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Bill in the senate today continues work on the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline appeared they will vote this evening starting at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. It will affect oil drilling in blow to Alaska Oil Production is one of the headlines this morning. We want to get your reaction. If not by phone, you can contact us at twitter. You can post a comment facebook. You can send us an email. This is the front page of the newspaper of the alaskan newspaper. It would be the approval of congress. The president is proposing to designate the majority of the Arctic National wildlife rigid as a wilderness ar...

Less likely to be happy. And some of the most miserable places in the world are places where people die of starvation and preventable diseases. Once you get beyond basic subsistence, the four things that bring happiness are faith, family, friends and work. Those are the things we have to keep in mind those are part of human flourishing. Host from your book Gross National happiness, this is a book about americas happiness. Doing sums across our population, can we say that the United States is a happy country . Whats your answer to that question . Guest the answer is generally, yes. Now theres s...

Life, but they werent sufficient and so some of the things of cultural integrity, of family values, of being able to maintain ones faith, ones faith in god, that these are the things people needed for a truly flourishing life. And in so doing in a developing country, had a lot of lessons for the rest of us. Host can you measure happiness via economic success . Guest no. You can find some predeterminants for having a relatively good life by looking at economic indicators, but that doesnt get you far enough. There are really four things that can lead us to happiness and they dont involve money p...

Meaningful action. He was notified by Homeland Security advisor john brennan. He ordered flags lowered to half staff. This is about 5 minutes. I spoke with governor malloy and fbi director muller. I offered governor malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate this crime, care for theirctimw and families. We have endured too many of these tragedies. Each time i learned the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. That was true today. There is not a parent in america who does not feel the same...

Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington politics . Take a look at some of the headlines this friday morning beginning with the l. A. Times. ...