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Good afternoon, were going to go to head get started we would like to welcome you to the skeleton in the closet decision im president Trinity University here in san antonio and this is my colleague lidia pine and we want to first of all, say thank you for coming to the session, and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library as well as Southwest School of arts and craft ares for opening up their facilities for this great event today, and we are also supposed to encourage everybody to please ...

Questions, and remind you the needed after this session you can go around the corner to the gallery where they will be selling books and marisa will be selling them. A portion of all the proceeds will go to the San Antonio Public Library foundation. Again good morning. This is one of the best days weve had with allies for the festival so far and i think its going to stay that way. Its my honor to be able to come ask understate moderate, to moderate this panel on the book white backlash immigrati...

It is a selfinflicted wound. Malcolm x in particular and that is a misnomer you can call people. [applause] government abuse is onesided. I care about freespeech and the First Amendment i was so libertarian for this. And i had written from the left for my column on the wall street journal i assumed i would have staff on the right to. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Thankyou everyone for the book festival i cannot count on saree. I was asked but thanks for your coming down to to the san a...

Author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv, and im a cspan fan. And today we bring you coverage from the Fourth Annual san antonio book festival with panels on immigration, the politics of marriage, crime and more. Tomorrow were live with biographer will haygood for three hours on in depth. Hell take your questions and discuss all of his books including his most recent, showdown, on the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood marshall. And this week on after words, Americ...

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People. Iraqi the average sunni has no desire to live their life under isi rules. The good news is the average iraqi wants to move forward. Iraqi air force is basically granted, without american air power, it will be hard to turn the tide. You heard the reports the iranians say they want help. Should we encourage them to help , all of all things . We will probably need their help to hold that back. Their goal is to create a sectarian iraq. To have a puppet in baghdad, a shia dominated government...

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Mass society requires the expenditure of money from the humblest hand bill to leaflets to political ads run during prime time on tv, radio and other mass media to putting up billboards, putting up yard signs or in the modern internet age putting up a website all of that costs money. And, you know, the days when you could stand on a soap box in the Boston Common and speak politically to get people to accept your ideas or to vote for you as a candidate are long gone and, frankly, even then you wan...