the manhattan project was in many ways the cradle of the cold war secrecy system that is still with us today. all of these things are rooted in a manhattan project and something many are still concerned with now. host: was that ever at risk of exposure? guest: the manhattan project was exposed not so much by journalists as by penetration by soviet spies. many of the most sensitive secrets, the technological secrets of the time down there weight quickly to the soviet union via espionage. that is a fact of life. host: david, on our it democrat s' line from oklahoma city. caller: 01 to comment on health care and our social structure. social structure is dictating government intervention, like a drowning person. do we let the person drowned deaths is our country like that, or do we throw them a preserver? we are trying to help, save our country. that is why we have so many government interventions -- it is necessary. i think that the secrecy problem is that our country is a democratic society and we have always felt like openness and it divulging what is going on is important, but there ar

and there have been limitations on future growth on the manhattan's west side. in the 2003 update of the manhattan urban area comprehensive plan, which was a joint planning initiative with the city and county, specifically identifies the k-177 gateway area as a potential urban growth corridor if municipal level services are provided. that's why the city could not wait on the sewer line project. it is already underway and being managed by the county. the city will be responsible for the design, bidding, and overseeing the water project. the cost of both the water and sewer projects will be shared by the federal government, city of manhattan, and riley county. clearly it was congressional intent that manhattan's needs be funded. i understand they are not i understand they are not making technical corrections on

from her first day at the manhattan district attorney's office judge sotomayor and learned that the law is not just an abstraction of. in addition to her work as a prosecutor, i have also learned a lot about judge sotomayor from her long record as a judge. she has been a judge for 17 years, 11 years as an appellate judge in the six years as a tryout judge. president george h. w. bush the first bush gave for the first job she had as and when a judge said she was actually nominated by republican president, that job was to be a district job and the southern district of new york. for nomination to the southern district was enthusiastically supported by both new york senators, democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan and republican senator dick motta. now if you watch tv or read newspapers or blogs to know that judge sotomayor has been called names as always happens in these supreme court nomination processes. she has been called names by talking heads on tv and radio and in most cases these commentators may have read the case or two others or even read a speech and took a sentence or so o

and finally replace the manhattan project facilities we are currently spending so much money to maintain. in fact, the nnsa complex transformation plan was specifically endorsed by the schlesinger commission. it can pick up and fund the reliable replacement warhead studies which would, for the first time since the 1980's put our weapon designers to work on a modern warhead for the stockpile but it must move forward now. unfortunately, the budget the administration just put forward does not recognize the critical state of affairs in our nuclear weapon enterprise. it not only does nothing to mod werize our weapons -- modernize our weapons it continues the necessitcontinue theneglect of p program. and the stewardship is underfunded in the 2010 budget request. worse yet according to the projections in the president's budget, the underfunding of the science in stockpile stewardship will be accelerated between fiscal year 2011 and 2014. the impact of these cuts to the science campaign can also be seen in the continued cuts in the funding requested for the laboratories to use the stockpiles ste

the substitute talks about a manhattan project. i think the sentiments expressed in the substitutes are good ones. the objectives are good ones. but america voted for action. not additional studies. america voted to make a difference, not to make a point. america voted for the change we could believe in. that's what this bill represents. i know they can look back from a future in which america is independent of foreign oil. there has been much talk about taxes. tragically, almost every day debate we have on this floor deinvolves into, we're going to raise your taxes. my fellow americans know about having their expenses raised. because the foreign potentates who hold us hostage because they provide so much of our energy gave us a new tax at the gas pump and every american remembers it. why? because we have not taken the action necessary to become energy independent. so our gasoline prices at the pump for my commuters who drive sometimes an hour or an hour and a half to get to work to support their families paid an additional $2.50 pe

since graduating, the judge -- graduating from law school, she spent five years as a prosecutor at the manhattanistrict attorney's office. it was one of the most dizzying offices in our country. at the time, it paid about half as much as a job in the private sector. she took the job as a prosecutor. i was a prosecutor before i entered the senate. i managed about 400 people in minnesota. i've is very interested in the experience that we had. one of the things that i learned and i know she understood is that as a prosecutor, bollore is not a dusty book in your basement. after you've seen the damage that crime can do in your community, and you have seen some families in the courtroom, you know that law is not an abstract subject. you see that it has a real impact on real people. as a prosecutor, you do not just have to know all you have to the people process. you have to of human nature. some say sonia sotomayor is a important force in the courtroom. she never lost sight of who she was fighting for. she was fighting for the people in her neighborhood. she was fighting for the victims of crime. her

she was the first job out of law school with the manhattan d.a.'s office and served for five years an and then she went on to private practice when she became a member of the campaign finance board and then she showed her independence and her desire to be fair to everybody. her decisions are well-known to the public. i want to say that based on everything i know about her, she will be an outstanding judge on the supreme court if he elected, and not just a member but an outstanding member and will be the only member of the court that will have experience in the state judicial system, as my colleague explained. 90% of the people in custody in the federal system came out of the state system. it's very important to have somebody on the court who understands the trauma of victims of crime, who understands the legitimate and real problems to the police enforcing the law, so i think she will good in every field, because she is a worker and will understand the cases but i think it's particularly important to have somebody on the court who understands the s

the manhattan criminal court judge hearing the case on june 15 would have to approve the deal. and nfl commissioner roger goodell would have to decide not to punish burress in the inter interim. nfl spokesman greg aiello said on friday, what other personal conduct policy would be applied in that case if there's a postponement hasn't been determined, but it hasn't been ruled out. >> plaxico burress, averaging a career high 19.9 yards yards per reception in 2004. but you can see, looks like my 401k. >> last year, second lowest season average of his nine-year career. 13 yards per catch. >> baseball now. bad news for the mets. j.j. putz will undergo surgery to remove a bone spur from his right elbow. he's expected to miss 10 to 12 weeks. claiming the elbow hurts like hell. in the last inning and a third he's pitched, he's given up seven earned runs. >> watch your mouth. >> i'm just quoting. my mom would wash it out with soap. >> i still would have said heck, knowing my mom would be watching. >> i'm going to get a phone call when i get off the set. jose reyes, one of the notables on

for me is that immediately graduating from law school, she spent five years as a prosecutor at the manhattan district attorney's office, which was one of the busiest and most well-thought-of prosecutors' offices in our country. at that time it paid about half as much as a scrob in the private sector, but she wanted the challenge and the trial experience, as she told me when we met, and she took the job as a prosecutor. before i entered the senate, mr. president, i was a prosecutor, managing an office of about 400 people in minute, the biggest prosecutor office in our state. so i was very interested in this experience that we had in common. one of the things that i learned -- and i really quickly learned that she understood based on our discussions -- is that as a prosecutor, the law is not just some dusty book in your basement. after you've interacted with victims of a crime, after you've seen the damage the crime can do to a community, the havoc that it can wreak, after you have interacted with defendants who are going to persist on and you've seen-- --who are going to prison and you've int

the manhattan institute sponsored this event, and the harvard club in new york city hosted it is 15 minutes >> this is the first time i have given a booktalk where half the people in the room are in the index. [laughter] >> you all look at the index. [laughter] >> jack, you did. you really did. let me begin at the beginning. i'm not bill buckley, but i am writing for him. i grew up in new york, a suburb of rochester, a midsize city with my parents and my older brother, bob. in the fall of 1969, i was a freshman in the local public high school i didn't know anybody who went to private ones. my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend of the school year since he had gone away to college, i wrote him on a small, black metal typewriter that had belonged to mom. a letter reversing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, little triumphs, tiny disasters, bulletins of adolescents dramatize an ionized. when we, the news barged into this home theater.

for example, in an article for the "manhattan institute city journal" it was written of the long waits that canadians endure for any procedure or diagnostic test. seniors who lay on stretchers for five days in a hospital waiting room. a three-year wait list for a hernia operation, a two-year delay for sleep apnea treatment, a year-long delay for hip replacement and so on. it's one thing for washington it take over car companies, getting it wrong there usually won't lead to life or death problems. but it's an entirely different matter to allow washington to go into business as the nation's health care provider. who's going to protect you when they get it wrong? who are you going to appeal to? in his health car speeches president obama has stressed if you like your current health care, you can keep it. if you don't want to get on the washington-run plan. and that sounds allell and good, but it won't play out that way. the lewin group showed a study if enacted the president's option would displace 119 million happily insured americans. their companies could take the easy route and sign a

host: sammy, let me read to you the piece by david gresser, a physician and a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. he writes about "canada's obama care president." tens of millions of americans will potentially be joining a new public insurance program and the federal government will increasingly be involved in treatment decisions. born and raised in canada, i once believed that government health care is compassionate and equitable. it is neither. yes, everyone in canada is covered by a single payer, the government. but canadians wait for practically any procedure or diagnosetic test." between 2006 and 2008, ontario send more than 160 patients to york and michigan for emerging research 3, described by the globe and mail newspaper as broken necks, burst aneurysms, and other types of bleeding in or around the brain." caller: what is going to happen here if that happens? we will be waiting and i do not know what happens. you were talking about the election's over there, europeans, that they are moving right, and we're moving left in this country. they got tired of it over there, and they a

former congressman, now a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. former governor of new york, hugh kerry. we all know about this part of her life because she very proudly disclosed her board membership and stats as an officer and response to the judiciary committee questionnaire that senator sessions and i sent her. we know about it because she not only viewed her own records to provide time at the prldf but she also went above and beyond what it called for. she asked them to go and conduct and search its own records and she has come up with other materials. she didn't need to. she has now provided the committee with that. the record is transparent. we already have a more complete record of judge sotomayor's -- a more and clear -- let me say that again. we have a more and complete picture of judge sotomayor's record than we ever have in the record of the last two nominees of the supreme court. chief justice john roberts or justice samuel alito. i mentioned chief justice roberts and justice sam alito who did not give us anywhere near as clear or comp

to find out more visit manhattan -- institute.org. >> linda himelsein discusses her book, "the king of vodka" and the light of it pyotr smirnov, the creator of smirnov vodka. she talks about his rise from a lower class family to being one of the wealthy businessmen in russia. kepler's books in california hosted the event. it is 35 minutes. >> i'm thrilled to be here at kepler's, i love this bookstore. it is a wonderful institution. so the king of vodka. i get asked more than anything else what i wrote this book. and is actually every good question for people who know me well. and the research that was required for this book was absolutely immense and it was mostly in 19 in early 20th-century archives in russia, i live here and i don't speak a word of russian so that was my first problem. secondly, the book really follows the story of russia itself in 1910 and early 20th-century russia from the crimean war to emancipation to industrialization to all of the labor strikes, the fall of the czars and, of course, the russian revolution and i had never studied russian history, another problem

prosecutor in new york, in the manhattan district attorney's famous sex abuse unit, called me the next day after i wrote the piece about him and said, he's as guilty as sin. there has to be something in the capacity of -- in the mental capacities of prosecutors who know, against all of the evidence. they want to hold onto their conviction. and so people are still in prison. gerald amirault is still in prison because the state of massachusetts won't let him go because the integrity of their case -- he represents their victory. so you can say, what is one man's life? he's been locked up. everybody else is out. he has been locked up in the state of massachusetts because the supreme judicial court of massachusetts, one of the most venerable institutions in the united states -- it was formed immediately after the salem witch trials -- that -- it is that old. nonetheless, the supreme judicial court of massachusetts ruled that there have been so many appeals in gerald's case that time is more important than justice. we have to put an end to this process. this shocked many, many, many people i

recently wrote a paper with the manhattan institute which was to be a road map to genuine bipartisan healthcare reform something that is very different what we're seeing so far in the congress. before that i had the privilege of john mccain to be debating the ideas over what healthcare show like they should look like going forward in the united states and a onetime did have a great privilege of running the cbo whose numbers have become a focal point* of this debate and properly so. the cbo estimates of what the obama budget will do to this country is very striking. is as clear on a path to a debt spiral that will lead to a crises in the currency and the national bankruptcy and that healthcare bill is a tipping point* in the wrong direction for that pass. so one of the things i wanted to do for those who are not connoisseurs' is talk about what the congressional budget office does. the answer is these estimates of 1.6 trillion dollars, for the senate finance bill, $1 trillion, for the first title health bill without touching the rest of it, these are business as usual for the cbo. good

i recently wrote a paper for the manhattan institute, which was a road map to genuine bipartisan health care reform, something very different than what we're seeing so far in the congress. before that, i had the privilege and the service of john mccain of engaging in the debate of ideas during a 2008 cycle of what health care should look like going forward in the united states. i did at one time have the great privilege of running the congressional budget office, whose numbers have really become a focal point of this debate, and properly so. the c.b.o. estimate of what the obama budget will do this this country is very striking. it says we are on a path to a dead spiral that will lead to currency crises and national bankruptcy. the health care bills that are coming out are potentially a tipping point in the wrong direction to exactly that path. and so one of the things i wanted to do for those who are not connoisseurs of this little-known agency is talk a little bit about what the congressional budget office does. the answer is these estimates, 1.6 trillion for the senate finance bill.

i hope the chairman will take into consideration manhattan's need and as the process moves forward, working with ms. jenkins and myself to correct the issue, the delegation's working with the e.p.a. regional office in kansas city that in order to proceed with the project in public law 111-8, it should read, quote, the city of manhattan for water line extension project, end of quote. i thank the chairman for consideration on this important issue. mr. dicks: i understand my colleague's problem and with our -- we are going to work with him and try to work this out. with the other body. but i realize how serious this is and we'll work with him until we get a satisfy -- satisfactory solution. mr. tiahrt: i thank the chairman. . mr. dicks: i would like to yield -- if i could be recognized again. i want to welcome -- yield two minutes to congressman connolly of virginia for the purposes of a colloquy. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: i thank the chair and i thank my distinguished friend, chairman of the subcommittee. heritage programs have been proven to be effec

the country. he served as manhattan burrough president for several terms. and because of his emerging strength, the powers that be interrupted his career and he left. but jack showed that politics was something that many of our caribbean folks brought to the leadership of politics in our country. and i'll just finally end by a person that we all admired so much and has been mentioned earlier, mr. michael manly, son of norman manly who served as the prime minister, 1959 to 1962 but michael manly came in and became three-term prime minister from 1972 to 1980 and 1989 to 1992. he stepped down because of bad health. but just look at what michael manly did in jamaica. a minimum wage for all workers. free education at secondary and university level to the extent that space was available. institute of literacy campaign. subdivision of what he called idle land to poor blacks. formation of agrarian cooperatives where they worked together. price control on numerous staples to benefit the poor. reduction of the voting age to 18 thus increasing the black vote that then

i said it was the best deal since manhattan for the beach, except this time the natives one. >> who leased it? >> an australian bank organized the financing, and a spanish operating company -- there is nothing remotely new about this. some of the earliest roads in indiana were privately built toll roads. these people know what they are doing. they are putting billions into the road. this road had no electronic toll lane and probably would not have for another 10 or 20 years in political hands, but it got within the first few months of their operation. >> what is happening to the fees? >> it is a regulated utility. they cannot raise the tolls except under the terms of the contract, basically limited to inflation. >> do you think they got a good deal? >> you will have to ask them. the world financial press as indiana took them to the cleaners.

this amendment, madam chairman is the new manhattan project for energy independence. a lot of people have talked about doing something like this and today we have the opportunity to do it. it says that instead of the 435 of us on this floor bringing our ideas and imposing them on the american people, that what we do is bring together a commission of the brightest men and women in america from government, from the private sector from academics and we have them create in the next year a plan of energy for this country that would give us 50% dependent from foreign oil in 10 years and 100% in 20 years or tell us why we can't get there. this amendment also realizes that in this bill on the floor

it created a city that was far more focused on the center, on manhattan as opposed to the outer boroughshich really lost out in this calculus. so a kind of new form of centralization. i think it created a city that -- you know, what i focus on in the book is how marketing and media were used in concert with these new priorities, these new political and economic priorities and so it also created a new kind of imaginary, a new identity for new york. no longer was it this, you know, famed working class capital. now it became really represented as a more elite, luxury-type city and a city that could be, you know, prominently placed in advertisements in association with products that wanted that kind of cachet. >> in fact, in your book, "branding new york" you talk about a very famous brand, i heart ny. >> that's right. >> what was the effect of that? >> well, i think that campaign kind of had two phases. in the initial phase of that campaign, this famous campaign that was designed by melton glaser the artistic director of new yorker magazine and a greater graphic designer in his own right, i

she began her legal career as a prosecutor in new york city' and the d.e.a. of manhattan wrote a wonderful op-ed piece in the new york times of what a

at law school and became -- began her legal career as a prosecutor in new york city end of the da of manhattan, bob martin baller wrote a wonderful op-ed piece in the your time say what a wonderful prosecutor and she was. i remember when president clinton has nominated her to the second circuit to. republican controlled senate to put a hold on her nomination, they tried to block her and i made more than a dozen speeches on the senate urging those who placed anonymous call on her at least have the courage to come forward and say who you were -- they didn't. the end in june 1998 there was a call and on wall street journal that said we all know there were tried to hold her up because they were afraid that president clinton might nominate her to the supreme court if there is a vacancy. when the supreme court ended without a vacancy the republican controlled senate finally released her

she began her career as a prosecutor in new york city, the district attorney of manhattan was a wonderful [unintelligible] i remember when bill clinton nominated her, the republicans controlled the senate, and they put a hold on the nomination. they place an anonymous call on her -- hold on her, but would not come forward. in june 1998, they were trying to hold her up, because they thought they would nominate her for the supreme court. the republican controlled senate finally released her nomination. she was confirmed overwhelmingly. they thought it was so important to hold her up in a disgraceful amount of time. when the rugged marshall was nominated, he was facing stiff opposition and it did not make any difference that he was first in his class, where he was part of the legal defense fund. he had all kinds of hostile questions, he was appointed solicitor general. he was the winner of 29 out of 32 cases before the supreme court. other lawyers thought that they may have one case, he had 29 out of 32. and when he was nominated as the first supreme court justice who was african-american, h

she went on and became -- she began her legal career as a prosecutor in new york city and the da of manhattan wrote a wonderful op-ed piece saying what a great prosecutor she was. i remember one president clinton had nominated her to the second circuit. the republican-controlled senate put a hold on her nomination. they tried to block her. i made more than a dozen speeches on the senate urging those who placed an anonymous hold to at least have the courage to come forward and say who you work. they did not. in june 1998 there was a column which said we all knew they were trying to hold her up because they were afraid president clinton might nominate her to the supreme court if there was a vacancy. when the supreme court term ended without a vacancy the senate finally released her nomination. she was confirmed overwhelmingly and not one word was spoken on the senate floor against her by those who felt it was so important to hold her up for a disgraceful. of time. this brings me -- for a disgraceful period of time. when thurgood marshall was nominated he faced stiff opposition. it did not make

cases the perspective of a vast chunk of america whose perspective sometimes don't get into the newsrooms in manhattan and getting actively getting e-mails from news executives during the past campaign saying hey, i1 you to know that news story that ran last night, without me planning about it, we think it was biased, too, and we are constantly working to get more -- i hear that actually from all network executives and a lot of, a lot of newspapers, too. so it's nice being a strange man in a strange land. ..

the rules? well, what i would say, first of all, is that i taught in a manhattan junior high school for 30 years. and 15 years of that time i assembled a hodgepodge of a class, and i set them to doing extraordinary things. this is one class newspaper, all these things are going on simultaneously, some are being done by flunkouts, some by c-students, look at a few of these. here's a successful lawsuit, on page by a c-student. at the very same time, my kids are getting more new registrations than the entire democratic party on the west side of manhattan. they work for -- worked for a month and we cut school for two days and topped their total. here's a girl on page 2, who ended up winning an all expenses paid ph.d. at some california university, who is castigating the central board of education for not teaching entrepreneurialism. where did she get the idea to do that? she came to me and said that her mother was a liar, and her mother said, she could go to paris, if she could raise this money to support herself over there, the girl is 13, mind you and she said, no 13-year-old can raise that money,

areas, they always have a problem because the amount of revenue that can be derived per square inch is a lot less than what it can be derived for in manhattan versus the world area. -- rural area. there is a cross subsidy for from more expensive markets to others. it is not something the competition is going to fix in my opinion. thank you. >> too for the opportunity to appear here today. in conclusion, i reiterate my belief that the wireless market in america is a great success story. we need to look at it and take a lesson from. under the current set of rules which are very light hand, there it has been great amount of investment, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. many jobs have been created and are still going to be created out of the wireless industry in this country. innovation has been startling. prices overall have gone down. i believe we have a situation where with all due respect, we have to be careful if we're going to you change it. >> thank you. we will leave the record open for one week. i believe that today's hearing demonstrates the importance of encouraging vigorous competition in the industry as willis' focusin

power that was produced simply by the turn by lens of the east river along the shortline of the island of manhattan is there as a demonstration project. and r&d project that as a prototype holds promise, great promise when deployed into the manufacturing and commercial sectors. the opportunity for geothermal where i witnessed at the culinary institute of america, six new dorms and lodges as they are referred to utilizing geothermal as an energy source. and using the constant temperature of the earth far below us was a simple and novel idea, almost cavelike in its concept, but it is providing modern day usage. and certainly wind, solar, p.v., all being utilized in new york state as much as 1,100 megawatts worth of wind power. this is possible. it's very possible. and the jobs that we can create are countless as we go forward and it provides energy security, energy independence, and therefore i believe critically important to us, national security. we won't be putting our sons and daughters in harm's way because we won't be in the battle zone fighting over the commodity of oil and fossil-based fuels.

the erie canal. he had said no, probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and yet other projects that he was doing. but in any case at a certain point he inserts himself into this issue of the eastern end of the canal. and he thinks, and he publicizes his thoughts that the canal ought to leave the mohawk valley at schenectady and take

the other appears as a voice of reform and reason. is all relative, i suppose. host: our next call comes from tom in manhattan with the democrats.aller: thank you for letting me have this question. there is so much concern for fraud in the election and probably true. the question circumstances what are the mechanics of counting the votes in iran? what constitutional laws or rules apply and are there observers from all sides? what is the nature of the appeal? what good might it do? thank you very much. guest: thank you for asking the question, tom. there is a point that is important to make. that is that government organization, which is tasked with overseeing the elections in the interior ministry. the head of the interior ministry was pointed by mahmoud ahmadinejad. not an objective observer. the work of overseeing the interior ministry to make sure they conducted things freely and fairly is the guardian council. the head of the guardian council, jenosee. publicly endorsed ahmadinejad. not objective observer. an earlier caller asked what are the evidence of fraud. that is the major sign of impropriety when you have people that

the erie canal. he had said no probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and yet other projects he was doing but in any case at a certain point he inserts himself in this issue as the eastern end of the canal. and he thinks, and he publicizes his thoughts that the canal path to leave the mohawk valley at schenectady and take a much shorter and cheaper and direct route to albany along a route that he had mapped 15 years earlier. so randle starts making some noise about. he publishes some anonymous newspaper articles and anonymous pamphlet, and chief engineer wright decides just before the section of the canal is to be dealt, wright decide to go in the opposite direction. that is, not take randle to direct route or even continue along the southern side of the mohawk as it arcs north and eventually down toward albany. but, right beside, to cross over the often flooded aqueduct to the north side of the river, stay on the north side for 12 miles and in recross the river on another aqueduct and a wooden trough, not very substantial aqueducts, recross the river 12 miles along back to th

skills survey air and the man who had just spent a dozen years laying out and mapping the future street grids of manhattan. we're here on 57 straight because 200 years ago john randolph put markers for thousands of a rectilinear blocks on what was then a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randall of the year is the background -- the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using peters from the mohawk for to water the canal and now between and connecting in albany the mohawk makes a very big north toward art in the most eastern section of the mohawk river. with a false finally spilling the mohawk into the hudson. it now mandola involved himself in the process, he had been invited, he had been asked to becoming the engineer on the erie canal and has said no probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and have other projects to is doing but in any case at a certain point he asserts himself into this issue of the eastern end of the canal and he thinks, and he publicizes his thoughts, that the canal of to leave the mohawk

featuring the dictators, their amounts, the patti smith group, and it is not atypical event but it is about a jewish children from brooklyn and queens to decide to go to manhattan. it is the story of my contemporaries except they went downtown. >> 2009 bookseller convention in new york city with bloomsbury and walker books i am here with peter miller. what you have coming out this fall? >> the most ambitious and exciting is the one over my shoulder which is a graphic novel. we decided to do this one because it is a historical biography of bertram russell and as crazy as that sounds it is interesting novel of ideas and the two people behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts said they decided to approach the i.d.'s of the foundation of mathematics been told as a comic book form because that big idea is what russell was pursuing as heroic and life-and-death as anything you would find with a super hero. it is a book getting a lot of attention before the convention and all lot here. we have been getting a lot of the galley. everyboby seems very excited to embrace this medium with this particular subject. >>host: what else? >>guest: the interesting w

i looked at the world, the morning after 9/11, and what i saw was 16 acres of ashes in downtown new york city in manhattan. i saw the pentagon which had suffered a severe blow. if you looked closely enough on television to the footage of american citizens jumping out of windows in the upper stories of the trade center because they were going to be burned to death, and i knew for a fact if we had not been successful, the passengers on flight 93 had not been successful, they probably would have taken out of the white house or the capitol building. it was the worst attack on a homeland in the history of the republic. we lost more people than we did at pearl harbor. we had good reason to believe that there would be following attacks. we saw tax in 1993 on the world trade center in new york, in 1985, in 1986 indeed khyber 10 hours, -- in the tower is, and others, and then there comes 9/11 in 2001, and there was an accelerating pace in the frequency and the scope and scale of the attacks. we would of been absolutely totally irresponsible if we had not taken the view that we had to do everything in our power in

this program seeks to prevent the smuggling ofs i list nuclear material into man hat -- of illessity nuclear material into manhattan. it is the number-one terror target and i hope the signed into law includes money for securing the cities. i know there are concerns due to the length of the project and unspent funds but i do believe we must do everything we can to prevent what president obama has called the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. this is still a good bill and i thank the gentleman from north carolina for everything he has done to ensure that our first responders, particularly those in high-risk areas, are prepared for future emergencies. the chair: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i yield three minutes for the purpose of a colloquy to the gentleman from washington state, mr. hastings. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hastings: thank you, i thank my friend from kentucky for yielding and i rise to engage in a colloquy with chairman price. mr. chairman, as you know, we are quickly approaching the august, 2000, deadline

i think the british -- had the british had a more resolute, more active commander, they would have defeated washington's army on long island or manhattan island, and could probably have ended the war. even in 1777, the british might have won the war. the basic british idea is for an army in 1777, for and army to invade new york from canada while general howell took his army with the royal navy up the hudson river and join withburg:in albany. but then he let him come by himself, and went after washington at philadelphia. it turned out to be an egregious blunder on howell's point. most people think the british could not have won the war after 1777. what i tried to argue in "almost a miracle: the american victory in the war of independence," in 1781, the last year the war broke out board began, america was very close to defeat. james lovell, a congressman from massachusetts, rhode a letter on the second day of seventeen 81 to john adams, and he began by saying we are bankrupt with a mutinous army. washington thought america had to score a decisive victory in 1781 or there would be no other chance, and john adams, who was in europe, was wr

the next call is howard from manhattan. go ahead. caller: good morning, professor mcmanus. first i would like to thank you for keeping the memory of d-day alive and fresh. secondly, i would like to get back to what you said about omaha. from what i read about it, i think that the biggest factors working against us there were the fact that there was a fresh german division that we had in the expected to be there. we didn't discover it was there until the landings were under way. also the fact that there was no cover on the beach. there was no shelter. my final question to you, actually two, number one, what do you think is still the most underreported story about d-day? and talk a little bit about what your opinion is of montgomery and his tactics. guest: you are exactly right, the german 352nd infantry division was there at omaha beach and that was a big quality, solid german infantry dich division. it was good quality, well armed, well-trained. the french resistance had figured out the existence of this unit in that area. this is the classic example of intelligence not gett

that, if we do not grasp this chance now how will we look our children in the eye and explain why they are not free? manhattan is next. this is a democrats line. caller: i would like to say that i do not think the president of the united states should not get involved in any country, and particularly this country, regardless of how much we think they're not running their country the way that we run our country. the fact that our -- the fact is our voting system is not 100% correct either. there is a lot that we have alt and ourselves, and we should consider it when we consider other countries. do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. host: sofia on our independent line. caller: i totally agree with the last caller. the reason he is not saying anything is look at our last election. host: we will leave it there. "the new york tims" looks at the results of the election and what it means. -- "the new york times" looks at what the results of the election will mean. one writer writes, even his strong links to the powerful revolutionary guards, as this confrontation in iran and boltu. the method that th

the board of editors. then in her practice, she was an assistant district attorney in manhattan, a position which gives very extensive experience in many important facets of the law, something i know from my own experience years ago as an assistant district attorney. then she was in private practice on -- with a very prestigious new york law firm. then served on the united states district court. and more recently on the court of appeals for the second circuit. the hearings will give judge sotomayor an opportunity to respond to a number of issues which have been raised about her background. i think that chairman leahy was correct in moving the hearing date so that the confirmation process could be concluded in time for judge sotomayor, if confirmed, to sit with the court during september when the court will decide what cases it will hear. a great deal of the important work of the supreme court of the united states is decided on what cases they decide not to hear. and perhaps that in some ways is as important as the cases they do hear. the cases they do decide. that it is during that period of time when the d

tommy ramone of the ramones, dick manitoba and patti smith and this is not a typical yivo event but it's a story of jewish children from brooklyn and queens who decide to go over to manhattan it's very much the story, you know, of my contemporary but they went downtown and created punk rock. we thank you for coming to yivo and we look forward to seeing you at the lecture and the punk evening. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ronald radosh is the author of many books culled commies a journey from the old left, the new left and the leftover left. he's an adjunct senior fellow at the hudson institute and professor emeritus at the city university of new york. this event was hosted by the yivo institute in new york city. to find out more visit yivoinstitute.org. >> bookexpo america new york city 2009 we're here with a publisher of basic books. what does a publisher do? >> a publisher is just the title i have. i run the imprint of basic books so we have editorial, marketing, publicity, design and i just end up making the final decisions on things. i say a lot of yes or no's all day long. >> what do you say yes to. >> whether we'll acquire the book, how much we'

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them in a rail car back to oklahoma as a gift to the comanche to get the plains repopulated with buffalo. roosevelt's row manhattan six is this and it's a point -- romanti six is this. he saw north fight south, 600,000 dead and he believed the north messed it up, the american dream got messed up in the north because of hyper industrialization. philadelphia had sewage dumped in the river and it smelled and it wasn't healthy for you. the south was stigmatized due to slavery and racism. his eve was west of the mississippi river. he thought the new america was going to be reborn there and in order to do it differently than the south and the east, you had to have free people, the principals of lincoln, but have cities like bolder or austin or portland or eugene that have green belts around them, that you don't want a metropolis, los angeles would bother him. he went to l.a. and he said don't get too big. he wanted smaller-sized cities where you have universities and businesses surrounded by wilderness, that you could go on day trips backpacking and feel replenished from the crunch of the speedyy hyper industrialization