Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
To this lecture. This is the fifth annual occasion on which we have had this lecture. The Heritage Foundation vision is to build an america where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and Civil Society flourished. To help achieve this vision, the center launched the preserve the constitution series, which is an annual lecture series to inform and inform citizens on topics related to this constitution. The series promotes the protection of individual liberties, property rights, free enterprise, constitutional limits on government. Weve been able to feature some of the nations most respected judges, legal scholars, lawyers, and policy analysts. The marquee event is tonights program. The namesake of tonights lecturer became the youngest associate justice ever to serve on United States Supreme Court when he was appointed by president madison in 1812. He made a significant mark on american law in his 33 years on the bench, but his greatest contribution is is renowned commentaries on the constit
On for 42 years. I do not know any other war we would tolerate going on for so long that we will losing in spending so much money on. As a people, we are a civilization that believes he should not do things that are bad for you and that for society. That was a big motivation behind prohibition as well. This matter of what you believe is more important what you can accomplish. How you translate that into the language of political philosophy, i am not sure. But i think it is an area an important area of pursuit. None of these are efforts to legislate morality. They are efforts to legislate against human desire. Back cannot work. I am a student at George Washington university. There is a large push from the and the price of a community about legalization of marijuana. From the undergraduate timidity about legislation and marijuana. Could this lead to a nationwide Reform Movement . It is different. I presume the undergraduate movement at gwi is people who want to get something. Temperance
Inability to get tested or the inability of a Family Member or acquaintance of yours to get tested, its an understandable frustration. There are literally still Frontline Health care workers who have been seeing coronavirus patients in places like new york city who cant get themselves tested. Its just nuts. But today at a white house meeting with Oil Executives, the president blurted out, you know what . I like it. Lets test these guys. If anybody wants to be tested, well test them. And today at the white house, all those Oil Executives there to meet with the president got tested. Congratulations, gentlemen. Youre lucky guys. 305 people died of coronavirus in new york city in the past 24 hours, which means in americas largest city today, one person died from coronavirus every 4. 7 minutes. There are nearly 12,000 people hospitalized in new york city now, and we have been watching how that number has risen over the past two weeks. And how did people get to those hospitals . How do those