So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a couple other major multimillionaires and billionaires on the right who were also funding this project and they figured out that from their standpoint politicians are just actors who are spouting lines andthe key to changing america is to write the script. How do you get to write the script . Well, you have to change kind of the whole way that elite opinion is formed in the country. There happened to have been right around the same time, a little bit earlier, a paper that was the blueprint for all of
2008 financial crisis. And iowa net gordonreed and peter to enough discuss the intellectual maturation of thomas jefferson. Plus, a history of jerusalem through its contemporary architecture, a look at how a smallpox outbreak in boston in 1721 led to the early use of inoculations against the disease. And we talk to local authors and visit the literary sites of San Bernardino, california. For the complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. City is called the inland empire with a population of 200,000 people. Founded by mormon pioneers in 1851 San Bernardino would go on to become a major hub for the Santa Fe Railway and in 1940 become the birthplace of mcdonalds was with the help of time warner and Charter Communications Cable Partners for the next hour, we explore the history of the city with local authors. On december 2nd, and opened fire killing 14 people. And to build a permanent memorial to honor
Crystal wright, your new book, con job, requests whos being conned and whos doing the conning . Guest well, i think democrats are doing the conning particularly of black americans and women. I argue in my book, con job, because theyre kind of like the Democrat Party, in my view, is kind of like a used car salesman. It peddles all these promises and pledges to black americans, were going to make things better since lbj, were going to make you smarter, richer, more educated. Fast forward to today, black americans are none of those things. In fact, i talk about in con job how the head of the Congressional Black Caucus last year said that blacks were, in quote, a state of emergency. Under the first black president , mind you. So its i look at the Democrat Party kind of like a used car salesman in that they say, hey, theyre really slickly dressed, and they want to sell you a great product. They say dont look under the hood, because you might not actually get what youre voting for. And with
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely regarded as the decisive events that ended World War II in the Pacific. However, few people know that the US almost failed to achieve its goal of forcing Japan to surrender, even after unleashing the most terrible weapons in history. https://youtu.be/96yhS lEVXg https://youtu.be/96yhS lEVXg On August 6, 1945,…
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