registration firm who in nevada and other places conducted voter registration all right, but then tore up voter registrations of people who registered democrat. that case was never prosecuted under the prior administration. we issued aomprehensive report on that subject, which is also available on our website entitled "allegations of selective prosecutions in

mill tore the cardinals, big arms, potential impact guys, number one for two starters.he word is they were asking for big bonuses and that had a lot of teams get can skittish. but they go in the top 20, counterto what i expected. >> keith law, we present it. >> my ple . >>> and just a programming reminder at 9:00 eastern over on e.s.p.n. the sportscenter special. that makes it that much more difficult.@@úúxx . >>> welcome back everybody, national's park in washington, d.c. manny acta and dusty baker meeting at home plate. we're going to play baseball momentarily after this long rain delay. today was a great day in baseball history because stephen strasburg was the first pick by the washington nationals. earlier our own debbie taylor had a chance to catch up with acting general manager mike rucinsky oh. >> thank you johnny. how thrilled are you, mike, to have stephen strasburg on your team. >> we're excited to be able to draft a guy like stephen strasburg, a great physical sized pitcher who has great credentials and we're happy to have him. >> you also

they found out today he tore a ligament in his elbow. back to a-rod. he continues to climb the charts. number 11 now on the all-time list with six more at-bats as rafael palmeiro for tenth place. it's conceivable he could get into the top sixth before the year is done. >> ahead on espnews, plenty more baseball. you have to see lou piniella's reaction to milton bradley's latest temper tantrum. >> also, check in on the hottest team in baseball, and the team with the best interleague record this year. also on the way, the dodgers haven't missed a beat since manny ramirez was suspended going 26-18. friday they were on the verge of doing something they haven't done all season. >> tony stewart crashed during practice at loudon friday. we'll tell you why that won't affect his starting position come sunday. >> and why plaxico burress could be facing punishment before his case goes to trial. we're back right after this. >> sunday 2:00 eastern on espn, the u.s. faces brazil in the finals of the confederation cup. first time the u.s. has reached the final of a fi

they provide consulting services for audit tore, regular laters and he consults with global companiesn a variety of financial and regulatory issues and the regional director of the professional risk managers international association and is a board adviser to a global business security risk in asia. -- huh, hu, would you please begin. >> mr. chairman and distinguished members, thank you for this opportunity. i teach at the university of texas law school and my testimony reflects my view as an academic. i agreed to be working at the securities & exchange commission. i emphasize that i'm currently a full-time academic, have been so for over two decades and after this forthcoming government service will return to my normal academic duties but i will say tied does not reflect the views of the sec and has not been discussed with or reviewed by the sec. i ask that my written testimony be include in the record. this is a seminal time for the regulation of over-the-counter derivatives. my understanding is that the subcommittee want met to off a broad perspective as to undertaking this staff i

i believe it was the more tore pore yum. >> guest: you could be wright i don't have any causal.e many choices people made around how to oppose the war -- and again i said the only decision i don't agree with is the decision not to be active. if you're active opposing the war, you're on the right side of history. oregon i think it's difficult to claim very much in terms of what affected. what i are business tated in the moratorium froze as well. i'm a bill big believer in direct nonviolent opposition and action but did those things help? the war went on for ten years. it went on for seven years after the american people rejected it. so i find it difficult to make a claim that this caused that, that this equaled that. i'm reminded of in 1968, the mid-6s so, the premier or china was asked by a french journalist what the impact of the french revolution of the 18th century had had on the chinese revolution of the 20th 20th century. he thought about it for quite a long time and said it's too soon to tell. i think that's true. people who make claims about what did what, it's too soon t

talk tore tomorrow night at 6:30 on masn. or.ted to design a glass that would enhance the taste of boston lager. we did a laser etch on the bottom. it releases the hops aromas this bulb is for collecting aromas. there's a little ridge on the inside. and that allows you to sense the hops as it enters your mouth. the way this hits your tongue, you really get the full flavor out of sam adams lager. having a boston lager in this glass was like tasting a boston lager for the first time again. sharapova, a nifty return there. back and forth. great volley back and forth. >> second shot is long, and dulka upset sharapova. because of unspecified family medical reasons, williams plans to transfer to memphis, tennessee to be near his family. >> let's stay current here on espnews. tiger's niece, and lpga tour day beau, in new york. rachel alexandra will not run in the breeder's cup. flyers will play the bruins in the winter classic. >> manny ramirez will shut it down for the night after two at-bats and the isotopes will show you how manny's

perhaps we could find a way to find the resources of the government and reiff am tack tore. >> thank you for your question. >> i am with the terrorism research center. we have received some reports reisn'tly through cyber security experts that china has developed their own seck your operating ace teem. do you think going forward, we can continue to work with some of these products somewhere like the choip he's have done? >> this is another old goy question. the d.o.d. has made a suggestion that the models were not sufficient but in handling multiple classifications but in general resistance on guidance attack. we had a really great one. all the great compouter industries in the world create one, except for microsoft. there is more in demanding the infa structure that is more rebust. we have to be much more serious to use our boying power. the government will have to build itself. >> next question. we have 15 more minutes. i'll try to move through as many questions as we can. if we have extra time, please keep in mind questions you want to revisit. >> brian rowe with public knowledge.

. >> josh bard for the nationals three tore four, a couple singles and a double. you look at the box score and you can see the nationals wind up with the shortened of the count. >> a very young man, and you look at a guy 22 years old and you figure he's going to be around a long time. >> we'll break down marcus' performance later on. back upstairs to the booth. when you talk about a guy having not only a good game at the plate, but in the field, this is a pretty good father's day, save for the loss, for nick johnson. >> amazing, seven hits and 11 at-bats. could have been seven for 10, but didn't get the last sac fly because of the miscommunication at third. an amazing run this weekend. nick johnson has been consistent all year. he's been around here a long time. >> a great season, and bob, when a guy's hiting in the two hole and setting up three, four, five guys, he's doing a great job. what we really need is ryan zimmerman. without him right before dunn makes things very difficult and he kind of hurt this club big time early in the ball game, first and second, no

they were in syracuse tore -- for a long, long time.o here's russ adams, batting .319 with a homer, for the las vegas 51s, area 51 out there where all the private research and ufo stuff goes on. that's what their ball club is, the 51s. >> all a mystery to me. that banks the railing right by the photographer. that's why he wears his helmet. >> happy father's day, mo. looks like the terminator in that thing. i'll be back. adams comes to the big leagues and slaps one up the middle. he's aboard with two outs. that's not ufo activity in vegas. it's marsh gas is what the government says. isn't that the usual explanation? >> weather balloons. >> yeah, marsh gas and weather balloons. >> exactly. why are these little green men on the balloons? >> if there are so many weather balloons, why can't we tell when it's going to rain? >> top of the order, here's marco scutaro, three for four today. that's a good one by wells to the outer half, trying to keep this thing close, the nats have six outs left with which to work. a 6-2 game. the nationals have

but also doing everything in your pow tore make sure the money is well spent.gain, we may have our differences from time to time. you have listened to everybody on this committee. in this day and age when the situation is so difficult. that is more important than ever. i want to thank you for that. >> i am thankful forer for those thoughtful comments. >> my question to all of you is how can we be assure that those numbers are indeed accurate? do we have mechanisms in place? do you just rely upon them or do have you some other way to ensure that we in fact, that those jobs are being retained or created. my second question is whether we are meeting the goal with respect to the job retention and creation aspect of the recovery act. we've created what we call recovery act data system. by which the data starts with the contractor who employees the workers. that data is then reported to the state. the state compiles the data from the individual contractors or individual office, working closely with the d.o.t. and reviewing the employment data and loaded into this rec

>> rob: it's going to take lodge tore get to 2nd base, take longer to get the ball to 2nd and concentrating on getting the double play. >> bob: up the mid it will first time. three consecutive hits now in the series. >> rob: the fact longoria has nursing a hamstring the last few weeks. that helps also. >> bob: he's been trotting the 1 1st base trying to get that warmed up. 2- 0. >> rob: we talked about this after the 2nd inning. detwiler has to finish off the pitches and try to throw it through josh bard. when he starts falling towards 1 st base, he's not following through. when you're stepping across your body, your arms are trailing too far behind to throw stris. >> bob: pitch up. far enouway. couldn't reach it. it's 2-1. longoria got all 28 first place votes for rookie of the year lastear. >> bob: went to the all-ar game -- runner going to not even a throw. the ball was called a strike. b.j. upton steals 3rd for the 9th time this year. he has six steals in his series series. >> rob: with longoria up there, rd will have to ro a big man. he can't get thisdo. the first night here he threw

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that is one of the biggest things that ever tore this country apart. with the regulation you have the insurance companies -- de- regulation you have the insurance companies owning hospitals. we cannot get anything. all long time ago insurance was non-profit. they make money on everything. newt gingrich and a lot of republicans bought into the de- regulation and bought stock. guest: many folks these days are very angry at the hands-off approached the republican lawmakers have largely pursued over the last couple of decades. it goes back to the point where people say that the government removed its hands from the situation, presumably hoping it would allow the free market system to thrive. instead of the system collapsed. you have democrats who want to push regulation far. republicans in both the house and senate said something needs to happen. they say you cannot go too far. we do still have a free-market system. to put the governments hands too deep would be to cut off innovation. caller: good morning. your guess is very informative. i'm concerned that

chapter 4 verse 1, when mordecai had learned what had been done he tore his closes and went out to the city and whaled bitterly. he joined with the great warning of the jews who were fasting, weeping and wailingyesterday? >> reporter: nothing that we've heard this morning. basically this morning we saw there was talk yesterday. the report came out in fox sports that manny could be out within a couple of days. we haven't heard anything here. you can see it's weighing out a little bit in the body language. you can see it in his face a little bit. he wasn't talking a lot. sometimes you can see if they're staying away from each other, something is coming. if it's going to happen, i can see tomorrow being the day. if it doesn't tomorrow, my hunch would be it's not going to happen on the road trip. we'll wait and see. >> at that point, you've got a 7 game road trip, usually nobody gets fired on the road. have you heard anything about how it broke? >> reporter: i haven't heard anything. it was contributed to major league sources so it could be somebody within the organization he's trying to p

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four years of civil war that tore the country apart and killed hundreds of thousands or millions. on the other side, some of the hardest oppressions recently were in vermont. the attack of the democracy movement there. it simply destroy to that movement. host: chicago, independent caller. caller: hello. i wanted to ask how you think barack obama is handling this issue versus george bush. -- george bush, and to do you think -- host: let us move onto a republican callers in cedar creek. caller: i am putting together a package that i will send to the military of south korea. my suggestion to him in is a tube that has pictures of their nightlife and markets. i realize that when they send balloons over to north korea from south korea, they are told not to touch it, because it will give them diseases. like the christmas cards to you by the has music playing, had a message there. if we wanted to kill you, this would be a bomb -- it would cost several millions dollars. [unintelligible] whenever you kill, somebody on one side of town -- that opens the opportunity for one of your relatives

right handed hit tore go along and compliment albert pujols. >> gary: 2-2 delivery on the way. >> buck: you can also look at the san francisco giants just across the bay who have a great pitching staff but don't have the offense that holliday would provide. they are eight games back of the dodgers. san francisco won tonight, in a 2-1 ballgame. again, that reflects their anemic offense. >> gary: runners on first and second base. holliday in the dirt. wieters picking that one up on the one hop. the count will go to 3-2. all of a sudden, mark hendrickson, looks like he is running out of gas here. >> buck: he does not have the same command that we saw when he first came on. this is the 4th inning that he has worked. he got the last out in this inning, three one, three one. 3-2, runners are going and ouch. >> buck: ball right in on his hands. he is getting on top of that. he gets that foot down and that ball hits right on the top of his left foo foot. >> gary: holliday will walk that off. for hendricks son, the innings pitch high came in hip pril, 5 1/3 against tampa bay. that's the longest

even wall tore johnson thought that smoky joe was faster than he was.hat he thought was the difference. he said the players caught the ball then. now, today, the gloves catch the ball. after ray knight is modeling the glove for us here. this is the wilson kent kelner professional glove. kelner played. imagine making a diving play with that. >> i can't imagine. >> ray: i better make shoe that i catch it in the palm. look at how worn out this fall is. >> why did it take so long for glove makers to we have the fingers together. >> ray: i don't know. that's a big glove. >> for the great players of the past, you see some enormous error totals for honus wagner, ty cob. the point is, you don't know how good the fielders of 350 years ago w the glove is not doing everything but it sure beats trying for catch a ball with a seat cushion. i now understand why grandfathers used to yell "use two hands", because they had to. >> you also get prop pay for doing this, you know. thanks so much, phil. we'll come back and continue. noticec pre-fame. the first of a big weeke

having a chat with carlos peqa as he is the 6th national bat tore hit his way to first base and the second one to visit peqa so far i here is adam dunn who collected rbi number 45 two innings ago. at least for now, that put adam in the top 5 in the league with 45 rbis. offspeed breaking ball. he took a little bit off and dropped it in. >> rob: that's how he got ahead of adam in the first at- bat. on the first pitch of that at- bat, adam read it right and got a base hit. when we talk about pitch recognition, you look for the top spin or a little dot on the ball for a breaking ball. the pot on the ball means the hard slider. the over-the-top rotation means a curve ball. >> bob: elijah dukes has had quite a night so far, two-run double, should have had a runner thrown out at home plate. 2-1 to dunn. that's low and away. ball 3. >> rob: ted williams said he could see the seams on the baseball as they came towards him. >> bob: i do believe that ted williams could read the commissioner's signature on the baseball or, back in those days, it was the president of the american league signature. >> r

the first thing the mishis tore l cool society did was microfilm all of the letters, so that there was a permanent record. you remember microfilm, it came in the 19 50's an 1960's, it came before the computer. i read the letters mostly on microfilm, because once they were microfilmed, the original copies of the letter were closed to historians. you can't see them in the mass historical. you can only read from the microfilm, which is what i did, and any of you have ever read microfilm, you know it -- your tolerance wears down very quickly and at first i could read for half an hour and then i would have to take a break and go outside and look at a tree far off to refocus my eyes and then go back, but i got good at reading them and i got good at reading hand. now, all of this is available on the computer. so if you go to google, and you google adams papers.com, you can have these letters, not only in their original hand, but text script, so you can read the letters on your computer interest your home with great ease. this is the transformation that the computer has made. so that is the od

of the attendant dees talked about their personal experience as father and their outreach workmen toring young people. this is about 50 minutes. good afternoon and welcome to the >> good afternoon. and welcome to the white house. thank you so much for this conversation on personal responsibility and personal responsibility, it's good to be here to talk about something so close to the president's heart. i am chief of staff of government affairs, and i have been working with the president as a paralegal back in chicago and as a chief council in the senate and i know how much fatherhood means. he's a dad and he views that as the most important job he has. but he was also a son that grew up without a father in his own life, know of the impact. and it's something that i shared. my father left before i was born, but i was lucky to be adopted by the man who married my mother. and i a dad myself. i have a teenage son what we are working to guide and i have a son that has autism, and i have a young daughter who has made it clear who is in charge, that would be her. i am pleased to be here with fi

it was a really great experience tore me to play in my first lpga.nity was supportive of the girls out here and i love the crowds. they were cheering me on and it is great. >> and racing, the mother goose stakes and the preakness winner, rachel alexandra, at belmont park. and calvin borel the janyan joc. and rachel alexandra coming from behind. and leaving only two hourses for rachel alexandra to run against. the final stretch and rachel alexandra pulling away by 19 1/4 lengths. >>> and leading baseball in home runs, find out what big name player albert pujols has today. >>> and the home run alive in the first at-bat for manny ramirez and we are bringing you every at-bat during his rehab on "espnews." >>> and in a wimbledon debut, melanie oudin pulled off the big upset. wait until you hear what her wait un(announcer)r what her what does greatness taste like? a miller lite. (announcer on call) ...he throws it across the field. he's got something! 30...40...50...he's got it! 40! he's got it! 20...10...he's got it! 5!...endzone! touch down! there are no

home tore left center scoring upton and crawford. the rays lead 5-3 at this point with the home run. and joe comes to a single off maly know. and that gives the victory in this game. the yankees lost tampa bay wound up winning the game. in the other game the kansas city toronto game, will lee triples, scores three runs. 5-2 advantage and kansas city with a five run fifth inning. break a five game losing streak. kansas city goes onto beat toronto by a count of 6-2. the rays win 9-7. kansas city stopped the blue jays 6-2. elsewhere in the american league east, boston red sox wound upbeating the texas rangers 8-1. how about this, david ortiz going to have an eye examination on monday and mike lowell hit home runs. john with his fifth win. detroit tigers beat angels 2-1. jackson, remember him. complete game against the angels. now 6-3. rbi single. sacrifice fly. complete look at the american league east score board. rich hill will start for the orioles tomorrow. we'll preview the orioles find game against the oakland a's in oakland when

the president whose a remarkably wonderful other tore said we are here in a deeply meaningful moment in which we are going to in a meaningful way engage in discussing a problem so complex and difficult that only myself can present it to you in a way that you will fully appreciate the meaningfulness of this moment that we have here together. an average american said "got it. he doesn't understand what's going on." and they're currently losing this debate by about 3-to-1 and it will get worse if they stick to it. because it is none. [cheers and applause] -- because it is nonsense come. >> but we need to build on the lesson of this debate. it's not about guantanemo. it's about the nature of reality. the lesson of terrorism is that we have to control our borders. the lesson of terrorism is that we must have a system of effective legal immigration. we must have a system of legal temporary workers. we must have a vastly expanded system of h-1 visas for highly qualified workers. we must outsource the guest worker identity system, to visa, master card or american express because no federal a

best interest of the naic, but with insurance companies shouldn't have the option of a federal chart tore streamline their operations to better serve their customers? >> excellent question, congresswoman. let me first comment on the re insurance collateral issue with this very brief anecdote which is the -- my colleagues on the@ t is not delivering directly to consumers the products and it is also not a company. so it is not delivering products. it doesn't have solvency requirements. it is not selling complicated insurance policies to people in every state around the country and for that reason companies should be domiciled within the states and subject to the regulation of those states in which they sell products. >> i yield back. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i have no further questions. >> you have further questions. thank you, mr. chairman i want to thank you for your time and your testimony and your forthrightness especially is appreciated. you're right. there has been a big disparity between the requirements for domestic and non-domestic reinsurers. i think just in the last

bounce tore third. bonifacio, tough hop.e goes to second and back to first and there's the double play. so just like that on one pitch that eliminates the lead-off walk and two men are down. and adam jones atough night. he is oh-fer five. >> buck: he has become a little pull conscious. he hits the ball sharply to the left field most of the night and uggla, again, turning a tough double play with fick markakis all over him and pinto picks up two outs on one pitch. >> jim: aubrey huff has another chance to extend his hitting streak. he has ---he has grounded out all four times tonight. he could in the agree with marty foster. >> are you sure about that? are you sure about that? >> buck: aubrey huff has had big hits in walk-off fashion recently, most recently thursday night against the mets agame winner. he is not going to have a walk- off on the road, but he has gotten some big hits. >> jim: over the last eight games during his hitting streak, 13 base hits and eight rbi's. tonight he has grounded out to first twice. once to th

you're going to come in here we might want to go out and think about getting a veteran guy to you the tore him in the rotation. >> and hope he listens. >> tony gwynn, hall of famer is coach out there in san diego, so whether he was playing in the minor leagues and san diego state he was playing for the best. >> but tony raised about this guy and said he thinks his head is on tight. >> i talked to david price out of vanderbilt. another food man. the bottom line is if you are ready physically, one thing, if you are ready mentally, that's another. >> cincinnati hasn't won in two years, they lost the last three games at rfk. they lost all three in national's park. rob and i will be back in just a minute. @ we've got a ton of stuff we've gotta pay for. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of it all, we're still trying to put away some money for the future. with the wish list, we can save up for anything we want. and still have enough to cover the day-t0-day. plus, the savings engine helps our money grow. and that's something we need and want. introducing th

everything they tore palin down. everything that came up, the media went after him. host: well, let me deny for you right now. number one, when you, if you think the media was always in love with him and only gave him positive coverage, you have got to have forgotten the two month period all the way through the pennsylvania primary and beyond, which was dominated by one man called jermimia wright. i'm sure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama saying people were bitter in america. this was the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you sit at that side and say that never happened, then you could make a case. but then you would also have to set aside the media's absolute fascination for sara palin, because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a super star. you know, and then candidate obama made jokes about the fact that she was getting more magazine covers than he was. there were -- let me scale this back a little bit and say, look, when you are winning things, generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know,

networks to better consolidate and streamline deo and fiber communities that dignify all aspects of find tore defend and operate our networks. i know there have been those who suggest that this is some sort of middle terization or cyberspace. this is not. this is not an attempt to for us to take over the government's cyberstate and this is part to better organize and situate ourselfs to deal with a very real let the, and it is a conference for people taking place in this longer away than -- >> i think soon, i think in the fall we hope to get things moving in that direction. so i think obviously this is not -- cyberhas been an issue within all the services and within strat come, but the hope is here by giving to it one person, a four-star whose responsibility will be to coordinate all of our efforts. there will be greater focus and expertise brought to bear on this very real problem. >> former detainees who were there from 2002 to twie have been telling bbc that they were abused physically and otherwise. i wanted to talk to you specifically about this these allegations and what your response i

century that it returned to its ancestral homeland and its return came about because the con keys toresided to come here and find gold. my first chapter is called "the horses return" and it's about their amazing and treacherous journey back to the land of its origin, and to research this chapter, i went back into some of the old conquistador chronicles, and i found out that hernando cortez had a scribe on board who loved horses and wrote down -- there were 16 horses, on board with hernando cortez and his first voyage to mexico, that's all it took, 16 horses to launch the conquest, and this scribe of cortez wrote down each of their names and talked about their personalities, and really provided a lot of information and that was kind of one of the foundations for my research in this chapter. before i get into that part of their journey, i just want to tell you a little bit about these crossings of theirs. they must have known they were coming home for nothing else can explain their survival and perhaps only that knowledge deep in their selfs sustained them. horses are animals of prey and

the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized tore two minutes. miss sha -- for two minutes. ms. schakowsky: i rise today in strong support of h.r. 1256, the family smoking prevention and tobacco control act. i do it with enormous gratitude to chairman waxman for working for years to get legislation of this sort that would improve public health by strengthening the regulation of tobacco products. there are a lot of of diseases that we don't have the cure for today. there's lots of resources put into medical research that hopefully will find a cure to cancer and to aids and other terrible diseases. but we do know how we can prevent over 435,000 tobacco related deaths that occur each year. and that is by preventing smoking. over 44 million smokers in the united states of america, in illinois alone, 24.3% of adults and 29.2% of youths smoke tobacco. in illinois 16,000 people die from smoking related illnesses, 29,000 adults and children die of secondhand smoke in illinois. an adigsal $3.2 billion is spent in direct medical expenditures related to smo

fortunately, not all of the misdeeds in the his tore of journalism had consequences like that, were that meanly intended. take the case of theodore drieser who early in his career was a newspaper reporter and then a theater critic for a newspaper in st. louis. on one occasion, drieser was assigned to review three plays that were opening on the same night. to make things worse, he also had another assignment that night, which was several miles out of town, away from the theaters smtheaters. he had absolutely no idea what he was going to do. he was afraid. he didn't have the best reputation with the paper. he was thought to be a little lazy because he didn't like the notion of being a theater critic, so he was afraid to complain. he decided he had to come up with a plan and his plan was to do this. he reviewed the three plays before he saw them. he operated the way jason blair did. he got newspapers from cities in which the plays had already been we are formed and on -- performed and on the basis of those reviews, he wrote three reviews of his oh but he didn't intend to be dishonest becaus

with judge eckels and just ask that -- well, let me first state that i hope there will be funding torerojects other than those that may be further along than the texas t-bone, and if you could apply right now for federal funding in part of this stimulus, what would you ask for it to do? >> today, our biggest need is the market and environmental engineering studies. before we go on the ground with a system we want to make sure that it's a system that will be viable, will have the market that will support the system. unlike the east coast, we don't have regular service between houston and dallas today. so to develop one we need to make sure that we are building a system which can be priced so we can compete with the automobiles, with the aircraft and also to keep an operational system. i do think bringing the discipline of the marketplace to the system can help set a fair schedule and construction, you know, of the technology that will make sense and would be viable for the long term for the state. >> let me ask mr. szabo, i'm looking at a map, basically the amtrak system with the high s

is it bet tore have a left- handed specialist or a right- hander who can get left-handers out? >> i'll take quality over a left-handed pitcher any time. i think having chris ray back will only add depth to this bullpen. mark henrikson is a long guy. i don't have any problem with danys baez or chris ray pitching against any left- hander. >> jim: tonight from muggy miami, it is the opener of a three-game series. we have overcast at the moment and we have koji uehara and we have lineups and the first pitch, coming up next! so be careful when you go out. ♪ from the degree men absolute protection line... comes new degree men v12 special edition. protection for the ride of your life. >> orioles baseball on masn brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com. and by acura. acura advance. >> jim: back here at landshark stadium. you can see the ground is wet. about 4:00, the mother of all thunderstorms went through miami. the grounds crew did an absolutely amazing job of getting the tarp on the field with winds up to 67 miles per hour, and the field is pl

jasser of the american islamic forum tore for democracy said, this is the untold story in the myth that care represents the american muslim population. they only represent their membership and donors, end of quote. in 1999, the islamic supreme council of america, isca, sheik cobani spoke at a state department open forum on islamic extremism and came under public attack by several organizations, including care. in an open letter isca says the organizations of attacking cobani, among them, care, quote, have not quoted a single statement sheik cobani in full or in context. moreover, the statements were augmented with emotionally charged words like, promote andized and allegation were outrageous statements and islamic phobic. therefore, thwarting his message. the letter goes on to say, quote, in their action alerts, care has a tendency to nexttively >> at that pose islam and americans, end of quote. considering the words that dr. heidi, was quoted in a 1999 isca press release following this same incident. she remarked, quote, the carefully orchestrated and calculated plot to intimidate shei

i mean, we have to remember -- i mean, when we're writing these opinions, writing tore clarity as somebody mentioned earlier so that people can understand the issues that we're revolving, i think is important. very important. >> just to comment from my point of view about the issue of dissents, in fact, on our court, there are relatively few dissents on any given calendar. even if the judges are quite diverse in their views, there's still i don't know, one, two, three out of 35 cases in which there are dissents ordinarily. and the reason is partly the kinds of considerations that have been discussed. that it's often possible to narrow the opinion or -- in order to get consensus and also in many cases are really aren't disputes because there are fact cases or there are cases where the legal issues are really quite clear. there isn't going to be a disagreement. the problems i think on our circuit arise more in the en banc process. the enormous disagreement comes about because we do as judge reinhardt does do a fair amount of en banc work because of our size and our need to conform the circui

. >> guest: eye misseddite three or four most important things for a teach tore teach their student or to be with their student in a classroom. >> guest: it's a huge question and we could spend the next several hours talking about it. simply i would say this. the intellectual challenge of teaching, the ethical challenge of teaching, is to see your students as three ditch mentional creatures, people with hearts, minds, spirits, as per racings, goals, that have to be taken into account. that's not easily done in a system that reduces kids to deficits and kind of thrives on a toxic habit of labeling. so we have kids that are bd, tg, an endless swarm of labels but doesn't get at the heart of this one and only who will ever travel the earth. so your job is to look through all of that confetti and to see the actual human being before you. that's challenge number one. challenge number two is to create an environment that is deep enough, rich enough and wide enough so eave kid -- every kid who walks into your classroom can find something familiar and something to stretch toward. creating an en

chapter 41st number-one, when mordecai were all that had been done he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes and went into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. first three, he joined the great morning of the jews who were fasting and weeping and wailing to reverse for, times b5 maidens came and told her and she arrived in great anguish. it doesn't say that she prayed or fasted. that is what mordecai must doing. mordecai as he prayed and fasted became convinced that esther could play a critical role in defending the jewish and the king urged her to go in and and for his favor and please with him for her people. and she said no. she said back to them you have got to be kidding me. i haven't even been invited into the king's presence for 30 days. i would be killed if i just walked into the palace into the throne room. you don't do that. i am paraphrasing here, but that is what she is saying. these two love each other. queen esther's parents had died. mordecai was actually an older cousin, raised her as his own daughter, loved her dearly, sought her welfare. but when h

. >> i honor tore honor deputy sean webb. the entire department joined by the people of plumak county are rallying behind this young man and his family as he battles a difficult illness. you don't see this kind of outpouring these days. it's a testament to the impact that deputy webb has had on his department and community. sean's commander writes, we have here in plumas county we have a grade a, true blooded american hero. i salute the bravery and dedication that deputy sean webb has brought to his professional life in protecting our community, a quality so inconspicuous. and i salute the people of the county who embraced and supported sean during this difficult time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. hill of indiana for today. the speaker pro tempore: objection, -- without objection, the request is granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today follow

registration firm who in nevada and other places conducted voter registration all right, but then toreup voter registrations of people who registered democrat. that case was never prosecuted under the prior administration. we issued a comprehensive report on that subject, which is also available on our website entitled "allegations of selective prosecutions in our federal criminal justice system." we have continued our investigation, one of the subjects about mr. rowe will be questioned will relate to these kinds of issues and we referred the matter to the department of justice, which eei'm happy to s has given another job to the office of professional responsibility, which is conducting investigations of what happened with respect to the siegelman and several of the other cases that i mentioned. we continue to closely monitor that issue as well. sixth, another issue scott mentioned, deferred prosecution -- agreements. he referred to the arrangement worked out with former attorney general ashcroft, and i couldn't describe better than scott did some of the potential problems with that.