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June 21, 2024
Governor erlich and al from with us. We will be next door signing books. Tag printers or appeared without further ado comic is a great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. Thank you and thank you for coming. Its great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. I wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great t denyer bnca i avoid having the african characters laugh to educate their kids. And to eliminate something and african charac...
June 21, 2024
To receive Mental Health care at a Outpatient Clinic in pennsylvania. He was told he would be unable to get an appointment for six months. When that employee left another va employee lean in to tell the veteran that if he told her he was thinking of killing himself she would be able to get him appointment much sooner in three months instead of six. Luckily that veteran wasnt considering suicide. But what about those veterans who are . How many of the tens of thousands veterans that va admitted h...
June 21, 2024
Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan ...
June 21, 2024
Africanamerican voters and also africanamerican candidates . Let me share with you, jesse holland, this is from a democrat, he worked for president bill clinton as a speechwriter and he says to t Voting Rights nationwide on heading on inattention by the American People, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court case limiting the reach of the Voting Rights act, they have worked weeklyo cut voting samed is not a paradox because often the africanamerican voters are those who cast their ballots early a...
June 21, 2024
Constitution but i dont think often enough if any changes. Your honor, and your honor, in this situation the meaning of the cause with respect to the timing of the vacancy has been a matter of contention since the first days you are questioning my hypothesis. You have to accept my hypothesis. Lets assume it takes these clearly against you. Should i say yes, it says Something Else, but the practice for over 200 years has been Something Different and its a practice that must prevail. Fact they sta...
June 21, 2024
Host fine, thank you to go ahead. Caller i was calling with reference to the situation in ferguson, missouri. I heard people calling and criticizing al sharpton and Jesse Jackson for showing up. But the parents of Michael Brown requested that they come to ferguson. And i think the fact the requested should suffice in a. The other comment i have is that i think its a big deal or good idea that the attorney general chose to visit ferguson because these have been longstanding issues in ferguson, it...
June 21, 2024
[inaudible conversations] it is the virtue. I am delighted you can make it easier to night. As a fellow from the American Enterprise institute and host thank you for coming. Of the thesis of this book the seven deadly virtues the classic virtues have all grown out of fashion. No greater proof of this thesis comes in the form of the book the seven deadly virtues has 18 virtues under discussion that great minds may of how to live a virtuous life. Of all things subsidies simplicitys simplicity. Why...
June 21, 2024
This would be the case where the court has immediate political impact in terms of appointees. It does. There are a lot of eyes on this case, a lot of friend of the court briefs filed because if the court had taken a certain direction with its final decision that could invalidate literally hundreds of decisions and board appointments. Lets take a look at the oral argument, the case nlrb v. Canning. We would argument first this morning in case 121281, the National Labor Relations Board v. Noel can...
June 21, 2024
Rebuild, its always your prerogative to destroy. But i do think we ought to be paying attention to how that issue gets resolve ised because resolved because people will be brokering for power positions in the process of rebuilding, and its a new way to establish dominance. And perhaps through the ngoization of the area to undermine popular struggles for political selfdetermination. In the corner over here. And then well come back. Thank you very much for being here. I wanted to explore a little ...
June 21, 2024
Spinning off like particles, but having an unfortunately galvanizing force for economic and political and social instability in many more parts of the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, professor shelley. We now from the carnegie endowment, they have a central subject of the book is the role of corruption, how corruption is an enabler, facilitator, and you cannot really understand transnational crime without paying attention to the broader issue of corruption. You have been studyi...