i read the newspaper so i know that unusual is the polite word for murdered or murderer.would a poor person's name apeer in the news? why do i think the newspapers then report differently from today's news? i'm here in ireland reading every paper just in case. i will move ahead. the lacies lived in cottage and palace. in 1848 dozens of families left cottage and the adjoining towns of pad ox, dogs town and palace. i find no mentions of evictions in the newspaper. 731 reported people the largest eviction of a town land in one day happened not 20 miles from cottage and palace in april of 1849. the story had one short paragraph about it in the paper. could it be that most evictions did not make it to the newspaper unless someone died? in the news of january 19th 1848, judith was ejected off a small farm by the landlords james and john parker. she wandered in want without shelter and entered her former abode on the 18th of august last. for this forceable possession shes tried and sentenced to 6 months confinement which

i want to read you some and i guess i should read a little and i want to open up for questions about this book or the other books or what i'm doing now or not doing now. basically, for me i think samurai's garden another reason why love this book. everybody says, what's your favorite book? i think, they are like kids. you wouldn't say johnny is my favorite son. we all books at the time we need to write that book. it's hard to be an author because you have an audience and they want you to write particular books. if you don't write the book they want you to write then it's something else. but all the books are different in that way. because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent samurai's garden taught me how to write. how to write in a way that i don't think i knew as well when i wrote women of the silk. it's processes like that is how i judge each book not so much is, that my best book? is that the best story? but it has to do with, what did i learn from writing that book. i have a friend who is a writer for 3 years trying to finish a novel. sent me an e

i rip and read. i put the clippings that interest me. so you can -- these people don't have time to do that. that is my work. you can be informed in this country if you work at it, but you do have to work at it. there is no single newspaper you can read, no single magazine that you can read that will give you enough information to try to reach your own opinion about an important subject, but i am still with the big newspapers. they are still trying, new york times lost a lot of column inches. the washington post lost... >> smith: they lost a lot of folks, too. they lost a lot of reporters. >> moyers: there is not enough advertising any longer. >> smith: can you imagine a scenario in which the washington post or the new york times would cease to exist, what that would say about our... >> moyers: it is not just conceivable; it is even feasible. >> smith: yeah. >> moyers: particularly in washington. >> smith: right. well, we will have public television at least, we hope. you mentioned that public televis

read. because japanese gardens are a huge aspect on the culture i started reading on gardens. he natural and the idea on how they use the gardens and how much it reads to them i started reading. i read a line like the silk worker line where it embraced me and i thought, that's what i would write about. you never walk from the front gate to the front door in a straight line it's always a curving path in which you discover things along the way. i said, that's it. he lands, he gets off the train and slowly he would walk down this path and discover the story of this caretaker along the way. it began to move. but, you know, when i speak of it it seems like it's simple. it was not simple. this month of thinking about things. this is times of writing things down and thinking it doesn't work. and i'm incredibly fortunate i have a writer's group i have written with and shown my work to for the last. we are trying to figure it out on the way over. i brought some of the audience with me. this is what you do when you are a writer. you never know who will come who read a book in 1985 so you

i wrote her and said, you know, read the book. i think for me, because i think every book is a learning process for me. in terms of my culture because i am the first, i don't know about all that needs to be known of both being chinese and of course being japanese. i get a lot wrong. i cringe when i pronounce a japanese word because i know i'm not say itting correctly. i can get away with it. here i don't know, it's harder to get away with it in the bay area because we are such a melting pot. and so many people who know japanese where i don't. what i discovered i think on the whole, for all cultures both cultures and the writing process itself is the more i write about different cultures the more i realize how much alike we are. and if you take anything away take that. take the fact that all humanity is the same. you know the -- culturesar a background for me it makes you who you are. if you are japanese you bow. if you are chinese you don't. there are certain things that are specific to each culture. but if you are writing characte

i ask them to read the biography of hitler. it is like -- i started with landmark books. a cute history for young people in the 1950's. but yet, they were not in beijing. and then i read novels about soldiers and cowboys and indians and this and that, and it all interacts. and the older you get, once you know you are excited, then it is easier to want to know why the exciting thing happened. but it is hard to start with the why until you have the enthusiasm. >> we live in an age of distraction. there are many things to command our time -- television, gadgets, telephones from ipad's, but i just wondered if there is not a good in this because suddenly kids can access an answer every question. google may not be 100 percent accurate or wikipedia, but my goodness, what better than when we had to get a huge book and go through with to get the answer to a question. i find in my life i looking things up all the time for the pure reason i want to know. nothing to do with my work or anything else. >> llewle -- the greatest destruction of

when i read the script, i immediately thought i wanted to cast dustin. mcnall and try to work together -- nick nolte and i try to work together. tavis: did you have to convince them? >> we had to have a long conversation with dustin. was this going to be like seven- day shoots and a hydrant going off? the answer was no. there would be preparation. screenplay's would be ready. we would be working in exactly the way thaas if we were shootia movie. and the same kind of depth of exploring character. dustin is a specific and care -- specific an character. is attentive to details. nick nolte is raw and authentic artistically. john ortiz and i worked together three times. dennis farina is my old pal. i could not imagine a combination of dennis with dustin. it was beauforperfect. and then on the opposite pole is this quartet of degeneres. -- of degenerates. then kevin dunn is this amazingly authentic character actor. >> i am trying to think who it was, another great director on this show at one time said to me that when he started directing, he asked steven spie

i read it as a reader would read a book and i had long been life rhode that lasted throughout. so it's very and it's a beautiful book and i love it. things could have been left out but -- [laughter] the day that i slugged a called in the laramie, called al, she is here. would you step up? [applause] and i said i need $300 bail. on in the clink. she supply and working my way through school. i don't have 300. just stay there. [laughter] i thought i need to marry her. saving myself. [laughter] and then in this room is another great and dear friend, dick and lynn cheney and i will tell you about his experiences especially at the university of wyoming which would make mine pale. [laughter] i tell you we've ran together in 1978. he ran for the congress, i ran for the senate and dick and lynn and dick and anne and i have rud neither of us ever lost an election so that is a tribute to you. [applause] and then back their standing next to him is the little rascal i met on barbwire. he was in the japanese relocation center in heart mountain wyoming as a 12-year-old boy, and our scoutmaste

>> you know, i like unlike anybody else, i read that book as a fairytale. i was very young when i read ada in the 70s and one of the first people i fell in love gave it to me. >> you think it's as difficult to understand as joyce you'll lille sees -- ulises? >> not as difficult but it has so many layers and allusions. >> you have something in common with my wife because she's fascinated by nab barb cough and add da. >> -- ada works on so many levels. on one level it's very deceptive because it's fairy tale -- fairy tale lish. >> do you think nab bark cough was a snob? >> he was more a cultural snob. >> that's what i mean. >> i talked in my book that if my family could be accused of anything it would be cultural snob business sim. >> we're spending extra time on this but it's fascinating that you close the title, you're clearly intrigued by him and his work. you've read all his works? >> yes. >> you've written a book about him? >> yes. >> and you teach him. >> yes. >> you see him almost as an all go for list for your life in post revolutionary iran which occu

tom palmer, i'm all in favour of free enterprise, and when i read about you, initially i thought, "welli'm going to start a travel agency and handle his travel arrangements, and of course i'll make a lot of money". but then i read further, and let me quote for the viewers here so they get a sense of it: "i was up all night uploading video to our colleagues for editing and posting on the internet. then the gunfire and attacks by the army and riot police right outside the hotel made it impossible to sleep." so you lead, really, a very adventurous life, and even though you're an intellectual warrior, you're almost a guerrilla warrior as well. - i do try to keep busy, and i go to lots of places some are fairly tame, and some are a bit more challenging. - and how did you come to choose this life? because way back in the '80s, if i read correctly, you were out in vienna smuggling libertarian literature into eastern europe. it sounds a bit like le carré, but it's also kind of dangerous. i mean, how did you get this mission? - well, i'd always had a passionate feeling that tyranny of whatever s

i read everything i could put my hand on, any book, any piece of paper, anything i could find i read. and so for some strange reason, in mississippi, in the 1930's, i happened to see abraham lincoln's address at charleston, illinois, on september 18, 1858. >> the lincoln-douglas debate? >>n the lincoln-douglas debate, and i read it, and i was just absolutely shocked. and from that point on, i started to researching lincoln and trying to find everything i could about him. i wasn't trying to get a degree. i wasn't trying to pass a course. as i say in the book, i was trying to save my life because i find it difficult to understand how people could say this man was the greatest apostle of brotherhood in the united states of america. >> you say on page 114, not only is lincoln a church, he is also an industry. >> precisely. precisely. and the key -- one of the keys to the american personality, but an industry, yes, all over the country, now, people are engad in packaging information on lincoln, putting together exhibits on lincoln, doing this and doing that about lincoln. it's a whole indu

i also used a book called "time on the cross." if you have not read that book and want to know about slavery, get "time on the cross" which was published in the 1970's. i use many, many other studies and different scholarly looks at the american slavery. i thought i'd spend theme i hav by reviewing some of the myths and some of the realities. but before we do that, we've got to do a mind shift right now. any time you're going back in history, you've got to change your mindset. like a quote from a french philosopher that said "when you travel to the past, leave yourself behind." former chief historian of the national parks service ed bar said last year "we can't judge those people by 2002 standards. we have to judge them by 1860 standards. and what were those standards? in the 1860's and before? like it or not, from the very founding of this nation, until slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment, slavery was legal in the united states of america. it was a legal institution. it was protected by american law. customs and morees. it's the same as the i

again the point was i really didn't want to read more about u.s. grant, i wanted to read about the back of the line so that's where i looked for him and what i really wanted was for the soldiers to say i look at the flag and i think of my wife or my mother and they just wouldn't cooperate and to put wanted them to do and i was first treated with them. >> were you finding a similar theme among the union and confederate soldiers? >> i knew the union and confederate because i was less interested in those although i was interested in those than in the regional differences east west and that sort of thing and i found very little of the east west difference that i was looking for. there were midwesterners the thought that they were proceed and had a bad manners but you could predict that if you had the matured today you could hear that kind of conversation that was not that surprising. so they were not talking about what i wanted them to but they wouldn't talk about what they were not supposed to and that was sensory and that was the thing you're not supp

well, we got a couple copies. >> i read it as a proofreader first, and then i read it as a reader, and reading it as a reader -- >> it's a lot more fun. >> yeah. oh, we can't wait to read it. >> [inaudible] >> will we see some your brood in here? >> yes. >> excellent. >> [inaudible] >> are you kidding me? >> you didn't have to do this. [inaudible conversations] >> oh, get in here. ann's this that room in there. oh, you're so dear to come to this. >> he loves you. >> i'd kiss him on the head right now. >> are you kidding me? this man loves you. >> we would not be elsewhere. we love ya. >> here's a great guy. and dingell and i used to do a hell of a lot of business. >> boy, did we ever. >> did we. >> i really miss you. >> i miss you too. [inaudible conversations] >> he doesn't want to go to anything, and he saw that and said, deborah, i have to go to an event. >> working my way up, but i didn't get there, but ann is here, there she is right over there. >> let's go see her. >> a lot of people voted for her, john. >> how you doing? >> i am doing so well, i just can't stand myself. i have e

your amendment, if i read it correctly, and i quote, nothing in this title may be construed to limit the factors the arbitration board may take into account in rendering a decision. to me, that says they can go beyond relevant factors. so the wording of our proposal here is, i quote, in rendering a decision, the arbitration board shall consider such relevant factors as -- and then it mentions the three. but it's not limited to those three. it's such relevant factors. and the difference between the language in the substitute before the committee and your amendment is the word "relevant." that factors have to be relevant to the arbitration. senator collins -- or senator begich, go ahead. >> were you? >> no. i just want to make sure. let me give you a scenario to make sure again. let's assume they're at a point where they're financially in a hard position, worse than they are today. a contract goes through negotiations, neither side can agree. it goes to arbitration. arbitrator says they deserve these pay adjustments upward. and, yes, the post office may not have the full resources. doe

can i read the question? can i read the question? >> does the gentleman want the question read back? >> no. the question that secretary clinton got. you asked a legitimate question. i don't know what context secretary clinton was asked. >> the gentleman will suspend. if you'll make that question available to the attorney general staff so they can brief him. we will return to that out of order to get an answer. but i think in fairness, we've given sufficient time. if you'll make it available to staff. we'll make sure we get to it before the end of the hearing. and with that, we go to the gentle lady from the district of columbia, miss norton, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i don't know if conversations with theed secretary of state and secretary clinton or secretary napolitano are of major importance here. but i do know this. after calling the attorney general of the united states six times before the congress, i think the public would have expected that we would have begun to talk about remedy by this time. and, yet, th

our guys it's time for you said it i read it i take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first on respond to a viewer the watch my fireside chat on the obama administration's proposed internet consumer bill of rights job or a nine comment on you tube is obama even a part of his own administration because i find it interesting how the administration was against so but and pipa that obama signed acta now isn't ministration proposes this internet bill of rights that's a mind. you know it is and i think of a couple reasons for that first of all the administration and the democratic party in general. very close with the entertainment industry after all they're some of obama's largest donors and n.p.a. headed up by former democratic senator chris dodd is one of the most powerful lobbies in the country let's go back a few steps on the obama administration side acted they got to do so very quietly gather some tech blogs on the internet but nothing compared to the opposition that we s

i will read a few poems. the first one is, after the bleeding. it was inspired by 2 photos that were in the san francisco chronicle in june 2005. the first, i will read the captions. photo captions. and follow with the poem. children watch as police collect pieces of bodies from a suicide bombing. front page photo caption san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005. >> the not guilty verdicts in the michael jackson trial. front page photo caption, san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005. after the bleeding the blood spattered walls draw the gaze of children wanting to see what has caused such a noise. how can they not stair. arms and legs, pieces of torso scattered, the smell of new death and feared hair. they must be asking the same question. a person who blows themselves up must believe in something. must believe in something or else not. hopelessness degreesed in apnigzs, righteousness disguised in a tuxedo of death much the children don't understand. i being of the dead dying man the bleeding bystanders who left to buy cheese or tobacco. in car bombs

he said i read it and then we will be releasing millions of e-mail from the private company struck for so recent dive into what the publisher when we come back. the same. people calling what you said for free and fair elections. and we're still reporting from the. past you can hear behind me loud explosions. good it gave. a. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are. our guys it's time for you said it i read it i take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first on respond to a viewer the watch my fireside chat on the obama administration's proposed internet consumer bill of rights job or a nine commented on you tube is obama even a part of his own administration because i find it interesting how the administration was against sopa and pipa that obama signed acta now isn't ministration proposes this internet bill of rights that's a mind. y

when i read this i thought i was reading the onion. turns out it was the austin statesman. i am tempted to write a letter to the texas board of education suggesting that the units on lincoln and fdr be eliminated and we have one on kim kardashian. you laugh but in two years when it happens, then what? who would have fought estee lauder? it is satire and then becomes real. so kim kardashian is funny now but in 2013 when they're studying her rear end and her marriage, so on and so on, stalin rushdie wrote a poem about her. there's a lot of material here. lincoln has very little. but kim. i have to say i am one of the few critics that keeps hammering at the question that the crucial reason things can't be turned around is americans literally don't have the gray matter to do it. this is very impolite. there are one or two others saying it. one is phillip green. ville political scientist doing an article called farewell to democracy and he wrote what seized the critical mass of americans is historical amnesia and intellectual peculiarity. the result is politics of social self des

have you read your books? here is why i ask that question. can't read everything. ms. beasley told her story, i'm going to tell you my story and why dr. serno is sitting there and why as chairman i have him sitting there. i have always been healthy. jet pilot in the navy, took pride in my physical health. 1988, i just checked with the doctor'ses of, did i not know it was that long ago. i had an episode with my back. very painful. i was walking outside here in the hall way and my pain hit my back so hard, i fell on my butt, kind of embarrassing. i did not know what was happening to me. it got a little bit better but at one point and i was working and than the next year i was working to americans with disablities act of all things as the chairman of the sub committee of this committee and i could not walk back and forth, i had to put a cot over in the capitol for me to lay on. shortly that, i had an mri. they looked at the mri and said, well you have a bulging disk. caused you problems. you should take an anti-inflammatory. so i did, and pain went away. about three years

tavis: i have yet to read a single person in this town or beyond who writes about the academy awards who does not have you on the shortlist for a nomination. i do not want to jinx you, but i want to ask, when you are hanging out with collin firth, do you have a way of navigating could -- navigating it? >> he has a lot of practice at it. i think he has won pretty much everything you can win for "the king's speech." he gave me a little bit of it buys the other night, telling me if i should win, he said, "the brief. -- be brief." tavis: it is interesting they give that advice after they have been on the stage. >> yes, before the clock starts counting down, and you see this thing flashing, please wrap up. tavis: we will see if that moment happens, we will grade you. >> it is nice to be in the orbit. nice to be on the list. tavis: yes, yes. bergesen do not know the zero worked -- for those who do not know the work, tell us what the movie is about. >> george smiley, sort of a chief deputy to the main guide at the british secret intelligence service, they are both out by -- outed by a new re

reading skills of our students. in addition to thanking dr. evers, i also want to commend representative olsen and representative jason fields, as well as each of the other task force members for working together on read to lead. >> wisconsin used to lead the nation in fourth-grade reading assessment. but by the time i took office, we sunk to the middle of the pack. we can all agree that we can and should do better. as part of our read to lead plan, we propose swift action to get our students back on top when it comes to reading. we will find screeners to assess every child entering kindergarten so we know the reading levels of each of our students to help plans to help them read at grade level. we require childcare providers to put a new focus on reading skills and new train on early childhood development. and we will implement a more rigorous exam for elementary programs patterned off the highly successful program in massachusetts. and finally, we'll create a read to lead development council to raise support for reading programs all across wisconsin.

i read about president bush and his budget cuts. uices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. it's nice you represent minorities, but it's not so nice about women. >> it's a bit misogynist. i'm going on 11 years, right, and all i dealt with is men, so this is an e

supervisor cohen: may i read it? -- >> may i read it?ion appointing monetta white and william ortiz-cartagena, terms ending january 6, 2016, to the small business commission. supervisor cohen: i would like to extend this for one week to allow the supervisor -- to allow ms. white to contact my items -- my colleagues. president chiu: can be passed to continue without objection? this is continued until march 6. items three and four? >> items 3 and 4ordinance amending the san francisco planning code section 249.66 to: 1) create the chinatown transit station special use district at the southwest corner of stockton street and washington street (assessor block no. 211, lot no. 1); 2) permit the demolition of a mixed-use building in the chinatown residential neighborhood commercial district. president chiu: colleagues, can we do these items some house same call? items are passed. item five? >> item number 5. ordinance: 1) accepting the irrevocable offer of public infrastructure improvements associated with mission bay south blocks 2-7 and 13 pha

i don't know i was a little scared when i read that story i don't know how i would do with eating the same you know fused menu selections for two and a half years or three years so i wish them well i hope they learned how to keep people happy from killing very standpoint because psychological health is actually going to turn out to be one of the big challenges of sending humans to mars and you know as i've pointed out to you before when you get out all the way to mars and you're anywhere from forty to one hundred to two hundred million miles away from the earth you know the earth is just going to be a bright star in the in the sky the warning in the evening sky of moore's and we're going to have people feeling a tremendous sense of isolation in a way that they never have on a space mission before because you can't send. a freighter rocket with duties and fresh fruit like they do on the space station they're going to have to tough it out and learn to be kind years in a whole new way i guess the foodies or at least trying to think ahead as to how they could make it the the as possible f

and the other guy goes on to say the read the same thing. iey were slow witted witted propagandaist, but they may be the victims of profound psychological abuse. and now darrell issa his problem appears to be he doesn't pay at attention to the details. he was spoke about the prospects of a republican president. [ applause ] >> uh-huh. so now he is south african. i thought he was kenyan or hitler or something. where does this come from? think progress has sucked it out. the supreme court ruth bader ginsburg said the constitutions of some other countries like south africas might be better models for future democracies, because the news ones influence individual rights. it's funny he is not lashing out at the supreme court justice who recently testified that they are much better than ours. and then colby schwartz. he killed in committee a bill that would have strengthened oklahoma new anti--methamphetamine law. it turns out for his last campaign. he received $1,500 from drug maker eli billy, and several others. pfizer who makes pseudo fed took sc

i like reading a story and paper to i like reading the pakistani papers and then i've got a select few internet sites i like to go to. but that's one of the great gifts of the internet is being able to read tomorrow's papers before we go to bed. >> host: judith and alaska, we've asked mr. steyn when he speaks with a distinctly un-canadian accent. >> guest: that's from, as i said, from being in high school in britain. and i then returned to canada when i was 18 and i worked as a disc jockey for the. i remember, i had gone, done a little course in how to talk with whatever they call, a standard north american broadcast ask if it show i did was like five hours long and i couldn't keep the action of for more than 25 minutes to i ended up lapsing into more or less how it presently talk. and it's unfortunate because wherever i am, when i set like i'm from somewhere else, and i worked briefly for the bbc and they were always, they were never happy with the way i pronounce certain words. some people think i'm australian. some people think, they can hear a bit of zimbabwe and south africa. but