Good evening and welcome. Im can weinstein, resident and ceo of hunter and institute. For the condition of my voice. I really wanted to be here for the book forum for melanie kirkpatricks book thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic explorers club, especially the executive director and our good friend. I also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Institute is a policy organization, we are based in washington dc. We are dedicated to voting u. S. National leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. Insecurity of work in asia. Isis,ked at fighting talked about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal. We this book is an outlier. We have to be thankful for many things. That isit is a book extraordinarily timely coming now at the end of what was by all accounts a very challenging election season. Whether you fell among those, i in
Twe nty20s, have had the ashes, and now to the twenty20s, a tri series for england against australia and new zealand. They lost their opening match to the aussies this morning. I will tell you more about how that happened later on. Sarah has the weather and it is not cricketing weather . M later on. Sarah has the weather and it is not cricketing weather . It is certainly sunny for many, but those temperatures are nothing to write home about. We still have quite a lot of lying snow around. Things are going to turn a little bit milder tomorrow. I will bring you all the details in about 30 minutes. Also coming up, do you remember this . Its been nominated for one of the tv moments of last year well be meeting Professor Robert kelly, whose distraction there was a surprise appearance at the royal courts ofjustice this morning as a judge heard arguments for and against the release of serial sex attacker the so called black cab rapist, john worboys. Standing in the caged in dock of court 5 wa
Good evening and welcome. Im ken ken weinstein, president and ceo of Hudson Institute. I apologize for the condition of my voice this evening. I really, really wanted to be here for the book form for Melanie Kirkpatricks new new book, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic Explorers Club in manhattan, especially the executive director and our good friend judas and i also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Hudson institute is a policy organization that is based in washington, d. C. We promote International Leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. We do a lot of work on the future of security in asia, we look at fighting isis, talk about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal and so this book is an outlier of the product, will be thankful for many things as thanksgiving approaches like many of our its extraordinarily timely coming a
Virtues that, of that ozzy nelson and luigi experienced thats a long time ago now, more than six decades ago its going to have to be with a returnbased system which doesnt make people furious with it. And i think thats quite doable. The current code is loaded with provisions that are both complicated and make no policy sense like the alternative minimum tax and the way a lot of tax benefits are subject to phaseouts. Which function as hidden marginal tax rate increases which nobody understands. For a lot of people, the income tax has become a kind of black box, you know, where you put numbers into the 1040 or into the software, or you give them to your return preparer, and a number comes out this is your Tax Liability. But they have no idea where that came from. Well, i always have trouble saying this, but i think its a good line if i can get it out. Taxation without comprehension is as inimicable to democracy as taxation without representation. And weve got a real democratic problem wh
Views of the longtime Catholic School employee he was fired for being married to a woman. Youll meet her. Im michael smerconish. Welcome to the program. We begin with breaking news. The latest on the shootings in chattanooga. The fifth Navy Petty Officer identified by his family as Randolph Smith died this morning in chattanooga. Four Young Marines died at the scene. Heres the thing, my heartbreaks for the families of men who wore the uniform of our nation. And my prears go out to them. I want us to aggressively hunt and kill the perpetrators of this type of islamic terror. At the same time im troubled. Is terror on our shores the new norm . And what does that mean for us . It appears that once again a 20something inspired by his distorted view of islam has killed innocent americans. Must we get used to this . I just want us to maintain a sense of balance. They win when we overreact. When our need for basic safety is exceeded by measures likely to only make us feel more secure. In 2007