the australian national universities examine china's relations with the u.s., and that country's policies on climate change. like monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span to. . . announced that president obama is going to copenhagen to try to get a jump-start to these negotiations. given that the white house has yet to act on climate skhange there's bitter partisan opposition, what kind of inroads do you think the with the can make? >> i think the intent is first to show the united states is very serious about the energy and climate issue, number one. number two, copenhagen, as president rasmussen has said, since congress won't be able to address the energy and climate bill until after copenhagen that it's a framework for all countries -- let me say that he proposed you expect going in, a framework that will say this is our goal, this is going to be towards a lelie binding treaty. we're not going to get there in copenhagen but this is the step we need to take in order to get there. the good news is there's a lot of motion going on and i am encouraged that a lot of countries are beginning to

sponsored by the australian national university, the chinese academy of social sciences, and the john l. thornton china center here at brookings. it is particularly timely in light of the high level presidential level diplomacy taking place these days involving all three countries. the abc countries we call them. president obama has recently returned from his first state visit to china. the prime minister of australia is in washington today to discuss preparations for the copenhagen climate change summit and premier wen jiabao are slated to travel to copenhagen next week to personally convey their discuss their personal commitments for carbon emissions. it's fitting we take up two of the most important issues facing china. first the issue of clean energy and climate change. as you know, the u.s. and china are the most important countries in the world in terms of carbon emissions. and during president obama's visit to china, the leaders signed no less than seven agreements on u.s.-china cooperation in clean energy and made some notable statements about u.s. and chinese approaches to co

controversy over the debate that occurred in mississippi across the nation about who caused the riots and what happens to the university in the following years as very briefly, the enrollment of african-americans after meredith university and ends with the dedication a few years ago of the civil rights memorial and the statute of james meredith. one thing i hope that people will appreciate is how interconnected -- people not from mississippi might not know that interconnected parts of the story are. the same people appear in various ways throughout the story. in very curious ways. i think one of the first or second pages of the book, i mention university of mississippi is known for miss america. i quote the mayor of mississippi's home town, some people say why do you bother as my students would say, why do we need to know this man's name? this is something to confuse us and distract us? he is later in the state legislature and actively endorses and supports segregation and later at the time of meredith's and roland, september 30th, 1962, he sends four trusted people in state government as representatives and one of the

welcome to the 31st annual national conservative student comment here at george washington universityand hosted by young america's foundation. my name is patrick and i make interns don't have the foundation. young america's foundation is a premier organization to educate students on the principles of limited government, individual liberty, a strong national defense and traditional value. a also host a campus lecture series through which you can have such speakers as newt gingrich, walter williams and anne coulter for more information i urge all to go to www.y. ef.org or call us at 800 u.s.a. 1776. and now for these moderator. doctor lee edwards is a distinguished cell and conservative thought of the heritage foundation, an adjunct professor at the catholic university of america and chairman of the victims of memorial foundation dedicated to the victims of comment is a memorial in 2007. he is the author of 20 books including biographies of ronald reagan, barry goldwater, edward nease, histories of the american conservative movement and the heritage foundation. his works have been trans

version of health care reform produced by senate majority leader harry reid, a quinn inyak university poll of a national cross section of voters reported its results. the reason he picked that poll is he says he is familiar with the pollsters and the process, knows that they are thoroughly nonpartisan and credible. and, of course, the quinnipiac poll is echoed by every other poll that we've seen no matter who is taking it. we know the american people are opposed to this 2,074-page proposal. broder points out that in the quinnipiac survey, less than 1/5 of voters, 19% -- a mere 19% of the sample -- support this bill. nine of ten republicans, eight of ten independents said that whatever passes will add to a torrent, a literal torrent of red ink. by a margin of 4-3 -- this is extremely significant, mr. president -- by a margin of 4-3, even democrats agreed this is likely that this will produce a torrent of red ink. that fear contributed directly to the fact that by a 16-point margin, the majority in this poll said they oppose this legislation moving through congress. now, it's not just the american people

national institute of military justice board of advisers. he graduated from west point and earned his degree from the university of connecticut school of law. he has an llm from the army judge advocate general school in military law. next is president of the national institute of military justice and senior research scholar in law at yale law school. he is the co-author of military justice, cases and materials, a member of the aba task force on the treatment of enemy combatants, and has served as a judge advocate in the coast guard from 1969 to 1972. he regularly represents members of the military and members of the media in military justice matters. mashal mcclure is the director of the national institute of justice, which is based at american university in washington. she has served as judge advocate in the air force from 1997 until last year. she served as prosecutor, based defense counsel and a senior defense council in courts martial. she has represented the united states as an appellate counsel and has argued such high-profile cases as the air force academy rape case. i am going to ask each of our panelists to talk briefly about the re

nation. these freedoms are expression and worship, are access to information and political participation, we believe, are universal rights and should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the united states, china or any nation. >> president obama will also visit china's great wall today. >>> and the obama administration says people trying to politicize the president's vow to japan's emperor and every pris are way, way off base. president obama greeted the couple saturday during his visit to the em peer palace. mr. obama was observing appropriate protocol and his trip enhanced the status of the u.s. relative to japan. >>> space shuttle atlantis atlantis should be on its way to the international space station hopefully this afternoon. live pictures as they're just about ready. nasa plans to launch from the kennedy space center at 2:258 eastern. 100 shuttle clients get to see the launch up close to tweet about it. expected to reach about 120,000 twitter followers. pretty cool. >>> firefighters are on the scene of a massive fire. a house in midwest 12i city, oklahom

national attention. joining us now dr. boyce watkins, professor at syracuse university, who is planning a rally for ellis later this month. what was your reaction when you first became aware of this story that heather ellis is facing charges for an incident that stemmed, not technically for cutting in line but for something that stemmed from her cutting in line at walmart. what was your first reaction? >> i didn't believe it. i said, that's impossible. there's got to be more to it. tell me more about this young lady. my assistant's children were the ones who actually brought this to my attention. that's why we call our rally the journey for justice out of the respect for the kids. they're the heroes in this. i did my research. once i sort of dug into it, you know, i thought about my own background. my father has been in law enforcement for 30 years so i have a lot of respect for good police officers but once i dug deeper i said, you know, something's wrong here. there seems to be an abuse of authority. you know, if you look at heather ellis's record there is absolutely nothing in her past that indicates that she's capable

there's immense promise in the new energy technologies that are being developed in national laboratories, in universities, and startup technology companies throughout this country, we clearly have to have paired with that technology development sensible national policies to allow those technologies to achieve their potential and to help us deal with the challenges we face, so if we succeed if putting those sensible policies in place, then i think we can very effectively address our energy challenges, create new jobs here at home, deal with our climate change challenge. in june, the energy committee, dan referred to this, and much of what i'm going to talk about covers ground that he also just covered, but in june, our energy committee and the senate energy and natural resources committee reported a comprehensive energy bill, it's the america clean energy leadership act of 2009, we reported that bill with a vote of 15-8. i believe it contains a series of policies that are needed to unlock our energy future, and let me just talk about three of these, that dan also referred to. first is a renewable electric

stronger relationships and does become the building blocks for a community, for a nation, for society and eventually a university believe in that. i dream about that at times. it is the kind of dream that is soothing and helps me sleep. i can't have that dream after i watch cnn. the dreams are a little different. i keep seeing this guy, what is his face from alabama, sessions. [laughter] you know how you can determine what is going on inside of this goal of a person just by the verbiage that spills of his or her mouth? i get that. sometimes i worry about my ability to discern that stuff because it causes me to have murderous thoughts. i am basically a peaceful person. i never want to hurt anybody. never have. in any case i am indie glad that we have this opportunity and i look forward to interacting with several look u.s. to come to have your book signed. thank you. [applause] >> does anybody have questions? anyone? yes, maam. [inaudible] >> i am a social worker and i see in your background the you too are trained as a social worker and of course i love social work and i think there's a reason that we come to so

inaudible conversations] >> rosemary mariner history lecture at the university of tennessee and formerly professor of military studies at the national war college. james lee mcdonough, retired at auburn university history professor is the author of "war in kentucky" from shiloh to perryville and chattanooga, "death grip on the confederacy." this event was part of the 2007 festival of books. for more information visit humanities tennessee.org/festival. we are here with dr. matthew corrigan in jacksonville, florida the author of american royalty, the bush and clinton families and the danger to the american presidency. so come and ways the bush-clinton dominance of the presidency a danger to american democracy? >> it really goes back to the founding of the country. if you look at some of the documents from our founding, especially the debates during the constitution and whether the constitution was going to be ratified or adopted, if you really have a strong current of two things going on. when, the country needed a strong executive after the failures of the articles of confederation and two, also want to make sure we did not return to

university. wednesday he won the national book award for non-fiction. >> coming up next book tv presents after words, an hourlong discussion between the host and the author of a new book. this week nomi prins former managing director at goldman sachs talks about her book "it takes a pillage." she discusses the book with senator bernie sanders, the author of the memoir "outsider in the house." >> let me begin by thanking c-span for the opportunity of interviewing nomi prins who is the author of "it takes a pillage: behind the bailouts, bonuses, and backroom deals from washington to wall street." when i was in the house for 16 years i served on the financial-services committee. the list to say i have been actively involved. they key very much for being with us. >> things you very much, and they do for taking the time to be here as well today, senator. >> let's begin with a that a bit of background. where were you born? what happened in your life to end up -- to have you end up on wall street. >> i was born in upstate new york. my father had at one point been a professor. he was very much with ibm at t

nation. these freedoms of expression and worship of access to information and political participation we believe are universals. they should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the united states, china or any nation. >> president obama will also visit china's great wall today. >>> so, a marquise matchup between two of nfl's biggest stars tom brady and peyton manning went right down to the wire, that's the way the fans like it. except for the heart attack thing. >> as you said earlier the call that this coach made that people will be talking about it at the water cooler. bill belichick. now, the fireworks went off and caught fire on the turf. this was the call that has people fuming. colts were up with two minutes left and they go for it and do not make it, so that means indy gets the ball left with 13 seconds left peyton manning hits reggie wane for the score. why didn't they punt? chargers runningback ludeignian tomlinson cried tears of joy. when l.t. got to the stadium he found a little box in his locker from his wife in it a pregnancy stick that read p

from american universities national institute of military justice, this is one hour 20 minutes. i and the co-director of the national journalism initiative. this is a major effort by medill to help future journalists and current journalists to explain to the public of the very important national security issues in the country today. as part of that initiative, we are creating a series of graduate and undergraduate class is culminating for graduate students in a three month, in- depth reporting opportunity. we are also developing a development seminar and we're be delighted to be a part of this seminar. today's panel will be really fabulous in addition, we will be funding the research fellows to provide original research on the nexus between national security and citizen engagement in that issue, how the media can better create that opportunity. finally, we will be sharing all of our research and reporting on the website medilmsj.org. today, we have a lot of expertise -- medillmsj.org. we are glad to be joined by this panel. starting at my far left, an associate in the washington

why is that that virtually every world leader that went to the united nations and made speeches called for the essential universal agreement coming out of copenhagen? without its being universal, we couldn't do anything. i don't quite know why we can't do get a lateral action, i'll come back to that. why is copenhagen going to fail? what is the nature of the universal agreement? so it has to be an agreement that just about everybody will find, otherwise it's not universal. why will they find? universal agreement asked people to do one of two things. either they asked them not to change their behavior, in which case they're perfectly happy to sign a comply because it has nothing to do anything. or ask them to fundamentally change their behavior and then lacks teeth. it either has no monitoring mechanism to detect cheating or if it has a monitoring mechanism has no way to enforce punishment. so as we think ahead to copenhagen, let me reflect back on the kyoto. 175 countries signed kyoto. the united states did not come about 175 dead. now, people were ecstatic about such a broad-based agreement here it really for th

island to this affair and it's a major boost for the university and for the territory and it allows the best-kept secret to be made known nationallyyou have athletics here and you can come from the mainland and play sports here in the virgin islands. i know your basketball team blade a couple of nights ago. tell my about your athletic program. >> we have a very outstanding athletic program and they have universities in puerto rico, but we also play teams throughout the caribbean. we just won our tournament, our basketball team did in st. martins a week ago and we had an outstanding part of paradise jam where we won at the buzzer, but in addition to basketball, volleyball, swimming. we have a very outstanding golf team and we're about to launch a soccer team as well. so we have both women's and men's basketball. our women's basketball team is very good also. so we have a strong, athletic program. i would love for us to be able to attract more universities from the mainland to come play us and for us to make some trips there as well. >> well, thank you very much for your time. i know you're a basketball guy yourself and played at ka

she was the national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for ralph nader in 2,002,004. ms. amato graduated from harvard university and new york university law school. she founded advocacy center in urban chicago with many nonprofit organizations. she has been a fellow also at harvard institute of politics at the jfk school and on public interest laws at the harvard law school, a very fine speaker on this topic, theresa amato. [applause] >> good afternoon and thank you, john singles and thank you cato institute for hosting this. thank you all of you for coming because this is quite a turnout to hear about systemic barriers to entry for third parties and independents in the political process. it's not the kind of thing mimics the front page of the major newspapers every day and it's very nice of you to share in this and for this to be covered. so i'd like to encourage other think tanks and the media to host these kinds of discussions because this is one of those topics you don't hear quite often enough. and let me say congratulations to jim bennett for producing an excellent book. you have a copy here and i'm going

nfl players, i mean, how many players at any given time and the national football league -- it is minuscule when compared to the universe of 5 million participants in any given year in football. and we hear, in terms of people in high school, obviously they don't have the same physical capacities and strengths that someone would in professional sports. there could very well be -- i could put this out as a premise -- it very well could be much of our concerns about depression, about alzheimer's, about the coal whole array of symptoms associated with the function of the brain could be as a result of post-concussion syndrome. and i in the ballpark -- ball park or an my way up? >> i am in it -- i think you're in the ballpark. cte could be playing a much bigger role than we have presently realized. cte may be responsible for the depression we are seeing in retired players. may be irresponsible for cognitive impairment. there are lots of people fled suffered head injuries, -- have suffered head injuries and have psychological problems. this is an untapped concern that i am short our knowledge needs to expand dramatically into

national attention. now, joining us, the professor from syracuse university planning a rally later this month. what was your first reaction when you became aware of this story that heather was facing charges for something that stemmed from her cutting in line at wal-mart. what was your first reaction? >> i didn't believe it. i said, that's impossible. there's got to be more to it. tell me more about this young lady. my assistant's children, justice and journey were the ones that brought this to our attention and why we're calling it journey to justice out of respect for the kids. i did my research. once i dug into it. i thought about my own background, my father's been in law enforcement 30 years. i have a lot of respect for good police officers. once i dug deeper, i said, something's wrong here. there seems to be abuse of authority. you look at heather ellis' record, there is nothing in her past that indicates she's capable of this kind of behavior, a college student on the way to medical school a daughter of a pastor, doesn't have any criminal record. the idea she's facing these sorts of cha

and now, decades later the united states remains the only industrialized nation that has yet to enact universal health care system for its people. it is clear that the american people want more. a "new york times" cbs news poll from september, 2009, found solid support for a government administered health insurance plan. the poll asked would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan. something like the medicare coverage that people 65 and older received. that will compete with private insurance plans. with the question posed in that way, 65% of the respondents supported the idea. with a majority of americans supporting the idea of a government administered health insurance program, which is exactly what single payer is, then why is it that, chris, those elected to represent the will of the people, cannot seem to translate the people's strong overwhelming desire into pragmatic application? .. the jurors are listening to the voice of the insurance companies who have given them millions of reasons to listen. the health insurance industries

and now, decades later the united states remains the only industrialized nation that has yet to enact universal health care system for its people. it is clear that the american people want more. a "new york times" cbs news poll from september, 2009, found solid support for a government administered health insurance plan. the poll asked would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan. something like the medicare coverage that people 65 and older received. that will compete with private insurance plans. with the question posed in that way, 65% of the respondents supported the idea. with a majority of americans supporting the idea of a government administered health insurance program, which is exactly what single payer is, then why is it that, chris, those elected to represent the will of the people, cannot seem to translate the people's strong overwhelming desire into pragmatic application? .. mainly middle income working people promised and delivered to mandated health insurance and the hundreds of billions in taxerpayer subsidies as tha

nation. these freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation we believe are universal rights. they should be available to all people. including ethnic and religious minorities. whether they are in the united states, china, or any nation. >> president obama will also visit china's great wall today. >>> a college football player spoke for the first time since his neck was crushed in a weightlifting accident. rafer weigel has more on that. >> good morning. seven words. that is all usc runningback stafon johnson was able to get out. eve than is a miracle. this was johnson when he greeted his teammates last month. back then he couldn't speak. he was breathing and eating through a tube. doctors say because of a gladiator like mentality he can swallow and repeated the last words spoken to him by his late grandfather. >> god has a plan. run, stafon, run. >> whether he ever plays football again, though, robin, it's not clear. when he asked about that, all he did was just shrug. >> it's amazing he was able to speak, like you said. because it must have damaged his voicebox so muc

every other industrialized nation in the world has some form of universal health insurance where it is of basic right. selling for profit is against the law. every industrialized country has that system except the united states. we would change that. national polls show the majority of doctors and americans favor a single-payer system. that is why six months ago quarter of us went to capitol. i stood up and said excuse me, senator, why have you taken single-payer off the table? why have you not allowed one doctor to testify for single- payer? instead of hearing as out senator max baucus ordered us arrested. one by one, we stood up and confronted max baucus and one by one we were arrested and charged with the "destruction of congress." in a plea deal earlier this year we agreed to not open could disrupt congress." since that day max baucus, harry reid, nancy pelosi, and others have cobbled together and comprehensible legislation. it is convoluted. it is confusing. but one thing is clear, president obama and the democrats have cut a dirty deal with the house insurance and pharmaceutical

health and retirement study, which have had the privilege to direct at the university of michigan with funding from the national institute on aging. the methods and results of this approach to diagnosis of impairment and dementia have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals. it is done in the home by trained professionals and does not require travel or visits to clinics that might exclude some participants. with respect to end of the jewels in the nfl study who did report a memory-related illness, it will be important to distinguish between the more severely disabling condition of dementia and the more common but less disabling mild cognitive impairment. the needs of these two groups are very different and we will assess the extent to which the 88 plan created by the lead in the players association is meeting those needs. with respect to individuals who did not report any memory- related illness, we will seek to determine whether there is any significant dementia or impairment in a sample of cases. by comparison to studies using the same methods in the general population, we will be of a say to what

nation. these freedoms of expression and worship of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights. they should be able to all people including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the united states, china or any nation. >> 11:00 p.m. or around 11:00 p.m. in beijing. president obama when he gets up, headed to the great wall and hochfully have a good time. good hike, too. >>> have you noticed prescription drug prices jumped on you? the last year the companies raised brand-name prices about 9%. this as drugmakers promised to support the overall. they will shave $8 billion on costs after the bill passes but need to raise passes first to pay for drug research and development. >>> a passenger plane hit a flock of birds after takeoff this weekend. fronteer airlines jet hit them about 4,000 feet above kansas city on saturday. okay. a little trouble with that tape. but, of course. this person describing what that hole experiment -- not experiment but whole incident was like. an airport spokesman saying the birds hit both of the engines but one lost power. the plane l

universally recognized. this is crazy. if you do not want to put this on the nation's premier business newspaper. he would write back, "yes, sounds great. why did that." -- write it up." we live under legal tender laws that you have to use the dollar. that implies a moral contract on part of the government. they better make the dollar a good product. to be a good product, it has to fulfil those functions. it has to do it honestly and with reliability and with integrity. >> do they pay you? >> the journal? >> yes. >> i think it has gone from $150, and one a few weeks ago, i got 600 for it. >>>> i want to go back in histoy again. you have this relationship with the russians back then -- you had this relationship with the russians back then. let's listen to what you had to say. >> i have always liked the literature. what i am trying to do is try to memorize the day in the life of [unintelligible] i have -- >> in russian or english? >> in russian. i have for russian dictionaries and i start reciting what i have a rise so far -- i have left -- i have four russian dictionaries and i start reciting what

assistant professor of political science and african- american studies at yale university and former adviser to the nationalis voting rights of electoral reform group. dr. brown earned her first ph.d. in church. then, she earned a ph.d. in political science from ohio state university in 2003 and a b.a. in government from the university of virginia in 1998. i have a ph.d. in church as well. it is the height of political knowledge. prof. dean brown, the first book is one that i think every african-american must read when it comes up. the title, "once convicted, forever doomed." , "explores the dynamics are around the criminal justice system. she argues that the exponential growth of that system poses a threat to communities of color. in the second book, identity politics in the age of obama, this book will analyze the impact of race, religion, and gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. the third book, lessons from the past, prospects for the future, focuses on the political legacy of the voting rights act of 1965. dr. khalila brown dean. [applause] >> good evening. let me begin by thanking chairwoman lee a

national students day. it goes back to 1953 when the iranian armed forces stormed tehran university where there was a protest and they killed three students. the islamic government has national student day every december 7. it's monday. and there will be demonstrations despite the fact that the government has rounded up scores of student activists. everybody knows this is the day you go out on campus and for sure they will protest. and we have two days after christmas is the most important shia muslim holy day and people are allowed to go out on the streets. the iranian calendar will set up opportunities for protests. and there's nothing the government can do about that. >> question back in the back. microphone will come around. >> i have a question i guess for you both. i was struck by the comment that you felt that you were in a new iran when you arrived there in 2009, a very different iran than two years earlier in 2007 and you gave some hints. could you contrast the two a little more. and explain what you think the changes were. and i suppose from that point of view, particularly as an outsider like i am

she was a national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for ralph nader 2000, 2004. graduating from harvard university and new york university law school she founded the citizen advocacy center in suburban chicago and works with nonprofit organizations. she has been a fellow at the harvard institute of politics at the jfk school and also of harvard law school a proud speaker on the topic, theresa amato. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you john and cato institute for posting a form on ballot access and the important discussions we hear today. they kiefer coming because it is quite a turn now to hear about systemic barriers for entry into barriers it is not the kind of thing that makes the front page of the major newspapers every day and it is very nice if you to share in this for this to be covered. i would like to encourage others think tanks and the media to post these kinds of discussions because it is a topic you don't hear quite often enough's. let me say congratulations to jim bennett for producing an excellent book i will hold up again because i read his book and the first thing unnoticed in

the version of health reform produced by senate majority leader harry reid, quinnipiac university poll of a national cross-section of voters reported its latest results. by a 16-point margin, the majority in this poll said they oppose the legislation moving through congress." david broder went on to say -- "i have been writing for months that the acid test for this effort lies less in the publicized fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than in the plausibility of its claim to be fiscally responsible. this is obviously turning out to be the case. while the c.b.o. said that both the house-passed bill and the one reid has drafted meet obama's test by being "budget neutral," every expert i have talked to says that the public has it right. these bills as they stand are budget busters. here, for example, is what robert bixby, the executive director of the concord coalition, a bipartisan group of budget watchdogs told me." the senate bill is better than the house version, but there's not much reform in this bill. as of now, it's basically a big entitlement expansion plus tax incre

assistant professor of political science and african- american studies at yale university and former adviser to the national church is voting rights of electoral reform group. dr. brown earned her first ph.d. in church. then, she earned a ph.d. in political science from ohio state university in 2003 and a b.a. in government from the university of virginia in 1998. i have a ph.d. in church as well. it is the height of political knowledge. prof. dean brown, the first book is one that i think every african-american must read when it comes up. the title, "once convicted, forever doomed." , "explores the dynamics are around the criminal justice system. she argues that the exponential growth of that system poses a threat to communities of color. in the second book, identity politics in the age of obama, this book will analyze the impact of race, religion, and gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. the third book, lessons from the past, prospects for the future, focuses on the political legacy of the voting rights act of 1965. dr. khalila brown dean. [applause] >> good evening. let me begin by thanking chairwom

national broadband plan and were you see that going. >> congress in the recovery act identified broadband as an important strategic priority for the country. the goal of universal broadband having all americans have access to broadband, high-speed internet for the future. recognized that the u.s. is lagging in many respects behind other countries. so congress and the president did to make things. they set aside some new term money in grants as a first step to move the country forward on broadband. the commerce and agriculture departments or-treating those funds -- are distributing those funds. they look at the issue and lay out a plan for long-term success is a broad band. there are some real challenges when it comes to broadband. congress asked them to look at three sets of issues. first, the deployment issue. we have seen in our work that while much of the country does have access to broadband, there are parts of the country that do not, particularly in rural america, if you want to sign of for broadband, there are literally no options at all. that is about 10% of the country, and that is an issue that we will be trying to address as part of this plan. second

and now, decades later the united states remains the only industrialized nation that has yet to enact universal health care system for its people. it is clear that the american people want more. a "new york times" cbs news poll from september, 2009, found solid support for a government administered health insurance plan. the poll asked would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan. something like the medicare coverage that people 65 and older received. that will compete with private insurance plans. with the question posed in that way, 65% of the respondents supported the idea. with a majority of americans supporting the idea of a government administered health insurance program, which is exactly what single payer is, then why is it that, chris, those elected to represent the will of the people, cannot seem to translate the people's strong overwhelming desire into pragmatic application? .. to the website, open secrets.org, pharmaceutical industry has given millions of dollars of contributions to democrat, republican, and independent m

health and retirement study, which have had the privilege to direct at the university of michigan with funding from the national institute on aging. the methods and results of this approach to diagnosis of impairment and dementia have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals. it is done in the home by trained professionals and does not require travel or visits to clinics that might exclude some participants. with respect to end of the jewels in the nfl study who did report a memory-related illness, it will be important to distinguish between the more severely disabling condition of dementia and the more common but less disabling mild cognitive impairment. the needs of these two groups are very different and we will assess the extent to which the 88 plan created by the lead in the players association is meeting those needs. with respect to individuals who did not report any memory- related illness, we will seek to determine whether there is any significant dementia or impairment in a sample of cases. by comparison to studies using the same methods in the general population, we will be of a say to what

the health and retirement study which i have the privilege to direct at the university of michigan with funding from the national institute on aging. the methods and results of this approach to diagnosis of impairment and dementia have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals. it is done in the home by trained professionals and does not require travel or visits to clinics that might exclude some participants. with respect to individuals in the nfl studied to reported a memory related illness and the more common and less disabling mild cognitive impairment. the needs of these two groups are very different and we will assess the extent to which the 88 plan created by the league and the players association is meeting those needs. with respect to individuals who did not report any memory-related illness we will seek to determine whether there is any significant dementia or impairment in a sample of cases. by comparison to studies using the same methods in the general population, we will be able to say to what extent retired professional football players differ if their rates of impairment and dementia i u

nfl players, i mean, how many players at any given time and the national football league -- it is minuscule when compared to the universe of 5 million participants in any given year in football. and we hear, in terms of people in high school, obviously they don't have the same physical capacities and strengths that someone would in professional sports. there could very well be -- i could put this out as a premise -- it very well could be much of our concerns about depression, about alzheimer's, about the coal whole array of symptoms associated with the function of the brain could be as a result of post-concussion syndrome. and i in the ballpark -- ball park or an my way up? >> i am in it -- i think you're in the ballpark. cte could be playing a much bigger role than we have presently realized. cte may be responsible for the depression we are seeing in retired players. may be irresponsible for cognitive impairment. there are lots of people fled suffered head injuries, -- have suffered head injuries and have psychological problems. this is an untapped concern that i am short our knowledge needs to expand dramatically into

national book award and nonfiction will be presented by david. he is class of 1954 professor of american history at yale university and author of many books on 19thentury american history including a slave no more, published in 2007 and race and reunion which received the abraham lincoln price, and the freighter a good price. ladies and gentlemen, david blight. [applause] >> thank you very much and good evening, fellow booklovers. we held our final, it wasn't final, we held our longest conference call where we chose the five finalists. the feeling i had as i walked down the street to get a coffee was sadness and it was sadness i think because of all those wonderful books we just threw out. today i had a little bit of feeling a bit this afternoon, but i also feel thrilled to have this role. it's been a great privilege to serve with a wonderful jury, all of whom just met one another this afternoon. and now we're lamenting that we don't have enough time to spend with one another. our jury consisted of amanda foreman ahmed steve olson, camille paglia, and john phillips santos. nonfiction of course has been also hopelessly broad category. we had every

december 10, 1948, the general assembly of the united nations, of which i might add the united states is a member, adopted and proclaimed the universal declaration of human rights. article 25 of this great document states in part, and i quote, everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate to the well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services. this declaration was an intended as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. and now six decades later, the united states remains the only industrialized nation that has yet to enact and there -- i national health care system for its people. it is clear that the american people want more. all poll from september 2009 found solid support for government-administered health care plan. would you favor or oppose a government offering everyone a government-administered health care plan, something like the medicare coverage that people 65 and older received? it would compete with private insurance plans. with the question posed that way, 65% of the respondents supported the idea. what the mark

national attenti attention. joining us professor at syracuse university planning a rally for ellis later this month. boyce, what was your reaction when you first became aware of the story that she's it'sing charges for an incident that stemmed -- not technically cutting in line but stemmed from cutting in line at walmart. what was your first reaction? >> i didn't believe it. i said that's impossible, there's got to be more to it, tell me more about this young lady. my assistant's children, justin and journey, were the ones that brought this to our attention. that's why we call it journey for justice for the kids because they're the heroes in all of this. so i did my research. once i sort of dug into it, i thought about my own background. my father has been in law enforcement for 30 years. so i have a lot of respect for good police officers. but once i dug deeper, i said, you know, something's wrong here. there seems to be an abuse of authority. if you look at heather ellis's record, there is absolutely nothing in her past that indicates she's capable of this kind of behavior. she was a college stude

there is an economist from arizona state university that wrote a column, has a setting out that shows that since the last year, since the inception of bailout nation and this really also would you address in your great book "architects of ruin", this economist says since the inception of bailout nation that the federal government has taken over 30 percent of the private economy. that is a stunning figure. when you think of the $700 billion bailout, buying banks, buying aig, freddie and fanny, chrysler, gm, taking over the whole student loan industry -- it's really quite breathtaking that 30 percent of the private economy is now owned or controlled by the federal government and this health care bill going through is an additional 18% the government could control where 18 percent of the private economy. it really causes a person to pause and i think that's one thing about your book "architects of ruin", informed me of how just a small dot decision, a small bill can be like a little bit of leverage. like if you have a teeter totters that goes one way or another, the fulcrum, one bill can cause our entire huge wonderful american economy to tip. if you

retek cole will from the university of maryland and former director of u.s. national science foundation and dr. roger glass the director of the fogarty international center. john? >> thank you, david. it's an honor to be here on behalf of the pan american health organization particularly director, dr. rosis who couldn't make it today. let me start by acknowledging in the past there's been several studies the demonstrated the greenhouse gas but addition measures can reduce debt from their evolution and they would be much of the final cost things to the findings presented earlier in this conference new research also shows a much wider range of additional health benefits. litigation policies related to household energy electricity generation, food and agriculture and transport could all bring potential health gains and these could include a significant reduction in some of the largest global health burdens of disease that we are currently challenged and facing such as respiratory infections, cancer and cardiovascular disease. health benefits with the implementation of li

universally seen as the turning point of his campaign where he answered all the questions from the clergy people and received a standing ovation from the ministers gathered in houston. it was nationally broadcast and be broadcast around the country by the kennedy campaign and correctly that is seen as the turning point in the election in early september in 1960. i want to turn our attention now to an episode more localized here in nashville, so i will read a passage about what happened in this episode. .. millions of the tracks were mailed around the country, black, and sold in it was a very powerful political organizing tool. all of the major periodicals in the church of christ wrote against the candidacy with a major set of arguments. lee howard, one of his inquisitors of the houston speech printed a 32 page track called the white house. american orwell man. at one point, howard claimed that 400,000 copies of the track were searching in the country and he was aiming for a million. the enterprise reporter david broder who is now a columnist for the "washington post," but then a young reporter for the washington dark as howard how much they cost to print and he was paying for the pri

clinton, newt gingrich, and the rivalry that defined a nation" and the rivalry that defined a generation. he is a history professor at the university of oklahoma and a resident historian at the history channel. for more information visit history.com and search his name. >> environmental journalist amanda little presents a history of fossil for use in america. ms. fleming port that the era of cheap fossil fuel is nearing an end and focuses on alternative energy options. amanda little discusses her book at the mulberry street branch of the new york public library in new york city. >> and thank you all for coming and being here on this wild, wild ride. i think this is the wild ride that i have been kind of gearing up for for three years. but i think you all know that i have spent about a decade writing about energy and the environment. and a lot of that time i was criticizing the government's failures on policy matters to which reason. you know, understandable thing given our politics in recent years. but i came to realize that i was as much to blame as everyone else. i was doing the right things. i was training in my suv for uproario

university will be in charge of the exhumation. he will write the final report. at the 200th anniversary of the graveside ceremony that was held earlier this week, the national park service announced that a 3 million-dollar visitor center will be built at the gravesite, which up to now has been a very lonely place. if then exhumation takes place, what is likely to be discovered? well, there was a previous exhumation. it took place in 1848, when the state of tennessee honored lewis' memory by erecting a monument over the grave site. in the course of building a monument his remains were exhumed. lewis' bones were identified by the presence of square iron nails that had been forged by a local blacksmith to build the coffin. now we can use dna to establish that these are his fund's. there were three members of the monument committee. one was a medical doctor. in 1850 the committee submitted their final report to the state legislature. they added a highly provocative statement, making certain that this information became part of the permanent legislative record. they said, the oppression has long prevailed that under the influence of disease of body and mind of hope b

universalizing as a turning point of his campaign when he effectively answered all of questions on these clergy people, and received a standing ovation from the ministers gathered there in houston. it was nationally broadcast that was rebroadcast around the country by the kennedy campaign, and i think repligen is seen as the turning point in the election in the early september of 1960. i want to turn now to an episode more localized here in nashville. i will read you a passage here about what happened in this episode. another conservative protestant in the south, the churches of christ, produced a large one of anti-catholic and paper to the countryside with him. is very hard to convey to the current generation, the power of the tract in the protestant world in the 1950s and '60s but i grew up in the churches of christ, and in our church we had a deacon whose entire works was maintaining our rack up tracks at the back of the sanctuary. on every imaginable and unimaginable theological issue of the day. we produced a robust literature on this election, dozens of tracks that light, you could not beauport roman catholic. the baptist produce a literature that was just as ridgeback the national as richb

universeally seen as the turning point of his campaign where he effectively answered all of the questions from these clergy people and received a standing ovation from the ministers in houston. it was nationally broadcast, rebroadcast around the country by the denty campaign, and i think correctly that is seen as the turning point of the campaign in early september 1960. i want to turn our attention to an episode here in nashville and read a passage about what happened in this episode. another conservative protestant denomination in the south, the churches of christ, produced a large volume of anti-catholic tracts and papered the countryside with it. as a matter of information, it's very hard to convey the current generation the power of the tract in the protestant world in the 1950s and '60s. i group up in the churches of christ, and we had a deacon whose entire work was maintaining a rack of tracts at the back of the sanctuary on every imaginable and unimaginable theological issue of the day. and we produced a robust literature on this election. dozens of tracts saying why you couldn't -- why as a member of this tradition you could not vote for a roman catholic. the baptists produced a lite

gold, something universally recognized, something that's had constant purchasing power over centuries. i mean, this is crazy. you don't want to put this as a lead op-ed on the nation's premier business newspaper." and he would write back, "yep, sounds great. write it up." and so, i've had a chance. i don't just -- some people call me a gold bug, but it's not really that. what i'm saying is, money is a tool. it's not something that's descended from heaven. and yet, we live under legal tender laws of mandated money. you have to use the dollar. and i think that implies a moral contract on the part of government. if they're going to be the producers of the dollar, they'd better make it a good product. to be a good product, it has to fulfill those functions of medium of exchange, unit of account and a store of value. and it has to do it honestly and with reliability and with integrity. >> do they pay you to do that? >> oh, the journal? >> yes. >> i think it's gone over the years from $150 to, the one they ran a week or so ago, i got $600 for. so, you could not make a living on an editorial. >> and they ask you for how many words? >> usually 1,200. >> i want to go back in

she was a national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for ralph nader in 2000 and 2004 and graduated from harvard university. and new york university law school and in suburban chicago and works with many nonprofit organizations a. she has been a fellow at the harvard institute of politics and at the harvard law school a very fine speaker on this topic, theresa amato. [applause] >> but afternoon. thank due to the cato institute for hosting a forum on ballot access and on the important discussion we're hearing today. thank you for coming because this is quite a turn out to hear about systemic barriers to entry for third party processing does not make the front-page of the major newspapers every day and it is very nice to share in this and for this to be covered. that would like to encourage other thing tanks and the media to host these kinds of discussions because this is a topic you don't hear quite often enough. and let me say congratulations to jim bennett to producing an excellent book. i will hold it up again prepare i read his book and the first thing i noticed in the first paragraph he said he took a