But she is our youngest justice. And do any of you think that these kinds of things could have gotten into a Supreme Court opinion 30 years ago, 50 years ago at all . Did they have similar . Rehnquist quotes gill better and sullivan. Not totally different. I guess thats his version of an pop bapped. For 50 years ago touf ask tony or david. Thanks, bob. We cant remember. Weve talked about what good questions Justice Kagen asked and Justice Ginsberg asked. We passed yet another term with no questions from Justice Thomas. But he did Say Something one morning and it created quite a irestorm in the press. Are you up to date on that . I remember, we all kind of and the press gallery looked at each other and, did he really Say Something . It was hard to tell. T was sort of a quip made in passing. But he was he leaned toward the microphones, which certainly seemed like he intended it for it to be heard. And this was a case that actually ended up getting dismissed, boyer versus louisiana, about
Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this has really become baked into their culture. Talked about this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. The same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. Places, montgomery county, there are actually places where through thick and real when people have respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than arguments, you see real collaboration and working through a bunch of issues because teaching children i
I know he would want to jump in on that. Same question to you, ac rc mix and operational nature of the army reserve . Well, theres an extremely strong argument for the fact that were concerned right now about whether or not were going to assume risk by reducing the size our armed forces, and i think the counterpoint to that argument is by increasing your capability in the reserve component, you mitigate that isk significantly. Many of the skills we need are in the reserve components, and in some cases, they are perishable skills. The Fighter Pilots of the air force and in the army reserve, as i mentioned earlier, our logistics, engineers, medical capabilities those individuals not only have that military skill set but they bring with them innovation and other creativity from their civilian careers into those same jobs. A lot of the advances we saw in terms of medicine on the battlefield came from a lot of our military and our reserve doctorate. In order to mitigate the risks we might s
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Launches his partys election campaign. And the environmentalists with chain saws. Were deep in the indonesian jungle where its man versus nature again. First, former South African president Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital after almost three months. Hes being treated for a lung infection in pretoria. The South African government says the former president and antiapartheid leader is still in a critical condition. Tonya page joins me now live from johannesburg. His condition is described as critical and at times unstale. Why is he being allowed to go home . Reporter well, i think the reason for that is explained by the South African president s office, which is the official conduit of all information pertaining to the former president s health. They make it clear that they have reconfigured parts of the former president s home in the house and suburb in johannesburg to allow for intensive care treatment at his home. They say that the same medical team, private and public