pilgrim misses the three. the rebound. >> marques: how much more would that secure your case in the game? if you can get landry fields out of the game for a stretch here late in the second half. >> barry: they picked up anderson's double-clutch, and pilgrim rejects it. anderson one on one with shiller. now stanford gets help. >> that's the second time pilgrim has done a nice job on the right side. trotter is comes in for landry fields. >> barry: baseline, kickout for gulley. gulley leads for anderson. tough three, and he gets it. >> marques: landry fields with three fouls. you can't close out aggressively. he gets more time to get a he bead on the bucket. >> barry: anderson with 22. a little shot. muonelo comes away with it ahead to anderson. one on two all the way, and a foul. >> marques: the official takes away the bucket. but that finish was a thing of beauty. the setup may have been a bit flawed, but the finish was a masterpiece. >> barry: he's 0 for 4 here in the second half. >> marques: that was deflecte

most were shiite pilgrims on their way to the city of karbala. pilgrims and a funeral procession were also targets of multiple bombs in baghdad neighborhoods. the u.s. senate voted today to raise the federal debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion. the house already approved the increase of $290 billion over the current limit. it lets the treasury department issue enough bonds to finance government operation till mid- february. the senate vote was largely down party lines. there was encouraging economic news on this last business day before christmas. jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, and orders for durable goods rose in november. it was enough to bring good cheer to wall street. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 53 points to close at 10,520. the nasdaq rose 16 points to close at 2,285. for the week, the dow gained nearly 2%; the nasdaq was up 3%. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy

for example rites of passage for pilgrimmage, where the pilgrims walked on their knees or initiationsd so forth. we have all seen moms who were whipping themselves and that sort of thing, so i am an expert on fire religious people feel that they need to hurt themselves in order to get what they want, which is spiritual salvation. >> where do you teach? >> georgetown university. >> ariel glucklich, "dying for heaven" holy pleasure and suicide bombers - why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous. >> coming up from the 2009 miami book fair international a discussion on the supreme court. joan biskupic, author of american original presents her biography of justice antonin scalia. and barry friedman author of the will of the people argues the supreme court bases its decisions on popular opinion as much as it does on constitutional precedent. >> i thought i would start with the last chapter of the buck to make you understand why i even wrote this. many of you are familiar with the 2nd amendment case that the court decided about a year-and-a-half

that was the pilgrims on the mayflower, november 11, 1620. i've had people, i've met from harvard university, who are not familiar with their history and the fact that harvard university, september 26, 1642, this was part of their code, it was part of their handbook, quote, harvard university, let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies his to no kind and jesus christ which is eternal life and therefore to lay christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. and seeing the lord only gives wisdom, let everyone seriously set himself by prayer and secret to steek it of him. proverbs 2: 3, unquote. that's harvard university at its founding back in the year around 1642. and george washington's own personal prayer book which he read from daily, this is one of the entries in that prayer book of -- that was in washington's possession when he passed away. oh, most glorious god and jesus christ, i acknowledge and confess my faults in the weak perform

it was a de-5ans how american settlements dating back to the pilgrims city on a hill.e cheered, whiffled in approval and hoisted their jugs here here and after the future president left they decided to name their town for the big man. well, that spring there were 18 murders in taft. the town of taft was part of the public land domain of ellers koch 25-year-old supervisor of three national forests and a fresh-minted little g.p. pinchot never told him his empire would include some of the most openly lawless places in the country. pinchot always looked past the gambling dins and the mining claiming to the trees. quote, the forest is as beautiful as it is useful as he wrote on his primer on forestry. the old fairy-tale which spoke of it as a terrible place was wrong. no one know the feeling of the gentle influence of one of the strongest parts of nature but he had not visited the open sore of taft, montana. when koch and his crew of young rangers came up in town to show up, the cribs, the dance halls were going full throttling. the bars were lined with hard faced dance hal

in the rotunda, the pilgrims are having a prayer meeting with the bible open. and i know the gentleman's heart and christian faith and many are christian faith here and we don't try to push our religious beliefs on others, but you've got to recognize what a part of our heritage they are. now the pilgrims, being christians, signed a compact, an agreement among themselves, because they thought, you know what? we want liberty for everybody, but we're going to give that up and put that in a common pot and we're all going to own the land together and all bring end to the common storehouse and then divide equally. mr. lungren: how did that work? mr. gohmert: didn't work so well. they nearly starved to death. the incredible ability of the people in america to come up and innovate, they came up with this great idea, ok, we nearly starved half the people out, so what we are going to do from now, we're going to divide the property up and give everybody their own private property and then everybody works their own property, you're responsible for your upkeep and if you ha

and you get the exporters and the pilgrims, puritans and by the tenth book i just updated the tin the book. it will be held in february so we have chapters on katrina, afghanistan very difficult to write about now. all kind of corinthians. the ideas get more complex as you get to the tenth book. >> host: you start at 1600 copay >> guest: i start before 1600, the people coming over the bering strait. we're not sure, 30,000 years ago may be. >> host: how do you cover that? how do you do your research? >> guest: today i use the internet a lot but books. kids always ask me where you learn all of this? books, kids. i am a big time reader. in virginia beach where i lived when i was writing magic and take 15 books out from the library, i always had books and i would out line with history books line went to a lot of used bookstores. for history you can do that. for science you really can't. but yeah, i got my ideas from books and then with each book i had been read by an expert in the field. so, just to make sure that i was up to date. i had some -- some wonderful historians. one year writing

pilgrims come up curtains come next, and i just updated the next book. will have to represent katrina, afghanistan, very difficult to write about. a lot of current things. the idea is to get to the 10th book. i start before 1600. people coming over the bering strait. we're not sure, 30,000 years ago, maybe. >> and how did you do your research? >> today, i used the internet a lot. but kids always asked -- i am a big time reader. in virginia beach, where i lived when i was writing, i would always have 15 books. i buy books, i underline. but i got my idea for each one. when you are writing for kids, people want to help you. >> you have a 10-volume set right now. how many were written before publishing? >> 9.5. the publishing of u.s. history, or any history, is a huge scandal in this country, because big money-making affairs happen for three publishers. when i got started, there were none brought up. there are three publishers who split billions between that must approve school books are not about educating kids. they are in business. they are about making m

native americans breaking bread with pilgrims, a blending of two different cultures, one immigrant, one native. like my family, many families across this nation are a blend of many cultures and citizen statuses and are affected by our dysfunctional immigration system. mr. speaker, immigration reform is too important to be delayed. as we prepare to debate immigration reform, i'm working with my colleagues to ensure access to the american dream. just like you i too ambition the face of immigration. and all of us coming together representing the diversity of this great nation, the united states of america. thank you, mr. speaker. . ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material, mr. poe, december 10 for five minutes. mr. jones, december 10 for five minutes. mr. burton, december 7, 8, 9 and 10 for five minutes each. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the

host: at the same time you said earlier, you did not think dressing up as pilgrims -- guest: i do not want to say that i don't think you should do that. you should also be reading. we now have a history program that is all experiential. it is all dressing up. if you dress up into don't do the research, if it is just a momentary thing where the teacher sets the scene, the kids don't research themselves, and they are doing an experiential -- that's fine, but you don't remember. we need to have them participate and dress up and pretend, but the pretense has to be based on something actually. in the third book, i talk about, colonies to country -- about how history is pretending in a way. but attending based on information. -- pretending based on information. host: had their e-mails, if you mention the kent state massacre or wounded need to high school student, they have no idea what that is. guest: they don't know what the anomaly is. they don't know about the civil rights movement. -- they don't know what vietnam is. they know rosa parks. my 10th book goes into kent state in all of that