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Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fighting yet. They havent started fighting yet. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else, any ideas . Some of it, this is like fury. And i have some images to show you. Theres a historian named charles roister and he coined this phrase, rage militaire. And it says, the rage militaire has taken hold on the entire continent. The americans are fighting mad. Its a wild passion. ....
George floyd. A Minneapolis Police officer pressed his knee into the unarmed African American mans neck for more than seven minutes monday as floyd pleaded for help and said he couldnt breathe. Frustation over the lack of charges against the officers turned into anger overnight, as protesters looted stores and set buildings on fire. Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Hose riots continued today, spilling into st. Paul, where crowds ransacked shops and smashed windows. Late today, the state capital was evacuated. And it all comes as minnesota and the rest of the country are facing th dual toll of rising jobless claims and cases of coronavirus. Today, we learned another 2. 1 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week, and as we come on the air tonight, more than 101,000 p ....
[inaudible conversation] good afternoon and welcome everybody to the Cato Institute. I direct the center for global liberty and prosperity here at cato. The title and the style of the book were featuring today, socialism sucks, is admittedly more irrev van the typical more staid pock policy book wed Public Policy books we organize evented around but i assure you the authors today are serious, accomplished economists to decade of scholarly work inform the publication. The subtitlele of the book, who economists drink the way through the enfree world, give us flavor of the unconventional purchase for a couple of academics. That subtitlelesurprise me. I ten to run into ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world, and inevitably they have drinks in their hand probably because we chat at conventions and receptions and hotel b ....