Of the Gerald R Ford school of Public Policy and it is my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome you here today for this wonderful discussion. Delighted to see the many michigan alumni and friends in the audience. Happy homecoming. [laughter] im sorry that the weather is looking a little iffy now and for tomorrow. But it is no fall in ann arbor in the home team is favored to win. [laughter] by two touchdowns. We will see how that goes but university of michigan established the forerunner of the school that we are in today in 1914. More than 100 years ago. In the progressive era. It was the first of its kind in the country and it has been a model ever since. As you know, gerald ford captained the machine promoting here in the 1930s and went on to raise a family of four with mrs. Betty ford and spent his life in principle Public Service in congress and eventually in the white house. When michigan named our Public Policy school for president ford in 1999, nearly 20 years ago, the pride fl
because the prevailing party, i.e. the corporation that got the case dismissed, cannot impose any fees. shouldterprising judge look for a crack in the american rule doctrine so in cases which are brought solely sessions brought solely for the economic interest of the lawyers , these i think in many cases are pretty apparent, a judge can maybe bad faith, but that thate a bit of a stretch, the plaintiff lawyers will have or someurse the company part of its legal expenses. there are judges who might be willing to do that. one of my pet peeves in the class action system, which we have not touched upon, the lone star. a big word that simply means, the number of hours you worked times the hourly fee. book that some of the lawyers have fees that are out of the world. only 24day on earth is hours, some of the lawyers bill on saturn time, where it is 704 billion hours. i have seen bills with 72 hours billed in single days. not that uncommon. the lone star is on an honor system bas
this week on q&a, yuval levin. yuval levin, your wikipedia site has in the second sentence, he has been called, quote, probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the obama era. what s that mean? that s a very good question. i wonder by whom. i think it s jonathan chait. ok. well then probably, in the course of criticizing me for something or other, but i guess what it means you know an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events and practical questions to deeper currents, theoretical or philosophical currents. there are narrower definitions. you know paul johnson, the great british historian, wrote a book called intellectuals in the 80s in which he said that an intellectual in politics is actually a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. in that sense, there probably is no such thing as a conservative intellectual, but i think if you take a broader view of it and a notion that an intellectual tr
good morning. welcome to the campaign institute. i m candy nelson, the academic director. this is the 35th year that we have existed. we started as a bipartisan training institute. the first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. national journal. he has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. first of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i don t run into somebody somewhere that didn t say, i met you, or i first heard you at the american university campaign management institute and i ve been doing this for really long time. i remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. a friend of mine. leland: bill sweeney was he
we ve got $493 billion out of the pentagon defense budget and were about to cut half a trillion, which brings it close to $950 billion. out of the 10 year budget. the signal that sends to the world is that the united dates is not going to be in a position to contribute to a more peaceful and stable world in the decade ahead. the mac thanks, afterwards, substance abuse and mental health administration. this week in her book, drink, the intimate relationship between women and alcohol. the former editor at large of canada s maclean s magazine examines what she calls the closing gender gap in the world of risky drinking. she argues heavy drinking is contributing to several health conditions and cancers and more women in the early draft for more than 20,000 a year in the u.s. alone. the program is about an hour. just goes so nice to be here. host: i m excited to have this visit with you about the new book called drink, very intriguing and provocative and like i said, right whe