Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. It is a great book to read and to find a word because. H. W. Brands is the dixon Allan Anderson centennial prof. Of history in austin. His focus has been for many years on American History and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. This is the just the most recent. Also traitor to his class about Franklin Roosevelt, biography of Andrew Jackson called Andrew Jackson. The age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. The Fir
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the president of the clear blue loose policy institute and i thank you for joining us and welcome you to our conservative womans network. Special thanks to the Heritage Foundation. We have been putting this on for years ended to a pleasure to work with a fine organization like the Heritage Foundation. I am happy to introduce todays speaker, kate obenshain. You have seen her on fox news where she is a passionate, articulate defender of conservative values and has one of the loose policy institutes most popular campus speakers for many years and she has been speaking and mentoring young women that we worked with for decades and helped me out so many times to help the institute, and i am grateful to you for that. She has also been in almost all of our great conservative women calendars. Our 2013 calendar is out. We do it differently with not only beautiful women but beautiful scenes from march of 2013 and the quote on her age, courage is the ladder on which
Side. Said talking to them as well there is a sense that they can reconstitute the 90s taliban. So if they hold on a little bit longer they can do that. But it is to understand the different position those with ordinary afghans with a focus on the troop number and talking whether there is 6,000 or 3,000 troops in afghanistan. That is important in the village where it is thought they would say they dont want any troops but in my discussion they dont think about it which is what we face today is a question of state formation. And in 2004. What i mean by that is and attempting to build the afghan state what happened was on the one hand they put money into kabul but at the same time we had independent and unilateral agreements in the periphery. With the private militia that were funded and supported. Stood to create the Afghan Police we also gave the government of canada our to maintain his private militia the does not answer to the Afghan Government. And you can create a state with the ba
Syndicated conservation easements - an industry based on nonsense. The nonsense is the idea that an easement on property can be worth more than the property itself.