where in a -- what do -- robert cooper call it, a post-west failing world, and that somehow working together sharing sovereignty, focusing on the rule of law will make the 20th century, as you remember mark leonard saying, the 21st century europe century. i think some of the reality of that has come back home, and, no, actually, to be a real strategic power in this world, it is not enough to be economically strong which, by the way, in the last five years doesn't look that good, to have civic power, that's important, but you also need good old-fashioned hard military power. how far that has penetrated at the elite level isn't clear to me. it certainly hasn't penetrated enough in the parliamentary level, and we need to do a much better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. but let's be clear. it's not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support

where in a -- what do -- robert cooper call it, a post-west failing world, and that somehow working together sharing sovereignty, focusing on the rule of law will make the 20th century, as you remember mark leonard saying, the 21st century europe century. i think some of the reality of that has come back home, and, no, actually, to be a real strategic power in this world, it is not enough to be economically strong which, by the way, in the last five years doesn't look that good, to have civic power, that's important, but you also need good old-fashioned hard military power. how far that has penetrated at the elite level isn't clear to me. it certainly hasn't penetrated enough in the parliamentary level, and we need to d

robert cooper. >> thank you, mr. chairman, chairman rockefeller, ranking member, a committee member. it is an honor to be included with this distinguished panel today. i congratulate the committee chairman and this committee for taking on this important subject i want to use my limited time to talk about the case, as you alluded to, that we handled in the tennessee attorney general's office against companies that were targeting soldiers in tennessee with numerous on lawful business practices. after i've done that i want to touch on just a few lessons that we have learned from a litigation. the lawsuit began in 2005 when the tennessee attorney general's office filed a complaint in state court, obtaining a temper restraining order, asset freeze, and other relief against a seller of computers and other electronics. rome finance company which was financing those. these companies were targeting active duty soldiers at fort campbell which is on the tennessee kentucky border north of natural. our lawsuit alleged that they e

in 2002, the british diplomat robert cooper wrote an essay in which he argued that europe was a post-modern international system in which force was no longer a serious option. instead, economic interdepenence and cooperation were the idea. when one looks at the european union, it does describe its reality. the prospect of war between france and germany which had gone to war three times between 1870 and 1950 seems utterly impossible. but outside of europe, the world is not post-modern. the solution is double standards. within europe one set of rules. outside it, he recommends, rougher methods of an earlier era, force preemptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary. among ourselves we keep the law but when operating in the jungle, we must use the laws of the jungle he wrote. this is what was violated by nsa activities. washington was playing by the laws of the jungle but inside europe's post-modern system. partly this is because the distinction is not easy to maintain. what if you look for terrorists within europe. that is people who still play by the laws of the jungle or even worse. ame

chatting online with a cooperating witness about his drug website silk road when he was arrested in a san francisco library last month. prosecutors say he was known as the dread pirate robert as he handles millions of sales of drugs and pornography. >>> now for the first time, the director of california's deployment department was on the hot seat in san francisco. ktvu has been investigating the glitch for two months, ever since a computer update started delaying unemployment checks over the labor day weekend. ktvu ken pritchett is live in sacramento where they made the discovery. >> reporter: if lawmakers sound upset about the deployment development department. just imagine how nicholas lee must feel. he testified at the capitol about his ordeal. >> i don't understand what they are doing, what's wrong. maybe they should go back to the old system. >> reporter: he's emotional because the computer upgrade over the labor day weekend has left him without unemployment benefits. >> i've been borrowing money through my mom. i mean, i hate to do that, but i had to. >> reporter: they've been investigating money because of the plague of the computer upgradeservices she was out $3,60

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robert michael. by was tom foley's friend. he was the leader of the republican side of the aisle. colleagues,iends, and cooperateith one another to the benefit of this institution and its members. adsdean of the house correctly that benefit of our country and all of its citizens. themichael observed stability that each one of them displayed, and the willingness to reach out across the our -- across the aisle and make things happen positively for our citizens. individualther within the last week's. bill young. similar personality. he added luster to this congress. major owens was another whom we lost. four people who made this institution a better place. ike skelton was my brother. he and i were sigma chi. his son was a sigma chi. his father was a sigma chi. we had a very special bond to start out with. in addition, his first wife susan, who died too early, as mine did, came out and knocked on doors for me in maryland just on the road here. i have a special bond with ike, also an extraordinary and great respect by the way he conducted himself as a representative of the people of his district in missouri. the resp

their government operates, more cooperation, more transparency, less partisanship, more problem solving. monday's vote was one more example of why we need reform. judge robert wilkins, well qualified to serve on the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. he deserved an up-or-down vote. instead, what did we get? another filibuster. he's the fourth nominee to that court to be trampled on by the minority. not because he is unqualified, not because of any failing on his part but because a democratic president nominated him. for some, that is enough. that is all it takes to tell an imminent american to go home. first it was caitlin halligan in march, then patricia millett last month, followed by nina pillard last week and now robert wilkins. each of them exceptional. every one of them distinguished nominees. each would be a credit to the court of appeals. so the number four and counting. in baseball, three strikes and you are out. not so in the senate. but this isn't just about the rules. it's about having a senate that works. not one that buckles under the weight of filibusters. the partisan games continue and the game has gone on long enough because the losers

robert putnam, who did an in-depth study of racial diversity on posh -- on populations. one of the casualties of track -- casualties of diversity is loss of trust. there's less cooperation, lest trust. there's less volunteerism, less people just associating together. do you have news media sources you trust? i trust c-span and i want -- and i watch fox news. just to see how segregated we are, we are sorting ourselves and segregating ourselves. we don't want diversity. we cling to the bumper sticker that we love diversity, we don't. we want to be people -- we want to be around people who think like us. there's nothing wrong with that. the thing about the media, think about when we were kids. -- can yountain imagine walter cronkhite yelling at harry reasoner? we watched the news, we were united as a homogenous people. analyses were segregated. we have spanish tv, black tv, liberal tv. in "usa today" this morning -- ar here's pat from jackson, tennessee. caller: good morning. inform you that i get my news from msnbc, but i am likeid c-span watcher. i it when you have the specialists on, the experts on. but sometimes you have so many of the bloggers and the ones that come o