It holds a lot of significance in this period of the guilded age and the progressive era. It also happens to be the subject of my new book so ive been living and breathing in this period and in this moment which again i think is very, very significant for 1916 or for the nation, in ways i will try to make clear. So what ill do today is kind of start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916, during this moment, during this sunshine, and then ill spend some time in really three parts talking about why its significant and why its important to American History and our story. But let me begin by kind of framing this story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before, mark twain, of course the famous American Play write and he had many quips during his life, but one of them that he said is the coldest winter i ever spend was a summer in San Francisco. This is one of his jokes. If you have ever been to San Francisco, you know this sometimes to be true
Branches of former representative Mickey Edwards and former chief assistant new york u. S. Attorney andrew mccarthy. They outline the constitutional war powers for each branch of government cover limitations of the power and whether congress should be more involved in the authorization for use of military force. By my clock we are at 12 15. Good afternoon. My name is nick has merit, Deputy Director of the Federalist Societys article i initiative. The initiative is dedicated to the development of a series of rolling practical goals of congress that stemmed directly from poor constitutional principles. Todays luncheon dish is one of the many that the Federalist Society is playing here on capitol hill and across the country. On behalf of the initiative, i want to thank you all for joining us. At the outset, and also like to thank senator ron johnson and his staff were sponsoring the room for todays event. As you may have noticed from your program and from our panel appear, we are playing
The National Book festival Live Saturday starting at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan2s booktv. Next, scientists predict some of the technological and a bimetal changes that may occur over the next century such as Artificial Intelligence, brain augmentation, Climate Change, the future spaceflight at the potential for extraterrestrial life. University of colorado posted this event. Hello. All right, so the first thing ive only done this to my son, i mess it up. You cast or not the queen of technology. You guys have cell phone, turn it off. No cell phones ring, no lights flashing. Here we go. Phones off. You know how i am about phones. All right. He we go. So the topic today is my in the 22nd century, and you know im an engineer. Theres a phone on back to turn off the light or a computer or something. Thank you. When people talk about the future of the 22nd century on sort of like i go into a engineer mode and go well, what are you going to back cosmic rays when you fly to outer space and what
Homeland security, here to talk about federal Disaster Relief in the wake of harvey. Thank you. Remind everyone what the center for health and Homeland Security does. We just celebrated our 15th anniversary, and for those 15 years, we have been an academic consulting operation getting planning advice, training advice to governments, federal, and we are also work with the state department to get that kind of advice to Foreign Countries. We have trained about 40 Foreign Countries in management, and basically our mission is to help governmental and institutions, and large rabbit institutions to prepare for, protect against, and respond to huge catastrophes, such as the one in houston now. Host according to accuweather, it talks about how harvey compares to other Natural Disasters. ,ven before harveys landfall port aransas and port connor in texas had Tropical Storm allison, another major flooding disaster and the report states that the estimates of recovering from harvey could cost more t
The heritage. Org as well as cspan networks. For those inhouse, we would ask that courtesy to know that mobile devices have been turned off. For those watching online, you are welcome to ask questions or comments anytime by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion and welcoming our special guest is david croitzer our legal fellow. Our Senior Research fellow for labor markets and trade. Prior to joining us here at heritage, he taught economics at James Madison university from 1984 to 2007. He also served as director at their International Business program. In 1994, he was a visiting economist at the food and drug administration, and in the early 1980s he was also a visiting economics instructor at ohio university. Please join me in welcoming david coritzer. [applause] i want to welcome all of you here online and watching on television to our event, protecting Public Employees First Amendment rights major cases challenging abood. The way we will work it is i am going