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This is very relevant. His public relevant. His Public Opinion has softened on marijuana, maybe 60 percent the Scientific Evidence is overwhelming against and. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy in 1990 and we did not have this kind of research. Now is overwhelming now is overwhelming, the harm that no one does. And i just have to believe i want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. The. Of the book was to get these facts out. The end of my story ...

Hi. So when i think about empowered women, i also am curious about their relationship to their fathers growing up. So you talked a little wit a little bit about their childhood, so im curious to know what was the relationship with each woman with her father. Certainly for Elizabeth Gurley flynn, her father, tom none, was a very flynn, was a very important figure in her life. And she he was a very strong socialist, and actually the whole family converted to socialism in 1902. And in that way i th...

Hour. I wondered if you could start out by telling me a little bit about yourself and why you wanted to write this book. Guest into some ways i had always lived in the shadow of ptsd roast of my adult life. My adult years were in uniform including the rotc. So i was vaguely aware of the idea of ptsd and that it was something soldiers were associated with and furthermore my dad was a vietnam veteran and i grew up in suburban san diego so all of my neighbors were either top gun instructors or mari...

Next on booktvs after words. War correspondent and former marine infantry officer david morris sits down with iraq war veteran and a rand corporations kayla williams. The two talk about the history of posttraumatic stress disorder and the 27 million americans including david morris himself who currently suffer from ptsd. Ms. Williams is also the author of plenty of time when we get home, love and recovery in the aftermath of war. Host i am kayla williams. Im a combat veteran of the iraq war and ...

Was not in the south telling them to a scape. So the first thing was actually running away in various modes but then they would make contact with either agents of the underground railroad or might know okay this is of. This is a fugitive slave up the road. One shouldnt take the railroad metaphor literally that it was a success to them. There were 8,000 out of slavery to this north and canada in the 30 years before the civil war so that would be 30,000 people. There were 4 million slaves in 1860....

And recovery in the aftermath of war. Im a combat veteran of the iraq war and the combat wounded veteran. My second book plenty of time when we get home of the recovery in the aftermath of war calls my familys journey after my husband sustained dramatic brain injury and subsequently develop postTraumatic Stress disorder so it is with personal and professional interest im pleased to sit down today with david morris to have a conversation about his book the evil hour a biography of postTraumatic S...

By cornel west. This is a real treasure of some of the most important features and letters and publish documents of dr. King. What inspired you to do this project . Guest i just want to begin by saluting you in a minute you mainly that you were to do at the schaumburg. You do with such alec and spend such a vision and such sensitivity and your scholarship actually from a expulsion terms of this discourse im hyper incarceration among poor people is chocolate, is crucial. Such a thing to spend thi...

The regulators and the federal agency a few weeks ago said youre not taking enough risks on mortgages. You have been insisting they make down payments and that is weak. We want you to accept 3 down payment that will lead to overtime for a lot of people have mortgages who thought they cannot sustain. They have the same effect on Financial Institutions and will have something close to a financial crisis. We should have understood from the beginning that its the role and then we could have reformed...

I am going to try. One of the things i love about this show is that its for authors and it gives the author a chance to enter the greatest of all questioned what is your book about. What is your book about . I coauthored it with a friend and neighbor and lawyer and a researcher for which im grateful. The book is about why we should not legalize marijuana. We saw this coming down the track. They just legalized general wreck creation all use and Public Opinion has shifted very much in that directi...

I pray for them every day. You write about blue star families. Certainly members of the military. You talk a little bit about gold star. Gold star mothers those who have lost a son or daughter. Very inspirational story in here about a mom who is a gold star mother who is also in the numeral academy. The ui to touch a little bit on that . I got to no her when she was complete mom and discovered that lots of them have asked. The 1st big challenge there child is going through without you. As i bega...