Downgraded to a tropical storm. It mitt landfall overnight as a category two hurricane near gulf shores, alabama a. The storm moving northeast at the relatively slow pace of 2 miles an hour. It has hit parts of alabama, florida, mississippi and georgia. Parts of those states are being pummeled with massive amounts of rain, and thats why we point out the speed, the slow speed with which it is advancing now that its made landfall. Its produced lifethreatening flooding, and winds are damaging. Fema has more than 2500 responders prepositioned, ready to give assistance to those in the path of what has been a disastrous storm. Meanwhile on the west coast, 87 large wildfires are burning. 34 people have been killed, almost 5 million acres of land scorched and thousands of homes have been destroyed. Making matters worse, choking smoke from these fires has adversely affected, as you would expect, the air quality, placing it in an unhealthy range, to say the least. Smoke has traveled far now as e
Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
Nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television companies of the Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Beginning now on booktv we will spend time with the late author and columnist William F Buckley. This is part of our summer bins watch series which features one wellknown author. He found the National Review and help to the political Debate Program firing line for several years, also the author of 50 books which included his thoughts on politics, religion, culture, literature and other topics. He appeared on booktv and cspan at 45, we will share those programs with you. First up tonight, in 1993 Mister Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of his essays from his book happy days were here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993 book notes. Cspan on the cover of your book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. You always call yourself a libertarian . Guest as of course you know, something called the
It mitt landfall overnight as a category two hurricane near gulf shores, alabama a. The storm moving northeast at the relatively slow pace of 2 miles an hour. It has hit parts of alabama, florida, mississippi and georgia. Parts of those states are being pummeled with massive amounts of rain, and thats why we point out the speed, the slow speed with which it is advancing now that its made landfall. Its produced lifethreatening flooding, and winds are damaging. Fema has more than 2500 responders prepositioned, ready to give assistance to those in the path of what has been a disastrous storm. Meanwhile on the west coast, 87 large wildfires are burning. 34 people have been killed, almost 5 million acres of land scorched and thousands of homes have been destroyed. Making matters worse, choking smoke from these fires has adversely affected, as you would expect, the air quality, placing it in an unhealthy range, to say the least. Smoke has traveled far now as europe. President trump making so
Problems but the request is that we move forward with patience and a lot of attention. And the host says it will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So these historic talks aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place in qatar negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban a meeting in doha it had their Opening Statements today with both sides expressing optimism for peace and a willingness to negotiate however each has vastly different goals and reaching an agreement will be difficult. For those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the narratives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and where we stand today we now need to grasp this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. We have acted accordingly to all the poi