And later, the House Homeland Security committee looks at the use of facial Recognition Technology by government agencies. It is my great pleasure to introduce simone romedo, scompontfosh the New York Times based in albuquerque, new mexico. He was previously the Brazil Bureau chief for the times covering brazil and other parts of south america. He has written extensively on a broad range of issues including brahms political upheaval, river pirates on the amazon rainforest, fargways guerrilla insurgency and shifting politics of antarctica. He was also the New York Times and Denver Bureau chief until 2011 based in caracas, venezuela whereby he covered issues including president hugo chavezs political movement, colombias long internal war and indidgeius politics in bolivia. Please give a warm welcome to mr. Simone romedo. [applause] sara, thank you so much for the very kind introduction. And im just going to move on right now and introduce this wonderful panel that i have the pleasure of
With great personal stories so ive got to think long and hard. The other reason you to think long and hard as you spend so much time doing it. It pulls you away from your family in your day job so you want to choose wisely. Host breaking in is the name of Joan Biskupics is that the rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the politics of justice. Thank you everyone for being here. Welcome to book people. Im steve one of the owners the store and very happy to be here. Im particularly happy to be able to introduce Richard Parker this evening to talk a little bit about his book, lone star nation. Richard in case you guys dont know this is an awardwinning journalist. He has written works that have appeared in the new york times, the new republic and that columbia journalism review many other prominent newspapers and journals across the country. He has written about wars and conflicts in places like mexico our neighbor and iraq, kosovo but now he is come to an even more dangerous place to write and that
Program, the organizers have asked participants to pledge four hours to reading. Throughout the past week booktv asked you on social media what you were planning to read, and heres what you said. On our facebook page, carroll says she just started of by all of james madison. Let us know what youre what you are reading for the National Readathon day on facebook or twitter using hashtag time to read and go to Penguin Random house. Com readathon for more information on how to participate. You are watching booktv. Next, author and journalist Richard Parker reports on the transmission of texas into a Publishing Center and argues the stable have as big an impact on the country in the 21st century as california did in the 20th century. This event is from book people bookstore in austin, texas. Its about 40 minutes. Thank you, everyone for being here. Welcome to book people. Im steve bercu, one of the owners of the store. Im very happy to have you here, and im particularly happy to people intr
Our neighbor, iraqi, close of them, and an even more dangerous place to write texas. So the question, i guess, is tax is texas going to be the california of the 21st century . We will the migration into the state truly transform our state into something that will lead the nation as we go forth into the century . We will texas still be taxes when this is all said and done . Without further ado i would like to present richard to try to talk to you about those issues. [applause] thank you for coming. Special thanks to steve and the crew at book people the worlds greatest bookstore. My publisher in new york pegasus books, and, and a few people here in the audience. One of the people this book is dedicated to a couple of friends we see you as well. Thank you for coming. What what i would like to do is give you an overview of the book and then take a few questions and then read for about ten minutes. I promise i wont inflict 30 minutes of reading any. But the premise of the book is that a gr
Take a look at this. Teenagers trapped on the ice. Clinging to life on the tree. The rescue you need to stick around to watch. Among guests this morning. Former ohio congressman steve la tourette, newly sworn in congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Mike dewine, tim ferriss and steve rinella. I have one word for you. Squirrel. Its true. We have squirrel. Friday, january 4th. Starting point begins right now. Our starting point this morning. In just hours, the brand spanking new 113th congress will vote on a nearly 10 billion aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims. This after the outrage over Speaker Boehner canceling the initial vote early this week. Athena jones live in our washington bureau. Expected to be an easy one today, dana . It looks like it will be passed. About 9. 7 billion in Borrowing Authority for the National Flood insurance program. That program will run out of money as soon as next week. Thats right around the corner, and the house is expected to come in this morning. Past tha