Captioning performed by vitac he also notes that despite this misunderstanding that christians would be the prime beneficiaries of the hobby lobby decision, the data actually shows thats really just minorities who continue to benefit the most. Another scholar actually looked more broadly at all cases since rfra was enacted and he found, again, that the majority of rfra and state rfra cases have little to do with discrimination or sexual morality or the culture wars and these cases get almost no attention even by the scholars in the field. He writes whatever else can be said of them, rfra and state rfras have been valuable for religious minorities who often have no other recourse when a law conflicts with their basic obligations. Then he lists a case involving a fiveyearold native american boy who was told by his Public School district that the School Policy forbade boys from having long hair. So the schools in the school could have long hair but the boys couldnt. The court in that case
[ applause ] oh, welcome. Were delighted to have you here today. This is a it cparticularly impot day for me. I remember 25 years ago being involved in the fight to get this done, and so to be here to celebrate with you today is so important. Like all of you, i have a deep appreciation for the fundamental freedoms that we share as americans. A great experiment in liberty has thrived through times of war, and peace. Our nation is governed according to the longest surviving constitution in world history, because the founders designed our republic to last. To be immune from the passions of partisan and resistant to the schemes of powerseeking factions. They enumerated our freedoms so there would be no mistake about where the government was not welcomed to tread. Principal among these freedoms is our first liberty, religious freedom. That is what were here to discuss and to celebrate today as we mark the 25th anniversary of the religious freedom restoration act. Most of you here likely und
Points for the nasdaq. Lets listen to the damage recap on this. Dow was down another 464 points yesterday. That was a decline of 2 s p was down another 6. 1 and the nasdaq off by 1. 6 if youre looking at this, these are the lowest closes for october 12th of 2007 for the dow. October 2nd of 2017 for the nasdaq and september 8th of 2007 that has to be wrong number 17 we must be talking about since last year for these numbers. Major averages are down more than 5 for this week. We are on pace for the worst week since march and the Third Straight weekly decline and i think i saw somewhere that for these numbers, youre talking about down 10 or more for the month and that would make this the worst december or the worst month weve seen the worst month weve seen in a decade. Remember that year we started off really badly after a good close and then it was down 13 about three, four months later end of the year but right before the panic. But, yeah, 800 points in two days no, its really 1,700 poi
Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Next, a discussion about Election Security, including online Voter Registration. Concerns over foreign interference, and balancing security and accessible. Hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center in washington, d. C. , this is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Im john fortier. We are here with really an allstar panel to discuss something that i think is on many peoples minds. Are we ready to run our elections . Our elections are coming up. People have questions about how they vote. People have questions about security. People want to know whats behind the curtain of the voting process. We have here today a group of people who run that process, watch that process and make sure it work well. Let me begin by introducing them. We will have a set of questions here on the panel. And then we will turn to you for questions as well. To my left here is tom hicks. He is the chairman of the u. S. Election systems commission. He has been a commissioner for
Things that feed into this synthesis elsewhere and before that time, but that was the first that really put it all together into a coherent theory. Or is a statement that i rather find admirable there is a statement that i rather find admirable from adam smith about what it takes to create a prosperous society. To the highest degree of opulence and the lowest, barbarism. Peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice. One thing i like about smiths formulation is the importance of atce to societies that are war or engaged in constant destruction, and the destruction and disruption of life and treasure. Say itxes he does not has to be zero. There should be some provision of public goods, but they should not be oppressive and burdensome. And a tolerable administration of justice. A very common sensical approach. A tolerable administration of justice, when you go to the courts of law there was a very high likelihood that the outcome would be an acceptable adjudication of a dis