we change the norms in our school. suspensions have decreased nationally in the thousand schools we've been in by more than 30 percent, discipline referrals go down because young people are defusing the escalating interrupting, preventing and stopping injustice. do we have the courage as a nation to stop focusing on the problem and begin to really understand the best cost effective solution is to empower our young people? treat them not as empty bottles to be filled but candle sz to be lit. and i hope we can all use our collective voices today to spread a message of empowerment, justice and courage. courage. thank you . >> thanks, rick, i think we'll dig into that message of empowerment a little bit more deeply. next up is. >> our president was unable to be with us today but sends her greetings from washington, dc i hope you all have the handouts on the table that describe our organization. basically for the last 20 years, our organization has challenged stereotypes and misinformation about muslims and their faith, tru

joining us, norm ornstein. norm, thank you for being here. >> oh, it's my pleasure, joy. >> happy new year. you write, essentially, the republican party is almost an american insurgency, explain what you mean by that. >> i think we saw a lot of that over the course of the last week or ten days. my friend david dreier says that america and congress are reflections of one another. i think that's not entirely true. the republican party and the house has now been driven to a considerable degree by a group of radicals, not even conservatives anymore, who are the tail wagging the entire elephant. we saw with the rejection of speaker boehner's plan b, that was pretty much an enormous embarrassment. we see it again now with the rejection of aid for victims of sandy and in a whole host of ways, you've got a group of people who are insulated from the larger public discourse because their districts are homogeneous ecochambers driven by the primaries and money coming in that will threaten them in primaries. >> to your poin

it makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. we must educate. but we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. we have to remember a school is a community and in a xhuept, people look out for each other. they've got each other's back. how do we begin to promote that idea that we are in this thing together? we believe it's through, unfortunately but truly, self-interest. kids are driven developmentally by the desire to fit in, to belong, to be part of an affinity group. if we can capitalize on their desire to look out for their friends and give them some more tools and opportunities and support, they will begin to do what we need them to do to at least confront it in their own small cell of social influence and the compounding and leveraging of that begins to make change. so the question we have to ask ourselves, are we as adults willing it slow down enough to invite kids to sit down at the table with us and partner? do we have the courage to understand that inclusion takes time and we have have to work more diligently to

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those norms shredded in the military for quite a long time.omen have been on the front lines fighting, getting killed. i think we have lost over 150 women in iraq and afghanistan over the past few years. there's no simple delineation of where the war zone is anymore and tammy duckworth and others giving parts of their body an given their lives will say we have been fighting for a long time. you cannot ascend to the higher levels of the military because you have to have combat experience and women are getting combat experience but not recognized for it because officially they can't be in combat and can't get to the higher levels of military and bad for the military. this is going to give women a chance to get recognized for the thingless they have done. i mean, this sort of idea that women physically weaker all across the board than men was destroyed a long time ago. i think we know goldie taylor, a marine. about as tall as the table and can kick any man's butt in this building. >> weaker is the straw man. no one said weaker. i said different a

silicon valley is the birthplace of norm. five minutes? thank you very much.plause] >> thank you, congressmen. we would have extended the five minutes if we got a karaoke's song. >> this event would have not been possible by the financial contributions of our sponsors. we want to thank chevron corp., wells fargo, mcdonald's, academy of arts university, at&t, southwest airlines. if you have not entered their raffled yet, do so later tonight. comcast, walmart, verizon, moon star restaurant. >> we go from the greatest karaoke's singer in the house of congress to the self-proclaimed worst karaoke singing in public office. i would like to introduce california state controller, serving his second term. he takes a hard-line and took immediate action to weed out waste, fraud, and abuse of public funds. and to amend the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public -- and to make the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public. [applause] >> i will spare you what the distinguished council president requested me to do, which is to s

it says normatively, as a matter of who we think we should hold responsible, only people who are at this end of the line are going to be held to not be responsible agents, people who we will not held hold accountable for their actions. we deal with that with the insanity defense. do i think that's perfect? no. do we want to shift the line a little bit further over on the normal curve as we understand that a great degree more people have difficulty controlling their impulses or controlling their behavior or being able to act in a manner that is consistent with a higher level desire to act responsibly then maybe a lower level desire to act violently. maybe we want to shift the line. right now where society has chosen to draw the line is to be pretty harsh with respect to we will include as people who are agents of responsibility versus nonagents of responsibility. neuroscience could change that. once we understand and have a better understanding of human behavior and we recognize that there is a much finer graduation that we can draw than this bright line, perhaps it will shift the line or

a factual matter and i can't define or measure it, then the law is just sort of set free to use normative value-based considerations in making decisions about civil commitment. >> professor. >> i'm going to add, do this a little bit shorter, i think, which is let's start with a question to everybody in the audience. all right, so if you like chocolate cake, raise your left hand. if you do not like chocolate cake, raise your right hand. all people who like chocolate cake left hand, don't like chocolate cake right hand. all right, hands down. how many people found it difficult to raise your hand by yourself? not very many. great, you made a choice. you thought about it. you decided and you acted. and my concept of what free will is the ability to act consistent with your preferences and desires. just that simple. now how many people here feel like you have control over whether or not you like chocolate cake? raise either hands. fewer, right. so there are two different things going on that we often conflate when we talk about free will. one is your predispositions to preferences and desires,

happen to the people who are stranded would need to get home including former transportation secretary norm mineta who left on a boeing 787 dreamliner and left on saturday. a boeing 787 dreamliner made an emergency landing in western japan because of battery problems on board. it was considered a serious incident that could have caused an accident. this is been other problems on other boeing 787 dreamliners so two airliners decided to ground them days after san jose celebrated the dreamliner in the inaugural flight from san jose to japan. officials were very excited of

norm is also the author of "it's even worse than it looks".nstitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism. norm glad to have you back inside "the war room." >> it is always a great pleasure to be with you, jennifer. >> jennifer: all right. so do you think that the ad campaign against mitch mcconnell will somehow make him less likely to deal with democrats when it comes to the debt ceiling? >> first i would like to thank brent because all of this is great for sales of the book. it shows how you have a republican party that has a large faction, the dominant faction that has moved to the fringes of american politics and compromise is out of bounds for them. for mcconnell there's a real dilemma here that has two components to it. the first is he is up for reelection in 2014 in a state where he is no longer the king maker. he did everything he could to keep rand paul from winning nomination two years ago, and failed miserably. now he has hired paul's campaign manager, has his own campaign manager, but he has to worry a little bit a

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this may be allies for a normative point of view or for an answer at the top of you i mean for a normative point of view i think there is nothing against the creation of a new nation states provided that a majority the formulation i would use with that i mean. and depend as a referendum is sanctioned by a qualified majority of people i think european union should simply accept this from theoretical point of view we may as sort of see i mean from a different perspective a historian say yeah that being several waves of separatism . which actually. have been produced through the twentieth century after the end of world war after the second world war after eighty nine i mean we actually had to believe that history had come to an end but he story continues and goes on i'm from tears are not it always has to have been always the same question it's a really good point i mean over the centuries even in europe we have more and more countries i mean why stop the process. no i totally agree peter with what anthony said well i just want to go i just want to go ahead i know the my point is that in a fr

there is, as you said at the outset, a norm in journalism. reinforced by the outside groups from accuracy and media to fair. the ready to pounce any time there's any sense of bias. the desire to avoid bias means that you fall back on reporting it as if it's he said/she said. they're both equally culpable except in instances where they are not. >> tom, hasn't the press pretty consistently pointed out the influence of the tea party and the way the gop has moved to the right, particularly during the presidential primaries. i've read 1,000 stories about that. >> there have been a number of stories on that particular point, but it really hasn't captured the broader phenomenon that's been at work for well over a decade. the republican party is very much together like a tea party now. they're ideological commitments have moved far to the right and they really have deep skepticism of the whole notion of facts, of evidence, of science and they're willing to engage in behavior that a generation ago we would have said is just beyond the pail. that is ta

that is more normative than bullying. that -- i mean that pink shirt day in canada. two upper classroom in nova scotia and a kid was teased and aggressively treated because of a pink shirt and they wore pink shirts and everyone in the school wore a pink shirt and once a year kids wore pink shirts to school and kids started a group in iowa and nobody knows the identity and started twitter and tweeted to show the support for the person treated badly on twitter. that is more normative and if we share that information with our kids then they will respond in kind. they will be encouraged. >> and i will leave you with that thought. i think anne got it right and if i leave you with that thought that alice is doing is broadcasting this idea of you speak up when you see bullying occur, and what we're doing is taking the power of our platform that reaches almost a billion people what you all with us need to do is come up with programs that enable that to happen. this is the most inspiring thing i have seen and we need to replicate that in every high school around the world. >>

norm, are you all right? if i can't tell he is breathing and i get closer and norm, are you all right? give him a shake. are you okay? if there is no response then yo have to look, wait a minute is he breathing? if he has a filing cabinet on top of him or covered with debris and maybe you can pull some of it away and evaluate hi breathing and put him in a tru traneutral position and neck injuries are rare and they are very dangerous but very rare an besides if you're not breathing what are you? >> (inaudible). >> so what you do is move them gently, and we're not trained and what you do is move them gently and using common sense a individual and role on back and look, listen and feel and not breathing and i better open his air way and push down on the forehead and notch under here and you lift up and this will open the air way. now, this position and especially on a flat surface is a little uncomfortable and he's not going to stay in this position, so since you're nert people and you always work in teams and y

we don't want to send the message to america that bullying is normative; that bullying is normal, and that clip illustrated that the school is sending that message, and there is a difference, an important distinction between the school sort of embodying and sending the message to the kids that bullying is just a part of growing up and believing that bullying in our school is normative because it simply isn't. the data shows bullying is going down and that is not a popular thing to say these days. bullying is a very important social problem that we need to fix, but it is not an epidemic and it's not on the rise and neither is cyber bullying and the top scholars in the country and in social science and psychology that saying that, so that's an important distinction so thank you both so much. >> and there is that and -- there's a balance between -- i mean when i hear that bullying is going down i mean all of us should rejoice because that to me is indicative of the fact of the work in communities across the country are starting to pay off, but it's going to be hard in this ark and we are

is a way of kind of, like, fighting lawlessness with lawlessness, fighting norm erosion with norm erosionht. >> and creating some leverage. >> except in terms of legislative process, there's more of a smoke screen there, right? the american public isn't as tuned in maybe to, like, the debt ceiling debate or at least not the -- they did not used to be, whereas the minting of $1 trillion coin is out of duck tales. >> if you were going to do this, i don't think you would, for instance, like make a big deal of who is on the face. i don't think you would have a design competition for it. i don't think you would go parading around holding the trillion dollar coin. >> what if you lost it? >> yes, exactly. or my heist film that i'm writing about this. what you would do is come before the microphone and say in order to insure that the government meet its constitutional obligations to pay its debt, i have directed the treasury of the secretary to legal the necessary steps to make sure we can pay our debts. that's it. then all the coin stuff happens in the background, right? you don't want to turn i