but then another faculty member named marge france, who, since i was a berkeley radical i also know, was a member of the communist party. told her, it's your revolutionary duty to become a professor, so she became a professor and as she says in her book, first thing she did was took the introduction to women's studies and politicized it. she made it much more political. and then she said, her doubts about becoming a professor were washed away as she saw her class and the classes she taught as a form of political activism. and there are many quotes in my book, but it is very easy to get testimonies by particularly women's studies professors, that what they're doing is indoctrinating students in feminism, they may not use that word, but trying to convert students to be radical feminists and join feminist organizations, radical feminist ones, because there are conservative women who are feminists and some of them are well known. and one of the courses that in this -- the book we've written, one party classroom, the reader -- it's the only reading list where we actually found a conservat

oman and qatar voice of marge to a different tune but even if we look farther west to the so-called block of moderate sunni arab states, cairo and riyadh that are supposedly leading the charge against iran we find in the disagreements about the nature of that threat and arab leadership hierarchy. much of this cooperation i argue should be seen as tactical an instrumental. in early 2008 a former egyptian diplomat told us that cairo was worried about the new saudi activism and said they are everywhere with initiatives against iran and this worries us, the saving graces of these initiatives never amount to anything and we consider them annoying fact of life. added to this tension between states about what to do about iran there are differences between public and official thinking and we certainly saw this in the aftermath of the 2006 lebanon war when a ahmadinejad enjoy it in a claim in the arab streets and this was quickly dissipated by a stark reminder to arab regimes of iran's provocative ability of a one absentia but over arab regimes and the palestine fun and a clear issue and this memb

i noted that she had recently received the marg rat -- margaret sanger award in houston on march 27, and then in her speech, which was on the u.s. department of state's website she quoted she was, quote in awe of margaret sanger. she said that margaret sanger's life and leadership was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race. and that sanger's work both here and abroad was not done. i pointed out that sanger's legacy was indeed transformational but not for the better, if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, disabled, a person of color, an unborn child or among the many so-called undesirable, the disabled, sanger would exclude and ex-trerm nate from the human race. sanger's political writings dripped with contempt for those who she considered to be unfit to live. i've read many of sanger's articles and books. she was an unapologetic new general cyst and racist. she said one of the most important things a family member can do. she said eugenics is a thorough avenue to solving political problems. she devoted a chapter of her book called the crue

exploited by employers, marge liesed by politicians, and left behind by our society. we are native born in immigrants. people of all colors, ordinary people who want dignity, respect, a voice on our job and in our society so they can make a difference. through their union our members have been able to use that voice to organize and change lives, not just for themselves, but for all families. during the last election, we were all proud of the work we did, because we were out there, side-by-side with you. we are on the phones, at the doors talking about the american dream, making this about what mattered to working families. we reached all voters and sometime voters. we were in battleground states, and places we didn't know were battleground states. to win florida, virginia, colorado and have a win was amazing. [applause]. >> yeah, and we did it because we dug deeper and we were more determined than we had ever been before. we extanneded -- when al fanken is seated, i guess we have the official 60 members. [applause] we all worked incredibly hard electing him to be our

well, for some companies that operate on a very tight marge irntion it can be significant -- margin, it can be significant. best buy, the large and successful electronics retailer, has a net profit margin of only 2.2%. whole foods, a well-known grocery store, has a profit margin of 1.4%. the food and drugstore retail sector has a profit margin of only 1.4%, according to "fortune" magazine. 10* how can these companies continue -- so how can these companies continue to be profitable if rising interchange fees paid to credit card companies cut into their already small operating margins? in 2007, the national association of convenience stores reported the entire convenience store industry had profits of $3.4 billion. however, paid credit card interchange fees of $7.6 billion. over twice the amount of industry profit was paid to credit card providers. and, of course, it has an impact on smaller businesses. rich neman, a friend of mine who's coming by my office this afternoon in washington, runs neman foods, a chain of 65 grocery stores based in quincy, illinois. every year i meet with him

and suddenly there's a nephew of marge mel, dick mel's wife is talking about a landfill that he is opening and he apparently is saying, you know, i'm not having any trouble getting this landfill done because, you know, rod's governor and dick mel, the alderman and rod heard this and was just livid instead of saying, listen, lay off, you know, we've got to do things correctly, he went to the illinois epa and had them shut down the landfill. well, this really -- this was the last straw for dick mel in this continuing relationship that had been deteriorating all along and he just went ballistic. and i remembered the press conference where i was, and he -- he initially talked to fran spielman who got him late at night when he was the angriest and basically what he was saying to the entire chicago press corps well, you know, my son-in-law he's selling state jobs. why do you think all these people are getting appointed to commissions. how do you think they are getting state jobs. it's $25,000 a pop. and, you know, everyone was a little stunned. and then a couple of weeks later he was particularl