About taking care of myself to expand railroad horizons but the one book that totally changed my way of thinking of myself. Hello everyone. Thank you for being here today for this lunch. I am a senior fellow here at the Manhattan Institute. Our speaker today is the founder and editor of National Affairs magazine. Its a real privilege for me to introduce him today. He is and ask standing mentor role model to younger scholars such as myself and really all you need to know about him is that he has the wisdom not to use twitter. I should probably say more about him than he doesnt tweet so, more relevant today, he is better than anyone in america at defining what conservatism means, showing its relevance to modern society and applying its principles to the challenges of today. Now he has written a book doing just that, the fractured republic renewing americas social contract and the age of individualism. I think this book is an extraordinary accomplishment just as a diagnosis of our society
Up to this point. After the gains we saw here, gains in oil prices, this morning the dax is up by 0. 8 . The cac and ftse 100 up by better than 1. 1 . Italian market, spain market, gains across the board better than 1 . Lets check out currencies right now. You can see the dollar is up across the board. Euro at 112. 11. Dollar yen at 101. 40. All of this is because of what we saw with oil prices. That is the big story were watching now. Watching it quite closely. Prices spiked yesterday on word that opec agreed to limit production, meaning the cartel would cut for the First Time Since the financial crisis. Today traders are focusing on the lack of detail, thats putting pressure on prices. Goldman sachs saying the opec deal should add 7 to 10 to oil prices the first half of next year but longer term the firm is skeptical. The analyst says if this proposed cut is strictly enforced and supports prices they would expect it to prove selfdefeating medium term with a large drilling response ar
Larry, just kind of disappears into the night. Welcome to the nightly show. Im larry wilmore. Cosmo c. E. O. Joanna coles joins us tonight. cheers and applause very excited about that. Well, the latest news in the circus that is the republican nomination for president is that there may not be a clear winner, and this fight might go all the way to the convention. Trump has not yet sealed the republican nomination, raising the spector of a brokered convention. Brokered convention. , yes. Larry not to be confused with a broker convention, when a bunch of Real Estate Agents go buck wild at a duluth doubletree. Do not get that confused, you guys. But what is a brokered convention . Heres rapper 2 chainz to help us understand in another installment of 2 chainz explainz. hiphop sting and singing 2 chainz explainz. Hi, im 2 chainz. A brokered Convention Goes down when no single candidate has the 1237 delegates needed to win the republican nomination. Now, if this happens, the Convention Goes h
Wouldnt pick him because hes too moderate, and back in 2010, hatch called garland a consensus nominee. Well, g. O. P. , obama picked the moderate, so does that mean Senate Majority leader and oldage mutant ninja turtle Mitch Mcconnell will relent in his blockade against an obama nominee . No, it does not. According to his spokesperson, mcconnell called garland today to let him know, since the senate will not be acting on this nomination, he would not be holding a perfunctory meeting, but me but he wished judge garland well. Larry called him . Mcconnell broke up with him over the phone . as mcconnell hi, ms. Garland. Uh, is merrick home . Hey, merrick. This is mitch. Hows it going . Yeah, me, too. Look, i dont think ill be able to see ya. Well, i just got out of a long relationship with another justice. Yeah, i do think it was murder. No, they never found the pillow. Look, merrick, its not you. Its me. Im just kind of a petty asshole. Gotta go cheers and applause okay, congress, can i t
Been in the genes or something because you look at the travel that Teddy Roosevelt did in the amazon area, that trip i believe believe almost killed him didnt it . Heres an interesting fact for you to remember, theater roosevelt would get terribly seasick. He would vomit if he got on water. He had a bad stomach. He liked seen ahead of him, his favorite landscapes were flatland and prairie, now not only is expresident did he go to the amazon and do this incredible journey and he went to africa and spent a year recording Natural History of africa, i do not know if you realize that he came to your state and lived for a while in arizona hiking through the grand canyon he had saved. He then went and lived with native americas and wrote an article, he participated in a rattlesnake handling ceremony on his way from arizona into utah to see rainbow bridge. That is how committed he was, as x the president he wrote a very distinguished scientific piece on the tortoises of florida. Franklin roose