Teacher and the class sizes are go and so i mean i think i think its san antonio and plano right now theyre talking about closing a number of traditional public schools. And thats a lot to do with Charter School enrollment. And so thank you were waving at me and im just here to ask them how theyre but thanks everyone for those wonderful for me thank now without further adieu tonight, i am very excited to welcome Andrew Mckevitt celebrating the release of country gun capitalism and culture and control and cold war just as World War Two transformed the United States into a Global Military and economic superpower, so too did forge the gun country. America is today after 1945 war ravaged european nations possess large supplies of mass produced weapons and american entrepreneurs seize the opportunity to, buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming Consumer Market made cheap guns, accessible to millions of americans and guns ownership and violence began
And urban uprisings fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, Gun Control Groups were diverted. Their abolitionist roots toward a conciliator or a fundraising, focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpile of firearms. Gun country recast the story of guns in postwar america. One of cold war and racial anxieties. Unfettered capitalism am an exceptional violence continues to haunt us to this day. Andrew mckevitt is john de winters endowed professor of history at Louisiana Tech university. He is the author of consuming japan, a popular and the globalizing of 1980s america. Covert will be joined conversation with matthew dallek. Matthew dallek is a historian and professor at George Washington universitys graduate school of political management. He is author most recently of birchers how the John Birch Society radicalized the american right. Please join me in welcoming to politics and prose. Andrew mcdevitt and matthew dallek. Dreyfus. All right. Okay. Well, thank you to politics and pros
99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year s republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that s about 14% of the state s registered republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big loser. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party, who is strapped with a republican loser, a seven-time loser. the problem for republicans is they started in iowa. this is just a perennial problem for the gop. it really, willie, is a problem that the democrats fixed, but you go back and look. who won in 2008? mike huckabee.
The concept of simplicity is not all that simple. Frugality is usually understood to mean living within ones means, living on very view resources, savings being the opposite to the extravagant. But i began to realize there is more to frugality than that. Frugality is considered a virtue in many cultures but it is closely associated with Simple Living and there is many different meanings of Simple Living including living within ones means, but achieving selfsufficiency, being close to nature, and being independent, enjoying the Simple Pleasures of life rather than requiring extravagant expenditures. You are a penny pincher yourself; right . I am rather. My family will vouj for that. I think it is worthwhile spending money on something that you really enjoy that is really valuable for you. The crucial thing isnt to never spend money on any kind of luxury at all. It is important to be self aware about what you really value and what is really worth spending money on and what is something w
Politics. I think those are different forces at work. Its a critical question. If we are going to build more democratic society, the question of how do the largest minority groups in the country interact with one another and with progressive lights and labor whites, that that is the key question to figure out the answer to. My hope is that this book is a start on that. Thank you very much for having me. [applause] thank you for coming out tonight. We will be doing the signing. If you could form a line we will come around with posteds in case you want to personalize your book. You do need to purchase it downstairs. [inaudible] cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. Afterwards is next. This weekend professor explores the history of frugal living. The book is the wisdom of frugality. He is interviewed by michelle singletary. So i am so thrilled to