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an hour ago that the u.s. coast guard confirms teams have actually started lighting patches of that oil spill on fire to keep the oil from reaching shore. this all started when a drilling platform exploded and then sank in the gulf last week, leaving an open well spewing oil deep below the waters surface. at last check, the enormous oil slick that well created was just 16 miles from venice, louisiana. if crews cannot stop it from reaching the coast line, the consequences could be disas...

>> this hearing will come to order. and we welcome all our guests. most particularly julius genachowski, chairman of the federal communications commission which is a, seminal in washington, d.c.. broadband is more thanatology. it is a platform for social and economic opportunity. with broadband networks we can change the way we approach job creation, education, health care. >> entertainment, and other things. we can change the way we connect with our com...

the senate also passed a student loan reform that ended a longtime corporate welfare program. our reforms halted the enormous subsidies that the federal government paid to lenders in the student loan market, replacing it with a program called "direct lending" that slashes $61 billion in costs to the taxpayers by cutting out the middle man and lending to students directly. the money saved will go toward pell grants, helping kids from working families go to college. today, as we debate w...

>> and whatkind of steps are you looking at? >> some of them go to best practices for networks. some of them go to issues with respect to outages. you know, for many agencies, including ours, there is a focus every day of developing the best set of strategies and tactics to deal with a fast-moving problems. very focused on this. making sure that we both identify the steps to take and that we have the authority to pursue them is essential. >> have a bill on peer-to-peer. i could not bel...

.. >> we dont want tor whereby enemy. you attacked americans, and now were there and were not leaveing until we get the job done. >> mark, your book "talking to terrorists" is a book i can recommend. i want to say thank you for chatting with me and enduring my question. >> its been a pleasure. thanks a lot. >> and that is book tvs live coverage of the "los angeles times" book festival. its the largest public literary festival in the country. now in its 15 year. the "l.a. times" book fe...

discussion in good weather. the second is that this is an opportunity for people to listen to authors talk about their books, talk about the ideas that inform their books and respond to questions. you know, when you write a book, youre not sure whos going to read it. you put a book out there, and it move ofs around and goes to public libraries, some people buy it, so this is not a one-way street here. this is not just authors talking at people, its people who have read their books aski...

Have the democrats done enough for their base to win in november? dee says we need jobs, when the democrats get the economy up and running again, when everyone who desperately wants to work as a job, then i will say they have done enough. cheryl in south carolina says im part of that base and i say yes, we may not have gotten enough change or the change we thought we were getting, but the country is recovering from the bush years, the economy is improving, the question is will enough democrats g...

when did you first hear of bernie madoff? i and and yet a legitimate business and then had this ponzi scheme. >> guest: 1987 when i was in over-the-counter market manager. >> host: what does it mean to be in the over-the-counter market manager? >> guest: it is a brokerage firm we but trade securities on exchange through the computer system and was computers and phone calls back in the day and in the late 80s and he was a legitimate market maker, he was a baby will street. i knew him as...

university twice so unless you are an educational science everyone has to be drafted so the kamikaze pilots about 4,000 perished at that day in the war, 3,000 or so or boy pilots, they were trained very early and they were much more susceptible to propaganda that nobody died without hesitation but we dont have any records whereas 1,000 of intellectual cream of the crop, graduates from the university of tokyo and other top universities and students read german, greek, french, philosophy...

thing about the democratic republicans. madison and jefferson and brandeis, what they understood is there is no such thing in this world and were the libertarians are at fault. there is no such thing in this world has no government. theres always government. either run by us or run by someone else. and if we are not using government, some one else is using the government against us. that is just the way it is. so in many ways negative in fact we have people out in the streets in this c...