senior online editor of the daily caller and neil mccabe editor the guns and patriots column of human events online ok let's get back to it the latest poll coming out of iowa and these are increasingly like all over the place as six million bucks just the last couple days but dumped into the couple of states because iowa new hampshire. according public policy polling ron paul's in the lead at twenty four percent romney next to twenty percent gingrich in third with thirteen percent by midnight tonight no doubt these will change but what does the party the republican party do and this isn't even so much debate with you guys it's like you know. what it what does the republican party do if ron paul wins and more broadly what are the republicans doing about the growing libertarian problem in their own party well i'm not convinced it's a libertarian problem if he if ron paul goes on to win the the republican nomination that means that he will have made his case to a much greater universe than the caucuses in iowa you remember the water moment but george h.w. bush came out of iowa with big mo and h

senior online editor at the daily caller and neil mccabe editor of the guns and patriots column and human events on the line gentlemen let's get started first of all great great to have you both with us what's the deal with rick perry suing virginia well he thinks he should be on the ballot and i think rightfully so he's polled well enough he's had enough opportunity to present his case to the voters and a national platform he's certainly not a fringe candidate i mean he's a legitimate candidate that most republican voters in virginia are going to expect out of on this ballot election although he got ten thousand signatures for and they were all registered republicans but under virginia's new restrictive voting laws apparently if you live at seven seven seven twenty second a.v. and your voter registration card and avenue on the form you filled out you can vote for there's no question that the that the laws in virginia when it comes to actually getting on to the ballot as a republican candidate are needlessly onerous i mean the republican party you know this is the way the republican party up unt

and brian darling columnist of human events and director of government studies at the heritage foundation let's get started ok there are have been two raids this week by l.a. occupy philly and you know the old saying firstly first they ignore you then they ridicule you then they fight you then you win it's starting to look to me like they're winning l.a. city council has announced in response that they're going to have a vote on whether or not to strip corporate personhood you know to support a constitutional amendment to end this which is one of the consistent demands of occupy wall street groups all around the country similar resolutions of past in boulder in missoula so damn my radio show i had jack abrams off on here's what he had to say about it. would you support a constitutional amendment that says that corporations are people and money isn't speech well i think it's got to say a lot more than that to be honest with you there's a lot more but there's a lot more problems here but if you didn't back then you could get out and you could start then you could pass the laws that you're t

even in the case of the vice-president when he was on capitol hill, there was a reporter from human events who basically broke protocol and asked the vice president a question. he was caught very off guard. do the politicians have to be on their game 100% of the time, or should they just expect to be presented with the unexpected at any moment? >> in the case of herman cain, he raised that he was involved in a 13-year affair with someone, and there are these questions of timing. why now should that matter? some people do like to say i got you. if you are going to be controversial, you had better be clean, and that goes all the way back. why should it matter whether or not you had a restraining order or she could not pay her bills because she was not working. what does that have to do with the allegation? >> i was wondering what that had to do with it. when you have somebody who burns a hole in our typewriters, we need to tell once we know something. that is journalism. because journalists get a block -- get in a lot of trouble when they do not tell. there are more problems by not telling,

strangely enough, except for human events. you never saw the headline. >> let's look at the way it works. when the republican are trying to hold up what a democratic president wants to do it's gridlock. when the roles are reversed it's different from the media perspective. >> no, no, democrats are much more likely to work with republican presidents. when you look at when bush was presidents they voted for his war and the patriot act and would work more with them than the republicans. >> you see a lot of media headlines that say basically obama can't lead, come on. >> and there's the race to replace the president in 2012. i thought maybe the biggest story of the year might be the republican debates, but the 2011 was the year of republican debates, was it? >> well, i mean, it was, yeah, it-- i think this probably more than any other presidential election i've seen was defined by the debates. we'd be hard pressed to name an ad that anybody had that had confidence to it, but we know that rick perry and the 53 second brain freeze a

strategic communications consultant partner bullfight strategies and brian darling columnist of human events dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation ok gentlemen let's get started it looks like the government won't be shut down but whether or not one hundred sixty million americans are going to get hit with a thousand dollar a year pay tax increase is still up in the air the republicans first said oh i will will not hit them with this tax increase if you'll just. give us a pipeline across america that we consult you boiled to china or something whatever i don't get the whole d.c. deal there and then the speaker house john boehner came out today and doubled down of that he said that this bill comes over to us we will make changes in it and i will guarantee you that the keystone pipeline will be in there when it goes back to the united states senate so you know we had two wars republicans didn't need balance or pay on that we had tax cuts the problem is didn't need what's the deal why why can't they just say hey we like tax cuts we're going to give these people a

ready to rumble joining our panel tonight and neil mckay editor of the guns and patriots column of human events on line same sex provider progressive strategist and conservative commentator chris allman welcome back and so let's get started first of all just moments ago hours ago. republicans in the house kate or so it seems we still haven't seen the vote counting but here's what john boehner had to say just a little bit. it's not always easy to do the right thing. we believe. we came here to change the way this town does business and no more gimmicks no more short term a short term them starting to do solid policy and it's time to do it the right way thanks this is a classic case of trying to call a defeat a victory and i don't think anybody's by and. i'm wondering did the tea party overplay their hand here and in fact might they have jumped the shark might this be the end of the dominance of the koch brothers i wish i had a dollar for every time you predicted the death of the tea party talk because i would be a very wealthy guy. actually i'm disappointed that boehner did cave i thought he was

daily caller roger hickey co-director the campaign for america's future and brian darling for human events dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation let's get let's get started well don't you guys are glad to have you here with us the senate republicans yesterday filibustered a payroll tax cut extension for one hundred. million americans a thousand bucks apiece on average and at first they filibustered this because there was certain acts of three point eight percent on income over one million dollars on the million and first so that was you know that they didn't go for that now they're talking about slapping the keep the keystone x.l. pipeline in there which obama has already said he doesn't want anything to do with he will vote he will veto so it sounds like what they're saying is we'll give the middle class their tax cuts but only if they're willing to choke on the pollution from our refineries why do republicans insist on combining tax cuts for the middle class with poison pill well obama not liking the x.l. pipeline is actually sort of a recent development i

solutions and blogger at the servo dot com and neil mccabe editor of guns and patriots column of human events online welcome to both of joining us good to have you with us starting out yesterday the city council of los angeles voted unanimously eleven a zero to say corporations are not people money is not speech this is like a pretty radical change from the supreme court anyway and los angeles joins a growing list of we've got boulder colorado has voted for this missoula montana madison wisconsin dane county wisconsin pittsburgh pennsylvania city council of cleveland just voted eighteen to one to endorse the occupy movement who's principally when you poll them around the country their principal demand is ending corporate personhood which these are the cities as did the city council cleveland just voted in dorset the occupy movement and to call in congress to investigate and jail banks toure's no one's talking about debt reduction everybody's talking about job creation and wealth inequality and corporate personhood so has the american has as america you know finally kicked the tea party habit

that's why we're turning to john gizy, political editor of human events newspaper for insight into all of this. man, things are heating up. it's been a busy couple of weeks. >> it certainly has. >> cain is out, gingrich seems to be benefiting from that more than any other candidate. let's talk about gingrich first of all, and this comeback that he's making, you know, a month and a half ago, you wouldn't have predicted that he'd be the frontrunner in some cases, but indeed now he is. >> well, part of it, tony, is that the format this year of a debate a week which numbs some people, but also very much excites the grassroots who talk about the debates with their morning coffee has worked to mr. gingrich's advantage. he's a historian, a trained debater, he knows the art of the sound bite and i dare say if we did not have the debate a week format, he wouldn't be in the strong position he is now. so the times and the situation have worked to his benefit. >> the debate-a-week format to me also seems to create someone who's the new flavor of the month and then it's someone else and then it's s

now as we take a look back at the old year 2011s biggest political headlines, political editor human eventsppy holidays. >> happy new year merry christmas. >> before we get to next year let's look back on last year what was the big political event headlines of 2011. >> in terms of american politics per se the presidential campaign started early, gets earlier and earlier every four years but on the other hand, all of the developments in american politics, were dwarfed by the clash on capitol hill between republicans and the house s the other end of pennsylvania avenue, president obama. and everything was transcended by the arab spring, when a fruit ped lar named mohammed, set himself on fire and took his own life, set off a fire that spread through the middle east and changed the political development there forever. those dwarfed anything that would happen on the campaign trail and how the campaign trail moves up to top drawer. >> after that happened in 2011, as we get now close to the end of the year we don't seem to have settled much of that dispute between what is happening on capitol hil

but this was the greatest event in human history. it was almost a terrible event in human history.carcely surprising that we want to try to see what can we learn, what do we understand from the. i don't think we know in the least sinister about the way in which we continued to read about, in my case, right about the second world war. we are just trying to learn more about it. the only thing that can assist us, there is almost a decent obsession of minority called trances, all this business with nazis, about how some people are obsessed with nazis. secondly, those people who glamorized. there are few writers who do glamorize it. i suppose, the only bad review, i made all seven to clean. the reviewer said, he said my dad was a submarine commander that he loved it. what does that prove? of course you're a submarine commander, you had a lovely time. but. >> host: you mentioned her own father. having myself reported from afghanistan and also been in iraq extensively, maybe it's in in the moment thing, but soldiers are trained to do, it's almost like all their lives it's bad and serving

. >>> in a lincoln/douglas style debate, real politics told the human events in the red state they locked down a date on december 19 and place to hold the debate. he says gingrich was toward go but romney turned them down. romney could benefit from the two-person format where the toughest opponent instead of debate format where candidates have no chance of winning are all included. and it could be a good practice for a debate against president obama if romney ends up being a nominee. which is appearing to be less likely everyday. why won't romney agree to debate gingrich? critics say he is simply running out the clock. gingrich will have a debate partner on the 19th. huntsman accepted the invitation while taking a swipe at romney. the substantive format makes it hard for romney to hide from his record. that's a quote. romney could be making a big mistake while refusing to talk to the media and refusing to debate gingrich. the coronation appears to be slipping way. gingrich sits atop the polls as well as those in key early voting states. in iowa a brand new poll shows romney in third place

but this was the greatest event in human history. it was one of the most terrible events in human history, and scarcely surprised we want to see what can we learn from it and what can we understand from it. i don't think there's anything in the least sinister about the way in which we all continue to read about and write about, the second world war. we're just trying to learn more about it. the only thing that could be sinister, there is an almost indecent fascination waive the nazis. you almost get shivery feelings about the way some people are obsessed with the nazis. and those people who glamorize it. and i suppose -- the only bad review of my books issue made it sound too gloomy. the reviewer said my dad was a submarine commander and he loved it. i said, what does that prove? of course if you were a submarine commander you had a lovely time. >> you mentioned your own father and having myself reported from afghanistan, and written a book about afghanistan and also being in iraq. maybe it's in the moment thing, but soldiers is what

sometimes some say, oh, we're all too obsessed with the second world war, but that was the greatest event in human history, and it was -- it was a terrible event in human history, and it's scarcely surprising that we want to see what can we learn from it and understand from it. i don't think it's anything in the least sinister about the way in which we all continued to read about and micah is right about the second world war. we're just trying to learn more about it. the only thing that's sinister is there's an indecent obsession of minority cult of the nazis. you do sometimes get feelings about the way people obsess with the nazis and secondly, there's those who glamourize it. there are writers who glamourize it. i suppose the only bad review i had about my book is i made is sound too gloomy. the reviewer said, he said, my dad was a submarine commander, and he loved it. of course, in my father's case, a war correspondent, you had a lovely time. >> host: you mentioned your father and having, myself, reported from afghanistan, written a book about that and been in iraq extensively, maybe it's an in

but this was the greatest event in human history. it was one of the most terrible events in human history of course and it surprised we wanted to try to see what could we learn from it, what could we understand from it? i don't think that there is anything in the released sinister about the way in which we all continued to read about we are just trying to learn more about it. the other thing that was sinister there was an almost indecent obsession with the nazis and all this business you do sometimes get about the way that some people are obsessed and secondly, those people that glamorize it there are a few who do glamorize it i suppose the only bad review i've got on my book is i made it sound too and gloomy. the reviewer said my dad was a submarine commander and he loved. of course of your a submarine commander you had a lovely time but i will say to that aspect -- >> host: you mentioned having myself reported from afghanistan and also being in iraq did you make it in the moment soldiers are what i was trained to do and it's almost

reasons or poor judgment or bad judgment or, um, mistakes will continue to happen in the course of human events, and that is inevitable. as it relates to regulation, um, as one that historically has been more supportive rather than against there is an enormous need from my view and, um, probably doesn't amount for much at the moment, but from my view to have it consolidated so that it is more, um, it's less complex to manage. >> it is difficult to manage in a company your size. >> with the multiple regulators that exist, and then we live in a global world that increases the complexity. the segregation rules in london are different than the segregation rules in u.s. futures markets. the futures markets are different than securities markets, and so the answer is, yes, a more integrated approach at least from one man's point of view would make this world easier. >> i'm trying to get aceps of what my takeaway needs to be. it's been a long afternoon, so i thank you for your time, and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentle lady from north caro

humanity silly reports. the doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this is unilateral prejudicial and biased reports about events at the un human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witnesses and doesn't reflect the situation on the ground it has to be said though that almost all of the countries if not all have expressed concerns about what's going on in syria the question here that he is raised is on the process of gathering that evidence to condemn syria specially when calling for a tougher resolution on the country again if we remember this is the third meeting a special meeting held on the situation in syria and this is also right after the fresh sanctions from the e.u. just slapped on thursday on certain individuals and organizations as well as in addition to arab league sanctions which were the toughest imposed on an arab state an arab nation and russia through all of this again maintain that sanctions they are against all of those and would rather see the two sides in the country sitting down and still talking to the u.n. has called the situation on the ground

every event is different. humans are different. every time is enacted, it is a different scenario. so, there is planning, planning, more planning. learning from activation and making changes. again, our infrastructure, some of our hospitals in san francisco are seismically safe. recognizing that we have planning to do. as for the private sector and the public sector, i think that we do a good job interacting with our public sector. we had those initial private sector relationships. food companies in the local neighborhoods. we have relationships for planning opportunities with them. i do not think we have taken that aren't and every time that this is, we've learned. >> what should the takeaway be? >> take away is it? there aren't the in your take away means to be -- what can i do to create a stronger community? it might be in a larger scale. it might be by looking around your home and feria out and knowing something that is narrowing to a fair a stronger communities is more resilience post we have here today, folk and we are all willing to collaborate, but we get it out. and if we

it is personalities, events, and amazing stories of humans overcoming incredible obstacles. that is why i enjoy the guardians of the city so much. i want to emphasize that today's remembrance of the 1989 earthquake, it is hard for me to believe it was 22 years ago. it seems like it was not that long ago to me. the city is much better prepared. we want to continue to work on those preparations so that we can face as best as possible any calamity that san francisco faces. thank you very much. [applause] >> another strong supporter. [applause] >> it is a real privilege to be here with mayor lee and my public safety partners. he is the longest serving sheriff in the state of california. he is only being modest when he says he was not here in 1906. [laughter] [applause] it is such an honor to be amongst all of this tradition. as he said, those without the knowled

reasons or poor judgment or bad judgment or mistakes will continue to happen in the course of human events, and that is ineventuallible. as it relates to regulation, it's more supportive rather than against, there's an enormous need for pi view and probably doesn't amount for much at the moment, but my view to have it consolidated so that it is less complex to match. >> it is difficult to manage, suspect it, a company your size? >> with the multiple regulators that exist, and we live in a global world that increases the complexity, the segregation rules in london are different than the segregation rules in u.s. futures markets. the futures markets are different than securities markets, and so the answer is yes. a more integrated approach from one point of view would make this world easier. >> i'm trying to get a sense of my take away. thank you. it's been a long afternoon. i thank you for your time, and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> the chair now recognizes the gentlelady for north carolina for her five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. governor, i have 5 couple questions for you for c

well, let's ask our guests joining us for a debate is jason, the editor at large for human events and a "new york times" best seller, and president of young democrats of america. guys, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. so, the new harvard university study, they found that the support for president obama is eroding. maybe we can put that on the screen. now, they, only 46 percent approve of the president, 18 to 29-year-olds and 51 percent disapprove, but, just in february, a year ago, it was already at 55 percent, and jason, what do you think is happening with young people? why is their support going away? >> the numbers are worse than the obama administration, you only have 36 percent of young people who think president obama will be re-elected and 55 percent disapprove on his job performance and you have by a 4-1 margin dissatisfaction and troubled with the trajection of the country. it is not a good omen for the obama administration. because they need the youth vote. it is the economy. when you have nearly a majority of young people upon graduation cannot find a job they see th

. >> by newsletter today, gingrich productions and human events today is about new york city -- theyrk city teachers. you can make over $100,000 a year as a janitor with a contract that doesn't require you to mop the floor more than once a week. if you took about half the janitors for $100,000, you could hire 30 kids have $3,000 a year to work part-time in the school. they could work in the library, the cafeteria, the front office. they cut off the floor. i have the liberal's jump up and holler and suggest and trapping them and then being janitors. my younger daughter reminded me her first paying job was at the baptist church where she was cleaning of the toilets. i mentioned this the other day, an editorial board was in a state of shock. children actually deal with things like that? if you talk to iowa farm families, they will explain what they have their kids do. it turns out that they encounter real work, some of them get dirty. the encounter dealing with animals, and it is amazing on farms what you encounter. nobody seems to be horrified and said the epa is proposing a rule where

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i just focused on what my responsibility was and my efforts to conduct this event as professionally and humanely as possible. in hindsight, i look back at that and realize that it had much more of an impact on me than i knew at the time. i knew when i carried out the last execution that i would not do it again. i got very sick after that execution, but that is what it was like for me. i practiced what i call servant leadership. i would get home at about 2:00 in the morning and find it difficult to do anything but pace in my house with everybody else is asleep and return to the prison as early as 6:30 or 7:00 the next morning to check on everyone, and that is how i handled it -- pace in my house with everybody asleep. >> describe a situation where you would bring felony charges against a prosecutor for job- related conduct. >> if we had evidence that a prosecutor has engaged in felonious conduct, we would evaluate the evidence. it is what we would do in any other case. we determine the level of the conduct, the quality of the evidence, whether the evidence will be admissible in court in order to

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