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[inaudible] [laughter] host youre watching booktv on cspan2. Were on location in las vegas. This is the annual freedom fest conference, where we are interviewing authors. Joining us now, author and activist star parker. Her most recent book is called blind conceit. Ms. Parker, where did the name for this come from . Guest it actually came out of a psalm, psalm 36. I was compiling columns i wrote for the last ten years to talk about politics, policy, and i was reading the psalm that day, 36, that sin whispers in the ear of the wicked and they have no relationship to god, so they have no fear of him n. Their blind conceit, they cant even see how evil they are. And they are evil when you think about some of the policies that have come forth. They backfired on the country, they backfired on the world and her importantly, they backfired on the very people we said they were trying to help. Host who are they . Guest the they who have backfired on or who developed out these ideas . Host develo ....
Racing forward and we cannot stop. All sorts of things are being introduced that have enormous implications. We do the best we can. Wisdom and knowledge have their own cost. Thank you everyone for being here and being so involved. I did not see anybody nodding off. You were a great audience. I want to think the speakers for their expertise and passion. It has been a privilege to be here. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] cam. Udent students were asked, whats the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014 . The first prize winner is a sophomore at notre dame. He believes congress should mandate genetically on of modified organisms grown in our food to be labeled or band. Banned. We warned the fda at the time, 20 years ago, that if they did not label genetically modified con ....
Tour of asia. In the include stops philippines and malaysia. Were american doctors killed by an Afghan Security guard who opened fire at a kabul hospital. One headline from the wall street journal. Troops truce with russia crumbles. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj. Facebook at us on facebook. Com cspan or you journal cspan. Org can send us an email at journal cspan. Org journal cspan. Org. The clemency shift is consistent with the white house effort to address the rising cost of prison overpopulation and what it sees as an unfair justice system, especially to those serving longer sentences because of tough criminal penalties put in place years ago. Theres is also this headline with a photograph of the Deputy Attorney general who made the announcement officially yesterday. With crime rates at historic lows, eric holder has urged the sentencing system be overhauled, portra ....
Slowing up, so the Sheldon Adelson primary to me is some part of what we might call the political crystal ball. We are looking for signs, tea leaves to read. The most interesting part of that, and i look to my colleagues on the panel today who has worked for former Florida Governor jeb bush, is the fact that jeb bush went and participated. I think thats a very, very interesting indicator. As a lifelong democrat, i will tell you that the person that i believe has the strongest possibility to both win the nomination and be elected in 2016 is jeb bush. [inaudible] its not an endorsement. You will ruin any of his chances. Its an assessment. If i can ruin his chances, and i have more power than i think i have. But i will do that out of respect i do believe he brings the strongest credentials to that field, apparently wheatfield, but he would give a great run. Whether or not he ....