Published in 1906. A year after his bought his ranch property. The valley of the moon was published while he was living here. Jack london claimed that he worked two hours a day writing thousand words a day before breakfast. But i think a lot of his time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch so it could be a model and that took a lot of his time. See all of our programs saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. And a house Science Space Technology hearing. Discussing the potential of life on other planets and the recent discovery of liquid water on mars. Lamar smith chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. Science space and technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is ordered to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, astrobiology and the search for life beyond earth in the neck decade. Let me make a couple of announcements. One is to say we expect more
That death toll could rise. You see the devastation stretches for blocks just by the very narrow look. Take a look on the left side. What appears to be maybe a playground structure or a backyard swing set, appears to be somewhat okay. Firefighters working on a possible cause for the valley fire. Well bring alex savidge back to mornings on 2. He will bring us the latest information from there. Its wednesday, september 16th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. We need to talk about weather and traffic. It will affect us all but especially the fire victims. Steve, you moved outside . Reporter im up here. Good news bad news. Maybe not bad news. I shouldnt say that. But i would not be surprised if about. 50 or. 75 falls in mendocino county, lake county. Might be something they could use. Our system is increasing clouds. We have light rain north bay. Its clear right here. But the heaviest rain by far will be from about santa rosa north. But our front will make it eventually all the way down t
Worth mentioning. 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Steven are all young, rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. It was stevens who was one of the confederate peace commissioners lincoln is dealing with in the end. When we thing of the civil war in military terms, we talk about the mexican war as a precursor, a prelude, but the congress that lincoln served in has Horace Greely and Alexander Stevens and sidelines waiting to enter. This is part of lincolns story. Its a preview for him of what is to come. You know, i dont imagine that tony kushner or Steven Spielberg could have worked all this background in somehow to the movie. Im not complaining they didnt, but all this background is important to understand what is really going on. And the details matter. They know the details matter. If you look back at the Lincoln Movie, youll realize the purpose of the scene in the kitchen is to give lincoln credit fo
It is us simple truth. When the middle class succeeds, america succeeds. Our recognition of that truth benefits action orchestrating recovery and the focus on purchasing power of working families the economy needs today. We must see better paychecks, infrastructure it innovation and manufacture more products in the United States. Only by laying a Firm Foundation for growth which the president talked about in his state of the Union Address, based on Ambitious Goals for our future can we secure and maintain a vibrant middle class. Only by focusing on working families can we reignite the American Dream and step into a new era of american prosperity. Thank you for the opportunity. [applause] i want to say we apologize for the state of that microphone but it was a set up to show you are no allowed no obstacles to your voice this morning. To ask you about the impact on the middle class, one of the most Important News stories in the country right now. I referred to Pete Carrolls decision to c
My sons came up with the idea a few years ago i should take p n plantation mistress to hollywood and say, real housewives of the old south. You should. But the patriot, at the same time, youre sitting there and these little freshmen come in, and why are you here, whats your interest . And they saw the film. Part of it is to get people excited about the past even if its not our past, even if its nobodys past, some fantasy past. Vampire past. And this brings us a question of what constitutes a film about slavery . Would you think of ride with the devil as a film about slavery or Cold Mountain . No. There are slaves in those films, but theyre very marginal and theyre thereubidleh almost to establish Cold Mountain had no slaves, no black voices. You see a black woman being drugged, being carried. R t hahp hc nod. And i think that was a subconscious Cold Mountain view of the world. We know theyre there, but this is our film. You even see Nicole Kidman taking refreshments out to the slaves b