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What are your biggest concerns . Guest number one. Great to be here today. People have been talking about this a lot over the past week 1 2 or two or three, whos counting . But it is not a positionim unfamiliar with. As you know, i spent 11 years on my state Public Utility Commission in South Carolina and if you know anything about South Carolina it is a state that does not have the political balance on its commission. So i was either one of one or one of, one of seven or, two of seven depending...

Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our f...

[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all k...

[inaudible conversations] finish good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im roger pilon the director for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome our cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to both statutory and constitutional law. More immediat...

There legally action able whatsoever. So thats easy. Then theres the question of how you have the right pollution standards and, ultimately, its a big issue. Im much more of the view that this should be resolved, you know, much more in courts actually than by an agency like epa. So that theres a really good essay in the book climate coup by this guy named roger pilon which gives a pretty good critique of the executive state in this issue and gives a positive alternative. Im in that school, but i...

Orders. I want to point out most of that is about in the timing of implementation of parts of the Affordable Care act. I think it bears are act or refusing to enforce its. This is most important compliment. He has been phasing it in and is made decisions along the way to certain pieces of it and they need to meet be delayed by more than one year. This is exactly what presence and administrations have always done and are expected to do in implementing complicated pieces of legislation like the Af...

Budget deliberations, looking at the balance between the active and reserve component. I would guess there would be a difference in proportionality, but i dont want to get into details about how one would come down opposed to the other. The other thing you mentioned was contractors. We share your belief. We have got to make sure that we have our contractors. We have a fight on our hands just getting their salaries. We thought maybe they should be paid more than the Vice President , but everyone ...

Black shutdown. In a hair in accusation when you talk about disparities they hear an accusation when you talk about disparities. I am arguing for a discourse where we look at how all people are affected by this economy. I think the number one issue for most black people is economic security, fairness, incarceration is a huge issue it is the case, including for a person like myself who comes from a well educated family, there are only two degrees of separation. They know of a relative caught up i...

Difficult decision ahead of them, and the president probably didnt make it easier for them when, just days after calling dr. Ford a credible witness, the president said this. What hes going through, 36 years ago, this happened. I had one beer. Right . I had one beer. Well, do you think it was no, it was one beer. Oh, good. How did you get home . I dont remember. How did you get there, i dont remember. Where is the place . I dont remember. How many years ago was it . I dont know. I dont know. I d...

How big is the federal government? Two measures are the number of civilian employees (nearly two million) and the number of agencies (now exceeding 440). These numbers barely hint at their massive meddling in business activities and the personal lives of Americans.