The myth these packets called zombie, scoobydoo, its not fun stuff. You are putting your life at risk. The lives of others at risk and there will be serious consequences for selling and using. Ted, los angeles. Good morning. Caller good morning. Listen. I have a couple of comments. And the one is that in regarding the synthetic drugs, it seems they always have names that cater to young people or children, and there already was laws regarding advertising to children from Cereal Companies and everyone that they seem to get away with this by advertising these products at candy type of products and things like that or incense or whatever. It seems like that law, that should have been taken care of a long time ago. The question to mr. Racine is, in hollywood, here, they have these places called hookah parlors where people smoke these large hookah pipes. And is that synthetic marijuana that they are smoking and calling it hookah or what . It seems to be a legal thing that goes on here. Ill t
[inaudible conversations] welcome. Im lela salisbury directyear 0 the university 0 press of mississippi. Im drilled to see you here this evening if want to give you a special thank you to the book friend 0 the mississippi of and think the book store. Theyre fantastic partners in book selling and were grateful for them as always. Really former governor mississippi Governor Haley barbour needs no intrusion, whan 0 who gets around on the world stage. Was talking several years ago to richard ford, fellow mississippian and novelist and was doing a teaching stint in dublin and was wandering around the campus, exploring his new setting, and opens the door to a lecture hall and thats haley barbour, lecturing on International Politics in ireland. So, governor with many, many talents. But i will say what may have been the most significant chapter for mississippi was governor barbour as a politician and Public Servant began ten years ago this week as the winds began gathering into what would beco
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended
Section. Host ron charles is the editor of Washington Posts book world. This this is booktv on cspan2. Guest thanks so much. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Syndicated radio host dana lash contended the u. S. Is dividing itself into two countries, coastal america and flyover america. Wall street journal columnist kimberly stras el argued the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. Eric fehr talked about his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. And in the coming weeks on aftercords, ann coulter will make her case for supporting donald trump for prime minister. Georgetown University Law professor rosa brooks looks at the expanded roles for the u. S. Military around the world, and coming up former Bush Administration attorney general Alberto Gonzalez recalls his time serving in the Justice Department and as white house come. And this weekend come.
Shiites and master saudi arabia with all sorts of horrible things are happening. I dont think so. And so there we are. You ask about the president not getting involved in syria. He just put 200 special forces troops into syria. As far as i know, recognized by the u. N. After reigning power and the russians are there with approval by the theory of government. The iranians are there with approval. Hezbollah, the shia group from lebanon, they are there with approval. The precedent for 250 special forces into israel without that casualty . Its a point of view. The world sees what he does. Ill tell you something else. If you think the number of american troops into iraq is three or 4000, im telling you this for a fact times that amount and maybe even more if you count the pilots and crews that are doing the bombing in the ocean. Thats telling the truth to the people about some basic stuff. And that is that he had on the other hand, i also think its going to be the greatest president will ha