Read from the ancient and sacred scroll of ester. It is in the scroll we read at first of a certain darkness, a darkness which would come to envelope the entire nation over which ester would reign as queen. It was queen ester who became frightened when the plan revealing a plot to erase the sacred remnants of her people, along with the fundamental teachings of her faith came to light. And yet, it was ester who, when confronted by the impending darkness, was able to bring the plot to an end, allowing her people to emerge from the shadow of this horror and live freely, without fear, celebrating life itself in the light of their new found freedom. And now, standing here today before you on the eve of the festival, we too ask that you remember us for life, instilling within us a greater love of freedom seeking both peace and prosperity for all the inhabitants of this great nation. And yet, dear lord, we would be remiss if we were not to remember those who have sacrificed much, those who ha
Mr. Roskam good afternoon. On behalf of our president , jim to the Heritage Foundation. It is my pleasure to introduce o you our guest today, congressman peter roskam. Congressman roskam is serving in representing illinoiss sixth congressional district. He is a graduate of the illinois and earned a law degree from the Chicago Kent College of law at Illinois Institute of technology. The congressman is a member of the house weighs and means serves as here he chairman of the panel subcommittee on tax policy. Fortunate to have the congressman with us today, because in this role, he will no doubt be playing an important in the effort to develop, debate, and pass fundamental tax reforms. Remarks today, congressman roskam will discuss three main goals that should work in the 115th congress. That is reform should field job creation and deliver opportunity americans. It should simplify the tax code in order to make it fair and finally, ensome, and reform should refocus the Internal Revenue serv
The coverage of the president ial election has been highly controversial. You can call in with your thoughts on how the media has done. Democrats your number is 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. 2027488002. Share your thoughts on social media. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Many news outlets were consistently wrong in the prediction of who would win the president ial election and that erode american state and the Mainstream Media, a poll done in september before the election, Americans Trust in mass media sinks to a is the headline for this poll. 1997, 53 of americans said they had a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media. That number is down to 32 of americans who have either a great deal of faith or a fair amount of faith in the mess media. That is in 2016. Andwitter, the founder president of the Media Research center and also publisher of news busters and cns news. Com put out this statement he said this is why the pundits got it wrong, they believe the
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And heres a look at whats on prime time tonight. We kick off the evening at seven eastern with jeremy mccarter, coauthor of hamilton the revolution. At 8 p. M. , sean wilentz talks about the need for Political Party ands partisanship. At 9 15 eastern, fox news eric bolling weighs in on the virtues that define the United States. And at ten on after words, Karen Greenberg takes a critical look at laws enacted to combat terrorism. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. K tv on welcome to the 3 2nd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you to all our sponsors. The theme of this this years festival is whats your story, and we encourage you to share the stories you hear this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using hashtag prlf16. You can keep the spirit of lit fest going all year by downloading the printers row app where youll find all of the Chicago Tribunes premium books content, free and discounted ebooks for subscribers and the complete