In congress. From massachusetts to florida and from West Virginia to colorado, the republicans won key senate, house and gubernatorial races. We had to hold our elected officials accountable. I wanted tell you right now, with your help and gods will, we will change the direction of our country. We will break down what happened in this, the most expensive Midterm Election in history, and look ahead to what it means for the 2016 race. President obama starts making grand bargains with his Republican Senate in the next two years, he creates a situation where democratic hardy that still has many advantages going into president ial cycle, could lose some of those advantages. And we will look at Ballot Initiatives including increasing the minimum wage which one in every state it was put before voters. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Republicans have emerged from tuesdays Midterm Elections with control of cong
This hearing will come to order. I want to thank all of you very much for coming here. You are a bit squeezed in. But water is on the house. Become portable and the black. College sports has an absolutely extraordinary position in the culture of our country, not only College Sports inspired incredible fan passion across the country but provided a very important way for young men and women as is britain, both to athletics as an avocation and get aunt in education, we are doing some talk about that today. And providing an avenue to college, as they would otherwise not have existed and it is important to understand that. College athletes and athletics are rooted in the notion of amateurism. The history of that is interesting going back to the founding of the n. C. A. A. In 1906 and going back to the greekss concept of amateurism. College sports is supposed to be an avocation. Students play College Sports for love of the game, not for love of money. Many people like the notion of College S
[applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Fourth Annual conference and gala presented by the william s. Ugly program at yale. Attributed to winston churchill. He. He said, if you are not a liberal when youre 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are 35, you have no brain. [laughter] a radical in the 1930s, became a leader. Later on he rejected marxism and moved to the right producing in 1941 the work for which he was best known, the managerial revolution published in 1941. 1941. He also became a red regular contributor to the conservative publication National Review. In 1933 along with sidney hook he had to organize the American Workers fund, supported its merger with the communist league of america to the United States Workers Party. In 1935 the allied with the wing of that party and defended offended no one less than leon trotsky himself. Writing for the partisan review, he was also an important influence on writers, such as Dw
We have to have is also not only important for this body, but its important for this country. In a weird way, they love us and hate us. The poll numbers show they dont love us too much,13 . [laughter] but on the flip side, they look to us. They look to us for certainty and guidance and where we might take them. The pundits, different. But the people do. I see it when i go to stores and im out and about. People may be angry with us, but they want to know what were going to do to solve these incredible problems. And it will be incumbent upon the next congress to sit down and Work Together. Its going to be tough, because the politics of today are about the moment in time. Its not about the long term. This is an incredible challenge. But it has to be dealt with in some way. You know, ive spent a lot of time trying to, like i said, do what i can, didnt matter who it was, and i was listening to senator coburn speak. I remember one day we were looking on an issue, essential air service. Some
Childs eyes. His or her mouth drops open a new note the child is lost in the story. I like to pick up a book of my local Neighborhood Stores because i like the random encounter. For a little while, while reading this book you do your own world leave your own space and inhabit somebody elses soul. Everything we hold here is in boat. Take them up and its all better. Go out, get a book. Keep reading. National read a fun day saturday january 24th. New to 10 00 p. M. In your time zone. The website again . Search National Readers on and its the first thing that comes out. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Caroline Hampstead and ended to wreck her of the program. It is with great pleasure that im here to introduce a distinguished patron of the liberal arts and scholar of western civilization, professor noel valis. She is the director of graduate studies at spanish era galan also a professor of spanish and portuguese. Okay, no longer portuguese. [laughter] she was the recipient of the guggenhei