for more we're joined by professor horace campbell from syracuse university. new book is called, "global nato and the catastrophic failure in libya." horace campbell he recently wrote an article for counterpunch called, "the imperial tour: militarism and plunder." context forgive obama's trip to africa. for faster, welcome back to democracy now! talk about the significance. it is president obama's second trip since becoming president. >> thank you for allowing us to speak about this moment when we are all praying for the health and well-being of president mandela. this tour by barack obama comes as the most inopportune moment for the people of africa because this is diverting attention at the moment when we wanted to focus our energies on supporting the health and well- being of mandela. secondly, the obama trip to africa does not bring anything to the african people. in your segment in discussing the immigration in this country, we heard from our brothers and sisters about the militarization of the border reedit obama has gone to africa with those publicly de

going back to the liberal level joining me tonight heather sermon and horace cooper let's get back to it in a speech at georgetown university yesterday president obama laid out his plan for fighting global climate change using executive authority reminding his audience that now is the time to act the most important part of the president's plan are to direct the e.p.a. to institute new carbon standards for power plants by twenty fifteen two years hence and setting new goals for efficiency in buildings and vehicles as well as setting new targets for renewable energy production other parts of the plan include goals for increased renew.

horace holmes, abc 7 news. frankight, the body of lautenberg will be returned to the city. burial is planned for friday. a shocking murder in adams morgan calls for changes to gaps in the district. this weather we have had the last couple of days is about to end. how i tropical storm could have an impact on the weekend. >> major league baseball is rocked by a latest scandal. the nationals look for the mets. stephen strasburg will have to watc >> bill clinton joined the attorney general and others today in honoring slain civil rights leader's. the attorney general eric holder says evert help lay the foundation for the civil rights movement. a world war ii veteran was killed by a white supremacist in 1963. , less than 40 hours after he cap driver was was killed, members of a d.c. conference want to talk about the safety of the city's taxi system. discussion about the installation of a panic button to protect passengers, as well as drivers. it is a subject that has, before. >> it is a dangerous job. can the government say how we make this less dangerous? was shot andivers kill

years old, a current student at mission high school, and a former student in the lyric initiative at horace mend middle school. throughout my time in this initiative i got to see the change of my school within my. before this initiative i used to think that being gay and being gender queer was a sin, a sickness, i did not want to live like this. thanks to the school-based initiative i finally accepted myself and embraced who i was. before lyric seminar, my school was a gay--- utopia. the word "faggot" was thrown around it was an unsafe space. after the school-based initiative and after a pride seminar that we had at the school i saw a huge change in the school. i managed to come out in the middle of the assembly the whole school, and i was expecting a horrible reaction from everyone. but it was the most loving and respectful time. it was an amazing experience. if it wasn't for lyric, the school-based seminar, i don't know what would've happened to me. (applause) >> moderator: thank you roxie for representing. lorena larosa from carece. >> good morning, buenos dias. good morning, buenos dias

horace greeley said, the question is not whether lincoln shall be elected in the fall. we shall not nominate him in june. on his left-wing john c. fremont said he has abandoned the cause for emancipation and is not promoting the interests of blacks. he is and ignoring his. on his right george mcclellan, seven democrats -- democrat was saying, i will have a negotiated peace. we have lost 250, 300,000 people for what? we will have a status of -- we will go back to the status before the war, let the south either join the union with slavery or be autonomous on its own. and it looked like it was almost impossible. if you were to look at the newspapers of the time, new york, chicago, you could not find hardly anyone who supported lincoln. horace greeley, as i said, became his -- at one point had become his greatest supporter and intended to his greatest critic. when grant said, i intend to fight it out here all summer people said, oh, my god, he really means it in the sense that he was destroying the army of the potomac. they both went out in may. grant slowly wound down his

tonight's long liberal rumble our other sermon conservative strategist who is going solutions and horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research randi thanks thank you both for joining me tonight so before we get into talking about the whole supreme court decision about gay marriage it altogether things i want to first point out something interesting in in justice scalia's dissent in citizens united v windsor here's the first paragraph of his dissent says this case is about power in several respects it's about the power of our people to govern themselves and the power of this court to pronounce the law today's opinion aggrandize is the latter with a predictable consequence of diminishing the forward former we have no power to decide this case and even if we did we have no power under the constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation if i could have this back let me just this is this is has been stated this is what he read from the bench he said the majority invokes what it calls this court's primary role in

going back to the liberal level joining me tonight heather servo and horace cooper let's get back to it in a speech at georgetown university yesterday president obama laid out his plan for fighting global climate change using executive authority reminding his audience that now is the time to act the most important part of the president's plan are to direct the e.p.a. to institute new carbon standards for power plants by twenty fifteen two years and setting new goals for efficiency in buildings and vehicles as well as setting new targets for renewable energy production other parts of the plan include goals for increased renewable energy production directing the department of interior to allow solar and wind projects on public lands creating new efficiency standards for buildings and heavy vehicles using e.p.a. powers to reduce hydrofluoric carbons these are the things that destroy the ozone layer as well that reduce methane emissions and reiterate budget proposals to end subsidies to fossil fuel industries so isn't this common sense. it's costly commonsense well cost maybe actually i

was friendsher with horace greely. oh hi jo was the california of the day. ohio was the california of the day. it represented the far west. his movement for equal education for women. to bring ar helps famed abolitionist whose name i cannot remember now. ida follows her with the teacher goes to teach at an academy during the civil war. she goes on to study in cleveland. she studies at the brook hall in pennsylvania. what you see is a worldly, educated young woman with an interest and finance and a capability for mathematics and also great physical activity. she is an unusually fit young woman. she hikes up to 10 miles a day. two significant factors on that trip to europe. one is that she sees for the first time poor and working- class women working in belgium. she finds out how very little they make and have to live on. devastated by this. she reflects and a lot of letter. to trys a lot of lace and to do her part to help them. born with nortist hands who is painting in one of the galleries. at first, she is put off by this. a real sense of empathy for people

you don't have to know an artist like horace silver.to hear jazz, it comes up. >> we did research that told us what people want from music is lifestyle. they want an easier way to get out of bed or throw an awesome cocktail party. within you figure out what artist -- >> it's tedious. >> people are lazy is what he said. >> people appreciate -- >> what's your most popular -- do you call it genre or mood or play list? >> we have popular content that you expect like around waking up, driving, working out. >> driving music, wake-up music. >> exactly. getting lucky music is popular around the weekends. >> what's on that play list? >> we should talk about that later. >> tell herb later. one called papa as a rolling stone, rolling stones is the band. >> barbecuing, right? >> apple's in the space. you're not running off. why not? >> i think there's every reason to think apple's going to do a great job at building internet radio. the interesting question is not who about what. what is internet radio trying to do? is it trying to make things you'r

amount of men will embolden the noble of other men and spur them on to a greater degree than the show horaceeloquence of even the most gifted orator. >> live coverage sunday begins at 9:30 eastern with historians throughout the day. later at 5:30, we will take your calls and tweets for author of "gods and generals are co-and penn state university professor carol reardon. followed by a candlelight recession to the soldiers cemetery.inema -- and peter karmarkar will take your calls and tweets. you can submit questions and comments to our sunday guests today at facebook.com/c-span history. >> next on "washington journal ," your calls, tweets, e-mails and facebook comments. then a roundtable discussion on president obama's plan to address climate change. with guests joshua zive, a lawyer and lobbyist, and bob deans, the federal commission's director with the national resources defense council. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning, it is "washington journal." a rule issued by the obama administration of fraud would require most employers to provide coverage for contraceptive. the na

mccabe editor of the guns and patriots newsletter and horace cooper a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen welcome back good to be with you have both of you here with us you heard my rant about government funding you probably both read the article the new york times the drug companies are having to be basically bribed to come up with solutions for this. multi-drug resistant bacterial probably have several drugs. several bacteria now that are multi-drug resistant and for which there is no or few responses doesn't this demonstrate the necessity of federal funding of medical research i know by half of all drugs now are funded by with our tax dollars the national institutes of mental health and three universities but don't we need to be doing more you know i think that you know these up until the point where the government was involved in medicine you know cures and things like that would come people would come up with them on their own. i understand it's always been i understand your point about having direct focused governmen

will go back to long live along all joining you tonight are horace cooper and chris allman let's get back to it i'm not as in they're more likely to be going to church in any case we we but what if i run away you know i stay about business going on social issues here in a statement posted on our website that a republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska came out in support of marriage equality murkowski had announced in march that our views on the issue were. now she joined senator rob portman of ohio and mark kirk of illinois is the only republican senators to support marriage equality so are we going to start seeing republican senators coming out as it were you know you know well pun intended i suppose. good for senator murkowski and you know why i say good for her i'm glad she didn't wait until after getting elected to trick people into thinking that she shares their values she's actually going to be going before the alaska electorate with that record and give those people an opportunity to decide whether they agree with it or not after they voted on a statewide constitutional ame

her grandfather was friends with horace greely. oh hi jo was the california of the day. -- ohio was the california of the day. it represented the far west. his movement for equal education for women. ida's father helps to bring a famed abolitionist whose name i cannot remember now. ida follows her with the teacher goes to teach at an academy during the civil war. she goes on to study in cleveland. she studies at the brook hall in pennsylvania. what you see is a worldly, educated young woman with an interest and finance and a capability for mathematics and also great physical activity. she is an unusually fit young woman. she hikes up to 10 miles a day. two significant factors on that trip to europe. one is that she sees for the first time poor and working- class women working in belgium. she finds out how very little they make and have to live on. she is sort of devastated by this. she reflects and a lot of letter. she buys a lot of lace to try and to do her part to help them. she sees an artist born with no hands who is painting i