The importance of the relationship between drugs and war of course, i know that the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that began with opium war t butt the same time its easy for a lot of people, including myself, to think of Something Like the opium ware as may be an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium war that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship, like killer high and a lot of the work done here at the Washington Institute forces us, forces me to see the world in a totally new way this book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to focus on the eternal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drug and some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials and extends to wars for markets and for
Up for the weekend. The first is the snow, got a first alert out for that starting tomorrow morning. Followed by brutal cold and that goes till tuesday 8 00 a. M. Everythings cold all week. But some are colder than others and more dangerous than others. A coating to two inches of snow sticking on untreated surfaces. Then the subzero wind chills that are coming in. Just to give you an idea, its 12 right now. By new years morning it feels like five below. Thats a 17 degree difference. 17 degrees colder than it is right now. Imagine that. Theres the snow on the radar. Its obviously moving in. It will not be with us this evening, it will be with us tomorrow morning. And its a fairly large area, but its not all that heavy. Its not going to last all day. Were talking, again, about a coating to two inches of snow. But its that slippery type because of the cold roads, its a flurry snow, it will be blowing around in the wind. Well talk more about when the coldest of the cold is coming in a few
Military budget without degrading its ability to deter foreign incursions. Terrorists, on the other hand, might be interdicted at the borders. As for the rest of what the notral government does, only can it be scaled back, and should be scaled back in the hamiltonian point of view, but slowly so that people can adjust and markets can growth and. Phasing out the department of not end all education in the United States. It would merely force parents to fund their childrens education, which most of them can do if their taxes werent so high. Entitlementd programs hamilton would phase out over time, and in the process render the poor better off. Yes, ive gotten the sign right on that. I set it on the National Bureau of economic research, one of many, showed that Social Security redistributes wealth from poor black men and hispanics to white middleclass widows. They pay into it and they die and they never received anything in return. Securityut social would not relegate the nations elderly t
Provide useful services at the end. The services we provide are specific to the farmer. We are working with each one of them. Watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. It is a clip from a recent program here is a clip from a recent program. Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wisemen. If they did not grow mad, they are restless under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs. It was at this time the idea of total separation of the colonies from the crown was born, resolved that these United Colonies ought to be free and theyendent states, that are absolved from all allegiance to the british crown, and that all political connection between the colonies and the state of Great Britain ought to be dissolved. Fathers made good that revolution. They loved their country better than they lo
I learned to do that back in class in the fifth grade, so thats the way we are going to do this. I will introduce them individually as they appear. First, we have jeff broome, who i have known for many years. Jeff is very active in not only the academic world, but also the world of popular history, and writes magazine articles for true west, wild west magazine, and belongs to many western organizations. He got his phd at the university of colorado in boulder. Colorado seems to be a theme here today, because of where people are buried, even though they did not want to be buried there. [laughter] that is pretty bad, you know when you kidnap a dead body. , they kept him on ice for like six months and then planted him up there now, where he resides. He could reside here in the vastness and the beauty of the bighorn basin, and towering trees would line his grave. And instead, he now has all of the radio and Television Towers for the city of denver surrounding him. But im sorry, i digress. [