we hear a lot of these days, the past few decades about moral decline and america, moral decline and the world. covers a lot of areas. not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. lots of radio talk shows have that as the common theme. most days there is an opera in the washington times decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw a poll recently that said three quarters of americans think we are in a period of moral decline. so it seems convincing but there isn't argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak on this side of moral progress and economic, tangible progress in the world. as i point out in my own forthcoming book libertarian mind, we have seen a reduction in the world of war, slavery, violence of all kinds, we have seen a tendency toward individual rights, economic freedom and democracy, those are important elements of progress including moral progress. a new issue of cato policy report, the newsletter

so how far is that moral are bent? today's conservatives a more liberal than liberals were in the '50s. think about that. with social attitudes alone not policy but how they treat blacks and women and minorities and so forth. compared to the '50s. there is exceptions. what about terrorism? because it is in the news every day. fisker i am not sure it is the problem really are what we should be concerned about all though it could work by terrorizing government spending trillions of dollars but supposedly the real threat was to quantify political scientist who had an amazing data sets of campaign for political change of violent and non-violent to track those successful campaigns where about twice successful than partially successful then failed attempts at political change with filing campaigns are much more likely to fail. tracking over time you can see where in the '50s it continues on much more genetically today. pointing out that no terrorist organization has overturned a state to establish a new government for exampl

religious morals? good question. should we have moral robots of war warfare. you heard my geek references. sky net, matrix. it's possible to make these moral robots? your thoughts. >> first of all, it's necessary for you to think about this possibility. i think it was in 1942 that isaac the science-fiction writer define the three laws of row bolttics, and that was like the first effort. it's a realization rather if you have intelligent creatures, machine creatures moving around in our environment, interacting with us, driving cars or performing operations, then those machines will have to make decisions. sometimes those decisions have to have a moral underpinning. they have to be moral decisions. just imagine driving a car down the road to avoid an accident and is given basically two choices. either to kill person a or kill person b. how will that machine make this decision? this is a moral decision. it's a very perhaps predictable decision if we go down to the road this has cost. these are issues we definitely need to address, and if they did not concern pure

so that his moral progress.hese together democracy, trade and third one is membership in intergovernmental organizations. they counted the number of ig owes and ran a regression analysis with democracy and trade scores and found democracy favors peace, trade favors peace and membership in into governmental organizations favors peace. a pair of countries are in the top 10th of the skill and alter their authority 3% less likely than average concetta militarized dispute in a given year. that's the chart tracking the number of membership countries membership and governmental organizations that the triangle of these increases the probability of peace. you can see a testing a good test case using the comparative method north korea versus south korea. you can see the difference between a democracy and autocracy from space. if the indian their height, about two to three inches shorter, crappy diets and alone and the difference in the per capita gdp of 19600, versus 1100. how would you like a 1750% raise in your standard

we hear a lot of these days, the past few decades about moral decline and america, moral decline and the world. covers a lot of areas. not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. lots of radio talk shows have that as the common theme. most days there is an opera in the washington times decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw a poll recently that said three quarters of americans think we are in a

for people with deep religious and moral convictions. when you consider the number of teenage pregnancies and the crime rate and disintegration of the family, and the fact that so many high school seniors cannot read their diplomas, there is no doubt about the need for people with deep religious and moral convictions. but it is not christian or religious or judeo-christian to bring god into politics were to advocate intolerance or to promote in -- promote exclusion. i think jack can put it best when it comes to moral values we must seek to persuade rather to a cash rather than to impose. i want to take abortion out of politics. i want to keep the party focused on the critical social economic military foreign-policy and crime control issues. and leave moral issues such as the conscience of the individual. that is a matter to be decided by women. not by big government. i pledge to lead the fight from the republican national platform and replace it with language that respects human life. and also respects the diversity of opinion within our

let us renew our moral convictions and strengthen our families by returning to fundamental values. together, let us reassert our rightful place as a great nation. we should do it for ourselves -- we owe it to our children. we must act to be worthy of the gift our ancestors sacrificed so much for: to ensure the next century will dawn on a new beginning of american greatness, prosperity, and freedom. let us do it together. let us begin today. god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. [applause] pennsylvania republican senator arlen specter entered the 1996 presidential race on march 30 1995. at the time of the speech, he was serving his third term. senator specter ended his campaign before the start of the presidential primaries endorsing bob dole. this event took place on the national mall in front of the lincoln memorial. it is almost 25 minutes. [applause] thank you. my fellow americans, today, i offer my ideas -- my experience -- and my energy to the american people -- to lead our great nation into the 21st century -- as the next president of the united states.

, and officer morales caught him. >> the baby's safe. a border policeman maces the suspect who keeps going. >> there was a mob of people and they all just waited for him. so he wasn't going to go anywhere. >> price is tackled by the mexican police. >> they got him, captured him going across the border. >> morales hands the child to charmaine rodriguez waiting nearby to rush the baby to safety. >> i grabbed the baby, and i ran into the building. >> fortunately, the toddler is unharmed. officials are stunned to learn the baby is eddie price's own son, jugstin. >> what a terrible situation. this was going to cause a little baby to be without a father and certainly things weren't going to go well for his father. >> things go badly indeed for the father who winds up with a six-year prison term for burglary, evading arrest and child endangerment. >> we were just there, and we did what we had to do. >> for the border police whose crucial decisions and split-second timing were carried out in front of multiple cameras, it's an event they'll never

this is the ninth mass moral march led by state naacp president reverend dr. barber. >> with extremist politicians underfund public education and create an exit high poverty segregated schools come in and create anorexic teacher salaries, and then produce and are up six student performance and educational development. we have a heart problem. >> among the national leaders who joined saturday's march were american federation of teachers president randi weingarten and planned parenthood federation of america president cecile richards. in an emotional address, two brothers who's siblings were killed also spoke, side by side -- farris barakat, brother of deah barakat, one of three muslim students killed in chapel hill last week in what family members call a hate crime, and pierre lacy, brother of lennon lacy, an african-american teenager who was found hung to death under suspicious circumstances last year in bladenboro, north carolina. >> words can't really describe the pain that the families have to go through, including myself. it is a scar that runs so deep. ev

firefighter down. >> fellow firefighters drag morales to safety.ely, his injuries are considered minor. >> i was knocked unconscious, had a head concussion. >> morales is lucky. sadly, the fire claims the life of the woman trapped inside. >> she tried to come out of the room and she obviously couldn't make it because the fire and the smoke caught up to her. >> it's not until alan bell is able to catch his breath that he remembers he's wearing a camera on his helmet. >> once you settle down and all your adrenaline's over, then is when i realized i think i was filming all this. >> the first time i watched it, it was scary, you know, because you see yourself going through this. this is not a good experience. >> come on down head first! >> both firefighters hope others can learn from the video captured by alan bell's helmet camera. >> my primary goal of the video was to use for training. and that we all should train for the highest level possible. you can see what happens. it's all on camera. >> mayday. firefighter down. >> coming up, h2 -- whoa! >> al

morale is sinking. the next, they're circling our marines. my sense is the only morale problem is in that encampment. my sense is that these 300 marines surrounded by isis within striking distance are wondering how much longer before they get reinforcements? how would they be rescued? how long would it take? but no worries, the pentagon says they're safe. this is no time for obama speak. isis doesn't have a morale problem. they're not a jv team. they're not on the run and we're not winning. think of the firestorm raining down upon the white house after benghazi, and that was four americans. this, over 300. and this one you can see it coming. no need for any emergency cables. our pentagon spokesperson doesn't think it's a big deal. >> we've said from the very beginning there's going to be ups and downs. there's going to be gives and takes here. the -- i don't think we should make more out of this. >> it's one town. it's not all of al amar, it's not all of iraq. we need to keep it in perspective. >> reall

it's not a moral ideal. it's an ideal based on the idea that we should minimize our impact on the earth, that that should be our goal. people have these very woozy i did so we are living in common with nature and were taking in the sun which is complete nonsense because of course we mine the hell out of earth just to do that just as well as other things. but it's this ideal of let's not impact things and also the ideal which is even worse of let's be repetitive. that's an ideal fit for an animal, not a human being. >> my personal favorite is mr. fusion, the coffee maker in the back to other questions? one in front and then over to this side. >> drew schaefer with the heritage foundation. in terms of regulation, as a result of like very simple inherent negative externalities what do you think of like is for cap-and-trade programs or taxation, or what do you think at all on that topic? >> so there's two issues there. one is do i think that externality is a good framework for the law to operate under, and that

i asked with the morale with the the command commander and chief.e have told me that it has not been a positive impact impact. i thought it was important for the record of this very tumultuous time that somebody at the meningioma have that question put to them "on the record." >> describe what you have heard. people don't know what the problem is if there is a problem. >> i think by and large recognize that a the loft things have factor into the morale rank and file. pay and benefits, the access to combat the willingness to -- their ability to get in and fight and do their jobs and that sort of thing knack tore is the commander and chief and i have heard pretty uniformly but informally i should stress that they don't believe in this commander and chief. that they don't think he is willing to take the fight as you have been suggesting on the program up until now. you heard in the briefing room at the pentagon where i am not a regular, at this timers the admiral whom i respect deeply for his 28 years of service in the navy said that i had asked a poli

president obama today making an extraordinary effort to draw a moral equivalency between christians, a millenium ago and the radical islamic terrorism of the islamic state now. president obama also chose to equate america's slave history with radical islamist terrorism saying both drawing on religion to justify violence and brutality. the president today embarking on what appears to be a new campaign of rationalization for both his policies of avoidance and his rhetoric that never refers to terrorists as islamist terrorists. the president avoiding the words radical islamists because in his view the more generic the more abstract violent extremists is politically correct. but his political correctness apparently doesn't apply to christians. the president today gladly reminded christians who make up more than 70% of this country about the terrible things that he says some christians did in the name of jesus christ. here is the president at the annual national prayer breakfast. president obama: unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place remember that du

it's also moral. it's the free market system, one that respects private property rule of law and freedom to contract that encourages each person to find something that they can do or produce that will be beneficial to other people. every time you make a purchase, both sides profit both sides are better off. you multiply that mutually-beneficial exchange by billions every day, and you get a little bit of a sense of the magic of the free market. i mention that because oil coal and natural gas producers are making their customers much better off. if you doubt that, think about the lives of many of our fellow human beings who do not have access to plentiful, inexpensive fossil fuels. the villager in africa who burns dried dung to heat his home the farmer in india who uses an ox to plow his field and the elderly woman in ethiopia who walks miles each day to fetch her wear. inexpensive energy would help them, and it helps us in so many ways but we here in the u.s. and the west often take it for granted that

>>lÍderes demÓcratas en la regiÓn escogieron a morales como candidato respaldado por el partido parae mayo. es asÍ que actualmente la ocupa la concejal quiÑones sÁnchez y estÁ en su segundo tÉrmino como concejal. pero lÍderes electores presentes exigen un cambio. >>los ocho aÑos que estÁ y no ha hecho ningÚn cambio. >>estoy muy decepcionado con la decisiÓn de los lÍderes del barrio no cumplir con las reglas del partido y apoyar a mi candidatura pero no me sorprende. como dicen en 2000 ciento y 2011 voy a hacer una campaÑa profesional y apelar a los votantes ya que son en Última instancia los que deciden quiÉn nos representaron. en una pasa revista quiÑones explicÓ mÁs sobre el proceso de voto en el cual no confÍa. >>nosotros en el 2007 le pedimos al partido que ponga de frente los reglamentos y un voto democrÁtico de cÓmo este servicio y los comisionados no tienen oportunidad de votar. >>morales trabajÓ para el departamento de servicios humanos de filadelfia y antes estuvo involucrado en la polÍtica de puerto rico. >>desde que trabaje en la vicepresidencia la cÁmara de representantes

they are deeply moral.e care to do the right thing. >> the tech community is being blamed for the rising inequality. you don't require your companies to donate 1% of their time equity to philanthropy. >> no. my companies are for-profit companies. that's not their job. their job is to educate people. >> you are personally invested in this fund? >> i am personally the largest investor. >> how much? >> $120 million. and counting. >> do you think you can beat the returns of other vc funds? or the absolute distributions? >> we are obliterating the market. 30 points of alpha above the nasdaq. the private side are roughly the same. i mean it is really good. we are involved in $10 billion, $15 billion unicorn companies in meaningful ways. >> i want to know about your poker hobby. you don't just enjoy poker, you are in the world series of poker. >> it would be great if one day we were able to film this. there are 20 extremely successful businessmen. we play regularly and an unbelievable game in los angeles. since th

his response, there is no question of morality in business. and they are terminated the complex, because they have the legal right to do so. >> what would you say to those two miami lawyers who sold you this condo. >> i wonder how they sleep at night. knows they have done this to as many people as there were living there. >> are you going to go down to the fitness center today. >> we have worked all our lives we have been very responsibility, yet somebody can come in and take our home away i didn't fight in vietnam so somebody can take my property away. >> could you stay in florida. >> no, we would be out. >> just walk away with nothing. >> america tonight here this is such a remarkable story when this law was passed didn't anybody see trouble coming. >> then governor jeb bush vetoed it twice, talks about unintended consequences and this was exactly what governor bush was talking about. the law was finally signed by his successor, and legislatures know that thises going on, they have been talking about it, nobody has done anything to stop it.

america is far stronger as the moral and military leader of the world than we will ever be by relying solely on military power. we destroyed repressive communist regimes without firing a shot, not simply by having a strong military, but because we had a better ideal to show the world. every american president must and will take up arms in the defense of our nation. it is a solemn oath that cannot -- and will not -- be compromised. but there is a fundamental difference between the defense of our nation and the doctrine of preemptive war espoused by this administration. the president's group of narrow-minded ideological advisors are undermining our nation's greatness in the world. they have embraced a form of unilateralism that is even more dangerous than isolationism. this administration has shown disdain for allies, treaties and international organizations alike. in doing so they would throw aside our nation's role as the inspirational leader of the world the beacon of hope and justice in the interests of humankind. and instead, they would present our face to the world as a dominant p

and this is one of the high schools impacted by the proposed morality clause. archbishop wants to add the morality clause to upcoming teacher union contracts. they call for teachers to live by church teachings at school and in their private lives. the teachings include the church's opposition to abortion, contraception and homosexuality among other hot topics. two state assemblymen say the clauses set a bad precedent for workers' rights and they might violate state discrimination laws! they want a state investigation into working conditions at the four catholic high schools in the san francisco archdiocese. this is the latest move to try to pressure the san francisco archbishop. >> the complaint raised by different politicians and some parents and teachers is that this is discriminatory. in fact, our approach is the same for young men and young women, for heterosexuals and gays. >> yes, it does fall in line with catholic doctrine. but we feel like if this goes through, that a lot of our teachers might leave. >> reporter: last week san francisco's archbishop fir

what is our moral obligation to confront evil? you believe we have a proactive obligation to call on our leaders the president and congress, to come up with some kind of strategy to stop this jihad. now, i'm open to suggestions, but right now there's nothing being done. and it's not even being spoken about in most houses of worship. >> well i think you're right. i mean i think a prayer, we believe, is the most important and powerful tool in dealing with this. i mean ultimately this is not our place, this is not our earth. >> all right. but let me ask you something do you think prayer would stop it? >> i'm not saying prayer would have stopped it. we're talking about the role of the church. >> right. >> i think condemning evil -- absolutely, you're right. condemning evil and where appropriate and in this case of course and learn people what's going on. >> in getting people involved in trying to rouse the most powerful nation on earth to do something. >> churches aren't political wings of the discussion. >> not politics. it's moralit

we are going to be talking about both by supervisor wiener during roll call on the passing of bob morales. i was very shocked to hear that. he was the first person i met her coming to city hall. a great person, incredibly sad to hear of his loss on a personal level but also for the teamsters as well. then also to back up supervisor cohen and wiener on their hearing around police staffing levels. i look forward to participating in that as well and i will be looking forward to cosponsoring it. it's an issue of crime. not only do we have homicide and supervisor cohen, an amazing comment that we've had since we started this meeting a few human resources ago. what i have heard from residents in my district. time and again over the last years it has increased in violent crimes and neighborhood crimes. this issue affects us all maybe different ways in our districts but it affects everyone of us and police staffing levels is something that is right for discussion here at the board of supervisors and inside of city hall. i think public safety i imagine is going to be a huge priority for a lot of u

the real moral achievement that is an extremely important thing in history. you might reading the very last paragraph of your book? i think it's really rich and profound. >> well, i am talking as i approach the end of the book i'm talking about human trafficking in particular and have the century that brought the end of slavery in the new world that century depended on all kinds of fortuitous events along the way. ..

book, called "the theory of moral sentiments." maybe the greatest self-help book you have never read. what i try to do in my book holiday how adam smith can change your life" is give you a window smith's psychology, economics, and apply them to modern life. what i want to do tonight is give you an idea of what adam smith can teach us about ourselves and the world around us. i want to start with a story. i was in london last week -- it's been this year for sure. and it was kind of a whirlwind trip. never been in london before, and i gave a talk at a place called the royal society of arts. the royal society of arts is very old. used to be called something like the royal society for encouraging manufacturing the arts and commerce and enough it's just called the royal society of arts and the goal is to encourage creativity and ideas and it's a wonderful place and che have speakers and i gave to talk. and before my talk i'm in a room off to the side and they put out things to eat and drink couch and a couple of chairs, nondescript room

he and others are outrage to get teachers to sign morals contract. >> it makes me sad. >> selena sutton stood on the street and was proud of her catholic education. >> we ask the by shop to stop this effort. >> catholic school teachers may be required to sign morals clauses. >> our contracts ask us to be people of integrity and to honor the catholic faith and we do. what is the problem here? it makes me nervous. >> it makes the church seem like it's pushing away its people. >> we found the father of patriots tom brady he says a morals clause is wrong. >> it's totally unfair and it impink upon their personal life and he doesn't have the right to do that. >> the intention is certainly not to pry into the private lives of teachers. >> it's about staying on message with the church. others agree. >> we're allowed to stand up for our product and just as someone who works with coca-cola can't expect to go into work each day with can of pepsi and sing the virtues of pepsi. >> state legislature may ask the arch bishop to reconsider its decision. >>> parnttle -- parents of students say they are t

the archbishop wants to include morality clauses in their contracts. kpix 5's ryan takeo with the tough decisions some teachers may have to make. >> the catholic church teaches the same today. >> reporter: that's why san francisco's archbishop is proposing new morality clauses for upcoming union negotiations. the archdiocese says it's to clearly lay out rules for not just conduct on catholic high school campuses but teachers' lives off campus. >> don't speak against it. inside the classroom and by your actions outside, don't be public in rejecting catholic doctrine. >> reporter: some hot button issues the archbishop tackles, same-sex marriage, abortion, and contraception. he calls masturbation, pornography and homosexual relations in marriage gravely evil. >> and that's a choice that no teacher should have to make. and there's a cruelty in it. >> reporter: kathleen purcell was a catholic high school guidance counsellor at oakland's bishop o'dowd until last year. >> the toughest part for me was losing work that i loved, um, at a school that i loved with

my question to you is it moral. >>> his response. >> there's no question of morality in business. >> how do you describe yourself? >> a mad junkyard dog. defensive. a little piece of god's greenacre. >> that is in the valley of western pennsylvania. in the late 1950s, the local steel mill was taken over by a company contracted to build nuclear bombs. >> it's a nice town until the industry came in. >>> thanks for joining us i'm joie chen if there's one thing you ought to be able to count on, it's a place called home. tonight we remind you that trust can be betrayed. hurricanes and the building market was hit hard. a law intended to protect investors became a vehicle for buyers to steal homes, forcing out condo openers who did nothing wrong. our investigation from "america tonight"s sheila macvicar. >> i thought that we lived in a country where your property couldn't be ceased for private gain. and this blows me away. that this is possible. in the united states. it blows me away. >> in 2006, this woman bought what she thought was an american dream. a 2-bedroom condo minimum. >> i never

only by a serious commitment to family values -- not just of rhetoric, but of resources -- that the moral and spiritual decline that so troubles us today will be arrested. the family is the irreducible foundation of any civil, just and humane society and cannot be replaced -- and the liberal, ideological attempts to do so have disastrously ripped our social fabric. everyone talks about values -- this is a campaign after all -- but let me tell you how i see the values issue. values mean returning to the inspiration of our forefathers that all of us are created equal. values mean respecting parents enough to return control of the schools to them. that means giving parents the means to educate their children in the school of their choice. values mean having a government that keeps its promises, like on social security and like working on a plan to provide for younger workers who now know they will get nothing. values mean giving opportunity to all people by removing the red tape and taxes that suffocate our cities. values mean welfare programs that help people rather than destroy them. value