and my co-author have done in this book is to examine 150 courses at 12 major universiti universities. penn state, university of texas, university of california, usc, columbia, arizona and arizona state, missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that it's blatantly obvious that students are being indoctrinated. if they read about poverty, they read leftist about poverty. if at the read about global -- well, i hate to tell the older folks here like myself, if you haven't been on a campus, they don't even read books now that teachers show movies, films in class. so if the subject is global warming, you've seen al gore's film and you may have seen it in a french class or i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's sicko in a french language class. the chairman of the department thought that was perfectly appropriate. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. and the

florida international -- florida international university, louisiana state university, massachusetts institute of technology, mississippi state university, rice university, texas a&m, texas tech, university of kansas, oklahoma, texas, tulsa, utah, alaska, fair banks, houston, michigan, south carolina, corn california, west virginia, and west virginia state. those are just some of the many institutions that are working within the confines of the bill that we passed. the consortium has awarded dozens of projects. these are underway. this bill if you divert this money from this bill to support the bill that mr. skelton has, these are the things that you're knocking out. an effort to find energy for 100 years of energy that this country needs. it would prevent us from having to pay foreign agents, arab nations that we don't trust and don't trust us. that millions of dollars could stay here in this country. the consortium has awarded dozens of projects including 43 research projects currently underway with a total project value of nearly $60 million. also, madam chairman, the value of the projects over and above the amount of annual funding

university. university of louisville or perhaps an out of state university. and they work on and solve the project the department has need for. to set the record straight, the institute receives specified research task orders from the science and technology direct rat at d.h.s. the task orders are then farmed out to the consortium of colleges and universities throughout the state of kentucky and other public and private entities across the country for their input on that particular problem. this process taps into and unleashes the intellectual firepower of our best and brightest people to address new and emerging threats to the homeland. these are competitive grants. make no mistake. these are competitive grants, all decisions on funding are made by the department of homeland security. so far, 22 projects are under way. dozens of colleges and universities participating. these are low-cost solutions. with a minimal footprint and maximum results. a couple of examples. university of kentucky -- researchers have developed a system to maintain the security of raw m

universities honest. so we found 150 courses like this. at 12 major universities. well, there are 4,000 universities, and if you do the arithmetic, that's maximum of 40,000 courses. and a minimum of probably 10,000. so well, i'd say it's 20,000. well, how many millions of students go through this. so people often ask me, well, americans are individualists, and you know, you're assuming that they're all indoctrinated. no, i'm not. only 2% or 3% of them are indoctrinated in rabid, anti-american feuds. that's a lot of people. and then, and this is a really, you know, things get worse and worse, but who do you think runs the education school? the most radical, the most communist, and i use that word advisedly, since both my parents were communists, and the people, institutions in america are the education schools in our universities. the editor of the series of teacher guides at columbia teachers college and its star graduate, now the distinguished professor of early childhood education, that the university of-illinois is william airs, i knew william airs when i was on the left. a more on. -- a moron. g

university. i have nothing against environmental science. i think very highly of the gentleman who has sponsored this earmark, but i do have a problem of handing out these kind of earmarks to private universities. drew university is not only a private institution, but has a reported endowment of $268 million. in addition, the university was awarded a grant of $950,000 by the andrew l. mullen foundation, a grant that was for the establishment of the new environmental studies and sustainability major at the school, according to the university's website. aapplaud drew university. it speaks highly of the university that it was able to secure a grant. but it's curious that it should receive a $1 million earmark for the development of new environmental studies courses for the construction and improvement of science laboratories. it sounds to me like this new course of study not only got a grant from the foundation for the new major but $1 million grant from the taxpayers as well. i'm sure the curriculum at drew is competitive and noteworthy, but so are others at many other universities across the country. there has been increasing attention paid to earmarks for private companies. what do we do about earmarks to priv

co-author and i have done in this book is to examine 150 courses at 12 major universities in penn state, university of texas, university of california, usc, colombia, arizona, arizona state, missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that's blanton the obvious things are being indoctrinated if they read about poverty they read leftists about poverty, they read about i hate to tell the older folks like myself if you haven't been on a campus they don't even read books now teachers show movies, films and glass, show if the subject is global warming you have seen al gore's film and may have seen it in french class. i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's "sicko" in french class. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california, santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. and then it tells you it is an anticapitalist revolution. now the subject of revolution is totally appropriate for an academic setting if it is taught the a

university, university of michigan medical school, a virginia law school and what i learned is very few americans have been very good sense 4 trillion. also i would give you a sense of how big 1 trillion is. how long ago was 1 million seconds? last week. 11 days ago. 1 billion seconds roundabout when richard nixon resigned the white house by bob 1,000,000,000,002nd? 30,000 b.c.. bad is 50,000 years before any human being is the but on the continent and we're spending two of those each year. that is an astounding number you cannot even get your head around it weird about china and the chinese economy and the fact they may overtake the united states as the next superpower we spend almost the entire chinese gdp on health care loan. theirs is 2.5 trillion dollars and reese spent 2. 2 trillion on health care is not just how much we're spending but how much it is growing year to europe days year-to-year since 2000 premiums have gone up 75%, double inflation as a matter of fact if you grab about where spending is going i call it the tsunami graph because it goes up and buy 2082 we are either all patients were all doctors and that is it the entire economy is health care of. [laughter] we have to get that under control progress takes money away from everything else we have whether education or travel or infrastructure and then there's the quality of care yes we have some peaks of the tremendous quality whether it is right here in the san francisco, a stanford, mayo clinic, harvard, but we also know the quality is uneven, unpredictable and lots of studies have shown your chance of getting the right medicine is roughly the flip of a point*. not a very good. have a high use of unproven treatments that cost a lot of money and don't add a lot. and we have a very fragmented system. the average medicare beneficiary sees seven different doctors per year and five specialists that are not related clinically, administratively, and no shared electronic records this is no way to run is is down. even if the americans don't know the details that understand the system is broken and brad w. botha is suggested that you understand the system is not working. we understand we have a problem with the economy cratering health care was the top or the second issue in the presidential election. the second thing we need is shared agreement on reforms. there are lots of proposals for reforming the health-care system in this country. lots of proposals. maybe hundreds. but they can all be boiled down 21 of four flavors. you either are a incremental was, changes, weevil not try to achieve any of the big items all at wants we will not do universal coverage but we will have electronic medical records or expand or do a few things around the edges. personally i am not sure why this is persuasive if you think this system is broken because going around the edges will not fix what we need to fix. you do that only if you can't get big reform it is a compromise position that that is not the us position from the start it is not the end state. most people abdicate its as politically feasible not as the best policy option. but we should be thinking about the best policy option not what we can do. because we're often wrong for what we can actually achieve. of the second reform is mandates. ewing california have been very experienced in california at it was about individual or employer mandates to get 100% coverage, to facilitate people buying insurance to establish insurance exchanges so they can get the product cheaper. then the subsidizing people who were poor to buy the products. massachusetts has tried that ended has had some very impo

allow children in rurlt areas to have the same opportunities as children to live close to universiti universities. i'm very excited about the opportunities for education and broadband and the next generation of e-rate. >> very good. my time has expired. thank you. i think you're going to be an incredible chair. mr. mcdowell, your reappointment is going to be a plus. i know you've ben a big proponent of alaska issues. you've seen it, you've been there. we'll work on the chairman together and give him that great experience of alaska. not the fish, the telecommunications. but again, thank you both and i look forward to working with you on alaska specific. thank you. >> thank you. before i call on senator can cantwell, i have to make a committee announcement. i am not pleased by the way that -- this was my fault so i take full responsibility for it, that people made their statements then left. some happily came back. and for that i applause them. but it is wrong -- i mean, this is a mammothly important hears for a nomination and a vote to follow. we cannot have it that people come in and make their o

university and its great medical institution, university of maryland medical center with its discoveries and certainly n.i.h., a nation that is proud of the medical traditions of equal. we want to maintain choice. i want the constituents of maryland to be able to choose their doctor and hospital but to choose the national institutes of health plans that they -- to choose the health care plans they can participate in and we want to make sure this is affordable. we want to build on the country system and let me talk about one point that has gotten a lot of attention, whether we should have a public insurance option. i hope we have a robust public insurance option. i say that for many reasons. public insurance has worked in our system. just look at medicare. if the federal government did not move for medicare our seniors would not have had affordable health care coverage. our disabled population would not have had affordable health care coverage. i don't know of a single member of this body who is suggesting we repeal medicare. and that's a public insurance option. a public insurance option does not have the government interfere with your selection of doctors. the doctors are private. the hospitals are private. we are talking about how we collect and pay for the bills. and medicare has worked very well. as tri care for our military community. we want to build on that experience. the main reason that we want a public insurance option is to keep down costs. that's our main reason. we know that medicare advantage -- this is a private insurance option within medicare. well, i'm for a private insurance option in medicare but what i oppose is giving, costing the taxpayers more money because of that. and we know that medicare advantage costs between 12% to 17% more for every senior that enrolls in the private insurance option. the congressional budget office says that costs $150 billion over 10 years. so this is a cost issue. i remember taking the floor in the other body when we were talking about medicare part-d. the prescription drug part of the medicare s i part-d program is c so my main reasons a public insurance option i but it also s a guaranteed reliable product for that individual who's trying to find an affordable option, for that small business owner who today finds it extremely difficult to find an affordable and reliable product in the private insurance in the private marketplace. maybe that will be up to the challenge of 47 million more applying for in. i want to make sure they are. having a public insurance option puts us on a level playing field and allows the freedom of choice for the consumer as to what insurance product they want to buy and the freedom of choice to choose an insurance product that allows you to choose your own private doctor and hospital. now, all the debate, there is plenty of more positive things in this proposal. i certainly want to congratulate the leadership of both the finance committee and on the help committee for the manner in which they are working together to bring down health care costs by, first, universal coverage. universal coverage will bring down health care costs. we know someone who has no health insurance uses the emergency room. it costs a lot of money to use the emergency room. we want to get care to the community and with universal coverage it will bring down costs. preventive health care saves money. saves money. saves lives. it provides better healthy lives for individuals and it saves monies. you know that providing a test for a person for early detection of a disease costs literally a couple hundred dollars compared to the surgery that can be avoided that costs tens of thousands of dollars. this is about saving cost, ves, and preventive health care. i congratulate the committees for really coming together on this issue. the better use of health information technology will save us money in the administrative aspects of health care but in delivery of care. if we can coordinate a person's care, we can bring down the cost of care and prevent medical errors. so for all of those

universe, we are not knowing that the son of god came as a human being. no matter what science and technology says we're both in space and time in the very center of the universe which is our universe. and you see perhaps almost surely pretentious preaching to you we live in a different world because the words are being corrupted. the very phrase is being corrupted but as they told you the intelligent design thing gives me the creeps. these are good willing people or people who say equal sex marriage and so forth i do not want to go into this but you see, you see it emerson was a great wine and said the corruption of society leads to the corruption of language. i am convinced the opposite is true the corruption of language leads to the corruption of society. and i can give you the oodles of it examples of this intelligent design this previous president said i would give you a basic example or i could give the $1,000. americans wanted to have the ownership society, and ownership society when before the presented to pressure and -- depression less than half of americans own their houses. i am not only speaking mortgages but second equity, right now less than three percent of american

universal public -- universal music publishing group. >> we want companies to take more responsibility for providing music. >> he is the chairman of universal music publishing group, tonight at 8:00 p.m., on "the communicators." >> next, a look at 30 years of close-up television on c-span. we will hear from current and former associates of the show, including joe garrity. the guests will take questions from students and teachers of the close-up academy. this is one hour. >> hi, i am from western the sake >> i am your host and here we are in the newseum. we bring students face to face with current events, the workings of government, and the press. this week, we will look at 30 years of close-up television programming on c-span. our audience consists of students and teachers from the close of the academy. let's meet some of them now. hello and welcome to close up at a newseum. hello and welcome. >> i am from kingwood, texas. >> what has been the biggest highlight of your week here in washington, so far. ? >> we went to the world war two monument. i love the statues and the stars and everything like that. it is well done. >> you met with the c

university. it's one of the cal state university system, publicly supported university, i guess part of the question is, can we continue to do this, mr. chairman? can we take and borrow another $180,000 to put into this program to subsidize this program further? and is that such a critical need that this program gets another $180,000 from the federal taxpayer, borrowed by the federal taxpayer that we can't take just starting now, just take $180,000 and save it and start to reduce the deficit and start to save a little money and start to reduce that debt? so that hopefully we can begin to get this thing under control. until we start to do that, i understand the gentleman's concern, but, mr. chairman, until we start to do that, we are not just condemning our children and grandchildren to a mountain of debt. it's piling up so fast we are condemning ourselves to a mountain of debt. with that i yield back the balance of my time. i ask for an aye vote. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time having expired, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. so many as

universe upon universe. we're here this evening to honor, to ease bank, and to recognize a friend, a patriot, a leader, a lover of our country. in this moment, dear god, as we should in all moments, we recognize your presence and the work of our hands, your lights and the clarity we attain, your spirit and the wisdom with chief, at your inspiration and the good that we seek to do. we ask for your continued guidance and blessing, even as we know that we all -- we often merit than not. we thank you for our many deaths. this evening, we thank you for al and ginger from who have shared some much of themselves with all of us and many more across the nation in the globe or not here this evening. our tradition teaches at five years old, the person should study scripture. at 13, the commandments. at 20, one is ready for one's life pursuits. at 40, one achieves discernment. at 50, one is ready to give counsel. at 60, one becomes an elder, even with year grace the stage. the rabbi would ask, which is the proper course that a man should choose for himself? ago he would then say, that which is an honor to him and a list its honor from his fellow man. the rabbi would continue, be as scrupulous about a small deed as a way the one. for you do not know the reward allotted for each action. and finally, he would teach know what is above you, a seeing eye, a hearing here, and all your deeds recorded in a book. al you have been a follower of rabbi judah. we might even say, to use it technical term, a total mench. and with the patience and strength, perhaps not quite of joke but of a devoted cubs then, something almost biblical in itself. your body the words of rabbis shimon he used to sit there 3 crowns. -- who used to say that there are three grounds. but the crown of a good name surpasses them all. al fromm, it is a good name. we ask god's continued blessing on you. blessed are you. ruler of the universe who has kept us alive, sustained us, and broad as to this wonderful moment for you and for all of us. molotov and -- mozel tov and amen. [applause] >> thank you again, rabbi, for the processing. thank you all again for joining us for such a wonderful and a special occasion, celebrating the contributions of al from, not only to this great organization but to the larger political body. as on the telephone earlier today and was chatting with someone i am working on a project with. and i was in washington and share that it was for this evening's events. he and i are about the same age. i turned 39 a month ago. i shared with him, i remember graduating from college in 1992 and working from my father's reelection campaign to congress back in memphis and how i was so excited that this arkansas governor and this tennessee senator would be the nominee is for the party or were the nominees for the party. i shared with the fellow i was speaking to on the telephone, and he agreed that it was the f

universe upon universe, we are here this evening no honor, thank and recognize a friend, a patriot, a lead leader, a lover of our country. in this moment, dear god, as we should in all moments, we recognize your presence in the work of our hands, your light and the clarity we attain, your spirit and the wisdom we achi e achieve, your inspiration and the good that we seek to do. we ask for your continued guidance and blessing even as we know that we often merit them n not. we thank you for our many gifts. this evening we thank you for al and engineer fro ginger ginger others that are not here this evening. our tradition teaches that at 5 years old the person should study scripture. at 13 the commandments, at 20 one is ready for one's life pursuit. at 40 within achieves discernment. at 50 one is ready to give counsel. at 60, one becomes an elder even with your grace, a sage. which is is the proper course that a man should choose for himself? he would then say that which is an honor to him and elicits honor from his fellow man. the rabbi would continue, be as scrupulous about a small deed as a weighty one because you do not know the reward allotted for each action. finally, he would teach, know what is above you. a seeing eye, a hearing ear, and all your deeds recorded in a bo book. appe al, you have been a follower of rabbi judah. we might even say, to use a technical term, a total mench. with the patience and strength perhaps not quite of jobe but, devoted cubs fan, something almost biblical. you embody the words that say you follow three crowns. the torah, the priesthood and kingship. but the crown of a good name surpasses them all. al fromm, a good name. we ask god's continuing blessing on you. bless you, rural of the universe who has kept us alive, sustained us and brought us to this

universality of the windel of focus groups and being responsive to them. the universe of reality of what is the fight, whenever we talk to anybody about doing national campaigns they are not awe struck but dumfounded why do you going place you can't understand the language, but there is greater universe of -- universality. there's only one way to tell a story. talk about the elements of campaigning then we will talk about the impediments, cultural impediments that i am sure cause -- >> guest: there's lots of impediments. and language, the first language is to have simultaneous for translation and things like that but still, it's not quite the same so you always have the local partners who are natives and work with research organizations that are from the country so there is always a collaboration that's ever americans coming in and displeasing what's happening in the country. but, you know, again, any campaign has to have a successful campaign. has to be focused -- >> there is that kind of operative modifier. >> guest: in my view the strong successful campaigns, you know, pose a clear choice and in the title of this book is dispatches from the war. the war room was the famous nefarious clinton campaign -- >> host: never duplicated. >> guest: but all these campaigns had words, but it'

title, [speaking spanish] which is a little different which means universal history, almost. >> guest: almost because if you say universal history it sounds so hollow and arrogant. my intention was to write an homage to the human adversity. without boundaries or frontiers more from time or from the map, to be free. it was ended venture -- and adventure. >> host: i think it is less serious when it is called stories of almost everyone" because almost everyone is in this book. and predicted the people who are not usually mentioned in world history, i give us a couple of examples of the kinds of stories that you are telling at that you think characterize what kind of a book this is? >> yes. my intention was i never know what the result is that the level of good intentions, the good intention was to rescue the beauty of the terrestrial rainbow. we are much more than what we are told we are. official history has mutilated our past. the media it is mutilating present history. we are much more than what we are told. for instance, most people who were doing history making history know they are doing it, women they know their plac

does a couple of things, universal ldalth care, that is huge in the raising of kids as everybody knows, not just children's health but adult health. universal health care. universal day care, child care, you don't have to use it but you have options. and family payments, the task of raising the next generation. those are building blocks that till transform every american's life instantly. we have the wealth to do it. it is more cost-effective than we are doing it now. frong families, i don't think african-american families, what was wrong with moynihan's accusation seems to be still wrong. we always joked that every family, remember your last ilmily funeral or your last family wedding or graduation. dysfunctional family, all of us would not hour heads, every family has its dysfunction. every family has divorce, every family has death and separation and illness. every family has drug addiction, every family has school failure in your extended family. let's get real and not stigmatize some group as being pathological and the rest of us being fine. the ones who are fine have a question of resources that allow you to go through these crises and have your kids have a

how do we form the system so there's universal access? universal affordability? but at the same time we don't have a government program that will cost $3.5 trillion that's not paid for and no statistics to show it could save money there could be an alternative suggestion and i suggest, madam secretary, that you read the hsi network l.l.c. report that came out. and go back with the latest report from the luen group and i think, certainly before you come up here you should have some answer how you're going to pay for that and with that, i yield back. >> thank you, mr. stearns. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary one area i've been working extensively with chairman wax man and senators rockefeller and whitehouse on is legislation that would strengthen the federal health care quality infrastructure in order to identify and track key health indicators as well as to develop and implement new science across the states. what this bill does that we introduced would tab national priorities for health care quality and specifies that pediatric health quality is one o

university and a master's apart from central michigan university. the honorable christopher shays serves as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995 he was the deputy general counsel in the united states senate. he holds a bachelor of arts from columbia university and a j.d. from harvard law school. colonel grant green is a member of the commission on wartime contract and an appointed by president george w. bush. he currently serves as the chairman of global marketing and development solutions and, development solution think. is still the number of senior positions in the government including undersecretary of state for management, assistant secretary of defense in the second secretary for the national security council. colonel green is retired from the united states army and served on the commission as an ac

. >> guest: he had a master's from the university, secular university in islamabad and in 1997 the same year he visited osama bin laden in kandahar with his father he also was an employee of unicef, said he had a foot in both worlds which made him accessible and incredibly dangerous because he knew how to work the media. he also knew what sold and what didn't. he never talked -- he would talk about his opposition to the government and sympathy to the taliban but never about the sympathy for the secretary organizations the red cross was affiliated with because he knew sunni skilling she has didn't play well in the media. so this is me once in ghazi's office. i pointed up something against his computer desk. that's knew i said. no, i've always had that. but what about that, i asked, pointing to the short cylinder fixed to the barrel. that's a grenade launcher. a friend gave it to me, ghazi said. he showed me how it worked able to launch grenades over a wall. in other words perfect weapon against an encroaching force if you are surrounded by high walls inside a mosque. ghazi overhauled his

we do what we are supposed to do at the public universities and state universities. this has not gotten the attention in a community college system, there will be major resource infusion but also reforms and goals driven. as part of an overall economic strategy and upgrading of american workers and employees skills if they choose from this profession to that profession, we have an educational infrastructure to do that. in addition to that, it will be another announcement by the president on early learning and fulfillment of his campaign pledge, the research data coming out of the minnesota fed if you haven't seen it as it relates to what they have done on early learning and the investment of dollars, dramatic, and going from the day care to early learning, away from babysitting, towards learning and preparation, for doctors. that will be part of the president's announcement. as everybody has noted but i want to emphasize, what barney is doing in promoting the standards, taking the caps off of charter schools, a for performance as relating to teachers and the entire r

which became one of the most popular early programs of the roosevelt administration, universally popular, almost universally popular. [laughter] and she was the largest single supporter of the works progress administration which led to vast expansion of public works projects, highways, tunnels, schools, and art projects all across the country that provided a lot of the basic infrastructure on which our country expanded its economy dramatically in the 50's and gave people enough money to feed themselves until the economy recovered on its own. it really is an extraordinary list of accomplishments and that isn't all. the immigration department was then part of the labor department, so frances perkins also played an international role in the 1930's as the world move towards a global war, and she had -- she was a proponent of bringing refugees laws she could and interpreted in ways she could and in consequence, hundreds of thousands of people actually made it to safety in the united states before much of the world went up in flames. national health insurance, it never passed. there was too much opposition from a

she serviced kansas state insurance commissioner graduate of trinity washington university in the university of kansas. madam secretary, and since-- >> mr. chairman i am happy to join you in welcoming the secretary to the hearing. thank you very much. >> thank you. i will leave this record open for your statement. >> please proceed as you so desire. >> thank you chairman harkin and senator cochran and members of the committee. i want to thank you for the impartation to come and discuss the 2010 budget and for a start by thanking you for your hard work gang leadership on a fulbright the of health issues. we certainly face great challenges in the country today and i look forward to working with you to tackle those challenges together. health reform is one of the issues i know that is front and center and the senate and house right now and i think that there is great agreement, we can't continue with the status quo. the president is committed to health reform. we have seen businesses and governments and families and providers come together two of knowledge that the crushing costs are influencin

universities across the country. it's already damaging them because governors and legislators are finding they barely have enough money to keep up with increasing medicaid costs. they have nothing left for colleges, universities. and so the quality of the universities goes down and the tuition at the universities goes up. finally senators serving as governor of their home states trying to manage an expanded medicaid program would find that most of the people -- maybe a majority debaters would find a hard time getting service. today 40% of doctors nationally don't provide full service to medicaid patients because of the low reimbursement rates. so, mr. president any version of the bill we're considering will explode in complexity and astronomical spending and will never succeed. there is a better way. there are several better ways. instead of stuffing low-income americans into one failing government health care program -- medicaid -- that now provides substandard care and creating a new government-run insurance program, why don't we give low-income americans government grants or subsidies so they can purchase private insurance as is provided by the wyden-bennett bill, for example, which has a cost of zero to the taxpayers according to the congressio

university of nebraska, university of nebraska press to really jump on the idea. never got off of it, give us an opportunity to do a lot of things and then start of stood back and watch. that is fantastic, so it was like somebody came in and said, after in this idea on its head. this is how would have to look. first of all we would not have gone for it, but secondly, it was never anything like this for archille thank the universityf buffalo for example that gave us an opportunity for our own offices with uncrowned queens.com. we could not get done that without them so it is an extraordinarily coming together, so there are a number of different things that will do, but barbara is right, one of the things that is important for us to take a look at, and that is that the stories that people that told us, namely the women, about how they came to this, and meeting you and hearing your stories here is another story about the story. when we went to the human bookstore in harlem, and you just have to go there, to have all the sisters from all over new york coming in bringing their mothers and their fathers and their lovers and husbands and their children and grandmothers, and standing up and signing books with us and telling us that, if you know, how their lives were changed and one mother creeping up to me and saying, she is alive again. she is rising again. this broker writer's block. she is on the road again. so, ther

university of tampa and went down to that university so that's where rod went also. he followed his brother down there. he didn't win a baseball scholarship or an academic scholarship. his grades were good enough to get him into northwestern. although, again he was always sort of in the middle of the class. and when he wanted to go to law school, his graduate record exams in his law school lsat exams were not good enough to get him into the law school that he wanted to get into. so he finally applied to the university of -- to pepperdine university in california. and got in there. his law school roommate who remained a friend and a former chief of staff and has happened to so many of rod's friends is indicted with him. [laughter] >> told me as a student even in law school, rod -- you know, he did well in the subjects he liked. anything connected with history and politics he did well in those subjects. even in law school. he read a lot but not necessarily what was assigned and his law professor said to him, you know, if you would apply yourself -- i know a lot of your parents said this to your kids if you would apply yourself to all the subjects in the way you do the ones you'd enjoy, you'd be doing a lot better. he did exactly what he wanted to do and kind of ignored everything else. and that was his academic career. >> pepperdine is a famously conservative place. and he is also known -- i believe you wrote about this in the book also to have been a real fan of ronald reagan. he voted for reagan at

universities, florida atlanta university, is developing technology where they can put turbines in the atlantic ocean and capture that energy. i don't know if this is going to work long term, but that's the kind of american ingenuity we are looking for. we as a government and private sector, our scientists, our entrepreneurs, work together to capture that and build on that. of course there's the environment. we all understand that. and there is something going on in the world on climate. people can have different opinions. i think most scientists agree there's something going on. whatever we can do in the united states and around the world provide leadership to reduce the impact of co-2 and other things, it's good for all of us. i live in a coastal area. some of the most beautiful areas in the world. we are very sensitive to the hurricane activity, rise of the atlantic ocean, things like that. i think we all understand there is an environmental issue statement. . what are re-we doing in washington? some groups are coming forward to work on this in a very productive way to make sure that the united states is leading the world in these areas of alternative energy. and we're debating a bill right now, and i certainly invite all of our -- i know our colleagues are asking for comments from back home. we want to do it in a way that allows for appropriate levels of transition, for our industries are dependent on old fuel sources to go to new fuel sources. we need to make sure that system eases away that's economically competitive. that's what we need to do. at the same time we ought to be encouraging as much as we can getting these products into play. so i'm very excited about the fact that we can build a new energy future and i look forward to working with all of my members to do that. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from west virginia, mrs. capito, for five minutes. mrs. capito: thank you. thank you, madam chairman. i'm here today to talk about the same issue that my colleague from florida just talked about and that's energy. and he alluded to the energy bill that's been moving through congress over the last several months, but he neglected to say that in that bill are some real costs for real people. and i think these are the important issues in front of our nation today. energy we found when the price of gasoline went up last summer over $4 a gallon. we were pressed, i think, appropriately to try to find an energy future, a plan for our energy future. and we never really answered that question. well, this morning in charleston, west virginia, where i'm from, the price of gasoline went up to $2.75 and has been going up almost daily. so we need a national energy plan that doesn't pick winners and losers, that takes into account real costs for real people. right now the bill that's gone -- that passed out of the energy and commerce committee is a national energy tax on every single american. it's -- we call it cap and tax. the supporters call it cap and trade. but what it is in reality is it has serious problems for states such as mine in west virginia. we rely on 98% of the energy generation in our state is -- 98% of that is generated through coal. well naturally we are the second largest coal producing state in this nation. we've powered america for generations by giving of our natural resources across this country. and i'm proud to say we have a proud heritage not only of turning the lights on in america but also of the coal mining jobs and the coal mining community and families throughout my state. but this bill picks winners and losers because the heartland of which i consider west virginia -- and we just heard the gentleman from florida talk about solar, but the heartland which has relied on fossil fuels for generations to keep our manufacturing jobs, we're going to be the losers here. we're going to be the ones who are going to pay the heavy price. what kind of price are we going to pay? number one, job loss. it's estimated that my state alone will suffer over 10,000 jobs will be lost in our manufacturing sector because of this -- because of this bill. and you ask why is that. well, because our industrial input will be lower because of the high cost of meeting the demands, because of the lack of a transitional period in this bill. we'll also lose our -- probably many, many, tens of thousands of jobs in our coal mining industry and associated industries alone. also, for the individuals, how's this going to impact the individual now who is paying the $2.75 in west virginia and some areas of the country it sounds good. we've had the luxury of lower energy prices and we're pleased about that but it's escaping us and in this bill we will no longer have that. but an individual -- if you look at the west virginia electricity pricesnd this bill will go up over 100%. think about that. 100% of your electricity bill somewhere in the estimate of $2,000 to $3,000 a year. for and -- and who's the loser there? small businesses are a loser. they are going to lose jobs because they are going to have the higher cost of turning on their electricity. and that's going to result in job loss. and it's going to lack in capital to help the business. and higher cost of transportation will not only hurt individuals but small businesses as well. but it's also going to hurt those people who can barely afford to keep the lights on as it is and those are our lower income folks. by the year 2020 it is estimated that this -- with this bill, with this cap and tax bill, with this national energy tax that the lower income folks across this nation will pay 25% of their income will go to paying for their energy cost. now, let's think about this. we've just gone through a housing crisis where people are losing their homes or people are having trouble, people are losing their jobs. and now we say to you a quarter of your income will go to one of the basic needs you have and that's the basic need for energy. another loser are our state budgets. think what an impact a national energy tax is going to have on every hospital, on every public school, on every university. think of the cost of running the school buses that we've seen as the rise up in energy costs go. so i don't think this is the kind of bill that is going to solve the problem. it sets up winners and losers and it has real costs to real people. it does have in there a great capture of carbon sequestration where we will use the coal and technology and innovation but we need to keep moving in this direction so we can be realistic of how we'll meet our energy needs and how we're going to transition to the next best source. green jobs and green future, that's what we all want. i think that it's a lottable goal and one we will reach but we have to do it where we're not picking winners and losers and realize there are real costs for real people. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. connelly, for five minutes. mr. connelly: madam speaker, as a congressman from virginia, also a coal-producing state, i wish to rise to

people from all over the world travel to my own state of maryland to visit johns hopkins university or the university of maryland medical center or n.i.h. in order to get their health care needs met or to train their health care professionals. we want to maintain that edge in

university presidents karats that they mainly are and you know when i say that i was just thinking out of every and jim wagner, i don't know what his politics are when he is a decent university president, they want to designate the controversial speaker and charge of the college republicans for the security they had to have because the leftists will attack them. and the dean of the school completely supported this so i had an emergency meeting with the president and it took five minutes for him to say and i said, i don't think it is a good idea to call people controversial speakers. jimmy carter was so controversial u.s. and invited to the democratic convention -- you're not going to tell me however, that you're going to charge the college democrats were infighting jimmy carter. one of the reasons is that are conservative students are civilized and they don't attack people who come to speak. and he said, you are right. so that ended that policy and they said they would have to pay so there are decent university presidents who will stand up on certain issues. but they are limited. what these university presidents are doing is they are ending tenure by just eliminating the slots when they retire. a lot of add jobs are being hired. you can read all the complaints of the go to the american association of university professors and enjoy yourself how embattled they actually field even though there are such a dominant baleen in tolerant force in academic life today. thank you. [applause] >> david horowitz as founding editor of the online news website frontpage magazine and president of the david horowitz freedom center. he is the author of many books including "radical son: a generational odyssey", "unholy alliance: radical islam and the american left", and "left illusions: an intellectual odyssey". for more information on the author, please go to front page.com. the publishing imprint 12 publishes 12 books a year, cary goldstein is publicity director at 12. what are some of the books you have comi

yields a bachelor of arts from the university of arkansas and an m.s. from george washington university. thank you for making yourself available to testify in the work you are doing for the commission as wells

university. there was a kid expelled for yelling anti semtic language outside a dorm room window. a lot of us thought at that time to expel a kid. today, i wish the university had handled it differently. but they had certainly the right. they're a private university. to expel this kid. the university of colorado had a right -- well, that's debatable. some would say they did not have a right to investigate waren churchill because it stemmed from free speech. that's a very complicated question. these are very, very complicated questions. but yes, private institutions have the right to make these decisions. my father represented don imus. he made a very infamous comment that made a lot of people very upset. cbs fired him for that. those are questions about private institutions which are complicated. host: liz, up in new york, who is director and producer of "shouting fires," stories from the edge of free speech. thanks a lot for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> your guests tomorrow include the editor in chief of

. >> up next, bill ayers, distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the university of illinois at chicago and founder of both the small schools workshop and the center for youth and society. he joins booktv for an in depth interview from the printer's row lit fest in chicago. >> host: bill ayers, in your book "to teach," you talk about teachers having a moral choice. what is that moral choice? >> guest: i think that teaching is profoundly ethical work, and the moral choice is to take the side of the students, see them as three-dimensional people with hearts and minds and spirits, and to see yourself as somebody who is in the position of shepherding the choices of others. and that gives you a very profound, i think, ethical responsibility. so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings, not as little inteha

universal health care. that's huge in the raising of kids. as everybody knows. not just children's health but adult health that are raising the kids. universal halve care. paid parental leave. universalay care. child care. so you have options. you don't have to use it but you have options. and paid family payments for the task of raising the next generation. those are building blocks that would transform every single family in america's lives instantly and we have the wealth to do it. it's much more cost effective than doing it at the back end the way we're doing it now. so, yes, strong families. don't think that african-american family what what wrong with moynihan's accusations seems to be m to be still wrong. we always joke -- close your eyes for a minute and remember your last family funeral or wedding or graduation? dysfunctional family? yes. all of us would nod our heads. every family here has dysfunction, divorce, death and separation and illness. every family here has drug addiction in the family. every family has school failure in your extended family. so let's get real and not stigmatize one group. the ones who are fine have resources that allow you to go through the crisis

university stands as a university that really does teach and preach and uphold the right of the unborn to life. that was a setback. but the good news, you students got something going. the radio talk-show hosts were talking about it and bishops got involved. a couple years back in everett, bishop thomas was from the left. it told a lot of those traditional catholic schools that maybe it is time to start living up to those things that we preach, practice what we preach. >> thank you. >> that is a very fine school. >> i am amy crowley from southern mississippi. my question is i work a lot with, specifically the baptist church at methodist church and politics, and one of the trends i am noticing is a push towards their saying that in politics, especially in the conservative movement, there is so much talk, they're wanting to go to we will just do this action and we don't have to worry about politics, how can we explain to people who have that view that talking gets you nowhere, we need to work with people, our voices are still very important because i agree with you that our voices are powerful, how can we talk with them and tell them if you shut up, no matter what work you are going to do, there are going to be people making it harder and harder. >> excellent point. excellent point. i am doing a lot of thinking about that recently because as i speak to young people, you have to start speaking out. people across the country have to start speaking out. when they start talking about issues, in several races, peter king, the new york congressman who tends to be a moderate republican, was totally opposed to the immigration reform, my position of restricting and enforcing the laws and getting the border secure, and he went out in august recess, to all of these town hall meetings, a very good congressman, gets all the people together to talk about the problems, one is transportation, and he says it didn't matter where i went, what are you going to do about the illegal immigrants? he came back and said i think i had better start looking into this. he became quite a strong member of the caucus that was trying to get strong immigration reform through. he was a remarkable leader. people spoke out. you see presidential politics, they are above it, wrong. go out to iowa, we went out for one reason, to tell people running for president, here is the position on immigration. if you one the other guy to get this position, you have to ask what the position is. en before tom tancredo came around, they completely flipped because they couldn't get to iowa. he had such a bad position on it. the other ones, why is that? people said that is it. i am going to start asking what are you going to do? we are tired of this, this is where we stand. americans don't speak up, don't expect your leaders to find a voice. you have to give them that voice, you have to make them think, there's a lot of encouragement, i can make a difference here, that is what my people want me to do. go to the offices, i don't care how old you are, show up at their offices and tell those people in town hall meetings, get them on the phone and talk to their staff, you have got to tell people, if they keep their mouth shut, they fail to have any impact whatsoever. and we do need to move this country back into a direction that is where it was meant to go. we are off course, and without the american people becoming more bold and more courageous and saying to their elected officials we have had it, you think this is back burner, you are back burner, you're out of here. >> thank you. >> i am matt donatello from printing the of college and you spoke about finding issues we are interested in to debate. i was wondering, say i am interested in constitutionalism or federalism but the hot social issue is something else like abortion or immigration, should i focus on what i am passionate about or go about what we might be able to get people interested in on campus? >> excellent question. the key is you need a controversial issue to speak about in a crowd because if you come into a crowd and say i am a federalist, they may fall asleep on you. they will look at you -- did you see the basketball game last night? if you are not going to gain the ability to feel that fire. the key to the debate is to constantly be put in a position where you feel intimidated and has a satellite you don't want to be there another minute because that is what happens when they come back here and a president of the united states as i need your vote or the leader, in the office, you're intimidated, oh my gosh, you need to be strong in the toughest of times. you need to train to get there. once you get to the fire, you go through that fire, there's the fire again, you can make it. if you are not happy, you know you can make it. you know you have to. you don't do that. don't get me wrong, the federalist papers are brilliant and they really lay out in the constitution, we do have to get back in so many regards but if you are not willing to debate the hot issues of the day, you are not going to get any traction and you're not going to have the developments that you need. ron paul got the traction, he got in those debates and was magnificent and they laughed at him. i disagree with him on many issues that he was up there like a teacher laying out the constitution, he was brilliant. by the end of that primary season, they were glad, he had done his job and he didn't care. they were dismissive of the other candidates, dismissive of them which was very effective. and he would show up again and again. he really connected. i don't say get away from that, but at the same time, have some positions on those hot button issues and see if you can't get something going and see where you stand when the pressure it. >> i am emily, one of the things i noticed in examining the conflict between the 2 sides is that while conservatives as he mentioned, have varying degrees of positions on certain things like abortion where some have conditional, pro-life, some have absolute pro-life, the liberal camp seems to present much more united front because they will spread their arms out and welcome just about everything. how do we effectively combat that and effectively lead when there are so many degrees of positions? >> excellent question. as a movement, we have to come together and decide too -- what is important. i will give you a perfect example. ronald reagan. he was very pro-life, solid pro-life. i have a girlfriend in college, from high school, i had been working with him 45 years before he became president, i've was with him in '76, why are you with that old guy? the old orange hair from hollywood? going down a dead head road? couple years later arms in the office of the treasury of the united states, i ran into her and she said i was wrong. we had a kind of -- joked about it and who did you vote for? she said ronald reagan. ronald reagan? you have given me nothing but grief. she said he gave me a sense that he was a true leader and he knew where he wanted, i don't agree with him always but i got the feeling he was in charge, he could take charge and move this country and that is what we need. leadership is a very powerful asset to have, and people -- my brother, pat, how many people, he was a leader in the immigration movement and he is pro-life, not all of them but many of them are not. they risk saying dropped the life side, just drop it. if we can drop that, he can surely drop the immigration side when he needs to too. the key is to appreciate people. you don't usually vote for somebody because of a, b, and see. there's something more to it. to see somebody who has terrific character, somebody who is very strong and definite and knows what they are about. and wants to take the country in a certain direction or the community, the only vote on one or 2 issues, i disagree with him on this or is this, but i really do think this is what we need today. that is the key. that is what the party needs to do. i am never stopping to fight for the unborn, never. every opportunity i can i speak for the unborn but at the same time i am also involved in immigration, i am very outspoken on what obama is doing to this economy, and to economic freedom and prosperity in this country. i can speak about those and i come to get there. i worked with ralph nader who was completely on the other side. i used to work very closely with him to stop nafta. one night he called me at home, my son yelled up the steps, ralph nader is on the phone. i told him don't ever tell another sold that ralph nader's calling my home. i figured i was finished in the conservative movement. come together with other people to accomplish something. ralph nader said we disagree on a lot, but we agree, the difference should be made in this country but not in geneva. once we get back to this country we disagree with the rules and regulations. that is how you do it but you don't dismiss people. come together a coalition. to the republican party the key is we are about personal free m freedom, we are about responsibility, individual responsibility and we are about small government and that is a whole lot to pull people together. at the same time, don't let anyone say we should drop our social issues because that defines our better side. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very, very much. >> now an event with ms. cheney, the daughter of former vice president dick cheney. this is posted by the clair b t boothe policy institute. >> we present our conservative leadership award to one woman who has show exceptionally is to that commitment to promoting conservative values. we are honored to present the war to elizabeth cheney. liz cheney is the left's worst nightmare, she is smart, and conservative woman and she is one of the few leaders in this country who is not afraid to stand up to the obama administration on critical issues like our national security. she is an attorney and a specialist in u.s. middle east policy and she recently served as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. in this capacity she was the second ranking state department official responsible for u.s. policy in the middle east. she practiced law in the area of finance for 3 years and served on assignment with the international finance corporation where she provided legal advice on investments in the middle east and central asia. from 1989 to 1993 she served at the department of state, at the agency for international development. during the 2000, and 2004 presidential campaigns, she managed to vice-presidential debate preparations, and served as a national surrogate for the bush/chaney campaign. she is collaborating with her father, vice-president cheney, on his memoirs covering 40 years of his career in washington. she earned her law degree from the university of chicago and her bachelor's degree from colorado college. like our organization's namesake, clare boothe luce policy institute, ms. cheney is accomplished woman, an expert in the area of foreign affairs, especially the least and affairs but she has one other important role on her resume, she is also a wife and the mother of 5 children, one of whom is with us today. liz cheney has all the qualities that make great conservative women leaders, love of country, a commitment to family, and brave the fender of conservative principles. by standing so firmly, you inspire all conservatives to be more courageous and and feisty and not to back off when we know we are right but it might be easier to back down. many liberals do all they can to silence women like liz cheney. but at the clare boothe luce policy institute, we are eager on

universe of minnesota absentee ballots. you have a broad lens. you are looking at the whole universe you see. there may be some averaged star systems are galaxies. what he is saying is that look at this aberrant -- this is proof that the universes chaos. they have shown me that. they have shown me some chaos in this universe. tell me why they have not shown us enough that we should not implicate due process and equal protection here -- because we cannot see the whole universe, but they have shown us enough to show us there is a problem? >> i have several answers. the trial court correctly noted that the time to challenge an unlawful gigot is before it is separated from its envelope. it is at the time the ballot is delivered to the present. >> the problem i have with that is that many counted by the absentee ballot boards in the metro area, i did not see anything in the statute that would provide an opportunity for norm coleman to challenge that board. i do not see any indication that he would have received notice or any candidate would have received notice. it seems to me that we have those categories that there was no opportunity for him to object to and we are now left with what is left on the return envelope at the precinct

university press with the director of yale university press. what is coming out this fall? >> a number of great books including the making of americans, and hersh wrote the best-selling book called cultural literacy. he cares very much about what role education has been actually defining what it means to be mayor can and this book is sort of a capstone of his career which includes many best sellers but to talk route the centrality of the reformation and knowledge and what it means to have a shared corpus of knowledge and how important it is too our national identity and how would is being threatened by the way education seems to be split across the country. of hasselhoff of voice, advocacy, to look at what the new minister shin can do about the admit the administration. >> elephants on the edge what animals teach us about humanity? >> it is a marvelous book and very moving, touching, what she does, she has quite a platform she has been on "60 minutes" and 20/20 but she tries to understand how human behavior affects global population of animals in the wild and captivity. is a touching subjects. people who have read these kind of issues will respond because actions do have consequences especially on those creatures that cannot argue with themselves and books. she talks about elephants having nervous breakdowns that is what the title refers to in the emotional life of animals and actually how our on empathy understanding how they be paid teaches us what it is to be human. it is the interesting turnaround in our efforts to understand animals we begin to understand ourselves a. >> to biographies coming out by charles dickens and anti-war all but tell me about the book on charles dickens. >> everybody thinks we have learned everything we need to know about charles dickens but there has not been eight biography in over 20 years this is the first cradle to grave and a couple of decades. there is new information, new research and with dick and three think there will be some good books for sale. >> who is our third? rick a very distinguished historian or critic he writes a column for the nation and magazine and this is a posthumous that he left behind more people think it is more interesting to think of and the warhol then to look at his paintings or his large but this shows what he did to the meaning of the american icon how he has become the most significant and how did that happen? largely through working with it iconographic subjects like the campbell soup can and this takes a look how you defines what it means to me iconic. >> as director of the press what decisions do you make on a day-to-day basis? two make easier to say what i don't. all departments run up to meet marketing, and a tour, financially, starting of course, with the books. we have a staff of 14 editors the president, the press is only as good as the books it publishes with the largest book based university press in the country and the only one with a significant london-based as well. >> host: university press celebrated the 100th anniversary last year. do have any history? >> is started in the left door

university scholar at the university of illinois at chicago joins booktv for an in-depth interview from the printer's row of little vest in chicago. >> bill ayers, in your book "to teach" you talk about teachers having a world choice. what is that moral choice? >> i think that teaching is profound ethical work in the moral choice is to choose to take the side of the students, to choose to see them as three-dimensional creatures with hearts and minds and spirits, that somehow have to be both martian challenged and to see yourself as something which is in the position of shepherding the choices of others and that gives you a very profound i think ethically responsibility so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings not as interchangeable cog in a machine, that is infinitely manipulable but see them as human beings much like yourself and to open your eyes to that. >> is individuals? >> and as members of the committee both and that is one of the tensions of teaching is your teaching third grade and have 25 kids and you have a responsibility to see each one as the one and only in duplicable. no one else will average of the earth quite this way and that is essential. on the other hand, there are members of the committee and have to figure out how to help them learn to live together so it is both. >> throughout you're own books on teaching and been educators, social justice seems to be a theme throughout all those books, in fact, one is called teaching for social justice. what's your name? >> it is taken on the town of something special for some kind of an ad on but what i mean is a very simple wishes that teaching in a democracy released their radically is teaching quite a different approach to teaching that teaching in any kind of authoritarian or autocratic system whenever they teach in a fascist germany or soviet russia where medieval saudi arabia or apartheid south africa and those systems incidentally all wanted their kids to stay away from drugs and crime, we're in the subject matter, all those kinds of things which we want as well that there is something distinctly different about teaching in a democracy and the differences social justice so one way to put it is what ever else did they teach in those systems and they teach obedience in conformity as number one hit in curriculum and what ever else we teach we should be teaching the democratic ideal that each human being is precious, in duplicable, to be treated in which i respect and with profound human-rights so we start from a different angle and whenever hill we teach we want to teach courage, imagination, creativity, and entrepreneurship and things like that. >> is there any case in your view in a democracy where teaching should include conformity and discipline? >> of course, we have to be disciplined to learn to live together, that requires a kind of discipline. the question is where does the discipline come from and how it's structured and organized? if you create a classroom which is absolute chaos or a school that is chaos nobody has an opportunity to learn of all but it does your fundamental values in your classroom is one of the things we're going to be doing here is respecting each individual and learning to live together, that means again and again you have teachable moments. have a moment or somebody makes a cool comment a moment or some editors of someone else's work in a moment when somebody makes a racial slur. these are teachable moments, moments when a used the occasion of whatever has happened to open a conversation about what is fair and just and democratic. that is the distinction i make between teaching in a democracy in teaching in apartheid south africa. >> in the "to teach" rewrite the standardized tests should come with printed warnings, use of these materials may be hazardous to your intelligence or the life chances of half of those taking these tests will be narrowed. >> i did write that. >> y? >> i apologize. no, kidding. [laughter] because i think status test and i wrote that 10 of 15 years ago and frankly it has gone so much worse than it is time to believe that the will be given has reduce education which is always about opening doors and opening mines and possibilities, opening new missions in new horizons, we have reduced to match to the taking of a single conative task that is culturally biased, that narrows the correct them and we have gone to a point after eight years of falling this regimen pretty viciously, we have gone to a point where it is only -- the only kids to have access to music, sports and debate in the arts and science are kids who either live and privilege suburbs are going to private schools, kids in the city are increasingly being denied that opportunity and that's the result of a singular obsession with a silly standardize test. so the question i asked about senate nice test in the book and ask all my life is said teacher, who benefits, who doesn't benefit, the province and doesn't, and frankly i think the standardized tests are a mistake and there are a mistake because of our obsession with them and are redefining of them. they do not represent intelligence, they do not represent achievement, they represent something about something is quite narrow. >> could you give it an example, bill ayers, of which you may have a cultural bias? >> when my kids are young, i have a couple of granddaughter's now, but one of my kids are young and remember a seven -- test my oldest son took and there was a pitcher, i think it was first grain, he was very young and there was a pitcher of people sitting on a porch and is said, the people are sitting on the -- and then i have three choices one of which was a porch. now, the kids i was teaching at the time had never seen a porch, never heard of a porch, never had encountered one in their own reading in the store is they have been read, so how are they to answer that? now, of course, i grew up with a porch so i might be able to answer that quite easily. what if we gave a test to kids in central iowa where we do a set of rectangular boxes and we said the people are living in them and gives rejoices, one of which is projects -- but when we get right and why wouldn't they because it is a cultural thing so it's not about intelligence, not about ability to that's about experience and cultural background so again and again what we are testing for in this is the shame of it and shannon somehow there's not be spoken with the same of standardized tests is that all they tell us is what we already know. the clearest indicator of how you will do on any standardized test is how you did on the first one you ever took, the clearest indicator of how you'll do on the first one is in the educational level an income of your parents. that's a pretty horrible statement for an educator to swallow because i don't want to say to my kids, lineup, how much do your parents may? you stand over there. half-hearted your parents go in school, you stand over there. i want to believe i can make a difference in the life experiences and opportunities of kids but i can to and if i'm obsessing everyday and it my job depends on my kids course on this test. >> well, bill ayers is our guest on in death this month and we're going to put the phone lines up on the screen if you want to participate in our conversation. we are live in chicago at the corner of south state street and congress and just south of the loop in downtown chicago and this is the chicago tribune's printer's row literature fest that is going on this weekend and also have a studio audience here and joining us at the university center where we are doing our live in depth. (202)737-0001, if you lived in the east and central time zones, (202)737-0002 for those of you in the mountains and pacific time zones and we will begin taking your calls in just a few minutes but first we want to look as some of the mr. ayers books on education. "teaching toward freedom" is one of his books, another one is called the zero tolerance: resisting the driver punishment in our schools, we have a "teaching the personal and the political", essays on hope and justice, city kids in city schools -- these are books and edited by mr. ayers with several different contributors in this. this is city kids and city teachers, reports from the front row and the city kids and city schools, more reports on the front row. these are just some of his education books and we will get into some of his other books also as we go. this is "to teach" which also contains the myth of education -- what are some of the myths of education? in an era that 15 y

universe is -- oh, god, creator of universes, we're here to recognize a friend, a patriot, a leader, a lover of our country. in this moment, as we should in all moments, we recognize your presence in the work of our hands, your light, and the clarity we attain. your spirits, and the wisdom we achieve. your inspiration, and the good that we seek to do. we ask for continued guidance and a blessing, even as we know that we often merit them not. we thank you for our many guests. -- figts. -- gifts. so many across the nation and the globe are not here this evening. our tradition teaches that five years old, the person should study scripture. at 13, the commandments. at 20, one is ready for 1's life pursuit -- one's life pursuit. at 50, one is ready to give counsel. at 60, one becomes an elder, and with your grace, a sage. one would ask, what is the proper course that a man should choose for themselves? he would then say, that which is an honor to him. gila's a daughter from his fellow men -- he illicits honor from his fellow men. you do not know what the reward allotted for each action. he would teach, know what is above you. the seeing eye, a hearing year, and all your be recorded in a book -- your deeds recordd in a book. we might even say, to use the technical term, a total mench. perhaps not quite of job, but a devoted cubs fans -- cubs fan. something almost biblical in itself. there are three crowns, the crown of torah, crown of the priesthood, and the crown of kingship. but the crown of a good name surpasses them all. al from, a good name. we asked god's continued blessing on you. blessed are you, ruler of the universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this wonderful moment for you and for all of us. [applause] >> thank you again, rabbi, for the blessing. and thank you all again for joining us on such a wonderful as special occasion, celebrating the contributions of al from, not only to this organization, but to the larger political body. i was on the phone earlier today before coming over, and was chatting with someone i am working on a project with. i shared that i was in washington largely for this evening's event. he and i are about the same age. i turned 39 a month ago. i remember graduating from college in 92, and working for my father's reelection campaign to congress, and how we were so excited that this arkansas governor and this tennessee senator would be the nominees for the party. i shared it with the fellow i was talking to on the phone, and he agreed that it was the first time that a democrat was poised to win the white house. in '84 and '88, i was excited about o

and camps and victory in afghanistan and, you know, joint task force 101, the universal, they were supportive, but universallythey said if there's anything this commission can do relative to the fact we have so many -- i site 11 organizations so it can be coordinated better because it seems like we are collecting information and then turning around and collecting the same information to months later updated for a different organization. each oversight organization has a vital job to do but contingency environments you need from oversight because it is distance oriented and you have to place people on-site going back and forth. but that is a worthy area to look at. >> i will ask some questions later on how we go about doing that with personnel shortages. i think the capacity issues are serious. does the commission to what has enough in country presence in the theaters that you are investigating? >> the commission is debating right now whether we should have permanent representation in afghanistan and iraq and then obviously our commissioners and staff will be going repeatedly and so that's something we will be

anthropology from the university of southern california in 2005 and prior two that he earned his master's in anthropology from the university of nevada las vegas and in english from the university of missouri kansas city. he has talked on wide-ranging subjects including human evolution, cultural linguistics, magic and witchcraft, and world poverty and underdevelopment, as we to stenographer he is currently working with administrators and library faculty at rutgers university to redesign the library is web interface. is currently a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at james madison university in harrisonburg, virginia and is one of those that has a fabulous time dividing it between, he devised with his partner in the highland park. i divide my time between my credit little office in my tiny little apartment -- that is fabulous enough for me i suppose. todd, can you please introduce your book to "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". hot off the presses. ouch. >> thank you. i want to research the history of the gay-rights movement and how surprised upon moving to los angeles in about 1998 to matriculate at ust surprised to find as a who

teaching at the university of tehran he was one of the main architects of the cultural revolution the closedown universities and try to bring about islamic ideology into the universities. as years went by a mr. mousavi became more and more withdrawn and quieter. we did not hear much from him until the elections in 1997. there were rumors that the opposition, the reformist candidates were considering him, but that did not go over because they thought that a cleric would do better. it is very interesting to see the transformation from a person in position to a person of opposition. host: the belief he has changed or has changed his public image? guest: i think both. the important thing is that this satisfaction comes not only from seculars for people who have been losing a great deal but from people in power. when someone like mr. mousavi or another, the speaker of the parliament, the other opposition candidate -- he was the head of the revolutionary guard, he boasted that he was responsible for the murder of of the 260 readings. all of these people -- of the 260 marines. most of these people have had the failure of a ideology change them. but for them to move ahead som

host: dan blumenthal, a graduate of washington university, studied at johns hopkins university and duke law school among his other capacities he was a former researcher at the washington institute. he focuses on north korea and asian studies at a.e.i. next, a call from sheila in ohio, republican line. good morning. thanks for phoning in. caller: thank you very much. why don't we use our submarine, our united states submarine and its missiles to bomb their missile sites? guest: well, i think that there are really no good military options right now with respect to north korea. we're stretched very thin around the world. we always have to worry about north korean retaliation. they really hold the capital of south korea, seoul, at risk. it's very close to where north korea has all of its artillery. seoul is a beautiful and very vibrant city. so we really have to be careful about military actions that -- it wouldn't just be a one-off action. we have to be really concerned about retaliation. host: let me go back to this headline, front page of the "u.s. times." in listening to some of the dis

universities. we have the finest colleges and universities anywhere in the world. people all over the world want to come to america to go to our colleges and universities. we have arguably the second worst k-12 system in the industrialized world. we are not inspiring children to become and engineers. they need the tools in the fields of science, technology, and engineering to compete. the university said the kids are not coming to us prepared. they are having to teach remedial courses today because they are not prepared. the democrats have controlled our schools for too long. they have allowed special interests to be in front of our kids'education. we need to take back our schools. education is mostly a local and state issue. there are things the federal government can do. we can show programs that are working in various places in the country. if you look at the number one difference between k-12 and higher education, if you get a pell grant, a student loan, the gi bill, some kind of financial assistance should to go to college, you conducted any college you want to if you can get into it. our colleges and universities go to high schools to recruit. ther

university and a master's apart from central michigan university. the honorable christopher shays serves as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995