Cruise and hell fire missiles. The answer to the question was, dont worry about the center of revolution shifting someplace else because it was never here. Doesnt mean theres no struggle here. This topic has come up a lot in your questions, and this is, can you connect paines radicalism the immediate crisis associated with climated change . A couple of questions related to Climate Change. If we had a sores of Abundant Energy would we have a revolution. Paine believed in like the enlightenment, but he also believed in wholeheartedly in material advancement and material progress. He said the earth is given to us as our inherittans. He broke with jefferson. Jefferson was terrified of the american revolution, paine saw it as a benefit and paine often talked about giving up political activity and designed an iron bridge and he had, like many of the artisan class of the day, deep interest in science. So if we talk about blind spots in paine, that would probably be one. All right. I think the
An hour thanks so much for joining us. These are treasures. We should support them any way we can. No one is getting out of here until every copy is sold. Founding rivals, James Madison versus james monroe, the bill of rights in that saved a nation. For those of you who showed up of ee the lead guitarist kiss, i regret to inform you that that was last night. As important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first i learned about this historic congressional race president s inture 1789. What i do remember is reading about it in a book and it was the typical one twor sentences that you would see about this congressional race. Way to ought to myself, bury the lead. All of a sudden, were in this race between two future James Madison, james monroe. Theyre debating the most aboutant issues we talked as a country, whether we should have a bill of rights, what kind have. On we should all of a sudden, youre in the next page and youre in the First Congress. Said way
Majority leader, the functional equivalent on the senate side. The speaker of the house is written in the constitution. No mention of a majority or minority leader. Thats because the constitution did not anticipate political parties. Parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate from 1839 to 1914. There were chairman of committees who would take care of things and the chairman of the Party Conferences that open up and close things the way they do today. But nobody sitting down there trying to organize what happened on the floor on a daily basis. That changed in 1913 when Woodrow Wilson was elected president. Former president to prince ton university. A phd. In history and political science. He had written his doctoral information about congress. He had strong ideas about how congress was to operate and the vicious legislative agenda. He prevailed on the democrat kraatzes. He had come in the majority to pick one of their senators to be a leader, the person who could ta
Rivals and explains why the bill of rights was a source of controversy between James Madison and james monroe. A Central Campaign issue when the two future president s faced off in a race for a congressional seat in 1789. This event was recorded in november, 2011 at the changing hands bookstore. Its about an hour. Thanks to our gracious hosts changing hands. Independent bookstores are a treasure. No one is getting out of here tonight until every copy over there is sold. So our book is founding rivals James Madison versus james monroe, the bill of rights in saving the nation. For thoseoff who showed up to see the lead guitarist of kiss, i regret to inform you, that was last night. As important as this project has become to my life, i can scarcely remember the first time i learned about the historic congressional race between two future president s in 1789. But what i do remember is reading about it in a book and it was treated with the one or two sentences you will see about this congre
And thats an understandable perspective if youre looking ahead sixth months. This is not the time to drop the strategic agenda. We should be thinking about what will happen when we come out of the cycle. Right now with things like low Interest Rates a light jpgs competitive advantage, this is the critical time to act. There are a lot of suggestions in the book, probably hundreds of them but i pulled ten that are still relevant right now that i think we ought to think about. We had to take care of business at home before we take care abroad. But there are five steps domestically that remain important. The first is investing in infrastructure. This is really the time as were building our economy where were investing in a smarter grid, or a safer grid, but also building out the Energy Transportation system for the country. We have great production and its not close to the command centers. We need a system of pipelines to move product to the southeast move oil east to west. And along with