Theyre wonderful son, cooper, kelley and kelley, pam and nicole, plaintiffs in the case more than 30, you ought to matter. Your relationships matter. Your children matter. I felt like part of we the people. [inaudible conversations] hi, everyone. Thank you so much for coming out this evening. Before he gets started, a few housekeeping notes. If you could take the time now to silence or cell phones, that would be great. You dont have to turn it off. You can follow kramer books on facebook and twitter and its agreement signed for email newsletter if you havent already. A newly redesigned website kramer. Com. We would love for you to visit. You can see all the great events without going on. Melissa is here to talk about her new book, tea party by men which explores the women creating and reading the Tea Party Movement and the greater significance of womens involvement in the tea party and talks about our understanding of female Political Leadership in the future of women in the american r
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening, folks. We are going to ahead and get started. If you havent gotten a copy of the book outside, please do so. First of all, welcome to the open Society Foundation in new york city. Its our pleasure to host you for what promises to be a terrific event for the boldly titled book, the end of White Christian america. Its my honor to introduce tonights events. I grew up in the way to sit in the United States committed beautiful state of maine and the United Church of christ of this conversation hits close to home for me and professionally. Id like to thank robert jones was known for robbie for several years and Sam Tanenhaus for joining us that id like to think Elizabeth Berg newcomer nathan mckie and the society team for putting the event together. In addition to the foundation, tonights event is cosponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of new york, Ford Foundation and the new world foundation. Im a longtime fan of robert jone
In my garage april 30. I typed out a onepage letter that said dear friend, please read this book today and then buy enough copies to send to your delegates for the 1964 Republican National convention. I typed it on my typewriter. I headed mimeograph machine in the basement i went down to the basement and put the stencil on the round thing and ground out a hundred letters. One of those letters, which was read by a friend in california who called up and said, i read it and im going to a convention this weekend, united republicans of california. Put me off 5000 copies, so i loaded them up in my Station Wagon and took them to the airport and a sent them out and that weekend we had statewide distribution in california. That california primary was the first week in june and we sold over a halfmillion copies between the first of may and the first of june in california. Where did the title come from . Barry goldwater use the title and the minutes i heard it i knew that was it. Watch this and o
Specifically, how would you rate president obamas year this year . Taking a look at things hes accomplished, things he has not accomplished, you can highlight either of those when you give us a call. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. As you call to tell us how president obamas year went and how you would rate that, you can also post on our social media channels. L, twitter, facebook, and you an also send us email. Several stories stemming from the president s yearend speech before taking off to a visit in San Bernardino before heading to hawaii for his familys vacation. In politico, the headline, obama spikes the football at his yearend News Conference, the president declares victory, saying the president touted his administrations early actions to rescue the economy, on healthcare, the president pointed to his steady implementation of the Affordable Care act as the key reason why the uninsured americans has fallen below 10 . He also pointed to t
Were going to both of them whah us. All of that when we come back. Please stay with us. Welcome back to the continuation of her one our prime time live debate for Congressional District 18 covering parts of Palm Beach County, barton county. With us today, congressman allen west and his challenger for the new district here, democrat Patrick Murphy in its first run for office. We thank you both for being with us. Will continue our question on the broad topic of taxes. Moderator we left everyone hanging on the deficit. Lets pick up without again. You are opposed to raising taxes. The deficit this past year was a think 1. 1 coding dollars which was an improvement over the previous year. If youre not going to raise taxes, what are some things you could cut to get anywhere close the erasing of 1. 1 trillion question. West we are supposed of the deficit cut in half which is 458 billion. We should be about 230 billion but weve had 1. 42 trillion, 1. 29, 1. 1. I think we have to look at certain