Him but this is not a book about Court Opinions but about speeches. Why speeches . To as you said his Court Opinions are memorable and im often told by law students and reporters that they went to the prince first for that reason and they were so fully written and evocative and powerful in his speeches have some of the same qualities, really the great qualities that his opinions do you think the advantage of the speeches is that he could let more of his personality shine through one thing. Is a great performer with a little bit of a ham in him and he played mcbeth in High School Production of that play and he was, i think, the president of georgetowns pure club so that the ethical side times through in the speeches and way that it just doesnt in the opinions. Court opinions are necessarily they have to follow certain conventions that are apt to turn off the average person who is not a court follower or law students we wanted a collection that would be of interest to the layman really t
Cool august day, what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august day. And thats really due to the extraordinary lineup of people presenting and talking to you today, im sure, that brings you here. Five years ago, maybe even before, the United Nations with the cooperation, certainly, of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries, but just as well equally and universally to the critical state of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. And out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily. Importantly, voluntarily to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. So were just two years into this, and already theres significant progress to be talking ab
What you think. Our phone lines are open. Host you can catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. Host a very good Tuesday Morning to you. That hobby lobby case is the subject of many articles and editorials and Opinion Pieces in todays papers. Go through a few of them for you this morning. Here is the wall street journal. Contraceptive case skews ideological lines. The lead editorial in the dont openn, pandoras box. Discrimination is likely to extend far beyond simple access to contraception. And usa today, hobby lobby case fuels bigotry. We want to start by reading a bit from an opinion piece from over the weekend on this case from pastor rick warren. His piece appeared in the Washington Post. Does our constitution guarantee the freedom of religion or does it merely allow a more limited freedom to worship . The freedom tove place our beliefs and ethics at the center of our Business Practices or must we ignore them when we form a company . Hobbytcome of sebelius v lobby
International lawyers that know it does have the force of law, but it was a declaration like your declaration of independence. Universal declaration of human rights couldnt be agreed to anymore globally. But at least in america we i think overwhelmingly would say we agree. I agree. With the sentiments of the universal. Do you agree with that . I agree with that. The universal declaration grew out of the second world war, largely out of the holocaust written by a jewish frenchman and it was an amazing accomplishment for which he got the nobel peace prize. There are efforts afoot to try to undo it and to try to undo freedom of speech, free done of religion. Freedom of religion. There are attempts to try to essentially put blasphemy laws back into universal exceptions to free speech and i think the United States government hasnt taken a Strong Enough view against that kind of international encroachment on our particular concept of liberty. Many people think it is too american that we are
I was the one who recommended to the president that we face the shuttle out. I would have recommended we phase it out quickly. We were spending 12 billion over the same time that we have spent 12. 5 billion. Let me interject again. You said you were not going to go over history. You were able to divert from my question to history. If russia cuts us off today because of of vents, what is nasas plan . We engage in Contingency Planning every single day. Refusing at the International Space station is not something i consider feasible because russia is dependent upon the United States to operate the International Space station. Russia has one thing we need access. Back to my question, is it your testimony america has no plan . Fax this is like asteroids. We have a plan. The plan is commercial crew. This nation has no plan. I have looked at your written statement that says basically we are looking at the end of 2017, which is three and a half years away. Is that the plan if russia decides to