It doesnt feel much like spring yet. No, ted, it does not. Feels like winter this morning. A lot of you going tore heavy coats before you step outside. Youll probably need them later on today, too. We have a cold forecast for this time of year. We are still tracking snow for later tonight. A live look at cape may, temperatures close to 40 degrees, overcast skies. Some snow in the area. Well off to the west. As we go through the day today, it will be cold and thats approaching tonight. 34 pottstown 3. 3 allentown, 38 in millville, 40 atlantic city. Here is if the weather. Through the afternoon this is 2 00 p. M. Rain in south jersey and delaware. Tonight, 9 00 p. M. , some starts to change to snow. New jersey and delaware, youll see rain changing to snow later tonight. By 4 00 p. M. Around 40, 9 00 p. M. Mid30s. A lot of this will be melting at the start. By 9 00 p. M. Light snow moving in. Driest areas north and west. Coming up ill show you the timing for this overnight and possibly mo
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, amy binder takes an in depth look at experiences and activism of conservative students on the campuses of americas colleges and universities. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Well, thank you very much for coming out on this rainy thursday. And thank you very much to christine and tulare for inviting me to the center. For more than half a century, conservative critics have been in think thanks, foundation and the media have championed the cause of conservative College Students who they say suffer on College Campuses. In books with such titles as freefall of the american university, and tenured radicals, critics charge the american Higher Education has become the place a liberal if not radical faculties, and that in the classrooms of the politicized university, middle of the road students complacently consume their professors misinformation. Moderate students are smug liberal students are smug and feeling that theyre on the
Thank you. I want to thank andrew. I think he was in my first class at grove city college. I think he literally was. Thank you to pat foil and ron r robinson who is not here but thank you for all you do for young people and campuses around the country. Ronald reagan conservatives was about preserving. Thanks to cspan for being here, too. People call cspan and say thank god for cspan. There is not many sources as objective as cspan. They put it out there unedited. And let it speak for itself. There are so many talks that good on around the world and i say if there could be a camera here to capture and broadcast this and only cspan does that. What is a reagan conservative is my topic. And that is based on my new book 11 principles of a reagan conservative. This question, what is a reagan conservative you hear if you do a Google Search on the words reagan conservative it comes up with 30 Million People trying to define and what it means. And a lot of that is because so Many Republican can
Like to leave you with words from terence kirk and he wrote this the gift of special life is no less beautiful which acco acy with illany illness, lonliness, or anything else. Human life gains extra splendor as it requires special care, concern and reverence. It is through the weakest vestals vessels the lord reveals love. A former student of mine who has a down syndrome child, i shared that with him and he said that is so true. Another principle of reagan conservative. American exceptioanaliexception. Reagan thought america was a book beacon to all humanity and the last hope. He said that for 30 years before the presidency. I found a speech he gave to a tiny Womens College wall William Woods college in missouri not far from where churchhill made his irony curtain speech. And in that speech, reagan said america is less than place than an idea. Chew that over. America is less of a place than an idea. It really is. The bases of this country and our religion and the idea that deep within
During the election as this young preacher from georgia which is dr. Martin luther king jr. Who sort of leads the masses of africanamericans from racial to presentation. So in this notion that a rosa sat and, you know, martin could do this stuff and jesse could run and then barack could fly, all these things, they sound good, but they really simply few a much more complicated history. And that complicated history really involves so many africanamericans, women and men, who proactively dismantled racial segregation including rosa parks. Rosa parks was an activist. She didnt just refuse to give up her seat by accident, it was a concerted, strategic effort to try to transform democratic institutions. Tufts University History professor and author of dark days, bright nights, peniel joseph, specializes in the sub field of africana. His latest, stokely a life, will be in bookstores march 4th. Sunday hell take your questions in depth live for three hours starting at noon eastern on cspan2s bo