Colonist, contributor to the wall street journal at the manhattan institute, fox newsey contributor among your books i want to begin where your book concludes because you say the following quote, liberalism as succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Yes, i believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually. They have been added for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success in painting blacks as primarily f victims ad as defined by their demise asian first and foremost and then thei followup of course is that we have a Government Program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood so its a political strategy. Your book writes about this and they have been a number of essays in Lyndon Johnson in the Great Society and wasnt a failure or success . I think if you look at the actual track record of the program and if you look at the goals that the objectives that were stated at the time you would hav
Hello my name is the director of the wisconsin festival thank you for being here. I believe this is the seventh event and also the 30th of 32 events just today in the third day of this book festival. Thank you so much. I have seen many of you all day. [applause]. I could not be more pleased to be introducing megan phelpsroper. With her book unfollow. Were talking about her life and doubt and how you decide to leave or stay in how you defend yourself in this context is one of those conversations with religion that you need to be having so much more as a culture. I think it opens up so many doors for people and making herself a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist church in november of 2012. And she knows about communication across ideological lines. At the age of five, eggen began protesting homosexuality alongside fellow members of the Baptist Church in topeka, kansas in this church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. The t
It has now been four days since Paycheck Protection Program ran out of money. Republicans of been trying to secure more money for this Critical Program for a week and a half now. At this hour our democratic colleagues are still prolonging their discussion with the administration so the senate regretfully will not be able to pass more money for american paychecks today. However, since this is so urgent, ive asked that the senate meet again tomorrow and a new session that was not previously scheduled and the democratic leader has agreed to my requests. Colleagues, its past time, past time, to get this done for the country. [inaudible] so i ask unanimous consent. If i made this senator desires to speak for a few minutes. Yes. Mr. President , thank you i appreciate the opportunity. The senator from washington is recognized. Thank you, mr. President. I am here this afternoon to speak about the critical aspects of the paycheck act as it relates to businesses. Particularly in the newspaper an
We have fox Business Team coverage. Phil flynn is at the cme. Edward lawrence is on capitol hill, blake burman is live at the white house but first, lets go to Kristina Partsinevelos on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Do we have kristina . Kristina Circuit Breaker halted all markets for 15 minutes. The new york fed came out injecting 1. 5 trillion today and tomorrow in the repurchasing market. A lot of movement. Yet we still finished the day down, almost 10 lower at the dow, 2321 points. S p almost 10 as well. 9. 5 lower. Same thing for the nasdaq. Complete negative territory. You guys talked about it, this is a historical day, the biggest drop since the crash in 1987. I was only two years old at that point. Look at dow losers for the day. The dow has been down the entire day. Boeing, boeing taking a major beating. The stock was halted earlier today. Walt disney on there, ibm, american express. I want to switch over to travel stocks weve been paying attention to today, more s
Requested. The ship be delayed to provide ample time for the cdc, the coast guard and the state to conduct tests the tests will then be sent quickly to a lab in richmond that should have the results within a few hours. So were holding that ship which is thousands of passengers as well. Off the coast and will be conducting those tests getting those test results back. In the meantime people will not be allowed to leave the ship and go on shore until their assessment is complete nervous moments for some people who work in a high rise building in downtown San Francisco. This after 2 employees were sent home because of concern they were exposed to someone infected with coronavirus force as madyun shows you where it happened. As each day passes, it seems theres another report of someone having the coronavirus here the bay area. So with people who work in the one sense of Street Building in downtown San Francisco received an email informing them that 2 employees who work on the 23th floor was