rural omaha. when i was a kid, everybody in my town got buffed out in the summer to walk beings. how many people know what that is? how many people know what detas sling corn is? i will not explain, i am not a geneticist nor biologically equipped to explain how is advanced.ation i was on twitter trying to explain what detassling corn was and how you end up with mixtures of seed corn. i referred to corn as as bisexual and i set off a debate on twitter. i will not explain in technical terms what it means to be that corn needs to be detassled, what but you want cross pollinated corn so you predesignated male and female roles. rows. a lot of kids in the eastern part of the state have been shipped out to the fields in the work. fields in the summer to detassle corn and it is ugly and painful work. you meet up at the local junior high or the local elementary out toand get bussed wherever you are going to go. you are taking the corn that has male and female parts and you are
supported us too, but i think the lesson from that is we have got to ratchet that down somehow and i know that is a constitutional problem and the court also have to test that again. we have gone way too far on having political money raising as a free speech issue. i don t think it really is the way it has morphed into the way it is now. it takes the candidates out of the game in many respects and gives the ball to these outside groups. in terms of the day-to-day operations and your job, as you leave, what would be your suggestion for how to change the process here on capitol hill? rep. ashford: well, you know, it is i come from a nonpartisan state. we don t do this. it is so different. we don t have we don t really have a rules committee in the traditional sense in the congress. bills come out of committee and move to the floor. i know that can be done in the congress. it is not done now. i think a much more free flowing processing of legislation is the best way to go.
we are all frightened for our children. we are disgusted by this orgy of handgun slaughter. your neighbors in ohio, california and wisconsin, and all over america, your neighbors are just like my neighbors. they want the killing to end they wanted now to end and they are watching what we do here today. it is said by my opponents, the opponents of this bill, guns do not kill, people do. people have bad instinct in them, but without guns, those instincts often do not result in killing. with guns, those instincts all too often do. the people of america know there are no magic pills to end the violence, but they also have the good common sense to know that waiting periods work and they want the simple, common sense restraint of the brady bill. bill: what did you hear there from the 1993 clip in terms of his leadership on an issue like gun control and obviously his developing oratory style? mr. kane: that is the chuck schumer, the man of the house, and back then, he was really pre
1946: triumph and tragedy. robert citino: this session is entitled america: democracy s bastion. we have three fine scholars who will give presentations. for my immediate right, james t. sparrow is an associate professor of history at the university of chicago, the author of the age of big government which received an honorable mention in 2012. he is currently working on a sequel to his book. moving to his right, allida black is research professor of history and international affairs at the george washington university. the founding editor of the eleanor roosevelt papers project which highlights the former first lady s writings and pronouncements on human rights and democracy. she is a widely published author , including casting her own shadow, eleanor roosevelt. extensivelyd reedited edition of tomorrow is now. eleanor roosevelt own book. she has worked on human rights education in numerous countries especially in post-conflict societies. i think the number i heard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if my memory serves me correctly, once the new relief agency started, foye which i believe there was definitely a need, the voluntary giving to the red cross plum netted. hoover was worried about the long-term implications of turning away from volunteer, self-help, community organizations, helping your neighbors and being your brother s keeper. he was worried if it all just became subsumed or replaced by deps upon a bureaucratic regime. those are some of the ways that it affected his response to the flood and later the depression. i m not a historian. i was born in 1948, the middle of the 20th century. some of us think, and i didn t think much about world war i. could this period of time be another 100 year period where we will go through more turmoil and 100 years from now, they ll be looking back at this time period in not exactly the same way but in a somewhat similar way