Kirk would talks about the spengler farm during the battle of gettysburg which was used as a union Army Headquarters and artillery reserve and field hospital. Oday we have today would. E have ron kirk had tired after a 40 year career as an editor in the newspaper and magazine industry. His publications include usa today, the baltimore sun, the harrisburg patriot news in the new york daily record. He managed the copy desk and harrisburg when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Ron is a native of michigan, graduate of Central Michigan university, and has returned as part of theker as hearst visiting professional series. Ron lives in york, pennsylvania and has been at Gettysburg Foundation guide since 2013. Youuld like to present to ron kirkwood. [applause] mr. Kirkwood thank you. Ok, we are good. Tammy, thank you. Thank you all for coming. Thegue in my book that george and Elizabeth Spangler farm is the most important farm in the battle of gettysburg. Im going to address that first
Of the law and we will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of the past term. The most important cases such as the census citizenship case and the political gerrymandering case and if you missed opportunities like the cases involving the nondelegation doctrine and deference to a ministry of agencies. Enough from me. We are fortunate to have with us today four distinguished panelists. And if i devoted the time there many achievements and positions deserved that would easily take about 90 minutes here. So i will keep their introductions extremely leave. Professor at Amherst College and founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on National Rights and the american founding. He has authored many books on politics, political philosophy and jurisprudence and his articles have appeared in professional journals as well as popular outlets including the wall street journal and national review. The henryan is salvatori professor of law and director of the ce
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Department in san francisco. It is just over one hour. I just want to set the scene for our event today. They are going to be talking to us about the administrative bloat and running universities, the deepening ideological skew as faculties aggravating the problem of campus conformity, University Enrollment is already starting to decline because of demographic reasons, and of course, the issue of the Oberlin College dispute where the bakery was awarded 44 Million Dollars in damages, which was a very exciting thing and the people at Oberlin College are beside themselves. Charles cousin went to oberlin and it turned her into a marxist communist. Im not a big fan of oberlin. Steve hayward is the senior resident fellow of the institute of Governmental Affairs at uc berkeley and a visiting lecturer at the Uc Berkeley Law School and of course a senior fellow at pri. I heard steve back in december 1991. He was our second hire. Steve has been affiliated with us for a very long time. He was a R
Have stuck around because they know its a new day. We have some amazing current priorities and staffing, some hiring plans and what is on their desk. And what we can expect in the year in two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business and selfemployed division of paris based in washington d. C. To my left come immediate left is don fort chief criminal Investigation Division ira sent to my far left is nina olson tax tier National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios or on line and if you want to review them they are amazing. They have done tremendous work on behalf of the taxpayers of this country and its going to be really great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs and their divisions and then we are going to go into some q a and certainly opened up to the audience for any questions that you might have. Marybeth, can you kick us off . I want to thank the ada for inviting