Hello and welcome to the arterton foundation. I am andrew parks the assistant director. Thank you all for joining us today at the Louis Lehrman auditorium. I just want to take the opportunity to remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching on line, you are broken to submit questions via email link speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke. She researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at Heritage Foundation but she focuses on reducing and empowering families with School Choice. With that, Lindsey Burke. Thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. We are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. She doesnt mince words at all. She wrote failure the federal miseducation of americas children and she argued
David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence your cell phones. For anyone watching on line, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke, the wills gellman fellow here at the heritage foundation. She focus on empowering families with School Choice. With that, ill hand it every to lindsey. Thank you, andrew, and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching online a
Facebook or google or twit sir a right approach. Theres a different world with social media than traditional broadcast media an editor publisher, affirmatively publishes something. This is not the same thing. This is a selfpublishing application somebody can put something on. Millions of users. It doesnt make sense for these companies to have to monitor all the different statements. On the other hand, were seeing it all over the place. There are a lot of copycats now putting this stuff up on the media. Its so obvious in some cases. Shouldnt instagram or facebook or whomever monitor things more closely . I think they should. They bear a responsibility. This guy posted hash tag shoot the police. Posted pictures of a hot gun and bloodstained pants. Shot his exgirlfriend before he went to new york in respect was time there that if instagram was more vigilant we could have two police home with their families this holiday and the shooter himself alive as well. Clear he was mentally ill, and
Facebook or google or twit sir a right approach. Theres a different world with social media than traditional broadcast media an editor publisher, affirmatively publishes something. This is not the same thing. This is a selfpublishing application somebody can put something on. Millions of users. It doesnt make sense for these companies to have to monitor all the different statements. On the other hand, were seeing it all over the place. There are a lot of copycats now putting this stuff up on the media. Its so obvious in some cases. Shouldnt instagram or facebook or whomever monitor things more closely . I think they should. They bear a responsibility. This guy posted hash tag shoot the police. Posted pictures of a hot gun and bloodstained pants. Shot his exgirlfriend before he went to new york in respect was time there that if instagram was more vigilant we could have two police home with their families this holiday and the shooter himself alive as well. Clear he was mentally ill, and
Nick this is an unmitigated disaster, will set the stage for a Nuclear Holocaust in the middle east egypt, saudi arabia and turkey have indicated theyre going to go with their own Nuclear Programs. Its very simple either you have a Nuclear Program or you dont. The iranians have trk theyre going to continue with it. One detail we know, not one Nuclear Facility has to be closed down and they can enrich uranium until their heart is content. This is bad all around. Bruce i know the old phrase trust and verify that was a reagan phrase when dealing with the soviets, look at what past inspectors have said about their attempts to get iranians to open up their doors. Were still not in a position to conclude that all Nuclear Material in iran is in a peaceful purpose another one, Nuclear Material declared by iran was not being diverted for peaceful purposes. That was in 2014. Does it make sense to lift sanctions against iran before it satisfies the inspectors is this and theres some question abou