get closer to his graduation date, which won t happen. it made me sad. it made me sad realizing we re not going to be able to see that and it s coming to more fruition that i ve seen him play his last baseball game last fall. he had shoulder surgery, so it was this time last year the last time i saw him play baseball. that got to me. let me see, i have 39 days that it s gotten to me. let s move on and talk about some happy stuff. sunshine. pretty clear conditions out there. little fog along the coast and the visibility is five miles right now. run through the 12-hour planner. full-on sunshine everywhere this afternoon. and upper 60s at the coast and low to mid 80s most neighborhoods and the deeper you get into the north bay and the east bay. we ll talk more about the heat coming up next and the cooling trend. here s reggie. thank you, mike. shelter in place provides an opportunity, case in point, cal trans using this time when very few of u on the road to get going on a n
at www. commonwealthclub.org. it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker, a veteran of more than 20 years of human rights research and activism, a professor of law at uc-davis, she grew up in algeria and the united states. she served as legal adviser at amnesty international and has taught at rutgers and the university of michigan, she is widely published on the issues of fundamentalism and counterterrorism. would you please welcome professor karima bennoune. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. is an honor to be here. i thank the commonwealth for inviting me, for coordinating this event and for the lovely introduction. what i want to do today is share with you a few excerpts from my book your fatwa does not apply here: untold stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism and i want to explain as well why i wrote this book. it was a very big project. i interviewed about 300 people at muslim heritage, 30 muslim majority countries from afg
festival of books in the barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. visit booktv.org for this weekend s television schedule. now on booktv, ilan berman predicts the collapse of russia due to internal social and demographic decline and external challenges from china. it is about an hour. [applause] thank you. i love that john is making his way off the stage so when you throw things at me you have an unimpeded view. thank you as always for your interest and thank you to the heritage foundation for hosting me. always nice to come out and talk about issues i work a lot on in the privacy of my office and share it with a broader audience. let me start sort of where john ended which is to talk about the external first and then focus on the internal. the question of russia and where russia is heading not only ideologically but geopolitically and demographically, i spent a lot of time looking at both professionally and personally. my personal history is i am the child of sovi
i m michelle easton, president of the policy institute, and i want to welcome those of you here in washington and the millions in the c-span audience to our conservative woman s network lunch. it s such a pleasure every month for the policy institute to put on this conservative networking event with the heritage foundation, and bridget wagner every month. the purpose of the conservative woman s network event is to highlight the most outstanding conservative women in america. but our regular attendees know that every year in december we like to invite a distinguished gentleman, like senator coburn to speak. it s not because we don t like men, we do, rather, we believe that if conservatives fail to highlight our own conservative women we allow the left to supplant them with far less significant role models. it s now my pleasure to introduce senator tom coburn who was elected in november of 2004 as a citizen legislature, dr. coburn pledged to serve no more than two terms in the
you re watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. booktv s online book club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement. as a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination, and i didn t like it. i asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation? why racial discrimination? and they said, that s the way it is. don t get in trouble. don t get in the way. but in 955 when 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. i heard the voice of martin luther king jr. on the old radio, and the words of dr. king inspired me to find a way to get in the way. in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the public library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. and we were told by the librarian that the