harper: mr. speaker, may i inquire from the gentlelady from california if she has any other speakers on this matter? the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlelady from any other speakers mrs. davis: apparentlyly not. we did have a few speakers but they may have been delayed. mr. harper: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california. mrs. davis: mr. speaker, i yield back as well and certainly urge an aye vote. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to senate concurrent resolution 2, so many as are in favor say aye. . the rules are suspended, the concurrent resolution is agreed to, and the speaker pro tempore: the current motion is agreed to and without objection, theres. lution -- the motion is laid upon the table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> i move to -- the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: house resolution 292, to stop the printing

. >> lesley harper got married in 1941. by 1954, they were divorced. they got back in touch in 2004. back at christmas, -- popped the question the second time. >> wihen les harper and elsie ddunn got married, they thought it was forever. then they divorced. then it was forever. they got married to each other for the second time. >> he said he had an idea. he said, let's get married. that was it. i walked around the -- [laughter] >> he is an old romantic at heart, is he. >> c'mon, let's get married. >> so they did just that. supported by the same young lady who was there bridesmaid it 70 years ago. >> it has been quite a shock. it has been delightful that they got together again. >> when they divorced in 1954 after 13 years together, the oscar-winning actress audrey hepburn married -- roger bannister ran the first recorded mile in less than four minutes. >> are you going to go somewhere? >> no, no, but i will take you with me. >> for the second time in their life they are having their honeymoon as the happy couple. >> even the most cynical among you are

in our rich harper's were considered the best among european musicians before their music was superseded by church music alike and beat home and so i realised i didn't know anything about celtic music and i thought it would help me to learn about it then again i felt like we didn't have enough of that type of music in russia so i decided to play the music i felt will act and the celtic culture is quite popular in russia isn't it the same patrick's day as though with the national holiday of course a lot of people say that celtic music is very reminiscent of ethnic russian songs do you think that's true i think that's my point it's a lot like the russian ethnic songs of all the singing is korsakoff simplified russian ethnic music in the nineteenth century by releasing eckel action of the two hundred. most popular ethnic songs he simplified down the old music that still leaves on in russia in the r. hunger screeching for example he's passed on from generation to generation that music sounds a lot like the celtic tunes of old in orthodox priest once showed me in an old russian troops the hea

harper, thank you so much for joining us.> in our private life, that is what we do. >> one conversation with the prime minister continues. >> we now return to conversation with the prime minister. >> i'm originally from canada, but i have lived a lot of time in the united states, and i want to know why canadians stock up to the united states so much and in general have a lot of resentment towards them. is this a big contradiction. >> yes, that is the age-old contradiction, probably inexplicable because we have been talking about for so long, but you and americans are developing a new vision for the border. it is called the continental security perimeter. the title. what exactly does that mean? >> first of all, if i could maybe respond to the question or the comment. i know there is always an ambivalence in our relationship. i have to tell for leaders that the americans are our best friends, whether we like it or not. i do not actually think that is the way canadians actually think. i think most canadians understand that the u

and he was editor-in-chief of harper's magazine from 2006 to 2010 he joined the staff of harper's in 1996 treated the magazine's column as well as on my weekly review. and with the national magazine finalist for criticism in 2006. so i thought to kick us off i might just read two very different opening sections of your book. so jonathan contador book came out first. you see barack obama's political fate in 2009 turned of a paradox that comes not from politics but the world of philosophy and physics. what happens when an irresistible force meets an invisible object read the irresistible force seeing obama and the invisible object of washington and you say he put more dance in that object than any president since ronald reagan and it's proof you offer he presented the second great depression, had the first major reform of health care since medicare in 1965 and had five major pieces of legislation all wrapped in one package around the recovery act and roger you quite disagree. you see as president with a few exceptions obama has changed the wallpaper and rearrange the furniture in the w

until the 1950s he went to harper high.it was the only high school. i could list a number of people who have gone to harper which is quite illustrious. when my father went to harper all of the teachers, all of them, every single one of them had masters degrees because they couldn't work anywhere else, so they went into teaching. that is a bad thing that they couldn't work anywhere else but imagine the kind of education you would get in that kind of environment. there was this sort of underside to integration that we don't always talk about that i had to face in very painful ways in writing this book and something that really makes me quite sad. >> thank you. we have run out of time. [applause] >> i want to thank you for coming and sharing this hour with isabel and michelle and me. thank you. they will be signing books in about 15 minutes in the authors tent which is on the other side of this. here is a portion of one of our programs. >> hello, everybody. i thank the host for the gracious hospitality. [inaudible] i am honore

he was editor in chief of "harper's magazine" from 2006 to 2010. he joined the staff of harper's in 1996, created the magazine column as well as online weekly review and was national magazine finalist for criticism in 2006. but back to kick us off i may just read two very different opening sections of your book. for jonathan, your book came out first. can you say, barack obama's political fate in 2009 turned out it. ask the comes not from politics, but from the world of philosophy and physics. what happens when an irresistible force meets an alienable object. irresistible force being obama and the immovable object, official washington. you say he put more dense and not immovable object since reagan and is proof you say he prevented the both accurate great depression in the first major form of health care since medicare 1965 and also had five major pieces of legislation sort of all wrapped in one package around the recovery act. and roger, you quite disagree. you see as president with few exceptions, obama has merely changed the wallpaper and rearra

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we saw we had miss harper, a fellow architect, so that is wonderful. she was applying for the architect seat. jane is the founding member of her architecture firm, and she is a founding director of planned san francisco, which is a community-based organization that helps promote permeable landscaping, and she has done a fine job in san francisco promoting that. we said jane wanted to be on the board of examiners, so we put her there. next, we looked back henry, who applied for the access of appeals commission for the contractor seat, and henry is the contractor and has been a contractor since the 1970's. we put henry to the access appeal commission, and everybody else that was an incumbent to the other seeds, we decided to leave them there. i think there was only one other open seat, and he was president of the commission at that time. finally, we went down to the code advisory committee and learned that there was now an opening for the residential builders seek and residential contract seat and a major contractor seat, so we look at the two applicants

a in late 1970s at ohio state university and was in the library looking to hardcopy papers of the harpers weekly. and i came across a full-page obituary of this general, he looked like a kid, with his glowing headlines in these contributions. it was hard to fathom or believes. i mean, it was incredible. and since i didn't really know much about him or her much about him at that point i started looking for something authoritative work is that i could rely on for a biography. and since 1979 can actually implement that came out a few months ago i could never find anything. so i took it upon myself to do this. i did a dissertation at kansas state university in the mid-80s with this and then i used to work as an army historian and i was working at the pentagon and about 10 years ago i had extra time in my hands and i said i'm going to guess this off and try to get back into it and fix it up. and so there we are. here we are 10 years later with additional research. yes. >> what made his -- was it translates having read it, is a pretty good work, pretty good thinking? >> unless you want to read

. >> when you lookack at your own career, you had "commentary" and you had "harper's." for how long? >> for five years. >> what else did you do in the professional world? >> well, very brief time i was at "the saturday review." that was not -- >> norman cause snns >> yes. and i like him. he's a very nice man and we got along, but we couldn't work together. we are just too far apart on everytng. and i was supposed to be his managing editor, you know. so it didn't work. >> he is very liberal -- >> yes, yes, he is. and he was a big environmentalistnd i thought it was a lot of nonsense. and so we just didn't see eye to eye. it was a silly thing for me to do to take that job and it was silly for him to hire me and we both understood that quickly. so we parted amicably. and then i went to work as a book publisher. >> where? >> at basic books. >> how did you get along there? >> oh, i got along fine, except that i made myself an apprentice in middle age. i was suddenly an apprentice again. show to start all over again like a big dumb beginner, which i found kind of uncomfortabl

when i was a graduate student ie university, i was in library looking for hard copy papers of harper'sweekly. and i came across a full-page obituary of the children he look like a kid. with his glowing headlines of these contributions but it was hard to fathom or belief mean, . and since i didn't know much about him or had heard much about them at the pointers are looking for something some authoritative or for good i could reliably biography. and until my book came out a few months ago i could are finding. i took upon myself to do this. i did a dissertation at kansas state university in the mid '80s with this. in his work as an army historian in army center, is working a an. and so there we are. but here we are 10 years later with additional research. >> what made his, "the valour of ignorance" to is a pretty good thinking? >> there's nothing else like it to compare to. unless you want to read a book in progressive modern american military officer, you are thirsting for professional education. you are thirsting to read things that can help challenge you in your craft. this is it. i me

you know, harper, for instance, which is new all showbiz boyography. >> and our book about the financial crisis. [laughter] >> congratulations of getting through. [laughter] >> but, you know, you look at 1950s, '60s, those catalogs look like university press catalogs, and very good university press catalogs. you know, they were publishing this like the ones we mentioned. you know, the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, there was a huge cascade of political stuff from everybody. things changed enormously and that's my argument when corporate takeover changed the ownership. but in those days, i mean if you look at what -- what publishing was about, not just in the u.s., but everywhere else, it was very open. you know, you had a huge amount of stuff coming out in the postmccarthy years, '60s, you know, it's interesting to look and say was '68 the cause of the book, or caused by the book? and a lot of the books that were influential came out before '68. >> what starts happening in the '80s? not like you are getting calls not to publish certain books; right? >> well, you know, when large

cal up three, and harper can. clutch, baseline hook. the bears hang on in tempe, 65-61 the final. >> in women's play, stanford is perfect in pac-10, and with jim harbaugh gone, stanford is searching for theirs next head coach. david shaw and greg roman or inhouse candidates, and chris peterson who played at unc davis is in the hunt. in college football, three bowl games left. kentucky back to punt. it's blocked. pan third recover inside the 10. leads to a touchdown and the 13-3 pitt lead at the half. third quarter. more from the panthers. comes down with it. 13 yards on the score, and pitt cages the wildcats. >> third round play at the tournament of champions in maui. mat -- matt kuchar, rolls to within a few feet. a 7-under 66 today, 14-under. steve stricker, making a charge today as well. on the par-3 8th for birdie. got it. stricker is currently 7-under through 16 holes, and 17-under for the tournament. shares the lead with jonathan byrd. 17-under through 15 holes. >>> colts and jets. sharks and predators, usf and st. mary's at 11:00

the pakistani border, about 110 kilometers east of canada are pre -- 110 kilometers east of canned harper it. at least 20 were injured in the attack and taken to local hospitals. the blast happened as the bath house was packed with people getting ready for friday prayers. most of the dead and wounded are believed to be civilians. the taliban says they carry out the attached -- the taliban says they carry out the attack. the town is situated 70 miles east of kandahar and has long been a taliban stronghold. afghan security institutions have been targeted recently in a wave of attacks on the country's army and police who will eventually take over security responsibilities from international forces. today's suicide attack has been condemned by the afghan president hamid karzai. an extra battalion of u.s. marines has been deployed to the region. >>> hundreds of afghans have demonstrated outside of the iranian embassy in protest of iran's blocking of thousands of fuel trucks at the border. since the official ban two weeks ago, domestic fuel prices and afghanistan have soared by as much as 70%.

[applause] >> you roger hodge is a former editor-in-chief of "harper's magazine." for more information visit his web site, r hodge.wordpress.com. >> up next june breton fisher granddaughter of henry goldman co-founder of henry sachs talks about mr. goldman's life, the ration of the investment firm and founding of wall street. ms. fisher spoke at the beverly hills hotel in california. this is just under a half hour. >> thank you very much, vinyl and thank you all for joining me today. my name is june breton fisher as she just told you, but i once was june goldman and i am the granddaughter of henry goldman. if you were expecting to hear a see all, tell tell-all about how goldman sachs makes all that money and until recently appeared to keep its hands clean, i am afraid you will be disappointed. maya book, "when money was in fashion," which i have somewhere here, was recently published by palgrave macmillan. it is a biography and memoirs my grandfather who was the son of the founder, marcus, and a farmer from the chinese village in bavaria who came to the states in a

and you look at them in retrospect and harper, for instance, which is now all show biz biographies and right-wing propaganda -- >> and our book about the financial crisis. [laughter] >> congratulations. but, you know, you look at 1950s, '60s, those kind of books look like university press catalogs and very good university press catalogs. i mean, they were publishing lists, you know, like the ones e we mentioned. and, you know, with the civil rights movement, with the vietnam war there was a huge, huge cascade of political stuff from everybody. things changed enormously, and that's my argument, when the takeover changed ownership. but in those days if you look at what publishing was about not just in the u.s., but everywhere else, it was very open. and, you know, you had a huge amount of stuff coming out in the post-mccarthy years, in the '60s. you know, it's interesting to look and say, you know, was '68 because of all these books or was it caused by the books? and a lot of the books that were influential came out before '68. >> and so i just want to talk specifically, so what starts h

harper kemp spins into the lane and banks in two of his 19 points to give dolla six-point lead.nce for the trojans, geo fontaine takes the handoff. his three is short. that's your ball game. bears hang on for the big road win 68-66. >>> get some facts and come back and see me. >> thank you jim kellen, stanford is 10-7 but struggled on the road going 2-6 away from mains. cardinal are averaging 68 points a game in pac-10 play. >>> stanford had ucla scratching their heads, anthony brown's jumper gives the cardinal a 22-8 lead. 10 points for brown, but stanford would only lead by 1 at the half. and the bruins took control in the second half, lazarus jones gets into the lane for the hoop and the foul. ucla beats stanford 68-57. it's the third straight loss for the cardinal. gonzaga for >> my best advice to you? >> yes? >> shut up. >> santa clara is 12-9. they beat gonzaga the first time thursday night. the broncos are led by sophomore guard kevin foster who is averaging 19 points per game. . kevin foster i don't think the party ever stops at the levy center after santa clara beat gon

harper camp was the man for the bears down the stretch. camp muscled them in and had 19 in all.al got a split in its 2 games. both teams 3-4 in conference play. >>> stanford trying not to get swept in california. the cardinals scored the first eight points of the game, stanford stretched their lead out to 10. owens in the right place, at one point the cardinals were up by 14. and stanford went to the locker room and up by one. somebody sleeping under the hoop as jones finds stover on 18 bound pass and they drive the lane and bruins out to stanford by 12 in the second half and win 68-57, the cardinal goes 0-7, and 3-4 in conference lay. >>> saint marys took 22 ranking to play vanderbilt. they came in and they left on the wrong end of an 89-80. score 17-3. walters trying to pin a loss. the dons by three, gonzaga, tied it up in a three and 86 all. mickey williams went glass, goes foul and made the three- point play. gonzaga not going anywhere. dlin fouled and back up with a win. dons 4-1. >>> santa clara knocked off the bull dogs and they hosted portland. they took a 9-point lead a

and harper asked and bush said you've got it.o, the truth is on the border delete and on the continental security, have the debate in canada, and if this is the thing you want from the united states -- if you can stand a sa iss our nbeonprri, th iwht wto coabatone s. and the apparatus of the government wants to help you got to have one priority and you have to speak with a single voice on it. >> this is exactly rh this by exact rht abo thway in whichheo s manad. the ailtoreve these kind of things, but you're also right, peter, that the united states on security is going to ask regardless, and i think one of the great disconnects has come from political leadership in canada that has been unwilling to be direct with the canadian people about the national interest. when the pimer was pod by gor. ushit m ns for americs why? we underestimated for decades. the canada u.s. border looks like it did in the 1950's. it was beaten up was undetaed. we moved onehird othe personal tthe sotherborder to nticate ftan we didn'treplace th unil 20. w

me to discuss it is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us tell me first when you think happened here i mean there was all this pressure right from the pentagon pressure from congress we thought that they were going to make the regulations more strict and then come december twenty ninth they loosened them talk about a one hundred. well i'd say grandfather frost arrived on the scene with a nice big present for raytheon and now a bird that's what we have of the day if you read through the regulation that finally came out of the pentagon and it looks like something that a major defense contractor would have written it not only does not have stringent new rules it goes so far as to say that you know if in the event he does have a serious conflict it must be allowed to a million or eat it in some way build a chinese wall or an anti conflict wall or something of this sort so you know i think it's certainly not the case that all depends contractors were against this idea of conflict of interest were you.

fact loosened them can anybody else explain the point of this i'm going to call scott horton of harper's magazine to talk about the changes at the end of the show but now let's move on to the night's top story. mark twain's the adventures of huckleberry finn is the fourth most banned book in the united states so now comes news that one english professor auburn university in montgomery alan greenblatt approached publishers with the idea of changing the literary work to make it more reader friendly the n. word will be replaced by slave the word engine over placed by indian parents teachers anyone else out there who's trying to protect the nation's children from offensive words they don't like the two hundred nineteen times of the n word was used in this book despite its historical context the social commentary that it provides and critics are now. now foaming at the mouth they're calling it censorship the destruction of a literary masterpiece but is this just another sign that political correctness in this country is going too far or if not even political correctness than perhaps simply a

[applause] >> roger hodge is the former editor-in-chief of harper's magazine. for more information visit his web site. >> next, texas governor rick perry talks about the power of the federal government and offers that of the problems currently being managed by washington would be better handled by individual states. governor perry present his argument -- presents his argument at the heritage foundation in washington d.c. >> you're welcome. good morning, welcome to the heritage foundation. i'm pleased to welcome you to our auditorium. for those in house, we would appreciate that last check that cell phones have been turned off as a courtesy to our speaker. hosting our event this morning is becky dunlop who serves as vice president for external relations here at heritage. prior to that she had served as a cabinet officer for governor george allen as well as governor of cabinet affairs for former president ronald reagan as well as service for ed meese at the department of justice and don hoe dell at the can't of the -- at the department of ther into on. please joi

you heard jack harper trying to blame the sheriff, you heard al melvin saying the sheriff doesn't know what he's talking about. where are we going to go with this? what's the end result? >> i'm not terribly optimistic. because the vitriol we've seen coming from the right wing extremists in the republican party has continued on unabated for several years now. i'm not optimistic that that will stop. i just can't see people like rush limbaugh and people like sarah palin and glen beck ever toning down their rhetoric. the only way it will happen is if the viewers and listeners quit viewing and listening to these programs. that's the only way that this will end, is if the viewers and listeners say, i've had enough of this, this is poisonous, and i won't listen to it again. >> media has reacted, clear channel who of course airs the are rush limbaugh show, has taken down their bill boards calling rush limbaugh a straight shooter. they're becoming sensitive to this as well. those bill boards are coming down all over town. >> i hope so. i'm not taking my shirts and dry cleaning to sparkle cleane

. >> reporter: 600 students poured into the harper school gym this morning. do you know what you are coming here for? >> no idea. >> reporter: turns out the entire student body had a rally because of the 40 nationwide in intel's science talent search. two were in this crowd. applause ] >> all of my friends are going crazy. all of my friend's parents were and it was just amazing. haven't had an experience like this before. >> reporter: this 17-year-old finalist researched the productivity of solar cells. nicholas studied the structures of distant galaxies. >> we don't know much about them so my research was trying to characterize these galaxies and if they are similar or different than the ones we see right around us. >> reporter: the other finalists are. >> this is the first year that california has had more finalists in this competition than new york seven. they have got 11, we have got seven. >> american students lacked the science and technology skills needed to excel. parker, a private school, says it was one focus. >> i think the thing to remember is at

when john brown was awaiting execution after the raid at harpers ferry, he was allowed to possess a teamderlined his favorite passages. one of them was come from the book of ezekiel, "make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes." and then on the morning he was hanging, john brown handed a piece of paper to the dealer and is it all right, john brown, am convinced more than ever that the crimes of this bloody land can only be purged by blood. and then when can help me think of the title, too because we think of lincoln's second inaugural was seeking peace and brotherhood and reconciliation. but there is a very dark passage in lincoln's second inaugural it's completely forgotten. and lincoln says he essentially that if all the blood drawn by 250 years of slavery and the slave masters with, it has to be repaid by blood drawn by the sword, let it be so. and so lincoln's discussion of blood and the engines and john brown's prophecy that there is blood to come really gave me the idea of the title for the book. ..

and harper asked and bush said you've got it. so, the truth is on the border delete and on the continental security, have the debate in canada, and if this is the thing you want from the united states -- if you can stand up and say this is our number one priority, this is what we want to collaborate on, the u. and the apparatus of the government wants to help you got to have one priority and you have to speak with a single voice on it. >> this is exactly right. this body is exactly right about the way in which the process is managed. there is a will to resolve these kind of things, but you're also ght, peter, that the united states on security is going to ask regardless,nd i think one of the great disconnects has come from political leadership in canada that has been unwilling to be direct with the canadian people about the national interest. when the perimeter was proposed by george w. bush it made sense for americans why? we underestimated for decades. the canada u.s. border looks like it did in the 1950's. it was beaten up, it

and harper asked and bush said you've got it.so, the truth is on the border delete and on the continental security, have the debate in canada, and if this is the thing you want from the united states -- if you can stand up and say this is our number one priority, this is what we want to collaborate on, the u.s. and the apparatus of the government wants to help you got to have one priority and you have to speak with a single voice on it. >> this is exactly right. this body is exactly right about the way in which the process is managed. there is a will to resolve these kind of things, but you're also right, peter, that the united states on security is going to ask regardless, and i think one of the great disconnects has come from political leadership in canada that has been unwilling to be direct with the canadian people about the national interest. when the perimeter was proposed by george w. bush it made sense for americans why? we underestimated for decades. the canada u.s. border looks like it did in the 1950's. it was beaten u

. >> joe harper is 82 and has leukemia and diabetes and his legs hurt. hoochly is no victim. joe said he saw two guys putting his generator into their truck outside of his house in delaware. the korean war veteran took action. he got out the gun and shot one of the tires as the men tried to speed away and held them at gunpoint until police arrived. >> they had the idea of jumping me, see? that would be the biggest mistake they ever made. >> delaware state police encouraged people not to take the law into their hands brk you said he would do the same all over again. >> i bet he would. 5:26 and both bay area football teams looking forra i new head coach and could be fighting for the same man. who is the on the raiders and the niners list. >> a bay area county said doing yard work on the weekends could be a thing of the past. we will tell you about a new law. >> the fed is stepping in and they are trying to stop an explegz. it's goiry.af p across the country 3q while there are some home disasters you can't avoid, there is one you can. septic system breakdow

. >> reporter: 600 students poured into the harper school gym this morning. do you know what you are coming here for? >> no idea. >> reporter: turns out the entire student body had a rally because of the 40 nationwide in intel's science talent search. two were in this crowd. [ applause ] >> all of my friends are going crazy. all of my friend's parents were and it was just amazing. haven't had an experience like this before. >> reporter: this 17-year-old finalist researched the productivity of solar cells. nicholas studied the structures of distant galaxies. >> we don't know much about them so my research was trying to characterize these galaxies and if they are similar or different than the ones we see right around us. >> reporter: the other finalists are. >> this is the first year that california has had more finalists in this competition than new york seven. they have got 11, we have got seven. >> american students lacked the science and technology skills needed to excel. parker, a private school, says it was one focus. >> i think the thing to remember is a

during the next 60 minutes my colleague and i will be chatting with the right honorable steven harpere had in 2010 and what we might look forward to in 2011. and you might notice we're in slightly more casual mode this year because we've moved north of ottawa to harrington lake, the country retreat. it's a beautiful place all times of the year, but especially here at christmas with the candles in the windowst, the fire places glowing inside, decorations all around. and this is a special occasion for us because later in the broadcast we will be joined by mrs. harper, the wife of the prime minister, and this is her first time, her first conversation ever on television. so prime minister, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me again. >> now, jobs and the economy top of the agenda as always. we seem to be coming out of the recovery. is there a danger of a double dip. where are we? >> we've tried to be very straight with the canadian people throughout all of this. there is a global recovery. that remains extremely fragile. as you know, we chaired the g-20 summit earlier this yea

i think that -- you know, it was a couple -- a year ago or so that bob miller who was at harper studio at the time talked about doing more of this. i think we are going to be seeing a lot more of this in the future. i'm looking forward to it. books can be heavy. yet, i still like reading a physical book too. >> host: well, two very heavy books that came out by two historians. edmond entitled "colonel roosevelt" and simon winchester his most recent historical book "atlantic" great see battles, and a vast ocean of 1 million stories. christina in bloomberg, new jersey, our on the air. go ahead. >> caller: hi, how are you? >> guest: good. >> caller: good. good. i was admiring jennifer. she's so pretty. this has to do with books. i was -- i just read almost 600 panels in oh the last two weeks. a week and a half. and i'm like really high on the power of books. i think that, you know, it's a form of entertainment. you know, it's -- i like tv. but this is even better. because it ties tv to books, you know? >> host: christina, what book are you currently reading? >> caller: eckard tolle. two bo

second half, harper camp had 19 points. he scored 10 of those late in the game.ears squeaked by the trojans, winning 68-66. >>> baseball. willie mays and giants' catcher buster posey were in new york showing off their world series hardware at the hilton in midtown. many fans came to celebrate, some who remember when the giants left the big apple back in 1957. mays and giant' management were also on hand to celebrate posey's nl rookie of the year award. hard to believe that spring training's going to start here in just a couple weeks. i'm christine nubla, that's it for sports. have a wonderful day, everybody. >>> usually when big games are on the line, it is tradition for local lawmakers to wager friendly bets with one another. usually something like sending over local food or wearing the other team's merchandise. but when it comes to the afc championship between the new york jets and the pittsburgh steelers, that friendly bet is getting serious if new york city mayor michael bloomberg loses he'll have to put a steeler terrible towel on the city's landmark. if pit

harper mentioned vigilance as part of the protecting airlines or air plans.i was wondering what panel fault of the idea of allowing select passengers to carry guns as a way of defending then. >> there was an ad on tv other day for it was a football and and all the guys that have super bowl rings were allowed to go right through security and all the guys that don't have to go through the machines and what not and i think was jimmy johnson, he had a machete with him and the security guard was like well, go on. if i knew everybody on the plane if i knew him well enough i would be all right with whatever weapon on the plane. myself, my risk assessment is probably not to be on the same plan with strangers who have guns that can do that much damage. >> everybody should be about to make their own risk assessment and frankly airlines should be able to advertise the risk assessment that they make and to plan and get it wrong. i would much rather be debating what single policy the government should have for all of us. i would much rather have airline security be disbur

. >> host: and the publisher of this book is harper collins, that is my publisher, too i should mention. who's your editor? can you say a word or two since editors don't get talked about enough on the radio or tv? >> guest: i would tell you this. i think the great genius of a good editor like adams is the ability to take an idea and helped craft it to suit both of the current environment as well as healing as closely as possible to the underlying intellectual trends driving it and adam helped us do that immeasurably and i think we have a much better book as a result. >> guest: there were two things that happened in this. we met at a wendy's to start talking about it and have all these ideas. >> host: you had worked together before? >> guest: we had been on tv before. we started this idea and when adams came, he was very nice about the way he did it but he reorganized our thoughts and put together in a much more compelling way. >> guest: and i would say i don't know if you have collaborated with anybody on a book. we i think cooperative and cover it in a seamlessly. the only thing i have

in a piece in "harper's" where he talks about exactly the kinds of folks who... whom i think we sigh more and more of now who believe that every crisis is existential, there is room for compromise because everything is apocalyptic. that was off steder's word so that politics is not the madisonian working out of difference, it's a struggle between good and evil. and i am good and you are evil and so therefore-- and this may be where the daylight is between me and ezra-- the distinction is how do you refact that climate? do you demonize and do you then take a step? to do you create a climate in which steps then go to violence become more likely? >> rose: or do you move towards some more... whatever means possible, civilized discourse for the lack of a better word? >> i think the civilized discourse is something that isn't cool to talk about. it's cool this week. and i think we should make a resolution. you know, there's a line in tom sawyer who talks about a prewhich you a who came through town who was so good that even huck finn was saved until tuesday. >> rose: (

this was repeated on abc and kennedy went in with harper and roe, with his publisher and with clark clifford who was then his attorney and they went in to abc and showed them kennedy's handwriten notes. now, this was enough to convince them that kennedy had had at least some input into the book. what do you think? i think that the general -- you know, the consensus is that kennedy contributed a lot as he did to his inaugural address to the prologue and to the conclusion and that the actual profiles of the different senators was largely probably sorensen's work or somebody else's. but this episode taught kennedy the importance of handwritten notes. and this is why i believe that he does this very bizarre thing on the 17th of january when he's flying back to washington, having already worked on the speech for a week and having a draft already typed up, he calls hugh sidey from times magazine into his compartment and he say, hugh, gee, i'm having trouble, you know, with the inaugural address. and he sits there and scribbles seven pages in his handwriting of stuff -- and he dates it january 17.

in our next segment, we are going to be joined by laureen harper. stay with us a. >> when we return -- >> it is hard to keep secrets in this town. >> we now return to "conversation with the prime minister." ♪ [applause] >> future generations must never forget the heroism of our ancestors. we know all about the sacrifice it takes to have a family member in politics. >> mrs. harper, thank you so much for joining us. what a pleasure to have you here. you have been right up front with your charities and causes this year. how do you choose which charities you want to support? >> a lot of it is random, people i meet, people i talked to. for instance, last year i was at a ranch in alberta and i were shown a beautiful letter from the mother of a soldier. a group people in the region together and make blankets for soldiers when they are injured, basically right on the battlefield almost. this soldier loved his blanket. don't put their name on it. they just send them off and hope they are given. this mother wrote a letter and found out from a tag that was sew

you heard jack harper trying to blame the sheriff, you heard al melvin saying the sheriff doesn't knowhat he's talking about. where are we going to go with this? what's the end result? >> i'm not terribly optimistic. because the vitriol we've seen coming from the right wing extremists in the republican party has continued on unabated for several years now. i'm not optimistic that that will stop. i just can't see people like rush limbaugh and people like sarah palin and glen beck ever toning down their rhetoric. the only way it will happen is if the viewers and listeners quit viewing and listening to these programs. that's the only way that this will end, is if the viewers and listeners say, i've had enough of this, this is poisonous, and i won't listen to it again. >> media has reacted, clear channel who of course airs the are rush limbaugh show, has taken down their bill boards calling rush limbaugh a straight shooter. they're becoming sensitive to this as well. those bill boards are coming down all over town. >> i hope so. i'm not taking my shirts and dry cleaning to sparkle cleaners

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