Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
Im the guy you had to put up with during the first panel. Fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars on the first panel. Once again we have Miller Center people here and the Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is the focus on studying the presidency in depth, historical depth, with objectivity. In other words were all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis as pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. We all strive to be as objective as we can but the job of the editorial cartoonist and pat as well as anybody has ever done it to provide comment, opinion. To provoke discussion as opposed to perhaps settle a discussion. The panel today will cover the president s from george bush. I dont use the h. W. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams di
On which he was able to bestow his gifts by commenting originally and his words on those president s. Im mike nelson. Im the guy you had to put up with during the first panel. Fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars that were on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here, and the Miller Center. One of the main emphasis is to study the presidency in depth, historical depth with objectivity. In other words, were all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis as oliphant did as a cartoonist and whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can and the job of the editorial cartoonists and pat oliphant as well as anyone has done it to provide comment, to provide opinion and to provide something to provoke discussion rather than perhaps aspire to settle discussion. The panel today, this afternoon that w
Those president s. Im mike nelson. Im the guy that you had to put up with the first panel. Fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices that you heard from the scholars of the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center and one of the main emphases is to study the presidency in historical depths with objectivity and in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, and that is reacting to events on the daytoday basis as pat oliphant did in his 60plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat oliphant as well as anybody has done it is to provide the comment, and to provide opinion and provoke discussion as opposed to aspire to settle the discussion. This panel today is going to cover the president s from george bush and i dont use the h. W. , but he was
Organization working with young elected officials to bridge the political divides in our country and to enact systemic reforms to make our democracy function better. Today, weve got an amazing discussion lined up for all of you with two of the leading political commentators in our country, so lets bring them out. First of all, we have writer, commentator, and author of 13 New York Times best sellers, ann coulter, give her a round of applause. [applause] do i go there . Right in the middle. Ann thank you. And another writer and commentator and writer at the atlantic, give a big round of applause for david fromm. All right. All right. How are we feeling . Great, so good to be here. Excellent. Well, i commented that both of you are authors and david in the past, youve actually commented about anns book on immigration, that it was perhaps one of the most politically influential books in our country around the issue of immigration. So let me start with you, david. Why did you make that comm