an interesting test. >> host: ed morrissey's new book is called going red, howy . conservatives team within.on for thistv

postcode at morrissey, what is your day job? >> and senior editor at hot air.com.i do it twice a week podcast and also by columns for the fiscal times for the week. >> host: in this election season, have any of the candidates on what you are suggesting here and going red? >> guest: if you take a look at the primary races so far, ted cruz has actually done a very good job of getting on the ground in iowa especially. apparently in oklahoma as well here in a lot of things about the ted cruz organization that tend to make me think he's on the right track with the exception of iowa, which is a purposea. oklahoma and texas is easy. we don't necessarily know how is calling and swing voters in this date in the fractured primary, too. you're only working within the republican party primaries. it's not a great analog necessarily. the organizational level is there for ted cruz trademark or disorganization is decent as well. donald trump is the burial because of the republican party in 2008 and 2012 in terms of messaging, donald trump is that the 40,000 level. very punchy. con

christy morrissey is also finding high levels of wetland contamination. she focuses her research in canada's breadbasket, the prairie pothole region of saskatchewan, where agricultural land is laced with potholes, small temporary ponds fed by snowmelt and rain. >> in 2013 we found up to 90% of the ponds that we sampled in spring, even before the farmers were out seeding, had detectable levels of neonics in them. but our peak concentrations occurred after seeding, not surprising, particularly after rainfall events, at levels that were, you know, upwards of, uh, 3 parts per billion, which is well known to affect aquatic insects. >> with over 40% of the cropland in canada's prairies treated with neonicotinoids, the impact on aquatic insects and the animimals ththat rely on them r food could be significant. dr. morrissesey's study y is the first to look into this issue in canada. >> we have a field study that's trying to understand how neonicotinoids potentially get into wetlands and whether or not they affect aquatic invertebrates, which are the base of the

. >> host: ed morrissey, in your new book, "going red," who are the two million voters that you talkabout in this book? >> guest: the two million voters refer to voters in seven key counties in seven key swing states that republicans won in 2004 but lost in 2008 and 2012. so we're looking at bellwether counties in places like florida, virginia, ohio, north carolina, new hampshire, colorado and wisconsin. wisconsin's actually kind of an interesting case, because republicans haven't9 actually quite won wisconsin yet. but because of some of the changes that have occurred over the last few years in wisconsin, i think they have a pretty good understood the there. -- opportunity there. the idea is to find out who those voters are because the key thierry in this book is the reason why republicans win local and state elections but not presidential is because they have lost -- the national level has lost touch with who the voters are on the local voters. >> host: who are some of the voters, in your view, that the republicans have lost, and how can they get them back? >> guest: hamilton county

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"please, morrissey. don't eat me. look in your heart. don't eat me. oh no. oh, not my head. oh."hinese, your brazilians and your italians, all agreeing on something, it's pretty clear it's a really good idea. everybody agrees that this complicated-looking creature with all those troublesome shells is worth the work. so you tear off the little limbs. we'll get to you later, my friends. rip out the tail. these little lungs, you don't want them. now you got all this nice fat in there. oh yeah. now we're getting to the claw. look at that. that's poking out of there. oh yeah. push it through that little nubbin of goodness. like a celestial nibble. when people started demanding boneless stuff like chicken without a bone, or crabmeat without the actual crab? or lazy lobster? that was the beginning of the erosion of our society, as we know it. if you're not willing to work for a payoff like this, how do you expect us to, like, fight al qaeda if you can't suck the meat out of a crab. good character builder. and delicious. and if your perfect day really did happen, you'd probably let yours

. >> host: ed morrissey, what is your day job? >> guest: i work at hotair.com, i'm senior editor. i do a, i do a twice-a-week podcast on politics and culture and also write columns for the fiscal times and for "the week." >> host: in this election season, have any of the candidates done what you're suggesting here in "going red"? >> guest: you know, i think if you take a look at the primary races so far, i think ted cruz has actually done a very good job of getting on the ground, in iowa especially, but also in texas. he knows texas very well, it's his home state. apparently, oklahoma as well. we're hearing a lot of things about ted cruz's organization that tend to make me think he's on the right track in terms of what we're talking about here. with the exception of iowa which is kind of a purple state, oklahoma and is pretty easy. these are very red states. we don't necessarily know how he's pulling in swing voters. and, again, it's a fractured primary too. and you're only working within the republican party primary, so it's not a great analog necessarily. but the organizational

is a hotbed of terrorist activity, this entire region, sinai became more dangerous after mohammed morrisseyusted in egypt, there have been problems with terrorist activity, the islamic state has an affiliate in the sinai peninsula called sinai province, they recently claimed to have fired a surface to ship missile at an egyptian ship. there are problems with shipping in the region, the egyptian military has been threatened, the u.s. navy has assets in the mediterranean. the sixth fleet is located in naples. and official tells me u.s. navy vessels would most likely be moving towards the area to help with the search and rescue effort. when you have so many militaries in the area, radars in the area it is likely once we start having some piece of evidence as to what happened, a piece of an aircraft, they will start to piece together using other levels, other intelligence, satellite imagery and other sources of intelligence. nicolmac what is the next step? we have the search and rescue underway, we looking at the data but what is the next step? >> to make sure we are securing any aircraft. make

. >> host: ed morrissey's new book is called going red, howy . conservatives team within.on for this is tv on c-span2. [applause] >> dance, folks. thanks for being here. a this is really an exciting discussion that kim is going to lead today. he and i started talking about this a couple years ago and it is something i've been veryti interested in for a long time am i to see the growing intoleranc and intimidation from the left. the very first book i wrote is called why we whisper in the subtitle is losing our right to say it's wrong. it's all about the growing intimidation of anyone who wanted to take a position that was based on any kind of traditional values, and a judeo-christian reality and how the left carries out that intimidation in a way that makes everyone whisper.g the title of that book came from my experience has been something in my senate campaign for i was just pummeled in the media all over the place. there was no public support for me. everywhere i went, people would come up after the meeting and get real close since they keep fi

. >> host: at morrissey's new book is called going red, the voters who elect the next resident and how conservatives can win. this is the tv on c-span2. >> tonight's event is going to be a double-click event. talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. his birthday was actually a week ago. this guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] >> all night, all day. we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. all night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. first of all, let me say that it's an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. i was here months ago to introduce two other new books that i've written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that they've invited me back again. for those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. and he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. i'm thinking of khmer rice i

newspaper's north entrance, guard richard cushing watched a beige sedan parked by the median strip of morrissey boulevard. a man clamored out, rested a rifle on the hood and pumped several more shots into the building. then the door slammed, and the car fishtailed up the boulevard. when the misarrived at -- police arrived at 12:47 a.m., they found three holes in the press room window and a fourth slug lodged in the lobby. a few inches away from where john mcauliffe had been reading his newspaper. yeah. tony published five important books, each an examination of a critical rift in america's social and political landscape. each seen through the lens of individuals caught up in the tides of change. he was a journalist of extraordinary depth and intensity with an almost prier the natural focus on -- preternatural common ago. his fist choice, he determined, was not working dramatically -- first choice. he was absolutely brilliant. he took journalism to a high intellectual level, yet he also had the dog cannedness of an old-fashioned police reporter. the year following his death his widow joined with