liberals -- ideal a lot with pseudoscience. nobody thinks they are pseudosciences. i am going to my pseudo lab to collect pseudo faq and the fed buys pseudoscientific theories. nobody thinks that. liberals don't think that either. the value of being a libertarian is we are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. you can find common ground and shift them over. it is the same principle you see here that applies over here. for freedom, you should be for freedom not only in this area but this area over here and you nudge them that way. part of the problem we run into here is i discuss in my chapter on politics in "the believing brain" that liberals and conservatives tend to emphasize different moral values. one of them is better than the other, it is like i believe in helping the poor and that it is government's job to take care of the needy and so on and the people who fall through the cracks. conservatives want to emphasize a group value, rule of law, patriotism and so on. how are these related? you have to find common ground. i believe we should take care of the

what i have a problem with is pseudoscience. global warming, i probably participated in more hearings on global warming than almost any other congressman or senator and shared a large number of them. there are a large number of scientists who think man-made co2 does cause global warming, but there are also a large group of scientists to either say it does not or if there is no declared of evidence that states it is a fact. i have no problem doing continuing research on global warming, but i do not want to bet the u.s. economy on an unproven theory, is it is a fact that if you have to significantly reduce co2 you will cost tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs and severely impact of in a negative way, the u.s. economy. i do not think too many members of the house and senate or even the president of the united states for that matter is ready to do that. host: last call for you is from sheffield, alabama. charlotte on the phone for you. caller: i am just commenting on statement you made earlier when you said texas