lily prellezo with jose. who is this book? >> it's a book that rescued the cuban rafters escaping communist cuba in the 1990s. >> why did it have to be formed? >> well, when government doesn't provide or suffice, then -- and you have a community oriented necessity, you have to take action on your own, and this is something that is called -- i organized a group of pilots to work in the straits of florida and fly missions in tandem to locate the rafters coming out from cuba seeking freedom in the united states and fleeing the disaster of that island. >> what was the government policy that said brothers to the rescue in motion? >> well, the government -- there was no really government policy that set them in motion. what happened that called motion? >> well, it was all result of cuba's failed policies probably and people left by any means they could possibly come up with, and there was all of sudden a surge of rafters leaving cuba, and one day, one young rafter, 15 years old, the coast guard filmed the rescue and died in the arms

. >> we have been talking with l lily prellezo and jose, the mog true store -- >> please welcome my good friend and the h.l. mencken research fellow at cato, patrick j. o'rourke. [applause] >> well, thank you all for coming out, and i appreciate it. i know that some of you probably felt like you should be home laying down with a cold compress on your head after president obama's 1 p.m. press conference. certainly left me with a headache. we lost that election last night. you know? and i don't say that just because republicans didn't take the senate, you know, or -- we lost that election because almost every political contest yesterday was won by a politician. [laughter] a couple of cases angry nuts won which is an improvement over politicians. [laughter] but it's really, t just not good enough -- it's just not good enough. i will not be satisfied until every seat in the house and senate is filled by a regular person. a regular person who, quite reasonably, hates being there. i want government to be like jury duty. and not jury duty for some exciting crime like the o.j. simpson murder, yo