We have genuine debate taking over. We have politics there and other policies. Over the past decade or two, the most conservative candidates have come from kansas. Kansas voting patterns trend republican. In truth they lean republican. I was a victim of that myself. People forget that in 1978, a democratic speaker of the house defeated a republican and combatant. Incumbent. Bob dolelk about the race. No matter what happens in november, whichever party wins these races, i am hopeful that this can be positive. Senator dall is one of the founders here. A legend of american politics. He told me that elections are therapeutic. I think he was referring to his closely run race in 1974. Senator dole won by 1 . The closest political race and country. They each spent about 1 million total in that senate race. Today, i dont know if 1 million would have bought him 3 days of advertising. Senator dole never gave up on his values. He did embody a more inclusive approach to the kansas elections. He is
And indeed that is central to why so many people think the country is going in the wrong direction right now. The sense of frustration with the economy and the lack of upward mobility, difficulty in getting the kinds of opportunities that historically we have come to expect. So i think precisely those issues will be right at the heart of much of the president ial debate probably in both parties. I think voters have been asking for an answer to that ssue since 2006. They havent gotten an answer that they particularly like on those issues and they feel like they have been saying to washington we need you to figure out how to fix this economy especially for those of us who feel trapped that we are the middle class and we are and have not seen any of rise in income in 15 years being able to send your kid to college or have retirement now seems like they are pipe dreams and washington has come back to perceive some politically motivated agenda. I completely agree this is what 2016 is going
Many use the radio. And then talk a little bit about how this will help the Hoover Family and their approach . [inaudible] [inaudible] this is a recent account. And so the way it goes. [inaudible] [inaudible] we are helping so valiantly and you are going to be helping as delicately as well as long as the need lasts. Ever faithful to trust is a constantly diminishing demand. In some way, this included his tracks to the nation. Absolutely. She is the first first lady to make a National Radio talk and to try and push this voluntarist message, which is very much something that Herbert Hoover is doing at this time. And its interesting that she is doing these talks about the girl scouts movement, which in 1932, she comes up with a plan after the formulation. They formulated it. But its basically this effort to try to muster the resources of the girl scouts into a more coordinated and organized effort to help out coordinating with state Police Agencies and she actually has an individual who a
Saudi arabia, jordan and israel. Year in egypt and i thought if i dont get myself there, im never going. Im going to be like moses having seen the land that never entered. [laughter] and i made a reservation with the mileage i had. I decided instead of doing some dumb sure, i would rent an apartment for a few months and just take my work with me, since i write, i could do that, which i did. I did know anyone there. I didnt have one in. I have teams, i didnt know anybody. And as i said i ended up going during a war, but it wasnt even sure what was going to happen. I stayed because i love it and it didnt need to come back. I mean, i would come back to work every few months, but i met somebody good friends. I have more good friends there that ahead in california. I have kids in california and family. I dont know what happened and why im still there, quite frankly. Its just that, i can tell you i havent mastered the language which is one of the great failures of my life, but i still dont w
The former editoratlarge at canadas mclain magazine talks about the gender gap between women and the risk of drinking. This program is about an hour. Host hi ann. How are you . Guest its so nice to be here. Host i am excited to talk to about this new book called drink very intriguing and very provocative and like i said it are minded me up when i was working in treatment, about the relationship with alcohol and women and i guess one of the questions i wanted to ask you right off is why is the subject seen as a crisis thats important for you to get the message out . Guest we are seeing a global problem, a closing of the gender gap between men and women. Traditionally we have always known that men drink more than women do but whats been happening recently is men have been declining a been declining a little bit in risky drinking and women are not at all. This is global. The more developed the country the richer the country the smaller the gap between men and womens consumption. Places li