This book, fueling freedom makes the case for using fossil fuels as an energy resource. After that a look at the Energy Crisis that occurred in the 1970s. Meg jacobs writes about it in panic at the pump. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, look under the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who join us ond our heritage. Org web site as well as those joining us on booktv at a future occasion. We would ask everyone inhouse to be courteous and check that your mobile devices have been silenced or turn off as we prepare to begin. K for those on line or in the future you are welcome to send questions or comments to us at any time. Simply email speaker heritage. Org and with coors will post the days program on the heritage homepage for everyone to future reference. Yo we are pleased today to be cohosting this program at their college and allies at the texas public hold the foundation,n, which kathleen is a fellow. Introducing our raymond hosting our guest toda
The Heritage Foundation and our louislerman auditorium. We, of course, welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web site as well as those who will be joining us on booktv at a future occasion. We would ask everyone in house to be courteous and check your mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those online or in the future, youre welcome to send your questions or comments to us at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org, and we, of course, will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference. We are also pleased today to be cohosting this program with our colleagues and allies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation of which kathleen is a fellow. Introducing our program and hosting our guests today is Becky Norton Dunlop. Mrs. Dunlop is the Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation. As a conservative movement leader, she serves as chairman of the conservative action project, leads heritages restore america project
Here at cato. Its my pleasure to welcome you to a book forum today, where well be discussing the latest book from ralph naadir, unstoppable the emerging leftright alliance to dismantle the corporate state. You heard that right. Ralph nader is speaking at the Cato Institute. And that little popping sound you hear is heads exploding all over washington. The same sound you hear when people discover store the third time the Koch Brothers support drug legalization, because when you look at the world through ideological spectacles and see everything in terms of left versus right, the most interesting things in the world become invisible. In particular, if you look back at recent American History, important parts of the story get lost. So when we think back to the 1960s, and opposition to the military draft, we think of this as a heroic leftwing cause. Student cad cals opposing the war and radicals opposing the war conscription. But the other part of the story is that one of the most influent
And she was the one with the picture were soaked with the Russian Foreign minister with the Big Red Button reset and a big smile. Can you imagine such a thing . Did they not understand that people have very different ideas. Let them are putins objective may well be tube rebuild the russian empire but those mistakes combined with some other tactical mistakes in syria for instance to draw a red line and then say gosh i guess i cant react without getting congresses approval but right now hes willing to act in iraq without congresses approval. Nonetheless couldnt do it than in that sends a message to russia and others in the world that is extraordinarily unfortunate for america. We have seen an explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. That is a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities and theres a departmental review that was recently completed report on by commission including president clintons department of
Had a pretty cushy coming in now, life coming up. I didnt know a lot of people who would serve in the military and you talk about the scourge of Sexual Assault in the military you are trying to address, which i think is great. I dont know a lot about the military, so when i hear that senator Barbara Mccaskill added misery seems to have a different approach to your proposed solution, i dont really combat it with a lot of expertise. I was wondering if you could address the contrast. Being that women agree on a lot of things, but we disagree on many things, too. But claire and i agree on a lot more than we disagree. Now we are working hand in glove on the Sexual Assault a College Campus issue. I still think the way the women in the senate work is really special. Women in the senate have a quarterly dinner. Barbara mikulski when she was senator and there was finally too, she said im going to start having a caucus. The two women started having dinner and she kept the tradition up for 20 yea