hi, everyone. i am meagan keenan and i am a writer and editor for red alert. if you have not heard of red alert it is a website for news and opinions for young conservatives written by young conservatives. we are a publisher of the weekly standard and focus all of our reporting on next generation issues. we also take articles and editorial contributions from young journalists, actvist and professional from all over the country. the political correct campus culture is a subject we write about and how often students are reluctant to express their conservative views in the classroom. the rise of trigger warnings, micro aggression in the past few years, have led many, including president obama to criticize the coddling of our college students. another topic we study and report on almost every day is student loan debt. the average college graduate owes almost $30,000 in student loan debt. the millennial generation are struggling to payback the loans and put off making adult decisi
[inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. thank you all for joining us today. i just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching in-house to silence your cell phones. for anyone who is watching online, you re welcome to submit questions by e-mailing speaker at heritage.org. hosting the program is lindsey burke. she focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with school choice. with that, i will hand it over to lindsey. great, thank you, andrew. thanks for everyone being here and everyone watching online as well. we are happy to welcome vickie alger to discuss her thorough and newly interested new books in the failures of federal intervention and education and she doesn t miss words at all. the title failure, it s time to end and not mend federal intervention and education. dr. alger explains in her book federal government left education alone for about a hundred years recognizing that it was purview o
caller: i wanted to make a couple of statements about the states rights. and that is sending things back to the states. wo points. one the civil war philosophy of denying people their rights, primarily african americans. in michigan state government has taken over the emergency managers school systems have become resegregated under the uise of school choice. according to marketplace programming, nationwide only 25% of the welfare money goes to the individuals needing it. and in michigan only 12% is returned to the people. host: we only have a few seconds left. i want to give jonathan a chance to respond. guest: there s a lot of good points i don t have a particular response to. i m a supporter of welfare reform. it s 20 years old and example of a reform that went well. the number of people on welfare slaverping. the number of people on jobs grew. it is not true that most money in welfare does not go to welfare recipients. it does. host: jonathan roush contributing editor to t
hello and welcome to the arterton foundation. i am andrew parks the assistant director. thank you all for joining us today at the louis lehrman auditorium. i just want to take the opportunity to remind everyone watching in-house to silence your cell phones. for anyone who is watching on line, you are broken to submit questions via e-mail link speaker@heritage.org. hosting today s program is lindsey burke. she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at heritage foundation but she focuses on reducing and empowering families with school choice. with that, lindsey burke. thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. we are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. she doesn t mince words at all. she wrote failure the federal miseducation of america s c
david rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. and those are just a few of the programs you ll see this weekend. for a complete schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. and now we kick off the weekend with vicki alger s critical look at the u.s. department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. i m andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. thank you all for joining us today. i just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. for anyone watching on line, you re welcome to submit questions by e-mailing speaker@heritage.org. hosting today s program is lindsey burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. she focus on empowering families with school choice. with that, i ll hand it every to lindsey. thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and eve
steve: in news from around iowa, a disturbing case of alleged sexual abuse today out of greene county. a scranton man has now been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse. greene county authorities say 22-year-old anthony grife is charged with 3 counts of 2nd-degree sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of a minor, lascivious acts with a child, and sexual exploitation of a minor to promote a film. police say they got an anonymous the investigation led authorities to a rental property seized. more charges are pending as the investigation continues and the iowa division of criminal investigation has also been called in to help. right now, grife is being held in the greene county jail, on $100,000 bond. kevin: it was 8 years ago almost to the day when a small fire turned into an explosive or no barton solvents plant. now we ve learned that the des moines company has entered into a proposed settlement with the u.s. justice department. under terms released this afternoon, barton
horror. reporter: detectives scoured the area, discovering some people in an apartment building next to the park. at this time yesterday eight inches more it could have came through the window, hit my dogs, my daughter, my kids, i m just, there s just no words to put how scared i am right now. reporter: police say there is one victim, a 25-year-old man who was somehow dropped off at the hospital shortly after those initial reports. less than 10 minutes later a detail officer working a paid detail at the elliot hospital called in to headquarters and notified us that a shooting victim had in fact just entered the emergency department at the elliott. reporter: police are following several leads, they believe there is a single suspect and that this was an isolated incident. it s crazy because i have a kid and my nieces and nephews come down to the park and lay all the time. it s crazy to think somebody around here is shooting a gun and there s little kids running around,
john: popular nonsense, that is or show tonight. john: since we title the though popular nonsense we start with hollywood, when lives or dies based on top pop hraeurbty, a layerty. popularity, a new godzilla movie came out director politics are killing me, i planed to see godzilla but i read that director said movie is rail is really about global warming. our abuse of the planet. give my a break. hollywood makes some great movies with useful messages. some, the hunger games with an individual resisting a powerful central government that uses coercion to control people, dallas buyers club, opposes entrepreneurs with over bearing fda rules. and all 3 movies are liberty and film award winners, good for them. but hollywood usually doesn t get it right, it is rare when a actor sees popular nonsense and has the never to speak out about it like the character dion does in the tv show clueless. that was stacey dash, a new contracfox contributor. hollywood is very opinionated
that increase high-quality educational opportunities for every child. as chair of this caucus, i ve had the opportunity to visit charter schools private schools and on-line learning centers across the country. one of the most impressive experiences i had was right here in washington, d.c. at basis charter school. basis teaches an elite advanced liberal arts curriculum utilizing latin, algebra and advanced science concepts in the fifth grade. the results of the school are off the charts. they re educating kids from every single zip code in the washington, d.c. area. i participated in a question and answer session after these classes with the students, and they were smart talked a lot about hard work, extra hours after class and the challenges of their curriculum. they were proud of their opportunity. but their number one concern was how we could ensure that their friends, neighbors and relatives had the same kind of opportunity. that s powerful. these kids recognized that the
one of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change that s taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. one of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact precision targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether it s in counterterrorism operations, whether it s in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. to illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. many, many years ago, supposedly, an intelligence officer was working in a foreign capital at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the diplomatic service as we often do, looking for hard targets and unfortunately this officer had a little too much to drink. so his mission attention wandered a little bit towards more amorous pursuits. across the room, he spotted what he saw was a vision of lo