and strom thurmond became apoplectic, and he said-- literally, i thought he was shaking. he said, "ah, the first amendment "is an excuse for people to do things they shouldn't be doing." hmm. and from--i was very, very concerned that i was just going to antagonize other people who were so far right as strom thurmond if i started to talk again about first amendment or freedom of expression, so i couched it in other terms. and do you think that's because they don't believe in the first amendment or believe that you're just using the first amendment as a cover for dastardly speech and art? i don't know the answer to that. i think only strom thurmond and the other conservatives who thought that way know the answer to that. i do believe that in my four years that congress was trying to take more power away from the constitution and the judicial branch and the executive branch of government. but those checks and balances that we have in our system and the fight of the legislative branch to constantly try to wrest more power from the other two has been ongoing in our history. an

and strom earthquake in the middle of the night when most people would have been at home. the epicenter was near the town that is a rural area that is vastly populated. traditional homes are not designed to withstand strong seismic events. the united states marine corps uses a local air field for part of its operations into the afghanistan. a key point here is the depth of the earthquake. the belief it was near the earth's surface. it would have meant damage to property and live. it now appears to have been deeper. >> it is deeper than we are regionally but. that may help to minimize the destruction a bit. it is a very seismic area. parts are quite complex. the indian subcontinent is being pushed in carried on a plate, push northwards into the asian play. >> it killed more than 70,000 people. although it seems to have been weaker and deeper, the lack of communications means that we will not know for some time the extent of the damage. >> the government of chilly has reached a still to and gas prices. it does been revised to an increase of 3%. >> you are watching bbc news.

that is what strom thurmond did, that is what robert dole did. they held up for 18, 19 hours. let's have a real filibuster, not this phony -- >> an act of terrorism now. >> the democrats should be really careful what they hope for. it is democrats who are proposing the change of rules. nothing large is going to come out of the congress anyway in the next two years. the republican house is going to stop it. what is likely is that 1023 democrats are up for reelection in 2012 -- is that 23 democrats are up for reelection in 2012. it looks like a republican senate, and then they have the run of the kind as if you abolish the rule. -- run of the congress if you abolish the rule. democrats are being extremely shortsighted. >> it really is completely undemocratic as it works now. whoever is in charge of to be able to pursue their agenda unless people are willing to stand up and fight against it. i am not proposing to abolish the filibuster. i'm proposing to make it a tool it once was, rare. >> charles' rosy scenario -- lord knows he has a rosy scenario for 2012 -- a republican in the

trial in madison in wisconsin, so they took me to the south of carolina, and they put me on trial in strom thurmond federal courthouse in charleston, south carolina. across the street was the confederate cemetery. from the courthouse, they flew two flags -- the u.s. flag and the confederate battle flag, which was the state flag of south carolina. from the court room, i could look out the window and seaport sumter in the distance -- see fort sumter. they put me on a case with no marijuana. they invented imaginary marijuana. they said i was charged with conspiring to contribute 10 tons of colombian marijuana. i pled not guilty. i had a jury trial. i was found guilty on one account, acquitted on nine. i had an appellate case and the supreme court case. i was then facing 15 years. since may to nine. when i went to federal prison, i did time in eight different states in nine different federal prisons, including four penitentiaries -- that is a maximum security. including the united states penitentiary at marion, the first super federal max. that is on a marijuana convention. -- conviction. i sp

limb lynn strom in blue beats hometown hero stall. 11-10.hicago's patrick sharp is named the mvp. >>> more skating, u.s. men's figure skating championship, brian bradley had a big league going to the preskate, blew the landing on a pair of quad jumps, but clean the rest of the way. his free skate was only the fourth best, but it was enough to win, ending abbott's two- year reign. >>> last night on the women's side, great drama, great story, great skating. 23-year-old alyssa sisney bounced back from a 10th place finish a year ago to win her second career national title, edging defending champion rachel flat. >>> golf, tiger woods began much like his 2010 season ended. he finished the farmers insurance open just one stroke under par, 15 off the lead. torrey pines in san diego, the jacket, bowls of soup apparently. it was a battle of lefties down the stretch. phil mickelson's approach on 17. oh, struggled to within 4 feet. he would birdie the hole to close within a stroke of bubba watson. watson on the 18th hole was in trouble, got out of the s

. >> reporter: strom thurman holds the record for the longest filibuster, 24 hours plus, and he was part record 57-day effort-- unsuccessful-- to block the 1964 civil rights act. in the last two years, both parties began using this tactic more and more often and in the last session republicans used the filibuster against virtually every controversial bill and nomination and some that weren't controversial at all. >> filibusters were applied or threatened to almost every routine piece of legislation and vast numbers of nominees. so the process has just changed dramatically in the last four to six years. >> reporter: these days, senators don't have to stand up and talk endlessly, the mere intent to filibuster forces the majority to round up those 60 votes and the tactic can be used over and over. for every amendment and at every step of the process. >> the senate will take up this issue in about two weeks but some democrats who fear they may lose the senate next year may be wondering just how much they want to change rules they might want to use if they're in the minority again, katie? >>

defenders of white privilege like strom thurmond domain to representative sims and orrin hatch and excoriating the irs. it and other christian evangelical some was the sitting leader of a counterattack over the collectivist totalitarian religion of secular humanism and sponsored a bill to prohibit the iras from enforcing anti-discrimination rules this time it passed and the irs capitulated leaving due splattered across the steppes jerry falwell wants to the moral majority that the religious write had not found the four. >> i will skip the rest of the chapter two the legacy it left a rich legacy that with the strategist has and the mythical ximenes with the christmas spirit medicis and the textbook indoctrination a-share the objective of a brave new progressive world and their penchant for a christian persecution many influential lowe's including the afl-cio and the liberal media converted to put progressive secularism on the map in the '90s joining but enforces and in 2010 glenn beck stretch the secularist other secularism leaving them bear and told leaders of we talking about is the ideologic

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senator strom thurmond joined newcomers like representative steven simms and senator orrin hatch in excoriatinge irs. senator jesse helms who exemplified southern racism and christian e van yes limb was against the collectivist, totalitarian religion as he called it. he sponsored a bill to prohibit the irs from be enforcing antidiscrimination rules. this time the bill passed, and the irs capitulated leaving singed globs of goo splattered across the steps of capitol hill. wyrek and falwell launched the moral majority, the religious right had found it roar. so i'll skip the rest of the chapter on secular humanism but touch at the end its legacy. but though the dream has faded, the war against secular humanism left a legacy that conservative strategists have tapped again and again. bill o'reilly's progressive secularists, for example, are direct descendants of the mythical secular humanists of yore. they're the progressive secularists focused on christmas spirit rather than textbook dock try nation. they share the objective of a brave new i progressive world, and their penchant for christian perse

en route to our wedding, he was on the phone urging strom talbot to start the bombing.ng for a bride in the region. [laughter] >> we have so many beautiful ladies in bulgaria. [laughter] >> but it was too late for that. a few weeks later, my new husband returned to washington with the coffins of his three comrades. following their funeral in arlington, richard headed back to the balkans and did not quit until he brought the warring parties to wright-patterson air base in dayton. his breathtaking balchine performance in breaking the murderous will of the world's toughest autocrats was something to be hold. if i wouldn't have been love with him before i would have been in love with him. he deployed me. the first night of the peace conference he sat me between two bitter foes, make them talk to each other, richard instructed me. [laughter] >> thrilled to play my small part for richard and for history, i succeeded and by evening's end they were calling slobodan and alia. at the u.n., too, we were full partners traveling to 11 african countries which opened both our eyes to

he is an african-american, and he beat strom thurmond's son in south carolina.never been able to square that with the ridiculous charges that we are somehow racist. if i have been from thousands of tea party is, and i can tell you we have one of everybody at a tea party. black, white, jewish, christian -- fill in the blank. we even allow vegetarians in. host: republicans line. caller: i wanted to comment on the frivolous lawsuit about someone having to shave. i think these things can be mediated out of court. maybe some antibiotic cream, and a good, quality raiser, and some good, sensitive shaving cream. host: democratic line, cincinnati. go ahead. caller: my concern is not for myself or other adults. we made our bed. we have to sleep in that. my concern is for the children. we are talking about cutting out, especially deep less that their family has, the less opportunity they have. i want to see opportunity increase because they deserve better in the country and the world. if we are going to start making these cuts, i want a promise. we pay the most per child f