the library--the free library of philadelphia, i did want in this series to come to philadelphia, partlyause one of the programs was called america further which is about religion. it was particularly about black african american religion. we have a choice between the spirit of preparation, which means savannah and philadelphia, and somehow savannah queen, the cheese steak, don't ask me why i know that. this project, a would-be and happy to answer questions about how the writing of these forms of kraft, which i believe they are, the book at the television project were born out of desperation and exhilaration. the desperation part is not a sense of the republic of the united states, i spent half of my life going to hell in a handbasket in 2006/2007, they look very much that way. the desperation was born of extreme frustration in the simplicity inflicted on inscription of the united states by many of my friends and opinion in europe and britain in particular which i was very close, the bbc. among those simplicity's, cowboy politics. the coastal positions, preferably in a bar and flying ove

the british are arrested him in new york and he escaped and made his way to philadelphia and in philadelphia he opened up essentially a stock market but it was in the back of a coffee shop. and so, kosciuszko met him in philadelphia and gave times solomon gave kosciuszko $142 which was most likely the mauney kosciuszko used to sail back to poland. and kosciuszko now and before from his time in poland understood the plight of the jews and he wrote to general green that unfortunately i will be traveling around and i will be, quote come in the situation of the israelites. perhaps i will be obliged to rim 12 years or more and this is my misfortunes and he is referring to the diaspora of the jews and felt like he would be without a helmet. while kosciuszko did make it back to poland and when he made it back to poland this is warsaw, he saw the situation was even worse than before. the russians were controlling more and more things and serfdom was even more brutal and kosciuszko wrote to his sister served as a word that must be cursed by all enlightened nations. now luckily, many people in the tim

philadelphia free library hosted the event. it's one hour. >> many of you know what library we provide essential services to thousands of and vigils throughout the year including students, job-seekers and small-business owners. due to the economic downturn and 25% budget cut of the free library philadelphia we have had to stop ordering new books and february. yet we still need to fill shelves for the more than 60,000 philadelphia school children who participate in the summer reading program. i encourage you to join the 10,000 books for children drive by donating funds purchasing books from the amazon bought, wish list or by buying books from local retailers and dropping them off at a designated library applications. for more information please visit free library.org/bouck dr.. our guest is a restless optimist of the dissatisfied times. and essayist and critic for the new yorker and a professor of art history at columbia and university, schama has presented more than 30 documentaries for the bbc and pds including the power of ar

who became an engineer in the e continental army and fortified philadelphia and devised battle plans for the victory in saratoga and following the war returned to poland and became commander-in-chief though polish army and the polish embassy in washington d.c. hosted this event. it is an hour. [applause]. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. just to make sure everybody is in the right place, for those of you who thought this was a public hearing on the kosciuszko bridge... that would be taking place place at the dot headquarters. this is also, not about the kosciuszko twin bridges north of albany, new york, or this is not about kosciuszko, mississippi, birthplace of the lovely oprah winfrey and some of you may have heard of kosciuszko county, indiana or one of many other statues and places in america, named after kosciuszko. and those of you who thought this was going to be a discussion about kosciuszko mustard... that discussion takes place at your local deli every day. [laughter]. >> no, this is about thaddeus kosciuszko, the peasants prince, and he and this age of revolu

the british arrested him in new york and he escaped and he made his way to philadelphia and in philadelphiahe opened up a bruje which was essentially a stock market but it was out of the back of a coffee shop. and so kosciuszko met him in philadelphia and he gave kosciuszko $142 which is most likely allowed him to sail back to poland and he understood the plight of the jews and he wrote to general green that, unfortunately, i'll be traveling around and i'll be, quote, in the situation of the israelites, perhaps i will be obliged to ramble on for two years or more and this is my misfortune. so obviously he's referring to the diaspora of the jews and he felt like he would be without a home. well, kosciuszko did make it back to poland. and when he made it back to poland, this is warsaw, he saw that the situation is even worse than it was before. the russians were controlling more and more things. and serfdom was even more brutal and kosciuszko wrote to his sister, serfdom is a word that must be cursed by all enlightened nations. now, luckily there were many people in poland at the time who agr

i was talking about the rising cost, but in philadelphia, premiums rose 221% for ob-gyn's, in philadelphia, between 2000 and 2008. premiums rose 149% for general surgeons in new jersey. premiums rose 348% for internists in connecticut over that 2000 to 2008 period. so

this one, philadelphia v.a. hospital, botched 92 of 116 treatments over six years. then covered it up. let me repeat, madam speaker. the v.a. government health care hospital in philadelphia medically errored in 92 of 116 cancer treatments. the medical team continued performing these radiation implants even though for over a year the equipment that measured whether or not the patient had received proper radiation dosage was broken. records prove that the radiation safety committee at the veterans hospital knew of this problem but took no action. in philadelphia, 57 of the implants delivered too little radiation to the prostate, either because the seeds were planted in the wrong organ or were not distributed properly inside the prostate. 35 other cases involved overdoses to other parts of the body. an unspecified number of patients were both underdosed in the prostate and overdosed somewhere else in their body. this is a horrible way to treat america's veterans. another patient a. 21-year-old veteran of the -- 21-year veteran of the air force had to remain in bed six

the reigning world champ the philadelphia phillies. each of the three, rich hill, brad bergesen and jeremy guthrie pitched into the seventh inning. the defense was on their toes because the pitchers threw a lot of strikes. a lot about standing defense and clutch hitting. close ballgames, it makes just one or two good the difference. in florida, a different story. brushing mistakes. fielding -- baserunning mistakes, fielding to give the marlins extra outs and they took full advantage of it. matt wieters' first error and emilio bonifacio would score from first base when felix pie held the ball too long. that was the difference in the ballgame. when you look at the two series, it's quite a departure. 3-0 in philadelphia. they've lost the first two games here and scored five runs per game in philadelphia. different story down here and they only hit .240 against a very good florida marlins pitching staff. they have to grind and win this game. a 4-2 road trip isn't bad, but it's not as good as you expected when you start out 3- 0. >> jim: ni

a gentleman named matt this piece and the philadelphia paper.e is founder of something known as the potomac strategy group. he writes, perhaps john mccain was right about barack obama being the biggest celebrity in the world. the media focused on profiting from his celebrity have been failing to report objectively on his policies. we have seen a number of beverages examples of bias of the five months since his inauguration. he writes that before obama left for the least nbc news aired four hours of interviews in prime-time over two nights to give your support of the day in the life of the white house. cbs news weighed in last week with its "two sides. of sides" if there the first part on father's day in the second of the next day. on wednesday abc news aired "a conversation with the president ," and hourlong prime-time special on health care reform take in the east room of the white house. abc projected reasonable requests to include opposing voices during the infomercial. matt goes on to write in this paper, with this sweep of obama's policy de

mets will be only two games back of philadelphia.ta hammered the red sox 8-2 at fenway tonight against dykes. 3-1. -- dies kay. >> rob: kawakama and d daisuke matsuzaka matched up tonight? >> bob: it was. >> rob: wow, moodia must have been going bonkers. >> bob: 3-1 on rios. beimel walks him with two outs. >> rob: well, he got ahead of him. he got a little too fine on that outer edge. a lefty on deck. not the worst walk in the world. >> bob: that lefty is lyle overbay. >> rob: this is a very good contact hitter, very take russ -- dangerous guy. >> bob: 22 homers, 92 rbi's first gleer toronto looked like he was headed for stardom and then a right hand injury got him in '07 and last year he hit .270 with 15 home runs. >> rob: i saw him a lot when he was with the milwaukee brewers and he's got a really nice swing. built for power. >> bob: 87 rbi's and 72 there after coming over from arizona. >> rob: need to start getting out fans. pitcher gets one strike, two outs in an inning, get them up. get them clapping. get the word out on the str

they saw three in philadelphia.hey will face miller here tonight and then they will face another left-hander in game three of this series in shawn west. quite a host of left-handers they've faced recently. >> jim: ball one to nolan reimold who is in the six spot and there is a strike. 1-1 the count. there is a shard smash rite to uggla and the first two ground balls and the first two quick outs. the one thing about andrew miller, even though his e.r.a. is 4.56, he does keep the baseball in the ballpark. he has allowed only two home runs on the year. both to right-handed batters. and he has allowed only one home run over his last five starts coming into this game. >> buck: you can see the last couple of balls sharply hit. they were on the ground. you're not going to get them elevated when you're in the zone. he has pitched much better here in this ballpark. this is a pretty good pitcher's ballpark. it is not unlike fenway park when if you keep the hitters to center and right field, you have a lot of room to pick up s

end he was traded from philadelphia to seattle, but didn't stay there at all. ended up down here with the florida marlins. >> jim: 1-1 the count ton paulino. check swing and it's outside. appeal to first. he did not swing says wally bell. >> buck: one thing that matt wieters is going to have to be aware of tonight, is beings -- it looks like when they goat a two strike situation, marlins are going to look breaking ball. he checked his swing just in time on that outside fastball. -- outside fastball. >> jim: 2-1 is low. ball three. >> buck: used a changeup there. one thing you have to be aware of, if you see batters sitting back looking for that hook, then you've got to throw some more heil high fastballs to make themchange their game plan and start to get on the fastball again. then you can go back to the hook. >> jim: uggla chased back to first. there have been only five stolen base attempts against rich hill on the year. four have been successful. the orioles have caught the other. high fly ball deep to right center field. jones, a long runway out there. he r

we can go from new york to philadelphia in 33 minutes. we can consign the shuttle to the rusty.and by doing that we can improve east-west traffic all over the eastern seaboard. we shouldn't be flying people 500 miles or less. we should put them on high-speed trains. now reabthern asked a very important question. -- now, ranking member thorn asked a very important question. what should be given priority? i suggest we create a national infrastructure bank staffed by professionals, not necessarily professionals all of them in transportation. it could be some former members of congress. some former secretaries of transportation. and rank projects on a cost benefit analysis, rank projects on priority, what they do for transporting people, how many people, the effect on climate change. an independent ranking system. because the public wants that. the public doesn't want transportation dollars authorized through the same old system. and certainly not for projects on this magnitude. and lastly, how are we going to pay for it? because $13 billion, as ranking member thorn said, it is a lo

danys baez last worked on saturday in philadelphia. he was on the mound when ryan howard came off the bench and hit the pinch hit and that caused brad bergesen. and cody ross gets on leading off here in the seventh inning, and he has a two-hit night. a tie game. the lead-off man on in the seven spring training. this copyrighted telecast is presented by authority of the orioles and may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form and any accounts of descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without the express written consent of the orioles. so baez on. it has been a very good year for the orioles and here is the number eight batter, john baker. baker is showing sacrafice. >> buck: the number eight hitter in this situation at home in a national league ballpark, you expect them to at least try to advance a runner, whether it is sacrafice, play hit and run. they have a pinch hitter out on deck. >> buck: there is a bunt to third. melvin mora fields. back to first and not in time on the relay. but once again the orioles quickly poun

to build a high-speed train from philadelphia to pittsburgh which would link the mid-atlantic to the midwest would cost between $20 billion, and $25 billion. a couple months, a couple weeks ago, vice-president joe biden had a meeting with 6 governors and it was an interesting meeting. the governors were pushing for their own projects, the midwest governors said they had a plan to meet link the midwestern cities, 110 miles an hour. gov. cheney said there is a plan to link richmond and washington with 110 mile an hour trains. gov. nixon of missouri spoke up and governor patrick of massachusetts and myself said slowdown, we can't make this effort building 100 miles an hour train systems, or else we are truly consigning ourselves to be a second-class nation when it comes to transporting our citizens. we have to look at the maglevs and latrines, if we did the work we needed on amtrak we could go from new york to washington in an hour and 30 minutes, new york to philadelphia in 33 minutes, we could consign the shuttle to the rest heat and by doing that we could improve east/west air traffi

the councilman ran at large in philadelphia which only has 7% registered hispanics. very often would come in number one of all the candidates on the ballot. we've just elected in the last election in philadelphia a wonderful councilwoman who won in a district was not 50% latino. she won because she was the best candidate and ran the best campaign. campaign. we have a secretary of state he has risen to be president of the natural secretary of states association, and he has supervised two presidential elections, in 2004 and 2008, when pennsylvania was the center of the universe, and there was not one hint of any problem in either of those elections, and remarkable feat by a remarkable man. [applause] and we made great progress politically and some progress with groups like esperanza on social and other fronts, but that progress is challenged by two things, and i just want to take a minute to talk about those two things that are challenging the progress. first is education. i am so pleased that we have made so much today in pennsylvania in six years in education. 36 per

speaking of philadelphia, though, our biggest need right now is our infrastructure. we still have an old system. and we still have to concentrate on rebuilding our assets, our transit assets, not only in philadelphia but in all the old rail cities. the fta report identifying a need of $50 billion to bring these systems up to -- a state of good repair. and i really want to commend you, mr. chairman, for your leadership, especially, with the authorization proposal that you set forth and we really think that will go a long way in allowing transit agencies to rebuild their systems. >> we've used a project expediting in aviation to speed up aviation projects. we included that in the 2003 aviation authorization bill and then adapted those concepts to the provision 6001 in the code in the legislation and have you had experience in the expediting procedures in aviation? >> i think just specific on the stimulus programs, absolutely. but i think really where, i think, the industry sees that benefit is -- we know that next gen is a great technology and that's the solution in th

scott's only win this season came april 29th at philadelphia. >> bob: in that ballgame, scott olsen went 5 2/3, struck out six and walked a couple. he went seven against the marlins at home. the nats had a late meltdown. he was up 6-3, but he left that game and the nats lost it. hanley ramirez 2 for 2 with a singular approach tonight. he's taken the ball up the middle twice, once for an rbi. >> rob: last time we saw him, he was struggling. >> bob: when you see a guy

this is from "the philadelphia inquirer," and this is one of them. there's definitely a bias for the president -- we have a caller now from franklin, new hampshire. caller: a think it is the type of media, as far as the visual, sound, the radio -- he sounds good and looks great and is easy to sell, but the further you get away from where you visually watch him and listen to him -- i believe in print. i religiously read "mother jones" and as far as i'm concerned by this is all in the eye of the beholder. but if you take away the spotlight and the sound and you get to the text -- that is what journalism has failed the american people with the most. we're looking for a 32nd psalm by. we do not really care about the real details. host: and earlier caller mentioned a gay-rights issues. "the new york times" has this story. the political shifts on their rights are lagging behind the culture. for 15 minutes in the oval office one of president obama's top campaign lieutenants tell the president about the herd, anxiety and anger that he and other gay supporter

we just elected in the munenuss pal election in philadelphia a wonderful council woman, maria sanchez, and she won in a district that was not 50% latino. she won because she was the best candidate and ran the best campaign. we have a secretary of state who was appointed by me in my first year of office. he has risen to be president of the national secretary of states association, and he's supervised two presidential elections, in 2004 and 2008, when pennsylvania was the center of the universe and there wasn't one hint of any problem in either of those elections. a remarkable fete by a remarkable young man. [applause] and we've made great progress politically and some progress with groups like ees&a in social and economic fronts. but that progress is challenged today by two things. i just want to take a minute to talk about the two thing that is are challenging those. first is education. i am so pleased that we have made so much gain in pennsylvania in six years in education. 30% more of our children are both proficient in math and in skyance than six years ago. math and english than s

philadelphia, we looked at that schedule right there where orioles will be next week. they're the world champs. mets have all kind of injuries. they're not the red sox or the yankees. >> gary: no. no, there's no question i don't think anymore that the eastern division of the american league, that's the tough one to compete in. tampa bay made it tougher with a run and improvement they had last year. there's nothing wrong withtoronto's pitching if they can stay healthy. it's very tough. very tough division. nick markakis, leadoff man on. orioles have just three hits, all singles off pelfrey. trying to get something going now in the sixth inning as pelfrey has retired the leadoff man in the previous five innings. it's the first time orioles have been able to get somebody on to try to kick it off. >> jim: his pitch count in the 90s at 93. nobody up in the bullpen. >> gary: markakis takes it to right field. that is back. that is way back at the wall! good-bye, home run! nick markakis! a two rbi shot for the orioles and they cut the lead in half. it is 4-2. >> jim: you want

. >>> the orioles come from philadelphia and complete a three-game sweep. >> we'll take a look back at the orioles' sweep of the world champions and compare the birds' last road trip to this one. >> dennis sarfate will make a second appearance in dennis the menace. >> today we're going to take a look at media look-alikes. >> and roch kubatko will discuss whether or not the team is in need of a left-handed specialist. all of that and much more coming up in the next 30 inits on "o's xtra" here on masn! >>> welcome to an evening of orioles' baseball. this is the first of three in south florida. the orioles have won five straight and are 9-3 against the national league teams which is the best in baseball. tonight the orioles send koji u larra to the mound. the marlins send left-handed andrew miller, who is 2-3 with a 4.56 e.r.a. "o's xtra" masn is being brought to you by at&t. tom davis together with rick dempsey. the orioles five straight wins now, rick. better pitching or better hitting? >> i like the way both of it is going now. the reason i like the offense so much is because they're s

now, there isn't a residence in west philadelphia and all philadelphia and baltimore and in the northeast corridor through boston that doesn't have a porch. so you make an analogy that makes absolutely no sense. now, i have to ask you, if you still believe in what you believe, aren't you kind of like stuck with an adolescent behavioral development problem? you're 65 years old with earrings in your ears and you come up with these naive statements that have evidence to have failed from the ussr through china, so i say to you, sir, that more bullets came at me and i was wounded, not because of the nva as much because i was in a seige for four days than through your efforts, which increased the moral enemies' thinking. that's my statement, sir. one other thing, are you a communist? >> host: let's leave it there. lots to work with. bail ayers. >> guest: there's a lot to work with. it's true. i'm not incorporated. i do have earrings. i got them when i was 20. i'm reluctant to take them out. i don't know what that indicates. michael jordan has earrings so it's not a gang symbol. the question the

when he received an invitation to give a speech in philadelphia, he decided to accept it. think one of the main reasons he decided to accept it was because it would give him an excuse to take a road trip. he said he wanted to give the new chrysler a real tryout. and this would be the perfect way to do it. drive to the east coast and back again. they could go to washington and see some friends, go up to new york and see their daughter, margaret, who was living there at the time. i also think he wanted to make the transition from being mr. president to as he called it mr. citizen. one of his heroes was the roman general cinanitus who forsook power after battle and went back to the farm. harry believed he could make the move from being leader from the free world to playing private citizen and this was one way he could do it. was by taking this trip. bess perhaps the voice of reason. harry thought he could be hidden. they weren't young at this point. 68, 69 years old. believe me, that's young. but bus realized also the physical toll it would take -- harry did all the driving w

his new format includes a symphony, original music, the prototype premiered in philadelphia a couple of months ago and it's an all-star cast of contributors. the book has 21 essays, it was brought to life if this symphony, peter nea niro and the philadelphia philharmonic performed the music. roger is a legendary jazz poiser, pianist, composer, recently toured with tony bennett, wrote the theme to "all in the family," as far as his imprint on popular culture and roger performed the original score and performed live. the award winning team of alex an marilyn bergman wrote original songs that were performed by grammy winner peat austin. -- patty austin. so this premiered for a week in philadelphia and now it's being refined to become a national and even international tour. along with the book, it's the latest iteration of joe's classroom work, his telling of the story of america. and so in addition to those projects, he's going to begin a national speaking tour and kicks that off today with you. so without further ado, allow me to introduce writer, producer, story teller, photographer,

i come from west philadelphia. underprivileged, a lot poorer than a lot of blacks, as a matter of fact, and was drafted geographically before the lottery. now, there isn't a residence in west philadelphia or all philadelphia and baltimore and the northeast corridor all the way up through boston that doesn't have a porch. so, you know, you make an analogy that makes absolutely no sense. now, i have to ask you if you still believe in what you believe, aren't you kind of, like, stuck with an adolescent behavioral development problem? i mean, look at you, you're 65 years old with earrings in your ears, and you come off with these naive ideological statements that have evidence to have failed all the way through ussr and china. i say to you, sir, that more bullets came at me and i was wounded not because of the nva as much because i was in a major siege for four days than through your efforts which increased the moral enemy's thinking. so that's my statement, sir. oh, one other thing. are you a communist? >> host: georg

benjamin rush from philadelphia wrote that he thought there was a concerted decision made by congress in the winter of 1778 to make washington the national icon. we were the only country that didn't have a came. the king's work to a considerable degree symbolic figures. they were the figure around which people could rally, and the nation could be sustained. john adams, after the war, said the same thing, there was a decision made early in 1778 in congress to make washington the central stone, as he put it, in the national arch. that is the glorification of washington, where it really begins, and this idea of washington being indispensable, develops. as adams said, congress protected washington in many ways. it hidden from the american people washington's mistakes, it embellished small triumphs that washington had, try to make washington appeared to be better. they realized they had to have some sort of blew of that sort. >> one observation, that business about john adams, there was an article of long time ago, in the 50s, in the william and mary quarterly, that discusses that. he was

a lot of people in philadelphia are calling for madsen to close. i don't think the team is, but fans are. >> we look ahead to that game. >> world cup soccer qualifying. the u.s. looking to bounce back from a terrible 3-1 loss to costa rica this week in the final round. hosting team honduras at soldiers field. the horrible turnover. honduras on the break. the man who scored two goals against mexico in an upset 3-1 april 1st, puts the u.s. down 1-0 quick. with the u.s. tied it up at 1-1, penalty kicks. second half now, dempsey blows that chance. a costly mistake by him, another one. tied at 1-1. 68th minute, the corner kick. the captain with the header. the stars and stripes win 2-1. first come-from-behind win for the americans in a world cup qualifier in 24 years! the u.s. a key win, is in second place in the standings trailing costa rica. the top three teams at the end of qualifying win bids to the 2010 world cup in south africa. the u.s.' next qualifying match is august 12th against mexico. >> red may just be roger federer's favorite color right n

we'll conclude tomorrow, then the team will be on to philadelphia for the weekend set. it will be hill, bergesen and guthrie in philadelphia. >> jim: bobby parnell, we saw him last night, faced two batters, they both got up. he did throw in the upper 90s. big, tall right-hander. starter last year at double-a affiliate for the mets. >> gary: a breaking ball that comes in hard. hard slider to robert andino. andino is 0 for 2, a fielder's choice and has struck out. 31,906 the announced attendance. they're seeing a heck of a ballgame tied up here in the bottom of the sixth inning. throw over again. reimold back to the bag. one down. parnell is a flamethrower. even the breaking balls that he throws tend to be really hard, like that slider you saw. 33rd appearance, he's done a lot of work. here's the 1-0 delivery. check swing and a ball inside. a strike called. that was close. >> jim: last year he was 10-6. then went up to triple-a, he was with the mets for five innings at the end of the year. but he does have an awfully good arm. >> gary: taken in the air to center field. be

philadelphia extending its lead in the national league east on the ibanez home run. 21st of the season who averaged 21 per season since becoming a full-time player about six years ago. a career year for the 37-year-old who comes over from seattle and delivers in extra innings for philadelphia tonig tonight. >> also in the n.l. east, the pirates and the braves. not quite as much as those two teams, but they are in the nl east. >> that's true. vazquez leads the national league in strikeouts with 12 tonight. over 100 for the season. top of the ninth though, soriano comes in and serves up three hits. including that one to laroche, and makes it a 3-1 ballgame. then kelly johnson, is he safe or out at first? you make the call. actually, you don't make the call. the ump does. he called him out. bobby cox doesn't like that. he throws his cap. >> that's asuch a weak throw. every time i see that. >> pittsburgh with the victory. the braves finish the homestand 4-5. the pirates back home hosting the tigers. >> all right, the san francisco giants looking for a sweep of the arizona diamondbacks. tha

first off, let's talk about the philadelphia outfield without raul ibanez. he's on the d.l.oin problem. the other three guy should not be dropped. let's assume it's a short-term stint. john mayberry comes up from the minors but he's raw, to be used against left-handed pitching. il would recommend him for the best match-up as well as stairs and dobbs. nothing to worry. 5-1 on the season with a 3.70 e.r.a., feldman has allowed more than three runs in only one of his starts all year. he should pitch well at san francisco. finally, why can't joe saunders get any love? the lefty did win 17 games with a 3.41 e.r.a. last season and he's on pace for a similar campaign this year. why is he available in a third of espn leagues? i don't know. saunders and his 2.74 home e.r.a. this season will be on display friday against the dodgers. pick him up and keep him around. espn.com -- the best place for fantasy analysis on the web. check out our articles, videos, podcasts and chats. do better in your league. >> michael cuddyer does a little yard work -- justin morneau going the opposite way.

abigail had given careful thought to the forum in philadelphia, from which she as a woman was excluded, and there were a number of issues of which she was irritated. slavery was one. and wile she was ruminating on the paradox of the delegates talking and writing about liberty and freedom, wile all the while excluding some groups from the benefit of ideological mission, she introduced another delicate topic. alone at her kitchen table at night, writing by canned light, as her household slept, abigail had the time to focus her mind and her thoughts drifted to the forum at philadelphia and to her husband. this was her moment to consider issues that were important to her, and so she initiated another sadicious. i long to hear that you have declared an independence and by the way in the new code of law which i suppose it will be necessary for you to peak, i would desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. that was an audacious move. again, as she sat, her thoughts carried he

pilot: affirmative, it's on. >> gary: join us tomorrow, philadelphia is the site. coverage starts at 6:30 with os extra. all the access you need right here on masn. we go to the 7th inning, the tight ballgame. jason berken and livan hernandez, the two starters, still rattling. bottom part of the order, martinez to short. on the fly. >> jim: i hope -- he was lookg over at second baseman umpire, kellogg, if he catch it, he doesn't make the call -- if yu catch it, he doesn't make the call. he might have caught it, but he was looking, you better come p firing. if that right arm doesn't come up, that might be a base hit. >> gary: and kellogg was blocked. >> jim: i think he just went r the call. a rather good salesman. >> gary: one down. >> jim: he's a good every hi n shortstop. the problem for him can i be an utility guy when i'm used to playing when i'm not -- >> gary: 1-1 count. castillo has had a hit for a while as he got it in the third inning.2-1 delivery. castillo will take it up high and the count goes 3-1. there's

phillies are hosting the orioles 4-2 baltimore in the bottom of the sixth at philadelphia.tion the marlins trailing the yankees. it's still 5-1 there. mets at home lead tampa bay 4- 0. atlanta, 6-0 at boston. josh bard down the line. what do you think? it's just to the left of the foul pole. at the .336 mark, he was flirting with his second home run of the year. >> rob: carlson tried to get this ball down broadway. it's a ball down and in to the sweet spot. josh bard swing. he just got lucky with that one. did he go? yes, he did. james hoye punches him out from first. one out here in the sixth. let's see what the guys behind the plate called it. >> rob: very good 3 2-ball. the dorks behind home plate, yep, they rung him up. >> bob: oh, my gosh. >> rob: thought it was funny when the yankees were playing blue jays newspaper toronto. now you're starting to follow the blue jays around with those outfits? >> bob: i'm not laughing at them. i'm laughing at you watching them. >> rob: what? because i'm getting irritated? >> bob: i love this. >> rob: i wouldn't mind if they were ring

. >> someone were to transport diastema one barges from new york or philadelphia and then to traverse the canal with mules as the cab company provides the ? web do not understand? >> the workings. tell the canal actually worked? >> yes. if one were to deliver once barges to the canal by steam and the owner of the barges didn't have yules -- >> they did. the barges that operated on the canal, a sense of the system was a barge and a mule. the bill pulled the barge along the canal. maybe i'm not understanding your question. >> suppose the barges started in new york or philadelphia. they were towed by steam. >> right. >> they were left there, i assume. they would just be left there. >> right. >> how did they traverse the canal? >> well, most kids would not come up the hudson river in barges. they would go up the hudson river initially for a brief time in a sailing ships, but ultimately in increasingly larger steamboats. so it was a separate segment. bids went from new york city up the hudson to albany. then they bertrand's shipped to canal barges. did i answer your question? i'm not su

, and then the quakers seemed to have begged the scotch irish to send their militias to defend philadelphia. i have no argument with the quakers. i rather like them, but, the character, the community i grew up in, communicated to me that essentially, anybody can do anything. that you don't stand on degrees or titles, performance is the only sane way to measure anybody. so, you ought to teach your a-students to cough -- can they do anything that somebody else would say, wow! that is meritorious? or we need you, come help us. we're drowning in a-students right now, that are -- don't have any idea what to do. [laughter]. >> because they listen to orders and no one -- [applause]. >> no one is available to give any orders, that make any sense. >> one more question. only time for one more. >> [inaudible]. >> [laughter]. >> short answer. >> i must say, that when i got interdo you haved to the world of libertarians, that was practically the first question i was asked, and oddly enough, i had read the found head, which i thought was a pretty good story. although it was a bad movie made from it. ther

teamed up with amtrak we invested $145 million and improved the time on that philadelphia to harrisburg line from 120 minutes to 90 minutes and in two short years, our ridership has gone from 898,000 to nearly 1.2 million as a result of that change. if we build it right, people will ride it. i have no doubt about that. there has been similar progress around the country and a lot of emphasis on doing what we did. the harrisburg line is improved to 110 miles per hour. i'll talk about that in a second. i believe as we look at intercity passenger rail, we can't be content as a nation to build out 110-mile systems. if we do that, we're absolutely consigning ourselveses to second class citizenship compared to asia and europe. we have to find a way to build and finance true high speed rail. as you know, the train in shanghai runs at 268 miles per hour. the japanese bullet trains are at 170 miles per hour. the french t.v.g. is at 160 miles per hour. we can't be content to just build out an ordinary system. what will high speed rail do for us in addition to moving passengers and helping our clim

vernon wells made a spectacular diving play in philadelphia yesterday.alex rios and adam lind on the flanks in the outfield. scott rolen, very good as we mentioned. lyle overbay and rod barajas has always been a solid, major league catcher. >> rob: not a lot of original blue jays on this team. >> bob: right. up and away to ryan zimmerman who is an original nat. >> rob: richardi is a very busy manager. >> bob: he's a wheeler dealer. >> rob: he is. >> bob: one on, one out. zimmerman at .310. 2-0. interesting about ryan. this year he's hitting .335 against right-handed pitchers. so, you figure he must murder lefties. you don't see lefties that often. then, you're facing guys like this who is so -- who are so hedeceptive. rite ryan's batting average against lefties considerably lower than that .335. >> rob: especially against a good changeup lefty like this guy or johan santana. those pitchers will do better against righties than lefties because lefties take the changeup away from a left- handed pitcher. >> bob: a couple of interleague battles already signif

>> if someone were to transport i guess by steam one's barges from new york or philadelphia to albany, and in the to traverse the canal by -- with mules, does the canal company provide the mules or what do i not understand about that. >> you mean the workings, how the canal actually worked? well, yes. if one were to deliver one's barges to the canal, and by steam, and, the owner of the barges didn't have mules -- >> they did. i mean, the barges that operated on the canal, essentially the system was a barge and a mule and it was the mule that pulled the barge along the canal. maybe i'm not understanding your question. >> the barges started in new york. >> suppose they started in new york and philadelphia and were towed by steam, up to albany. >> right. >> and were left there, would be left there, and how did they traverse the canal to -- buffalo, for example. >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges, they got to the hudson river. >> initially, in sailing ships but ultimately in increasingly larger steam boats, a steamboat having been invented in 1807 and the canal com

amtrak and pennsylvania shared the $145 million cost of the expansion of philadelphia to harrisburg. >> that's a good suggestion and one that we ought to i think take to heart if which do when we start looking at evaluating these projects. >> senator, it is a key part of our plan. >> it is, ok. and let me ask ms. fleming to sort of follow-up that question too. do you think the department should take or make sure these forecasts, when it relies on this information that you want to make them as accurate as possible. i guess my question is, do you believe there ought to be a neutral party that evalue waits these forecasts too in addition to having the -- >> ridership and other forecasts are key factors in determining whether a project or a system is going to be economically viable. and unfortunately, you know, statistics and results have shown that ridership tends to be overestimated and costs tends to be underestimated. so we feel there are several ways to try to get and provide more reliable statistics. the first would be kind of following governor rendell which is really obligating t

[inaudible] >> supposed the party started in new york or philadelphia and they were told by steam up to albany. >> right. >> and they were left there. i assume, they would just be left there. and how did they traverse the canal to buffalo, for example? >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges. they would go up the hudson river, initially for a brief period, but ultimately in increasingly larger steamboats, they had been invented in 1807 and the canal was inflated in 1825. so it was a separate segment, goodman from new york city up the hudson to albany and then they were transshipped to canal barges. to answer your question? >> i'm not sure i did. [inaudible] >> okay. go ahead. [inaudible] >> the mules were owned by the canal companies. and you have barges that took good and you also have barges that the passengers, but in all cases pulled by a originally by horses for the first couple of years, but then it was discovered that mules are actually, paul harder and longer and in a more docile manner. anyone else? >> how many companies were there? how many canal companie

new york namesake city, new york city, had recently displayed philadelphia as the nation's largest city and was taking control of the young american economy. infields drawing rooms and counting houses across the atlantic the words of new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and proto- industrialist alike. and yet, and till this fine morning, until this fall morning new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state and was virginia, pennsylvania, or even ohio, south carolina or illinois. nor was the nation assured of becoming a global empire it remains. in 1825, the united states were still plural in view, not a singular nationstate but sovereign state with the constitutional limited federal government. as late as 1855, walt whitman proclaimed with a verbal plurality, oh, the united states with vain to pull up political stuff, most in need but what. as opposed to the needs poets. abraham lincoln bearing the union at gettysburg finally change the grammar and the perception in the 18 '60s. in 1825 to see to shining sea continental nation a

according to a wiretap of a 1993 palestinian committee meeting in philadelphia, former holly land foundation president and c.e.o. spoke about playing down hamas ties in order to keep raising money in the u.s. another wiretapped phone call included abdul rack mad, holly land -- holy land foundation representative, referred to a suicide bombing as a beautiful operation. according to a national review article, in the precare days both awad and ahmad were top officers in the islamic association for palestine. former f.b.i. counterterrorism chief has called awad's former employee the islamic association for palestinian quote, a front organization for hamas that engages in propaganda for islamic militants, end of quote. a september 24, 2001, l.a. story described the connection between the islamic association of palestine and the holy land foundation this way, quote, the i.a.p. and the holy land were founded and funded by mazuk, he's also the political leader of the terrorist group, hamas. andrew mccarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the 1995 prosecution against shake omar abdul rahman, the

well this is chief little turtle who showed up in kosciuszko's room in philadelphia with a present. a combination tomahawk and peace pipe and he gave kosciuszko this peace pipe and said i hear the your a righteous white man standing up for everybody so we want to show you that we appreciate this. well, kosciuszko saw chief little turtle was squinting so he gave him his glasses and chief little turtle put on the glasses and said my got to have given me new highs. and kosciuszko also gave him his jacket and then he gave to pistols and said these pistols i've carried and used on many hard fought battle fields in defense of the oppressed, the week, the rahm of my own race. i now present them to you with the injunction with them you shoot dead the first man who comes to subjugate you or to spoil the view of your country. eventually in this room kosciuszko was visited quite often by thomas jefferson and the head during long discussions on slavery and the fact that thomas jefferson who was vice president at the time owned slaves. so kosciuszko decided by now the americans owed $17,000 what