i was an american studies major at tulane. and i looked at those books when i got that i didn't completely read when i was at college. that's why i had to convince teachers to up my grade. i remember sitting in the classes what is she talking about? what is this professor talking about? it doesn't make sense to me. it didn't ring true in my bones. so when i got a survey in the mail asking me to read my american studies degree and i started to read those books and i started to look up the names of those people and i started to figure out they were part of this group called the frankfurt school. it sounds weird to talk about the frankfurt school. most people have not heard of the frankfurt school, but the frankfurt school, i believe, are the origins in the mess we find ourselves in our culture right now. they are ultimately the architects of political correctness. they're the architects much multiculturalism. they are the architects of the destruction of american culture as we know it, the ones that said it was wrong. one for ma

going to three to four movies, week, going out to my friends going to a prep school and going to tulaneniversity in no time in that experience were the executives of hollywood, executive of hollywood students lived and actors and such and people in the industry -- at no point in that period of time did i hear conservative thought. at no point did i have any opportunity to become any other liberal. so i considered myself a default liberal. >> host: let me interrupt you. in your book you talk about one of those life-changing moments. you're watching the justice thomas/anita hill hearing. what happened to andrew breitbart? >> guest: i just graduated from high school, it was like my bar mitzvah and i left feeling very empty because i just learned how to chant. i felt -- i was open for a spiritual experience. i didn't get it. i felt the exact same way in college, where i was an american studies major and the stuff that i was reading was incomprehensible. and it was jargon. it was noam chomsky-like in its lack of comprehension to a person who doesn't understand that language. and it was demor

brees was joined by 36 teammates at the tulane weight room and practice facility where the cents a wentength and conditioning drills. with the reinstated lockout, players are not allowed at team facilities. today an appeals court set a hearing date of june 3rd to hear the owners' lockout appeal. brees, one of the players named as plaintiff spoke about the upcoming season. >> i am very optimistic. but then again, there's only so much we can do as players and our class counsel as we work towards a settlement agreement and really, at the moment, just try and get this lockout ended. none of us know how long this is going to last. we hope this ends tomorrow. it could go into the season. obviously, it's what none of us want. all we want to do is play football. this gives us the best position to be successful once the season does start. >> drew brees does think that the lockout, obviously, will end. he also added his wife britney was going to be the team mom and come to the practice with capri sun juice drinks and maybe orange juice slices. that's hard work, though. >> i was thinking that the

i want to bring in retired general russel honore and torp marc davis, director of the tulane institutey. thanks to both of you for joining us. mark, a lot of people are upset about the flooding of the at chafalaya but what choice did the corps have? >> they didn't have a choice. the choice was made shortly after the 1927 flood. in many ways people have to understand this system is working the way it was intended to work. in 1927 we displaced more than 600,000 people, and this is a whole system, not just morganza or bonnie carey, it's the entire levee system with its control structures that have been put in place. there are some hard choices that have been made in the process and not everybody bears the same burden. right now it's working the way it was designed to work which after katrina it's nice to see a levee system do that. >> well said. general honore, the morganza can handle up to 36,000 cubic feet of water per second and the bonnie kari can handle up to 250,000 cubic feet of water per second. is it enough? >> based on current projections. things can change. if we have a failure

i had a great time at tulane university. i recommend anyone going to new orleans should have a great time. i graduated 20 years ago. i am admitting to my flaws the way that barack obama admitted he did cocaine when he was in college. would you ask barack obama in an interview, would that be one of the 10 questions you ask, what is his relationship with cocaine? host: you just talked about quite a bit. that's where it came from. next caller, go ahead. caller: i was listening this whole time. from the very beginning, i was struck by something. your guest regards himself as a default liberal. he said his parents were conservative republicans. i find that to be intellectually dishonest. people are more likely to change their religion from their childhood than to change their political affiliation of their parents. it seems to be underscored by this reliance on anecdotal stories. that seems to be the only evidence for this rather ironic claim that the left is constantly and selectively editing. that sounded across the board. you

. >> guest: i was an american studies major at tulane and i looked at those books when i got that i didn't completely read when i was at college so i had to convince teachers to up my great. i remember sitting in the class say in what is she talking about, what is this professor talking about? it doesn't make sense to me. it didn't ring true so when i go to a survey in the mail asking me to great my american studies i started to read this book and look up the names of those people and i started to find out they were part of the group called the frankfort school. it sounds weird to talk about the frankfort school. most people have never heard of this. but the frankfort school i believe our the origins of the mess we find ourselves in the culture right now. they are ultimately the architect of political correctness, the architect of multiculturalism, they are the architect of the disruption of american culture as we know at. the once that said it's wrong. they were the ones that separated people by race and people based on the old economic marxist argument of the head of verses the have not

. >>> in football, saints quarterback drew breas let a practice in tulane today.appeal courts in st. louis has the kaeuls and says it will hear -- the case and says it will hear arguments june 3rd. so there's at least another month of lock outs ahead. >>> tomorrow morning at 11:00, eric decosta talk about the recent draft and what's ahead for this offseason. >> okay, thank you very much, mark. >>> it's a derby and it's in kentucky. >> but it's not the one you're thinking of. coming up get aload of the bed derby. this is the aircraft logbook. we have to write down everything about every flight. with so many new southwest flights, that's a lot of ink. i filled up three of these this month already. kinda like the little black book... of all the cities we've dated. [ male announcer ] starting june 5th, fly southwest airlines' new nonstop service from bwi airport to new york newark for just $69 one way. is "camera crew" two words or one word? [ laughs ] you should know. you're the camera man. [ ding ] you should know. you're the camera man. ,@ his "fantasy league" phot

you want to send and it's a lot of meeting and spending time here especially in the congregation tulane and it seems like not beautiful people in my little gathering here so we know what you've done and the surrounding street is stunning discussion about the weather or something. there is that if you absolutely betting there's so much to do here there did you feel concentrates are the restaurant my friend mel loves going out on . the party actually it certainly goes late into the night which is great new headers or topping. me all the top advisors and there are budget conscious people and if you. do find a shop almost immediately she spent scarves buildings that's not all about fashion brands open in one hundred sixty eight most fox is one of the city's largest bookstores are going to tell you until one o'clock in the morning. carnes compound here and there's a lot selection of books in english german french and other languages. out of the forty first guy not for. some famous ulysses keep story building itself is an eighteenth century story school and all the traditional monuments becau

but we did see that the science from tulane found these mysterious orange globs in their samples that they are fairly sure were caused by disperse and. the oil and the disperse dispersant entering the food chain in the gulf of mexico through these larva baby blue crabs. we also work with the consortium of scientists from a number of universities using acoustic monitoring buoys. basically these buoys that set out there and listened for noise so i merrily they were recording vocalizations from whales and other beach whales. this was important because it is difficult to actually understand what is happening with wales by counting them. mostly they are underwater. so they had a dataset stretching back several years in the same area so we were able to compare the whale population used to look like in that area of the gulf with what happened after the disaster. and again it is too early to really say what the detailed results were but they did find that in the side closest to the deepwater horizon, there are far fewer whales after the accident than there were before. this is significant bec

primarily we focus on the blue crab with scientists from tulane university. and one of the challenges for us throughout this was we had a 24 hour news cycle where people want answers, but science is slow. the data that we collected with this just one small project to examine one very small piece of the impact come even collecting the data took months. but to analyze that will probably take them two years. so the one-year anniversary we had a lot of people asking. so you know, it's been plenty of time what happened. was it as bad as everyone said, was it not so bad bp and the government was saying the answer i think is that it is going to be decades before we can look back and feel like we have a true sense of what the damage was. but we saw the science is from tulane from these mysterious orange blobs in their sample that they're fairly sure were caused by disbursement. and so this is the oil and the disbursement answering the food chain in the gulf of mexico through these blue crabs. we also worked with the scientists from a number of universities using acou

tulane university in new orleans and east china normal university are collaborating to improve the conservation of wetlands. we have seen many other examples. we are also laying the groundwork for potentially significant future collaboration on development from working together to innovate and distribute clean cooko stoves and feels to strengthening public systems and countries. our people to people programs continue to expand, most notably, are 100,000-strong student exchange initiative which has already raised the stated goal of dollars to go along with the very generous chinese government support for 20,000 american students. all of us are committed to increase more people to people interactions and opportunities. we want to translate these two real-world benefits for our citizens, our countries, and the wider world. just as important, although perhaps harder to quantify, are the habits of cooperation and mutual respect that we formed through these discussions. we believe that to keep our relationship on a positive path as foreseen by presidents obama and hu, the united states and china have

. >> reporter: richard campanella is a professor at tulane university, where he teaches at about interactions between people and the environment. >> i think it's useful to think of this mississippi river flooding as having both benefits and costs. >> reporter: he says short-term losses, like the thousand of acres of crops that will be flooded, will be mitigated by long-term gains. >> it's a jolt to the system. so the crops that are growing now are probably going to be lost. but in the long run, this is very rich sediment that gets deposited here and this is how this entire region was built and the areas that were built up by floods are the most arable lands. >> reporter: that sediment helps build up land that had been lost to coastal erosion. >> the river built this land. it built it with flood cycles and sediment. so here you have a flood cycle- getting that water out of the river. it also pushes back the salt water wedge and in certain areas builds new land and that's a good thing. >> reporter: but brad robin sees no benefits at all. >> fat, healthy. >> reporter: his family has been in the

on the morning of january 4, 2009, here at tulane medical center, 43-year-old cayne miceli came into the emergency room suffering from a severe asthma attack. when the staff tried to discharge her, even though she was still having trouble breathing, cayne, who had a history of psychiatric problems, resisted, and the hospital called the authorities. they took her here, to the psychiatric ward of the house of detention, run by the sheriff. despite her asthma attack, prison staff put her in five-point restraints, a series of straps that bound her flat on her back on the bed in her cell. according to the house of detention's own records, cayne told the staff that she couldn't breathe. as she struggled, she began to get free, so four guards held her down. only when they could no longer find a pulse were paramedics called. they rushed cayne to the hospital, and that's when her father, mike, was notified. >> we got down here as quick as we could. the doctor told us that, you know, there was no hope. and we got together and talked, you know, and decided to... take her off the respirator and

from tulane and taught history at dillard university. she founded and was director of the publications department at the historic new orleans collection for 20 years. just published this year, in 2011, are two books, "being so gentle: the frontier love story of rachel and andrew jackson" by palgrave macmillan publishing, and another book, julia hudson, the wife of a creole artist. her biography of martha washington, "an american life," was published by viking penguin in 2005. and immediately to her right is ian mcalty, and i should say the program today had initially listed it would be discussing abraham lincoln and an author about lincoln's journey to new orleans when he was a 19-year-old. the writer, richard campanella, found another opportunity in paris -- [laughter] so he's not with us today. but we're very privileged to have another northerner who came down river to new orleans. but he decided to stay as opposed to abraham lincoln. so ian is a new orleans-based journalist and radio commentator. his previous books is a narrative abou

already tulane university in new orleans and east china normal university are collaborating to improve the conservation of wetlands. and we have seen many other examples. we're also laying the groundwork for potentially significant future collaboration on development, from working together to innovate and distribute clean cook stoves and fuels to strengthening public health systems in developing countries. and our people to people programs continue to expand, most notably our 100,000 strong student exchange initiative which has already raised the stated goal of dollars to go along with the very generous chinese government support for 20,000 american students because all of us are committed to increase more people to people interactions and opportunities. now, i am well aware that these specific and very substantive partnerships may not produce major headlines. but i think they do reflect our shared commitment to translate the high level sentiments and rhetoric of these diplomatic encounters to real world benefits for our citizens, our countrys, and the wider world. just as important, a

one went to tulane. the bove completed their services and they both enjoy their time in the navy.ent on a second tour and got his master's degree from georgetown in the humanities. the other did not state and went into the reserves and became a commander in new york for a while. host: do you think your sons would have gone to college if they had not gone into the rotc program? caller: we could not have afforded to send them to such good colleges. my grandson also went through rotc partial training and spent time in korea. he then went on to get his cpa degree in colorado. host: independence caller from connecticut. caller: my wife has been responsible for some years for supervising they've -- the rotc program at a school in pr. i have been extremely impressed at the graduation ceremonies by the quality and the commitment of these young people. these young men and young women. as a former military person myself, i have been extremely proud, as a newly nationalized american as well, of what the people has been doing. columbia university has rejoined or is booking and rejoining the p

what i learned in my prep school and american studies at tulane university, whever learned from abc,, and nbc, is that liberalism is a righteous and anybody that disagrees with it is somehow against children, the environment, and all things good. i happened upon conservatm during a time when i was driving scripts around hollywood. when i discovered a.m. radio, i started to hear a perspective that i never heard before. it made a lot more sense to me. i am indignant about the fact that the mainstream media pretends to be objective when in fact it is used by the last american people. i am a tea party guy and i am rightes about their causes. the idea that the mainstream media complex would frame the tea party from the get go as a potentially violent threat and a racist threat shows how frightened the democratic media complex is of its own citizenry of the american people. host: i want to read a little bit from your book and to get you expound on it if you would. this is on page 96. guest: is the cliche -- it is getting to become a cliche the cliche that i give in my speeches or talks is

are so supportive of what's going on, our universities, i might say, the university of new orleans, tulane university, dillard and xavier have also been really on the forefront of this movement as well. let me just share these results because they are quite extraordinary. this chart will show that in 2005, 62% of students in the city of new orleans -- not 15%, not 20%, but 62% were academically unacceptable. based on standards set by our state and by the federal government, in 2005, basically 62% of all the students in new orleans were failing. they were not up to just basic education levels in reading and math. we had a terrible event happen, as many people will remember, in 2005, hurricane katrina and rita and the crashing of our levee system, the failing of our levee system, and 100 of our 146 public schools were virtually destroyed and remain unusable. through the great efforts of local leaders, state leaders and federal leaders and with fema's help and some new outof the -- out--- out of the box thinking, we were able to pool the money that each individual school and present one check