So, hello, everyone, and welcome to fields farm on such a snowy sunday. But were here to welcome to all of you and welcome to senator harris for coming. We really appreciate this. Im nancy and i am the democratic chair. As you know, i ran for office and failed and then ran for school board but im going to keep it up because i never g got i know about discrimination. When i was in eighth grade, we moved fr ed from iowa and th kress cal, iowa. Its wellknown for basketball. We did the petitions and we had 1,000 signatures and guess what the school board said. No girls basketball. So we had no girls sports until after title 9. I have a sister whos eight years younger than i am. Shes in the Wisconsin University Athletic Hall of fame. And that was because of discrimination, i didnt have that opportunity. I also was a farmers wife and i went to sign up our farm with usda and guess what. Usda said no, you cant sign it up. Doesnt make any difference if your name is on the mortgage. It doesnt ma
Thank you. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you moved the seal. Thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david, thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the work to make this book so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to talk about it. Talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and the cigarette. Richard kruger, when the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Amazing book. Really a page turner. Alan brandt, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. And robert at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You have three giant books out there. And you took a risk. I really feel as though with those free books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor is whole corpus of work. The biggest of which is called golden h
Good afternoon. Im sarah perry director of partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and coauthors of the book upon which it is based. Why meadow died some of the people in policies that created the park when shooting and in danger of americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience, we will be taking questions during the last 15 to 20 minutes of this lecture. We will let you know when we are opening it up and the lecture will also be archived in our Speaker Series library frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill bennett wrote that why meadow died is the untold almost unbelievable true story of how the moral corruption brought by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radic
The 80s, if you are young do not cloudy. She was only 61 years old when she passed. The sun must have been loved and best remembered from the pretty woman soundtrack. It reminded me of being a young now that i am a fossil i remember the sun but i did not know the title. Is one of the songs i would crank up by myself but i might turn down with other people. But i like it. She had a long battle with cancer. It was a good song. Lets turn out to the weather. Yesterday the windows were fogged up but that is not the case now. Visibility much better today, partly cloudy around the bay area, mostly cloudy as we get the afternoon, by tonight, scattered showers as well. Here is a look at sfo. A little cloud cover there. Last check coming visibility just a moment ago, everybody doing okay. Patchy dense fog on the highways. Right now, San Francisco 61 degrees, 40 santa rosa, mid 50s oakland, mid50s little more turning into the afternoon with temperatures up over many spots, we are looking at thats
The proceedings. We will have live coverage wednesday on cspan3. We have peter ambler, the executive director of giffords to talk about gun violence in america. Leader todd ruger, the and staff writer of cq roll call and kevin johnson, Justice Department reporter with usa today. Guest it was a year after that when the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School happened, 20 dead kids in their classroom, six educators murdered when gabby and her husband mark decided to lots launch what is giffords. It was talked at first. The politics of guns had not shifted in the way that we have now seen them. It seem like it was a step forward and two steps back. We had a lot of proverbial doors slammed in our face but we persevered. Today we are a Large National , organization with dozens of staff, offices across the country footprints in many , states. Host todd, go ahead. The democrats app taking control of the house and cite a very political popular idea behind gun control. Yet the bills hav