When first started this book, i will be honest i really didnt know much about che guevara. I knew need the image on the tshirts growing up in new york city in the late 1970s. A lot of people were tshirts. His image was spray painted on walls all over new york city with the expression jay lives and he cut a handsome figure. A scraggly beard and piercing eyes and the black array that was just tilted a little bit and the star on the beret. He looked like a revolutionary and his message seemed to be to somebody that just looked at the tshirts and looked at the sayings somebody who was for the people, power for the people if anyone remembers that expression from the 70s. Fastforward to 2010. Kevin and i had become friends and worked with the Associated Press and kevin and i both have a love for military affairs and military stories and we reported extensively on the military and written about the military. One day kevin said to me in no, there was a mission back in 1967 in which the green b
Igniting hearts and minds. And thats what we like to think were doing with our publishing program. Well, some very well known people are publishing this fall with beacon. Tell us about some of your books. Well, were very proud to have back with us cornel west whose first book, race matters, was published by beacon 20 years ago and who has become a rather famous leader in the field of black prophetic fire and whos writing this book about this very important part of our culture. And hes looking at many of the great figures in the black prophetic tradition in america. And one of them is Martin Luther king jr. , of course. So hes also edited a book for us called the radical king. Because we are the exclusive trade publishers of all of kings work and have been for the last phi years. Five years. So all of kings work for the trade, for general readers, general bookstores is published by beacon press which im very proud of. And this new edition which was curated entirely by cornell west is lo
Editor at the Washington Times and a columnist at aol. Her journalism experience includes being a producer of awc news this week abc news this week and good morning america. Emily miller served as Deputy Press Secretary at the department of state for both secretaries of state colin powell and condoleezza rice. She also served as communication director to the majority whip, tom delaware lay. She graduated cum laude at Georgetown University school of foreign service. Please welcome emily miller. [applause] thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. Always hard to follow a big act. But i know you can do it. I think i can do it. Im talking about guns, that always brings out the interest. Thank you for having me, im so honored to be here and so honored to be present with all of you guys and wish mrs. Schlafly was here, but shes here in spirit and has set such an example for conservative women that those of us who are still out there fighting for. So here, as i said, im talking about guns,
Who is a vietnam war veteran and retired New York Times correspondent and editor. Craig is the author of living with guns a liberals case for the Second Amendment. And sitting to his left is Daniel Webster who is the lead editor and contributor to a week called reducing gun violence in america informing policy with evidence and analysis. Daniel directs the Johns Hopkins center for gun policy and research. And farthest to my left is emily miller who is currently Senior Editor of the opinion pages at the Washington Times newspaper but will be starting this month as the chief investigate iive reporter at fox 5 news. Congratulations on your new job, sounds very exciting. [applause] emily is the author of the book, emily gets her gun, which is about the Current National political debate over gun control. She was awarded the clark [inaudible] award for investigative reporting from the institute on political journalism in 2012. A baltimore native, she is a cum laude graduate of georgetown uni
Country to protect all of the other freedoms that we enjoy. [applause] this is a time where conservatives need to focus on how we will lead america. Not just how we will lead each other. Too much is at stake. The future of our country, the future for our children and grandchildren is far too important for us to spend our time fighting with each other with the real battle is not a fight against liberals or democrats, it is a fight for the soul and future of this great republic. This is a fight for which all of us must know we have to engage. We must do it now. If this one thing i know, my time is up. Thank you and god bless you. [applause] here is a look live at the conference, underway in washington, d. C. Theyre wrapping up a panel on latin american government. We will join the group live when Newt Gingrich takes the podium. He will be introduced by his wife. Want to let you know the results from the straw poll. Rand paul came out on top, followed by texas senator ted cruz. 10 for thi