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[inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. What an outstanding crowd. Im not surprised. You have picked a very good event to come to. I am with some muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose and politics and prose and our staff and my coowner and husband brad graham and i welcome all of you to this evenings event. I think less of you know the drill but just in case you are new to our events, professor wills will speak for a bit and is happy to take questions. We have a microphone appear and we really would like it if he c...

The crisis or a bad economy. They are the result. They are the result of it spent why should the government do less of two expand Social Security . They should do less loopholes for corporations and the very rich. They should do more spending on infrastructure to make us as a country more competitive as a nation and create jobs in the process. We should be increasing the minimum wage. Lets talk about that for a second. If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation instead of being 7. 25, it would be 10. 70 by. If it had kept pace with productivity it would be 18. 75 if it had kept pace with a w...

Ive got 11 brothers and sisters and my dad owned a bar, ive got brothers and sisters on every rung of the economic ladder and the idea of an Opportunity Society is to i was. Of the 1970s and ,980s, these two people especially during the 1970s, by the end of the 1970s, i was a republican i have a Ronald Reagan Bumper Sticker on a 1980 in the primary, sorry jeb, [laughter] in 1980 eight, i found myself in manchester, New Hampshire, joe and, if you will recall and in february of 1988, a lowly state rep, business guy go to manchester, New Hampshire to help my buddy jack kemp. With jackhis dinner a...

Of it. We have had the Supreme Court rulings, but the federal Election Commission has issued regulations that basically have narrowed disclosure to a level that is almost absurdly impossible to meet. People giving money specifically for an advertisement. I know that you see it as a vote best the federal Election Commission. Youre a very litigious guy. And repeated instances you have and judges have rebuffed those regulations. But in this particular case the District Court judges so and then the panel of the d. C. Circuit sent it back. Did you talk for just a couple of minutes about the destruc...

Federation. The federation has a very simple role that is sort of much more complicated in execution. Our goal is to create a vibrant and healthy Jewish Community wherever jews are in the world. So here in the bay area as well as in eastern europe, latin america, and then, of course, israel, as well. So how does a vibrant Community Get formed . I know thats a general question, but in the context of what a Faith Community has and to the rest of the community, what formulates a vibrant community. Really, there is three principles derived directly from the torrah and depending on ones background,...