Under funded Pension System. From frankfurt, kentucky, this is an hour. [ applause ] i guess yall are expecting me to Say Something about now. Please do have a seat. Grateful for the opportunity to be here with you tonight. I want to start as is often the case by thanking those of you that are gathered in this room, for starters. It hasnt been easy today weatherwise for a number of you to make your way here. Yet you have done it. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for making your way here. For those of you for whom it is your job i thank you and come back to that in a moment. I want to thank those of you watching this, as well, on some form of video stream thank you for taking the time to check in with us here in kentucky and find out what is happening as we talk about not only the state of the commonwealth but the state of the budget. They are one in the same intertwined in a time like this. I want to thank a couple of groups in particular. You always run the risk when you start than
Eliminating 70 Government Programs to help the states under funded Pension System. From frankfurt, kentucky, this is an hour. [ applause ] i guess yall are expecting me to Say Something about now. Please do have a seat. Grateful for the opportunity to be here with you tonight. I want to start as is often the case by thanking those of you that are gathered in this room, for starters. It hasnt been easy today weatherwise for a number of you to make your way here. Yet you have done it. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for making your way here. For those of you for whom it is your job i thank you and come back to that in a moment. I want to thank those of you watching this, as well, on some form of video stream thank you for taking the time to check in with us here in kentucky and find out what is happening as we talk about not only the state of the commonwealth but the state of the budget. They are one in the same intertwined in a time like this. I want to thank a couple of groups in p
Program officer so tonight the event is a special event under the auspices of the jewish diplomatic corps to and from Young Professionals and those members here are a part of that network acting in the field of Public Diplomacy were all passionate of those causes of the jewish people to speak up on behalf that represent them. So tonights event is from the antiisrael agenda to beat to demise israel with those ways to combat and were very happy we have a special guest speaker here tonight so of 84 being here today. The with the jewish diplomatic corps also that new book and alex will take the floor from here and i will introduce him first originally bore it kiev ballet providence speaker and the media contributor of the arabisraeli conflict serves as the spokesman currently the director of Public Affairs at the executive council and then to bring together some of the finest minds of the israeli conflict with a review of how at has shifted with the global and local mostly in the corridors
Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libelous, the executionist will become the remedy to follow. He was the godfather of i believe in Free Expression but, which has been active as a brigade ever since. As were going to discuss over the next 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. The question before us today is how much it should be championed over other rights, especially in universities. And those rights might include the right not to be offended, but also the right to live free from abuse and
You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading. Heres what oklahoma congressman Steve Russell had to say. I read all kinds of stuff. Im a voracious history reader. Not much onion fiction although there are some. I just finished a fiction book, i should say im not much on fiction. But i did just finish a fiction book by Derek Robinson that was kind of a british antiwar protest on a world war i setting, and it kind of reflects the times. But i have a great interest in world war i. My great grandfather and his brothers were world war i veterans, one of my relatives is buried in france, killed in the first world war. And since were in the 100th anniversary of our entry into that war and our participation in the campaigns, ive been reading quite a bit about that time. Congressman, youre also an author as well. Could you kind of talk about your experience as an author . Well, it is i have a Great Respect fo