Interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, james carville. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s that we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or the middle of it youre going to start laughing because you are just going to say, no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field, it is just not possible and then we will find Something Else and you will say no. He is just incredibly bright and the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so we are going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not as if you give president s iq tests. It is a lot easier with things that can be measured. Tall and short. We all know that madison was our shortest president and lincoln or tallest, that is easy. I dont kno
Come and hear what i have to say. I thought i would begin with the 2012 election and im sure you are aware come after that election, many people proclaimed the death of modern american conservatism. One commentator said the titanic is sinking, referring to american conservatism. Another observe the conservative arguments we heard in this election are going to be relics in museums very shortly. Lots of people said conservatism really its message and its methods if it was ever going to win an election again. Its still being debated today. I noticed in this mornings wall street journal scott walker has a piece about what he needs to do to be relevant. His thought is they dont need to give up their principles, they need to be stronger on their principles and people are looking for that kind of leadership. In this book, we talk about this in the public in the final chapter of this book. My coauthor and i talked about the future of conservatism in the last chapter. But we begin elsewhere and
Thank you for taking a break to be here today. You are brave to come and listen to me in particular. In an earlier career i was an attorney which is a group known not only for its brevity of speech and now for a long time ive been an academic which is a group not known for its clarity of speech so as i said you are brave to come on a friday to hear what i have to say. I thought i would begin with the 2012 election and as im sure you are aware after that election many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism. One commentator said the titanic is sinking referring to american conservatism. Another one observes that the conservative arguments we have heard in this election are going to be relics in a museum very shortly. Lots of people said conservatism really needed to change both its message and its methods if it so ever going to win an election again. It still being debated today. I noticed in this mornings wall street journal Governor Scott walker from wisconsin talkin
She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a passion for building communities, social change, and improvements, Youth Education , the arts. He actively participates in the following nonprofit. The chineseamerican community fund, the dance troupe, the academy of chinese performing arts, so many places. I think the center for asiana
A 2 state solution also the race to find a vaccine for the corona virus that has never been more crucial for rural parts of south africa and the show must go on somehow the future of british theatre under a pandemic as the industry struggles to find its way forward. And Sport England insists their cricket series against pakistan will go at and thats despite pakistan announcing that tan and their players have tested positive for corona virus. Hello everyone after weeks of increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula including the destruction of a joint Liaison Office north korea has now announced it is suspending plans for military action against the south and the state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling Partys Central Military Commission that was chaired by. Kim jong un his sister kim your xiong who is in charge of relations with the south remember she had warned all of possible military action those pictures there of course that joint Liaison Office which wa