I view today a political system to groups basically the same the same side of the coin. I think we would be better to invest ourselves and invest ourselves of all Political Parties in the united states. I dont elect someone for their views. I dont think they represent me. Nobody in the state of oregon represents me. They represent themselves. I think theres a level of frustration there. Ultimately i disagree. There can be differences in society about how to perceive and govern ourselves. And we have to ask ourselves how do we make decisions. What we head in our country is a system for legitimate sizing those kind of decisionmaking. Allowing people of different views to be heard and for allowing the views of the majority to ultimately be advanced. Is the purpose of the system and very often that is what the system achieves. I think there are going to be contradictions and paradoxes and problems that dont go away and that we cant fully resolve can mitigate them and try to address them we
10 to 20 through our day. Were looking at 67 San Francisco, 73 in oakland and mild around the bay, warming up inland to 81 in san jose and 88 for fairfield. We will talk about the ridge of High Pressure building in and the temperatures on the rise coming up. Back to you. Two the fireworks, they have doubled in size in just 24 hours. It is 20 contained. We are live near gilroy with the firefight still underway. Reporter good morning, we are seeing the day shift arrived and these crews are coming off the line and they are switching over with the guys to get relief on the very busy firefighting effort that is happening in the hills near the area. We are here at Christmas Hill park. The internet over to cal fire and they have taken it over and the size of the operation gives you some sense of the scale of the effort that is going on to battle the crews fire it will get back for day three. We have 5400 acres burned and 20 cod ructure destroyed. One structure was damaged and 30 structures ar
You look at the old and the new testament there is a consistent and clear teaching the we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion, to defend our rights within that government which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights, freedom of speech, to assembly, freedom of religion, all those things that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. In the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and prolife and profamily and faithful roman catholics to back trump in 2016 and today my argument in the book is if you look at where he stands on the issues that they would define as moral issues central to their faith, issues like the right to life, the right to religious freedom, defense of the state of israel, moving the court in the direction of respect for the constitution and the bill of rights is not legislating from the bench, treating the courts as a legisla
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Tension is running high in the democratic republic of congo protesters denounce the nomination of a controversial they got to head the Election Commission so how will this impact the Ruling Coalition and can any full out be contained this is inside story. And welcome to the program im laura kyle the democratic republic of congo is braced for more violence after several people were killed in protests across the country on thursday thousands of protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to march against the nomination of a new election administrator. They accuse melinda of rigging previous polls in favor of the former president Joseph Kabila who stepped down last year after 18 years in office well bring our guests in just a moment but 1st this report from catherine soy whos following developments from kenya. This shooting started as supporters of president kennedys union for democracy and social Congress Party on my. In Kinshasa Police fired tear gas and bullets to disperse demonstrato