Of the california ballot in next years general election. George wallace made his first run in National Politics in 1964 where he enters a few key primaries and does well there. His first Major National run comes in 1968. Where he has set himself up through these public appearances that he makes during the desegregation of aids and during the standin schoolhouse. He sets himself up to be his voice and standing against all of these changes that the federal government is making. He takes what hes been making and he broadens it for a national audience. And thats a debate that really resonates with a lot of pop feeling their concerns have not been heard and feeling they are living in a know, the federal government is moving too fast with their decisions and feel like their voices arent being heard. So George Wallace, in 1968, sets himself up as a very successful candidate for president. He wins five southern states, and receives over 10 million votes. So he really speaks to a minority that
That groups of jurors often appears much higher awards than the average or middle member. So jurys got more punitive with the individuals and also measured how bad they thought the conduct was on a numerical scale and is the average individual was a five in the jury would be a six sum outrage people got more of rage those who want to punish corporations with a 100,000 reward after they talked they moved up 200,000 or 1 million. That is astounding day end up much more outraged than the individuals. That is something to learn about jury behavior. This is fascinating. What is happening is if you are outraged to hear that the court the correlation is terrible the number of arguments they will hear to suggest that it should be lower would be relatively low. So if you are outraged about United States the you think is hardly you or what General Motors is on the president s opponents. If the group is inclined to think that that will push is that way and i have seen the tapes watching it in rea
We are sitting back and watching this happen. We have to kill them. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Michael sherman is discussing how science influences the way he think about human rights democracy, freedom, education and prosperity. This program is next on booktv. Welcome to the the Cato Institute. It is my honor to introduce and moderate this program. We hear a lot these days for the past few decades, about moral decline in america or the world, and covers a lot of different eras. Not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public mortally. Bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. Lots of radio talk shows have it as a common theme. Most days there is an opted in the Washington Times decrying moral decline in america. And indeed i saw as a poll that said three quarters of americans think we are in a period of moral decline. So it seems pretty con advance advance convincing but there is an arm fe
Lewis discuss the life and legacy of wallace. They look at whether political concerns or racism motivated wallace to oppose integration. This event took place at the Birmingham Public Library in birmingham, alabama. Its about 90 minutes. In birmingham, they love the governor. This line from Lynyrd Skynyrds 1974 song sweet home alabama may be one of the most debated lines from one of the most debated songs in american music. George wallace was so taken with the song when he first heard it that he planned to issue a special gubernatorial citation to lynyrd skynyrd. But then one of the governors aides suggest he listen more closely to the line that follows in birmingham they love the governor. The next line anybody remember . Boo, boo, boo. Sung by a group of female africanamerican backup singers. Including, by the way, the great mary clayton who originated the role of the acid queen in the wh whos tommy. That has nothing to do with what were talking about tonight. I just think thats a co
Futures reacted with a 57 dollar surge. Oil pushed higher by 2. 76 oracle gives a week outlook in its earnngs report. The Software Stock fell 3 after the close on the disspointing forecast. Dow jones reports blackberry is going deep by preparing to cut 40 of its staff by the end of the year. The company says and priceline hits 1,000 during yesterdays trading session. The stock closed at 995. Todd horwitz of average joe options joins us on the show now. Todd, we had a taper escaper. What do you expect from the market today . Good morning angie. I wonder what happened to the transparency in the market. We were supposed to have a transparent fed, we were supposed to start tapering. Yesterday they decided they didnt want to so they kinda sandbagged the market. I think were very near top. This bubblewhich ivve been on record beforethis is one of the bigger bubbles and its starting to remind me of Lehman Brothers and bear stearns back in 08. So, i look for the action to wane and look for som