Great pleasure for me at the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to this afternoons event to celebrate the publication of the new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of blue collar conservativism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aeis election watch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006, and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. People with a technical, vocational or Community College education. This group was large, about a third of voters, and had near perfect track record of voting for the winner in president ial elections. This looselydefined group, roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in our politics. In the book henry shows how reagans preferences matched those of working class americans, transcending left and
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. You can watch this and of the programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everyone. Im Karlyn Bowman and it is a great pleasure for me and my cohost today bill galston of the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to the sentiments event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of bluecollar conservatism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, four aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aei selection. Henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. People with the technical vocational or Community College education this group was large, about onethird of voters and had a nearperfect track record of voting for the winter in president ial elections. This loosely defined group, roughly synonymous with the
Ive treated 15 cases of severe radiation burns seven thoracic perforation traumas caused by shrapnel and 23 decompressionrelated injuries. All what youd expect following an explosion on a starship. Sisko any idea what caused the explosion . The radiation burns were the result of exposure to gamma rays. My guess is they were hit by a photon torpedo. A torpedo . From the fracture pattern of the damage id Say Something exploded about ten kilometers off their port quarter. Ant didnt pick up any in the vicinity. And thedrovana was cloaked. Even klingon torpedoes cant track vessels operating under cloak. Worf mines. They hit a mine. Thats why there werent any ion trails. Cloaked mines cant be detected by any known sensor array. There have been a dozen ships in that system since the explosion. Why havent they struck any mines . The type of mine used by the klingons by a coded subspace signal. So, the mine that damaged thedrovana must have malfunctioned or been set off prematurely. If were rig
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Hey, yall. Have i got news for you. Guess what. Willona, shh, shh. Thelmas still writing. Okay, listen, but youve got to hear this my daughter, penny, has been selected to play in the easter pageant. Hey, congratulations, penny. Very happy to hear that. And not only that. The costume will be styled and designed by the one and only, her mother, the stars mother. Whoo what part are you playing, penny . Im a tree. I wanted to be a bunny, but they ran out of ears. Oh, a tree, huh . So now, when you trace your roots, all youve got to do is take off your shoes. Oh, come on. Please be quiet. Come on, j. J. , now. I have to finish this one part. Its the most important part in the whole play. Its where the heroine talks about her dream. You know, its and i cant even hear myself think, with the gong show going on in here. Thelma, honey, dont you think youre going a little bit overboard . After all, youve just been writing a very short time. Willona, i have been writing for at least a dozen years