Database that searches when people attempt to purchase firearms but when the federal government doesnt do this it is reported that the air force simply through interventions, human error or somewhere failed to do it then there is nothing there to contradict the misrepresentation by the purchaser when they go to buymc it. We leave these remarks to return to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2 fficer wt objection. Mr. Mccain mr. President , in recent months the United States and Coalition Forces have achieved major gains against isis in iraq and syria. U. S. Coalition partners have liberated the capital of raqqa and syria, the pocket of hawija in Northern Iraq and just days ago the border town of alkine in western iraq. The socalled caliphate the terrorists claimed would overrun the middle east is now a shadow of its former self, a shrinking swath on a map once defined by an open reign of terror. Unfortunately, however, our challenges in the region remain daunting despite these ha
Two people arrestd. Police are certain this couple is behind the attempted murder of an eleven month old baby boy. The father was supposed to meet with the mother at this Mcdonalds Restaurant instead his former girlfriend showed up. The female suspect was inside the restaurant approached the female and child and fired one shot, close range and then ex exited the restaurant. Police say surveillance videos shows the alleged shooter a donna ivy. The bullet never hit the child and broke the glass instead. In my opinion it was a miracle she missed. This witness remembers societying next to the alleged shooter who was wearing a black bandana in an attempt to hide her identity. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. She sat down he says and her hands were trembling. Brooks back in the area when the shooting occurred. Brooks and ivy also have a fiveyearold son. The aunt says they didnt know basket woman in the rest rant and the baby. Currently hes in a relationship with another woman and they too have
Sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. On American History tv, Georgetown University professor Bonnie Morris on title ix, discrimination against women in sports and the edge issue amendments of 1972. Now the rest of our after words interview with aram goudsouzian, author of down to the crossroads. Host okay, i want to ask you about the title, crossroads, as a physical place but as a symbolic place in history. How does this march marked a historical crossroads . Guest the march in a lot of ways is a process for the Civil Rights Movement in the sense it is mostly still in the popular mind at least associated with the tenants of nonviolence and racial integration as its core goals. Underneath that, of course, especially among grassroots organizers, that the Civil Rights Movement is more about us putting blacks in positions of power, into positions where they can lift themselves up. Those goals can be intertwined of course but theyre not necessarily exactly the same thing. The march becomes
Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. Some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. We have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind of citizenship examp
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