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No longer contained in the campuses. its in the halls of congress and in senate confirmation hearings, if anyone, you see the speakers disinvited such as myself on college campuses, all over the culture. >> laura: harmi tismt you said it before, but the left has for a long time wanted the entire country to be one big college campus. right, where the disciplinary hearings, this person gets expelled and that one cant join a fraternity, this one kicked off this or that club, people segregated but i...

1st, texas is essentially the most per missive gun ownership, gun state, right? i mean, in other words, everything from where guns can be in schools to having them in your cars, to carry -- open carry -- >> taking them to church. >> all of those exist -- exactly. all of those exist in texas which just raises the question, if it is true as we often hear from critics of gun control that more, you know, people with guns stop bad people with guns, you would think texas would be, like, nirvana, right...

Completing her latest cancer treatment justice ruth bader ginsburg, keeping her promise to appear at the university of buffalo. >> i did not withdraw when my own health problems presented challenges >> reporter: receiving an honorary degree and acknowledging her notoriety. >> it was beyond my wildest imagination that i would one day become the notorious rbg i am now 86 years old, yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me. amazing. >> reporter: also reflecting on her decision to a...

♪ i need an easy friend >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i cant see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock, like r.e.m., was something new entirely. ♪ follow me, yeah follow me ♪ got my spine ive got m...

>> no, thats the problem. the witness when we are traveling for socialism sucks that people talk about socialized medicine in cuba being a success. its a myth. people have to link their own sheets to the hospital because theyre so poor but they have the good care for ruling elites because some comments are more equal than other and peering foreigners to pay the government for healthcare can get high-quality care for the average person gets horrible care. the myth they have this great life expect...

>> no, thats the problem. the witness when we are traveling for socialism sucks that people talk about socialized medicine in cuba being a success. its a myth. people have to link their own sheets to the hospital because theyre so poor but they have the good care for ruling elites because some comments are more equal than other and peering foreigners to pay the government for healthcare can get high-quality care for the average person gets horrible care. the myth they have this great life expect...

Hip-hop. sort of non-linear word connections. ♪ im a loser, baby, so why dont you kill me ♪ >> beck is defining whats happening now with that mesh of styles. hes mixing electronic, country, rap, rock and roll, everything. everything. hes throwing the kitchen sink in. ♪ >> out of the ashes of nirvana dave grohl created the foo fighters. >> this is the first time in my life ive ever fronted a band, had to actually stand up and sing. and seem charismatic or whatever, which i cant do. but i ne...

Lets turn on oasis. ♪ and after all ♪ youre my wonderwall >> they were the opposite of nirvana because they wanted fame. no matter how big they were they wanted to be bigger. >> we know were the best band in the country, and its as simple as that. and its that simple. >> the thing about oasis in a way is theyve got no kind of -- no false modesty. >> anybody can just sort of go were brilliant. its like -- >> anybody whos got the balls to do that is good in my book. ♪ but im a creep >> "cree...

>> one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. bands like soundgarden, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. ♪ outshined outshined ♪ outshined >> why dont you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? >> everybodys a grunge band. >> all of these bands sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as this is ...

>> the starmaking machine had sucked nirvana up into its evil guts, and now they had to deal with it. >> we decided to lay low and obviously that was -- you know, someone would say, oh, because kurts on heroin the whole time. it was just like -- its been really damaging to us. to tell you the truth. its really affected my personal life a lot. [ applause ] >> i was in the front row of the "unplugged" performance, and it was a serious artistic statement. kurt didnt play the hits. those songs were ...