President to learn more about president and order your copy today wherever books and ebooksare sold. Now on book tv like to highlight them programs from our archives political satirist p. J. Orourke. Over the past 20 years hes appeared on tv posted 20 times. First up in 2007 when our monthly call in program in that. He discussed his politics, writing and why uses humor to address political andsocial issues. This picture on the left, is that a real picture mark. Oh yeah. Not only area that was i would guess 71. Not quite positive. Floor your politics in 1971. I think a martian left. That would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or a trotskyite or anything like that. And the transformation of her it was gradual. The place and back i do about this. There is a book coming out from the huber institution. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got
What were your politics in 1971 . I think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger, but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or a trotskyite or anything. When did the transformation occur . It was gradual. I just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the huber institution is backing this. Edited by Mary Eberstadt called why i turned right and its the story of a bunch of us and why we became right and it is a long story and i wont tell it but ill give the shortversion. I was a radical leftist. Very much in favor of some sort of marcus socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got a job paying hundred 50 a week. I was a messenger in new york , hundred 50 in new york a week was a lot of money as far as i wasconcerned, i was on the Lower East Side and i was very broke. We got paid every two weeks and i was lookingforward to that 300 bucks. And so was my landlord i may say. And my drug dealer. And a number of other people and i go
1971 . I think that a martian left would would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or anything like that. When did the transformation occur . Well, it was gradual. It took place over in fact, i just wrote about it. Theres a book coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this, why i turned right and its the story of a bunch of us and why we became right. It actually is a long story and i wont tell it. Ly give the short version. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got a job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york. 150 was a lot of money as far as i was concerned. I was living in the lowers east side and i was broke. We got paid every two weeks. I was looking forward to that 300 bucks and so was my landlord, i might say and my drug dealer and a number of other people. And i got my first paycheck and i netted out at 178 or Some
Civilian was killed. As the nhs braces itself for the new year period its often its busiest time a pioneering scheme in wales is aiming to take the pressure off hospitals and doctors surgeries. Five members of the Welsh Ambulance service have graduated to become the uks first prescribing paramedics and the team can be deployed across the nhs. Our Health Editor hugh pym has been on the road with some of them. It enhances the role greatly and it makes our role a lot more flexible. Patients dont always phone 999 because they think they have a life threatening emergency. So we probably see on average 19 or 20 patients a day and deal with them and the gp will have time for those more complex patients. We can speak to them and say rather than put them in the back of the ambulance and take them, how about we get one of our cars to attend . Mike is one of a new breed of prescribing paramedics, one of the first five. Theirjob, where possible, is to keep people out of hospital. Here, hes called