Here who think they can control your life when they cant even run their own lives, and they certainly cant run congress. So, folks, appreciate you. Its very unusual for folks at a young age to begin to understand that actually freedom is your best path to prosperity and also your best path to security. The idea that governments dependency will make you secure is a fools errand. Its not true. Youre most secure when youre most free, and we prove it every day at heritage and so do you. So thanks. Ill shut up and take questions. How about that. Lets have some questions. Thank you. Come on. Answered them all. There we go. Down in front of here. Start us off. My name is carrie and im from texas. I have a question about common core. As a future teacher, what are some ways 0 as grassroots activist you can push against common core and how to enlighten other parents or other peoples eyes about the dangers of what it actually is. This is one of those programs that on the cover sheet just sounded wonderful in the beginning. It was voluntary by states or whatever, but after you saw all the regs and how they basically tied up all the money that states need unless they adopt this, its another example of good intentions gone awry. Jeb bush, who did a great job as governor in florida with school choice, very innovative things which proved successful. The problem is, as once you see that happen, you forget the reason it happened is that he went outside of the federal regimen and did Something Different in photograph if you want to take what happened in florida and start creating national standards, basically what you do is conform every state to something, instead of creating an environment where states are trying to improve of what florida did and keep growing and keep making things better. So, what we need to convince people of is this idea of federal standards which sound wonderful, it sounds benign, actually keep quality down over time and give the federal bureaucrats control over what happens at the state level. The best way for schools to operate is for teachers to have more control of their classroom, principals to have more control of their school, local School Boards and parents to help shape the curriculum there and create a best practice situation that worked in so Many Industries where you can compare what youre doing with others, accommodate the things that others are doing better and keep building a belter and better system, rather than creating a static, one size fits all federal system. It doesnt work. If it did we spend more per capita than any other country in the world on education, and everyplace around the country, like washington, where we spend over 20,000 per student per year, you get the lowest quality of all because the bureaucratis nightmare. To. You and if we could get more teachers to break away from teachers unions. That really hurts because the information that comes through teachers unions about political issues is so skewed. They are a detriment to our whole education system. I appreciate you being willing to be a teacher, and i hope you can get in a system where you can be as good as you can be and not be in some kind of seniority tenure system controlled by unions. A question back there. Thank you for being with us, senator jim demint. Your name. Helleri rose in jackson taxes you are talking about immigration reform. I am wondering if you could expand a little bit on that. The you think the talks will be successful or do you think anything good will come out of those things . This is a human tragedy, and you have to recognize that first. A lot of these are teenagers, but you have younger children. What we have to go back to, the president mentioned in his talk, the root causes, and he acted like it was funding, like the root cause is funding. He has a half a trillion dollars to deal with on domestic issues including border security. The root cause of this is all of this talk of amnesty. If you make your way to america illegally, if you get here you are going to get amnesty, citizenship, and a better life. The human traffickers in Central America for the last two years have been using obamas own words as theyre marketing campaign. It has encouraged parents to do the unthinkable in many cases and pay these people money to put these kids on that death train as it is called in mexico hanging off the sides in many cases to go from Central America to our borders knowing that our laws and the president s executive order, if you can get there they will turn you away. What we have done is created an invitation for people all over the world, particularly Central America to make their way to our borders. In now with the president wants to do is first of all ask for this irresponsible amount of money that will change things so that he can make it a battle between he and congress. He is smart politically because the media always buys into this. He said the solution is this giant amnesty that was proposed by some in the senate. What you see on the borders right now is just a small glimpse of what this massive amnesty would do to our country. Think about it. He needs nearly 4 billion to deal with about 50 or 60,000 children. What ll he needs nearly 4 billion to deal with about 50 or 60,000 children. Whats it going to cost to deal with 11,000,001 to grant amnesty and get into the processing of these people and bringing them into the american system . It wont work and what it will do is make the situation on the border much much worse. Back before your time and when Ronald Reagan made very few mistakes but he said one of the mistakes was congress that they give amnesty 3 million illegals here at the time they would then fix the border and fix our immigration system. But all that did was encourage millions and millions more to come here illegally and create hardships not just for themselves and their families that he left but hardships for americans and those who immigrated here legally. To say our immigration system nospaceon who came here illegally was wrong, its unfair to those who follow the Legal Process and what we need to tell the president is to stop talking about amnesty, stop misleading people particularly in Central America and if they send their children with these human traffickers that they are going to have a better way of life. They are abused. In many horrible ways as part of this process and we are encouraging them. It has nothing to do with what congress did or didnt do. All of this is at the feet of president obama. Next question. I am from michigan and i was wondering what is your position on Global Warming to date . You notice they had to change the name of that. They call it Climate Change. Lisa called that at the four seasons. [laughter] but you know they are having problems with this warming phenomenon because the globe hasnt warmed in 15 years. The massive panic is a problem. Im afraid a lot of this Global Warming talk goes back to where i started. Its one way to get more control at the federal level. A lot of aspects of our economy have developed across the country. We need to take care baram by men. We need to continue to improve everything we do, our air and our water and armed by or mitt but what we are spending now, even the folks who believe it say that these hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending on Global Warming is not going to make a fraction of a difference within the next 50 or 100 years. There is no one claiming that what we are doing is actually going to change anything in the near term or even the long term. So lets dont confuse taking care of our environment and making sure that we continue to reduce pollution in every way that we can. I think we are making progress in that area but to do what they are doing under this guise of weather change is completely ridiculous right now. But they are doing to raise the cost of energy in america. Instead of continuing to improve the Clean Energy Resources that we have, for instance they are so hypocritical, the last. Natural gas is a third less polluting than oil or coal. And we have it in abundance in jail but as we start to develop it who was trying to stop the development of natural gas in our country . Is the same people pushing Global Warming when in fact we could have cars and trucks running on compressed natural gas. We could have more and more of our electricity produced by natural gas but who has been stopping that for years and continues to . The same people who want to get more control of our lives with this Climate Change phenomena. So i think we need to be all as conservatives in agreement that arm by or mitt is precious and we need to protect it and make it better but frankly a lot of the moves of the left in this area have actually hurt the environment more than they have helped it. A lot of the additives and fuels that were supposed to make it less polluting have actually created more pollution, so i frankly think for most of it, its a big power grab like just about Everything Else they are doing. Lets agree to take care of the environment but if the globe is not warning the warming lets not spend millions of dollars that could be used in better ways right now. Another question. On the end here. High make my name is katie and im from richmond virginia. A quick question. What would be the conservative argument for encouraging the Keystone Pipeline . What would you recommend we talk to our peers about that . The country is using energy and using oil and a lot of it so comes from the middle east. So getting more oil refined into gasoline from canada is not hurting the environment. In fact moving it by pipeline is much safer for our environment than moving it in ships that can run aground and can leak in the hole transfer process where you get the load on ships and they are loaded in the harbor and many times on tankers or put in another pipeline in another part of the country. So the idea that somehow this pipeline is harmful to the environment is absurd in the first place. Canada is one of our Biggest Energy resources. They are an ally. What is going to happen is if we dont accept those they are going to end up having to sell it overseas which makes us more dependent on countries like venezuela or wherever who dont like us. Thats a very vulnerable situation for us to be in. So its better for the environment to move from pipeline rather than the tankers and other transportation involved and its just good for it to have a north American Security on energy. Even the president s own people that he put in charge of studying this have come back and say its all political and if you look back and you follow the money if some of his supporters who probably are promoting other forms of energy solar or whatever and just dont want the country to have more secure energy resources. Well, any other questions . Folks, thanks. Thank you senator. [applause] the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on africa and Global Health heard from the head of the centers for Disease Control thursday about the Ebola Outbreak in western africa. You can see the entire hearing on line at cspan. Org. Here is some of what dr. Tom friedman said. Very strict Infection Control possible in the hospitals in the u. S. And there have been misconceptions about this. Evil laugh is not as highly infectious as Something Like influence over the common cold. What is so concerning about ebola is that the stakes are so high. A single lapse in Infection Control could be fatal. Thats why the key is to identify rapidly and follow strict control guidance. Its certainly possible that we could have ill people in the u. S. To develop ebola while here after having been exposed elsewhere. Its possible they could spread it to close family members are Health Care Workers if their infection is not rapidly identified. But we are confident that there will not be a large Ebola Outbreak in the u. S. We are confident that we have the facilities here to isolate patients not only the highly advanced ones that really virtually every Major Hospital in the u. S. What is needed is not fancy equipment. What is needed is standard Infection Control rigorously applied. We have released guidance for doctors and other Health Care Providers in the u. S. On identifying and diagnosing and treating patients and guidance for Airline Flight crews cleaning personnel and cargo personnel. Fundamentally to end here we have three roads before us. We can do nothing and let the outbreak rage and i dont think anyone wants to do that. We can focus on stopping these outbreaks and thats something we will certainly do or we can focus not only on stopping these outbreaks but also on putting in place the laboratories the disease detectives the Emergency Response systems that will find, stop and prevent future outbreaks of ebola and other threats. We do face in this country a perfect storm of vulnerability with emerging infections like ebola resisting infections like the ones we discussed in our last hearing intentionally created infections would remain a real threats that we have unique opportunities to confront them with stronger technologies more political commitment and Success Stories of Real Progress from around the world. Earlier this year the u. S. Joined with the World Health Organization in more than two dozen countries to launch a Global Health security agenda. That Global Health security agenda is exactly what we need to make sure we make progress not only in stopping a ebola but preventing the next outbreak of the second document we provided for you provides a summary of what the mapping is between what we launched in february before the outbreak was known or reported to have started and whats needed to stop the Ebola Outbreak. They are closely aligned. The president s budget includes a request to 45 million to cdc to accelerate progress and detection prevention and response. A former secretary of state for africa under secretary of state for africa said in his decades of work the cdc is the 911 for the world. And though i was happy to hear that i realized really what we want to make sure is that every country or at least every region has its own Public Health 911. That will be good for them. It will be good for us in terms of safety and it will improve economic and social stability and expanding that type of work strengthening Global Health security will allow us to not only stop this outbreak but also prevent future outbreaks and stop them faster if they do occur. Thank you so much for your interest in this. Next up ann coulter speaking about her book never trust a liberal over three especially a republican. This is about 40 minutes. Our next speaker is ann coulter do her new book is called. [laughter] never trust a liberal over three especially a republican ann coulter started out as a new york city lawyer and then worked for the Senate Judiciary committee and as a litigator with the center for individual rights in washington d. C. Now she is a syndicated columnist with the universal press syndicate and the Legal Correspondent for human advance. Author of 10 New York Times bestsellers and one of the most popular guest on fox cnn, nbc, abc and hbo. It is a privilege and very special event to have her with us today. Please welcome ann coulter. [applause] im so happy i finally get to meet you. Actually i am not that welcome on several of the station she just mentioned. Things change. You really want to cement your career to be sure you speak only in cliches and make bad arguments when youre on liberal tv. You will be invited over and over again. I want to just start by saying things arent as bad as they seem. They seem pretty bad. It seems like we are in the middle of the democrats 1000 year reich but when i was as depressed as i have ever been in my life and im including my parents dying after obama won the second time beating romney i was going through, my mother happened to have the largest north american collection of clippings about ann coulter so i was going through them and i came across the Time Magazine that came out immediately after george bush won the election 2004 which should be of tremendous interest to this audience because you are all in kindergarten then. He probably dont have that issue. It was the exact mirror opposite of what everyone was saying after this last election which is to say democrats are going to have to fold up shop and come back under another name. The reason my mother had it was there was a huge smiling picture of me, when her. Sad picture of michael moore, loser. So to read that magazine it lifted my spirits to remember that the pendulum does change but it takes activists like you and people talking and writing and arguing to make things change. Remember obama did win twice but he has two characteristics that no other democrat has. Number one, no record. Thats big, unlike millie. The history of democrats is they are always going down based on what they did. Michael dukakis when you werent even a twinkle in your fathers side. Michael dukakis was important any remember john kerry throwing the medals. Maybe you dont remember. Throwing his, somebody elses medals over the white house la