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Fantastic group of panelists beginning with Mike Petrilli and chester finn. How to educate an american was brainchild of mike and chester and today they will share with us their original inspiration behind the book and why it seems the more important now to revitalize k12 Civic Education. Joining us today is david bobb come present of the bill of Rights Institute. David has worked for 20 years to build strong Civic Education programs that engage the hearts and minds of young people. Previously david worked at Hillsdale College and is the author of a book on the vital role of humility in politi...

Of clemency. I do not think the Death Penalty is appropriate punishment, nor life imprisonment. Ofse who call for some sort frontier justice need to understand there should be equal protection. ,ames clapper committed perjury punishable by five years in prison, if you want to throw the book at snowden, it is hard to say we are not going to do anything about James Clapper lying to congress. You are not going to compare what he did with whats noted n did . With what snowde i think i just did . [indiscernible] clapper did something worse than snowden . It is not my job to compare them, but James ...

Wimps andfor wallflowers. People that are going to get run over. In order to be successful, conventional wisdom says you have to be assertive, bold, even putting yourself out there, selfpromoting. I think humility countermand that. It councils a different disposition and attitude. Define it. Utility is an honest examination of oneself. Imperfect,it you are your imperfections, and think about how one might put others first in thought, word and deed. It is the opposite of self aggrandizement. What if you examine yourself and conclude you are terrific . Muhamed ali said it is hard to be humble wh...

It is unbelievably positive. My biggest gripe is something i know cant be fixed and should not be fixed. We will go right at each other on issues. If somebody is a muslim and somebody else is a christian, they will go right at each other. Hopefully they will listen to each other. You will not do them. Do that. On campuses, i do not think there is enough discussion about gender relationships and gender equity and sexual harassment. I think people avoid having that discussion. I do not think there is enough discussion about race in your generation, but we had all of these discussions in my gener...

Employment, again, a bill that passed with significant bipartisan support in the United States senate. We see no reason why it could not be passed. If it was put on the floor, we think it could get bipartisan we think ad significant number of republicans in the and democrats would be for it. We would like to see a greater investment in infrastructure and job creation. The American Public that ought to be our number one priority. Those are just some of the issues that we would hope would be addressed and that we could accomplish in the second session of the congress. Thatu can see all of interv...