back in the day and canada came in and just bombed the crap out of lansing michigan and took out everybody's house around. i would forgive them i mean i would probably spend the rest of my life trying to do something about that are we creating a new generation of terrorists as a consequence of this i think there's a lot of people in both iraq and syria especially in mosul iraq are saying you know what kind of liberation is this when our lives are destroyed whether it's killing people wounding them because we haven't talked about how many people have been wounded by this war forcing them to flee their homes with nowhere to go and so what kind of liberation is it and yes i think in the process we and we haven't seen the end of it yet because even if you talk about mosul being quote liberated not only do we have to question what is left but we also have to say who's going to take over and that's particularly true in the case of syria because already you have the conflicts going on about who is going to take control once isis is removed and that will bring back a new conflict with different play

media first my first job in radio was in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and it was in lansing michigan there were seven radio stations in town every single one was owned by a separate little group most of your family owned no billionaires no fat cat. no big corporations the local t.v. station to be driving on was owned by a local family they named after their son jim when he was born i mean you know i don't think any of the stations in lansing michigan are locally owned anymore isn't that really part of the biggest issue imo huge fan of competition so they should let the market work i think very rarely in this country have we actually tried that i think a lot of people like jumping on the concept of free markets but we've never really tried it and i think that would be a great thing to do but again the people still have more power than we give ourselves credit for if i'm not one that wants to hear a bunch of trumped propaganda i'm not a big fan of fox news i also got very sick of let's promote hillary every three seconds on m s n b c so i did a crazy thing i turned it off i think a lot

. >> that's right, hundreds of volunteers step to up help clean up the lansing, michigan , in return they get to claim little piece of the city all to themselves and for neighbors to enjoy. take a look. >> it is called adopt a spot program. while traveling through the capitol city, would you most likely notice its unique charm , fun and exciting place for people to live, work, and visit. it is all about the details, like pretty flowers in the summer, or nice landscaping in the spring. and it is all made possible by volunteers. like robert oval. >> it is important for me to have our city be looked at as a clean place to live. >> the program provides organizations and individuals, the opportunity to choose an area downtown. and then create a flower or a rain garden of their choice. >> about a half hour we spends first thing in the morning, and we pull the weeds, and pick up the trash, and make sure that it looks great for the next few weeks. >> it gives community members a chance to give back to the city. and own a little piece of the land they both live and work in. all at the same ti

judy, east lansing, michigan. caller: yes. hello.xcited here in michigan in lansing, the state capital, they are talking about the red cross getting out there and helping. is itd like to know father nature of the whole family don't bring this rain. host: ok. joy from state college, pennsylvania. caller: good morning good hour to send my thoughts and prayers to the people in texas and houston. are the president is going there at the request of the governor and i think it will bring more attention to it. is -- isian thing, and think it is time for it to be put to bed. russia did not vote for donald trump. american people did. all this pollution, we need to focus on getting our country united and back together again. we need to support all the good causes to help those people in texas. i have relatives there. my thoughts and prayers and the russian thing, it needs to stop. thank you very much. host: our last call in the segment. as promised, i want to bring on michael rawlings joining us by phone, the mayor of dallas. thank you for join

laura in lansing, michigan.ichard plaque, who is a member f the senate of virginia and a ormer u.s. marine pilot and a tnam war veteran writes piece, arguing you need to understand the purpose of memorials. erected monuments to those who fought in the war after the war, millions of those veterans were still living. the old courthouse was erected 1908, 43 years after the war ended. their 60s ns were in by then and many have befriended old adversaries. erected it was to care for him who shall born the battle his widow and orphan, statue is image of the men who fought war, writes the virginia state senator. one can imagine, those who 1908, including veterans, widows and those for memorial tatue was a to long-last friends, it was not statement or any ore than the vietnam war memorial is a statement on that war. n the anniversary of the birth of jefferson davis, the arlington cemetery was unveiled crowd of arge northerners and southerns on 1914, president woodrow wilson addressed the crowd of wreaths on placed the gr

editorial page thompsoneather anne earning up pulitzer prize for .er book and to janet in east lansing, michigan. janet: i wanted to draw a verbal picture of what it was like to be in the city when everything will -- blew up. i was in the northwest side of the city for blocks west of greenfield, people who know the city will know that is a major northwest, north-south artery of the city on the northwest side. was visiting my parents who still lived in the house i grew up in and got a phone call from a friend who lived much closer to where everything was burning already. and she said, you had better get home. we lift up in the lat -- lived up in the lansing area 90 miles away. said what is going on? nothing was on tv. nothing was on the radio. nothing. said, some kind of riots going on, you better get out of there and i said, what are you saying, what are you hearing? she said i'm hearing a lot of gunshots and i said ok, bye-bye. i drove all the way back to lansing, 90 miles. where you saw nothing but army vehicles, not tanks, but trucks and -- full of soldiers with weapons and helmets and overhe

white kid in a whites you know kind of lower middle class working class blue collar suburb of lansing michiganand never you and i have very different experiences growing up and throughout our lives and and it was so personal it was so powerful i just i just have to say to everybody watching you know particularly if you're white this is a service you know you need to buy this book so forgive the and then give the ad there but the company thinks. so one of the principle concepts in the book that has not. been discussed that hasn't gotten the kind of discussion i think it needs particularly in the in the so-called mainstream press which is another way of saying largely white press i would argue is this concept of whiteness defining what . can you please refund that for a minute yeah you know that's a great point and you know i think white brothers and sisters are not used to thinking of whiteness as one among a family of identifications racially like black brown yellow when we say race we think of those but we don't think whiteness like men think gender or women we never think mynd masculinity so

. >> host: >> host: - east lansing michigan. emails i was pleased to see you discussing jonathan gates. a very important book, the righteous mind. in the spirit, what do you see as conservatives best point and what you see as the biggest struggle? >> guest: the best point of conservatives? >> host: yes. and the biggest shortcoming. -- >> guest: >> guest: i think there is a complaint out there and conservative america that that certain liberal minds and liberal media has become more orthodox and unaccepting of ideas. and more hostile. i do not know if that's true or not but i think that you know i think that there is some truth to the fact that the conservative point of view is often excluded automatically. do i agree with it? no. but i think that it does happen. but you in terms of the weakest point if you just take the color before he was talking about the black and hispanic people are the root of all evil. i think that kind of talk has become increasingly normalized. especially the sort of fringe conservative media and stuff t