Good afternoon and welcome once again to alumni weekend. Each year, the Yale Law School Association Provides an award to an outstanding graduate. It is our way of recognizing extraordinary alumni that have made contributions to the legal profession. We are a tiny school but we have exercised an outsized influence on the development of american law and public life. Our award of merit has gone two president s like gerald ford and bill clinton. It has gone to senators like Jack Danforth, arlen specter, joseph lieberman, and paul tsongas. It has gone to cabinet officials like hillary clinton, edward leavy, robert rubin. Governors like scranton, mayors like john lindsay, and outstanding state judges. Today we continue that tradition by honoring three alumni who, without any question, have contributed immensely to the substance of american law. Today we honor three justices of the United States Supreme Court. The tale of each of these justices is a quintessentially american story, a story of
Sharia is based upon one principle in particular called the principle of abrogation. What came last governs. As you may note, the ark of his life went from the period in which he was in mecca and receiving direction from allah through relevations that were teaching people to be tolerant and respectable of people in the book, christians and jews. It was at that point that he had no power and not much ability to do anything else. You saw a tactical approach that was accommodationist. He was driven out and went to medina and became rich and powerful and a leader of an army. The revelations from allah were all about destroying the people of the book, most especially the jews. In other infidels. As to the question whether this ideology is bankrupt, let me share with you how these guys are doing it. In addition to what i showed you, where they are operating here. You can argue it is listed as here. These are the sort of things our government has done to help a number of these jihadist groups
More ammo, eagle bone whistles shrieking across the battlefield in the bust and the smoke. Warriors getting closer and closer and closer, desperately trying to destroy the soldier command. Apocalypse at little big horn, custers final battle. How did this happen . Why did it happen . Well, folks, its really a culminating event because it marks nearly 400 years of cultural animosity, cultural friction, cultural disdain between euroamericans and native americans and the fight was always over the same thing particularly that yellow metal that makes the white man go crazy. And when they see all of these resources, they envision farms and towns, ranches, railroads, telegraphs, and barbedwire fences, all of it driven by a near religion called manifest destiny. Manifest destiny, the belief that somehow euroamericans are sanctioned, theyre ordained by god to spread across the continent. Conquer it, subdue it, tame it. From coast to coast. From sea to shining sea. Theres just one problem with th
Folks, this is an incredible story. Its a story that attracts 400,000 people a year from all over the world. Come through that gate. The vast majority of them, 90 of the time never been here in their lives. I like to see who you are this morning. If youve never been here in your life, please put your hand up. Now hold it way up. Now, just look around. Its always the same. 90 of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of George Armstrong custer. Theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. And i promise you this, theres nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. Well, folks, its a simple story. And yet its a complex story. You are on the battlefield right now. And it stretches five miles to the south of us, well beyond the in the hill, way out there, five miles. On june 25, 1876, George Armstrong custer with 647 troops will attack a
We will get more in depth on that. A question this morning is about the Border Patrol does it need more funding or more from congress . Here are the numbers. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. 5853882. S, 202 we also set a side a line for border state residents, 202 5853883. Us by want to reach social media, you can do that on twitter. Ur handle is cspanwj facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Get to the editorial from the boston globe. It is on Border Patrol. Responsibility as the changes of immigration policy takehome, the headline is the Border Patrol needs to clean up, not more funding. They write that the ebola crisis has sparked no small number of irrational statements, but one of the least sensible is the call to invest heavily in u. S. Border enforcement. Obamas highly anticipated plans for executive action on immigration were announced last thursday, including booster Border Security. Thinkingsecure, the goes, should be the policy priority. The United States has alread