morales worked with kids at the covenant life church in the '80s and '90s. he was convicted of sexually abusing four boys during at-home sleepovers one of the boys was just 11 years old. prosecutoe us he used his position t trust of the parents. >>> a popul restaurant is being investigated for under aged drinking violations. police say they observed the violationso between 10:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. they found seven people with fake i.d.s there. five under age people were found to have been drinking. police arrested five for dui. people who say they had been drinking clyde's and people investigath restaurant after getting complaints. >>> pros

he works at george mason and is graduatese. of the he is the coeditor of american volumeand another edited , "why did the united states invade iraq?" he was associate professor at the university of michigan dearborn, where he directed master of public policy and master of public administration programs. he received his phd from m.i.t. normally, we have a lot of university of chicago, m.i.t., conspiracy. today, it seems like we have a michigan, m.i.t. overlap, with john being up the chicago deal to some extent. with the introduction of the speakers, i will turn things over to john mueller. much.nk you very it is nice to be here. i will change the order of things i'm talking about. i did not realize i was going to be going first. like to put i would on the table, essentially, that fit into this. sortirst one, basically, of sets the overall image. states has fought four worse come along, ground wars, since world war ii. it is possible to well compare the degree to which the wars have been supported. the same poll question, you thi