Husbands and would have seen that as arrogant and inappropriate, but i certainly see them as heroines myself, and i think they have the right stuff. [laughter] [applause] this program is part of the seventh annual savannah book festival. For more information visit savannah book festival. Org. Megan mcardle argues that the u. S. Is unique in its willingness to let its citizens and businesses fail and says this is whats made the country successful. This hourlong Program Starts now on booktv. Thank you, everybody for coming. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im tim carney, a visiting fellow here as well as a senior Political Columnist at the examiner or what i do here is the two programs one is called the cultural competition where we talk about competition, talk about things like subsidies and crony capitalism and when competition yields good fruit and when the pursuit of profit might not just good food. The other thing i work on is called the program on human flourishing, wh
Collecting plans from all over the world and had hundreds of thousands of people collecting plants and sending them back to fort myers to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber. The laboratory was put here because they could grow the plants on site and do the preliminary research on site. The laboratory was interesting for many reasons. There was no patent process for plants, chemical patenting. This lab caused the United States government to come forward with what was called the u. S. Patent law that said if you invented something with plants, and it was a process that was worthy of patening, it was issued a patent. Looking at the history of fort myers, florida including a stop at edisons research laboratory. Megan mcardle argues that United States is unique in letting its citizens and businesses fail and this is what has made the country successful. This hour long Program Starts now on booktv. Thank you, everybody for coming. I am timothy carney. I am a visiting fe
Our place, kan. , must show the path, the difficult path for america to go in these troubled times. The and we and shannon thank you. That was governors Sam Brownback with the state of the state address. We now go to senator Anthony Headley for the democratic response to enact we have been talking that the string that we have time. We have talked about how i have a dream. We will somehow realizes principles and the declaration of independence. I think he was just inspired by that moment. Sunday on after words, clairborne carson recalls his march on washington. It is part of three days of the tv this weekend on monday featuring authors and books from the inauguration. President obama, and Martin Luther king jr. Every weekend latest nonfiction authors and books are featured on booktv. You can see past programs and schedules our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. Congress talked about avoiding the death sequester. Congressman levin is the Ranking Member on
Launch an investigation, too. A desperate search for shelter as some families resorted to trying to hide their children in sewers to protect them. Officials say it came from an employee pushing the wrong button during a shift change. It was a wrong button that was pressed. We recognize this false alarm is a terrible thing to happen. We implemented changes to assure it doesnt happen again. Well further refine the processes as we go forward. Eric will carr is in honolulu where the panic and fear has turned to anger and outrage. Reporter so many peopling exactly how this could happen after a terrifying morning yesterday. And as they wake up this morning they will be seeing the headlines in the local paper that says oops, and has a finger on the button. It read Ballistic Missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter, this is not a drill. This struck panic, residents believing north korea fired a missile that would only take 30 minutes to hit hawaii. Many people thought they were