Book American Gridlock the sources, character and impact of the politicalrican gridlock o. Why are we so polarized . Guest theres a variety of reasons. S. One is that we reas have a a sociological phenomenon going on where people move to where they agree with each other and they stay there. If you live in downtown baltimore, your africanamerican and around people that agree with you and if you are in Rural America you have people that agree with you also said the theory is that you move to areas where if you can there are people you agree with and if you dont, you keep your mouth shut or begin to be like the people around you. Redistricting is drawing the lines around postings and those things and its a partisan phenomenon except in the states where we have the commissions to do it so the redistricting for the state legislature as well as the house of representatives predates districts that are safe at any margin. They are only 21 seats in the house right now that are estimated to be c
People here who will at least remember the place if not agree with me, and so its always nice to be back with old friends. I really date myself here, i even attended an advanced placement class at the old West High School, which was right down here and you have to be really old to remember when West High School was here. People have asked me a lot, why did you write this book . Its so long ago and so obscure. And i usually say because its just a great story. What happened, the events themselves are so amazing. And as a writer, as a fiction writer i would never dare to make them up the kind of plots that this book has. And when i realized that they had all happened i thought that was really terrific. For a long time when people say why, i say because it was such a great story. When i got into the book i realized there was when people say why, i say because it was such a great story. When i got into the book i realized there was more to it than that and the back had an even more profound
Men. Im not sure, theres no question there has been a convergence at the end of the cold war and if you look like issues like was me or iraq itself but there were people on the left who had documentary challenges working on a regular isolationist, thats certainly true and that is what is an independent is other than perhaps someone who chooses casebycase. Guest writer somebody that recognizes that can be as simple party line on these National Security issues and somebody who doesnt want to be bound by a partyline on social and cultural issues. Interestingly i find kissinger as a young man was in rather the same position. He thought of himself as a small c. Conservative. He certainly didnt selfidentify as a liberal in the 1950s or harvard. But what being counters real american conservatism by goldwater supporters of 1964 Republican Convention he was appalled and he had an uneasy relationship with the rise of the Republican Party with the neoconservatives as well. Thats one of the intere
Clear the sky a little bit later tonight, 10 to 11 oclock your temperature sitting at 40 degrees and double scan showing a new storm developing that will bring blizzard like conditions into parts of high what and that storm cuts to our north and west and brings a flood watch for noon and wednesday for the heart of the philadelphia region. Well talk about this flood watch and what it could mean in the full accuweather forecast. After months of buildup the 2016 president ial election begins today. All of the candidates are in the hawk aye state pushing for last minute votes. The caucuses begin in iowa in just under four hours. The latest polls show it could be tight especially for democrats. Lets go to the republican side though where polls show donald trump is the favorite to win tonight with ted cruz coming in second but for the democrats Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton but the threepoint gap is within the margin of error meaning its a statistical dead heat. Action news anchor Ric
That because of our strength, the power of our banks, all we americans have to do if Congress Rejects this plan is return to the bargaining table, puff out our chests and demand a better deal. Ive heard one critic say he would use sanctions to give iran a choice between having an economy or having a nuclear program. Well, folks, thats a very punchy sound bite, but it has no basis in reality. As dick said, i was chair of the Foreign Relations committee when our party came across to enact round after round of economic sanctions against iran. Remember, even the toughest restrictions didnt stop Irans Nuclear program from speeding ahead. From a couple of hundred centrifuges to 5,000 to 19,000. Weve already been there. If this agreement is voted down, those who vote no will not be able to tell you how many centrifuges iran will have next year or the year after. If its approved, we will be able to tell you exactly what the limits of irans program will be. The fact is that it wasnt either sanc