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One year ago this young man went from fighting on the football field to fighting for his life. Despite doctors prognosis this may his final days his family says they are not giving up hope. In orinda where neighbors expressed relief after the arrest of five suspects in connection to the halloween shooting. But they say more needs to be done. Meteorologist sandhya patel. Wait until you see the weekend weather. Itll have you heading outside. Abc 7 news at 11 00 begins right now. I have never seen a homicide scene like this ever. It was a bloodbath. Disturbing new details in the Orinda Airbnb shooting case. Police say theyve made five arrests and there could be reporter many of those neighbors have been on edge but tonight theyre relieved. The sheriff confirmed they had video of several of those suspects walking inside that party and hiding firearms in their pants minutes prior to the shooting. Two rival gang members were among those killed at the orinda halloween party. It was a bloodbat
Writer right now because they are treated as politicians. You represent. I say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time a politics as team sports. In the teams poor aspect of politics has really displaced almost Everything Else in the intellectual content. And now just tribe on tribe action. I dont think having a bigger gang is necessarily something that tells you anything about whether an idea is good or not. The fact is 50 of the population if you watch broadcast television or you look at the actual bestsellers list. Great big crowds of people that i dont trust very much. The original sin of that journalist is his or her desire to be liked. I see this a lot. You can shop for opportunities to invest. And there are a lot of writers who are unable to resist the urge to play to the crowd. To engage in constituent service. I understand the desire to want to be popular to an extent, we have to sell books. We were to be popular in the way. Where they have the devoted cultures fo
She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do