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host: is an oral argument in the court ever change your mind about a case? guest: that s a common question most people seem to be under the pressure that oral arguments is just a dog and pony show. what i m telling you is what almost all appellate judges will tell you, it doesn t change your mind that often, but it frequently makes up your mind. so so many of the cases are very close. you go in on a knife s edge, persuasive counsel persuasive counsel can really make the difference, it is well worth doing right. host: who should read this book? guest: anybody arguing in front of me because it will not only help him but it will help me, s argument will be shorter and he ll answer my question, i ll be able to understand the case better. host: what have you learned on this book to her and what you think about the dog and pony show that comes with it? guest: i m going to be here in our half or so at the end of the day, i m not worth much at the end of the day any ....
professor at virginia tech. during the 2015-2016 academic year, dr. salaita is serving as the edward site chair of american studies at the american university of beirut. we are delighted he here today from beirut. copies of dr. salaita s book uncivil rites will be available for purchase after the event. we ve asked them to talk about 40 minutes, after which will open the floor for discussion. those of you who are online can tweak your questions to us at palestine center. please join me in welcoming professor steven salaita. [applause] okay. can anybody hear me? okay. louder. louder, okay. how is this? okay. thank you very much for coming out this afternoon and spend a little bit of time with me. i especially want to thank the palestine center and zeina and everyone who helped put the talk together. i m going to try not to be too long winded can which is sometimes a problem for me so we can have plenty of time for conversation and questions and discussion. i have ....
she might have similar questions on this. but it is not just about morality or at exhibit commitment to democracy of taiwan. you give that away from you give that aircraft carrier unthinkable aircraft carrier away and not open the wolf is it wolf is at stake to a chinese navy, which is now more or less bottled up. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] are we ready? well, i want to thank you for coming today. this is a big thrill to be able to be working in the boston public market at the kitchen with the folks on the trustees of the reservation. i am doing this all went tree and 11 for c-span books here this is a great thrill and the first time we have ever done a c-span domain and so we are quite thrilled on all levels. let me introduce myself. i am louisa kasdon, ceo of let s talk about food. every friday in the space to run a program that would call brown bag lunches. you will see in the back people who are eating some of those lunches. our goal every ....
www.the progressive professor .com. i will come ron nibikov ron fineman. [applause] think you and i pursue your deduction today want to begin by thanking certain people. i want to thank stephanie for inviting me to speak here on my book. i want to thank c-span for agreeing to indeed take this event and put it on booktv in a few weeks. i want to also thank my sons david fineman and paul fineman for aris being there for me. we are definitely very close family pretty want to also thank one of my colleagues and former students david who took me for courses at broward college in florida atlantic university. azaleas say he majored in fineman and minored in history. he took me eight times. i guess he likes me and enough teachers that broward kelly jenny up to me with a power point i m to use because i m not that technically savvy and also with the index and the chart in my book so i want to thank david glover for that. i also want to thank steven engel who is one of the pe ....
agreement with the senate on, it was the first time since 2002 that congress had come to that kind of agreement. it shouldn t take 13 years for congress to agree on how to balance a federal budget. beenioner: obama has not president since 1977, so maybe there is a time of introspection for congress to kind of look at what their role is. mr. scalise: right. our role should be to do that job and ultimately it takes two sides to do it. when the senate refuses to take up even one bill, when we pass six bills over to them and they made it very clear, we re not taking up any of them, that s irresponsible. somebody should have called out the people that were voting not even to take up a bill. the senate s supposed to be the most deliberative body in the history of the world. that s the way it was created. they turned the 60-vote requirement into a way to be the least deliberative body in the world. that s an abuse of their responsibilities. be nice to see the president chime i ....