Told us that the economy, equality, education, and immigration were all top issues. Our judges have finalize their decisions for one grand prize winner, and four firstplace winners. There are 150 prizes in all, and one fan favorite selected by you. We are happy to announce our top Prize Winners. Our grand prize winner is a 10th grader from jenks, oklahoma. Olivias winning documentary titled up to our necks addresses the federal debt. How exactly does america get up to its neck in debt . Every year a budget is formed, throwing out large sums of federal money are donated to several areas. The first is discretionary spending, which in 2015 received 1. 7 trillion. The second section is mandatory spending, which received 2. 45 trillion in 2015. Lastly, there is interest on the federal debt, which received 229 billion. As our grand prize winner, she wins 5,000 for her documentary and the cspan bus will travel to her school so we can present her with the check for the grand prize. Our first p
Done in the matter of days. This was something that was deliberately and carefully planned over the course i think of several months i would anticipate that this is not the only operation that isil has in the pipeline. Pipeline. President hollande says he may extend the state of emergency for three months. He also wants to make it easier to revoke the french citizenship of those who hold dual passports and are connected to terrorism. Here is whats happening now at home since the attacks, several governors ininthe us have vowewenot to accept Syrian Refugees citing fears an attack like the ones in paris could be orchestrated here. As we just told you, governor branstad is joining that call. President obama declared his strategy for defeating isis is working despite the attacks in paris. He is rejecting calls for more military force in the middle Syrian Refugees in the us. The president said it will take time to cripple the terrorist group and he will continue on the current path. Law enf
Isnt a lot of great books on George Washington and native american peoples, particularly one that bring out the full perspective of native american groups as well as they could, particularly reflecting the latest literature, which has been transformed in the last 30 years and more. Professor calloway has been one of the people leading the transformation in the way that american historians have come to understand the challenge of incorporating native American History into American History. He is currently professor of history and professor of native american studies at dartmouth. Fromceived his ba and phd the university of leeds, which means he is an englishman studying native American History in the 70s in england, an extraordinary story in and of itself. To the United States, he taught high school for a few years in springfield, vermont. He served for 2 years as associate director of the center for the study for the history of American Indians at the Newberry Library in chicago, which
Things are happening rapidly in places like syria and as weve seen in the news today, ukraine. If this escalates, i dont know if we have the will. Shannon, comment . Especially if you can tailer the holistic view of things. Back to the removal of the expatriates, i think we spent a lot of time focusing on the message that that conveyed and i couldnt help but wonder what that had to have felt like, almost encapsulating the points we touched upon earlier which basically speak to the fact that the western world was saying you dont matter, well take out the people who do. Even if these are the people that raised you as orphans early in life, were going to separate. One of the things weve said in here in other classes, in earlier classes this xhsemester is that genocide undoes, things fall apart with genocide. The ties that bind people together, jep side genocide is fundamentally about breaking apart things like Family Structure and communities. Yet the failure of humanity in rwanda demonst
Enforcement matter in the european union, based on a theory that goes beyond international rules, well allow you to file a lawsuit here and collect the money back. In fact, you can auction off the embassy of the country that sues you. We could do a lot to make it clear that were tired of this onesided debate in which we demand and they give a live, and we give a little more. Because they are threatening to hurt our industry. Its the wrong approach. We need to get much more tough minded. If i could add to that, i agree with the questioner in the main, but i also agree with stu. In the sense of, there is a whole lot of, oh, im shocked that theres gambling in this establishment going on. And there is certainly some hypocrisy, some double standards, and indeed, a lot of the stuff the nsa is doing is doing in cooperation with some of these governments. I dont think that and, also, and again, ive conceded as much, sometimes this is being used as an excuse to justify positions that were alrea