from virginia's 11th district. my question, and i regret that jackie and city are not here. is an honor to be in the room with ralph nader. why can't we get everybody to play well together and take the ideas and ralph nader spoke less there are 800 the electoral reform principles. why can't we get the greens, libertarians and independents that basically demand of obama as the price of anything in 2010, that he passed electoral reform act of 2009? >> i will assume everyone. >> go ahead. >> well, i have no problem with the. i think it is a wonderful idea, we just need to open up -- we need new choices, new voices. actually, third parties, independent candidates do just what cato is trying to do and what heritage is trying to do. they are trying to increase the range of political debate. >> good to meet you in person, mr. steele. thank you for coming. and i would like to say that it's really -- minor parties and third parties and independents, they don't all have the same platform. they can get together and should get together on removing this systemic barriers to entry, but af

from virginia's 11th district. my question endeavor? that jackie salem and cynthia mckinney are not here, it is an honor to be in the room with ralph nader and all of you. why can we get everybody to play well together and take the ideas and ralph nader's book? their eight fundamental electro principles. why can't we get these saluda terry incent independents to basically demand of obama as the price of anything in 2010 that he passed the electoral reform act of 2009? >> i will assume everyone-- >> go ahead. >> i have no problem with that. i think it is a wonderful idea. we just need to-- we need new choices in the voices and actually third parties, independent candidates to just what qada was trying to do and what heritage's trying to do. they are trying to increase the range of political debate. >> good to me you in person mr. steele, thank you for coming and i would like to say it is really, minear partisan third partisan independents don't have obviously the same platform, so they can get together and should get together on removing

lori got ten years in the federal penitentiary in alderson, west virginia, and was released after serving eight years on july 2nd of 1999. her son and only child, josh, was 15-years-old. lori had been gone for half of his life. by then, the meth business in the midwest had mutated into something that lori couldn't believe. though she was quick to comprehend that it was a new much more fully developed phenomenon than that which she had created along with the damascus. and once lori identified a spot for herself in the new order she did it the thing she had been doing all of her life. she went right back into business. [applause] thank you. >> it's question-and-answer time. >> okay. >> i see a hand over there. >> [inaudible] i was wondering if you had the chance to talk to the parents of these addicts? >> yeah, in fact there's a character -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah, the question is did i have a chance to talk to any parents of addicts, and the answer is one of the principal characters in the last part of the book is a recovering meth addict, who at the time that the book was written he had a

>> guest: they are in virginia. they will soon be moved back to laramie is my understanding when the current wyoming penitentiary is opened. is being enlarged to accommodate more prisoners. they are both serving consecutive -- two consecutive life sentences. >> host: so there is no chance of parole? >> guest: no, there's some -- if the governor can use one license then the second life sentence then becomes eligible for parole. but i don't see that happening. i would say no. there's a chance. >> host: parole in chicago, illinois. >> caller: yes, thank you judy, for all of your courage. i want to let you know that i have been a gay activist here in chicago as part of a group called cab in chicago anti-bashing network, and we actually got kind of came alive at the time that matthew died. and every year we have, you know, a remembrance in chicago. i'm not exactly sure what's going on in this year, but i just want to also let the viewers know about this hate crime legislation. one of the reasons that you want is a crime

carla, roanoke, virginia. you're on with temple grandin >> caller: thank you so much for taking my call and it's a pleasure to talk to you an honor and a pleasure. i have actually two questions and if you want to take them separately that's fine. i have a 14-year-old son with asperger's and sensory processing disorder. and basically he does fairly well academically. however, he has a real problem with reading comprehension with regards to the abstract or, you know, idioms or anything that's innuendo of that nature. do you have any recommendations regarding how we might be able to help him understand, you know, the subtle nuances of reading so they expect more than thomas the tank engine and the reading is getting more difficult. and my second question is how do you feel about faith and god and do you believe in -- do you believe autistic children have any concept of that. >> carla, thank you. >> i'll start with the reading comprehension. first of all, start with real concrete things. okay, if there's a story a

for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without, the gentleman is recognized. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise to speak about the majority's move to overhaul our health care system this week. and from what i can see, mr. speaker, the version of health care reform that this majority is bringing forward is a horrible, horrible step. the bill is something unseen before. it's a $1 trillion attempt to overhaul the system we know with one that we don't. mr. speaker, the republicans will stand united against this bill. mr. speaker, and we'll do so because, one, the american people have spoken out and they see that this is an extreme attempt to try and address what's really wrong with our system and it doesn't match what the mainstream commonsense american wants. number two, mr. speaker, contrary to the suggestions on the other side, we do have a better way. we will be offering our republican plan. and that p

there's tuition remission programs in west virginia and maine. there's the come back to iowa please campaign. quite literally, that's what it was called here it because iowans are very polite or so i'm told, right? we'll find out in a few minutes when we set the q&a. [laughter] where did you say that car was parked? braided the front? you know, there are ways to do this. one of the things we thought about. here's another statistic i didn't use earlier on but i'll throw it out there. over half of all counties in the state of iowa, just the state of iowa will play that missouri and other states have at least one medically underserved area and that's an area that doesn't have a doctor, nurse, nurse assistant, dentist, so one. so over half of all counties have at least one underserved area and about a third of them have more than one. here's the thing that you can think about. why not again prospectively instead of trying to attract people back once they've gone, right? because he and a little cord gets thinner and thinner. why not identify people wh

virginia's u.s. senator james m. mason and a great grandson of mason of gunston hall, the venerated declaration of rights. green was an attorney of obvious ability when later he became a justice of the west virginia supreme court of appeals and they think such provided in this courtroom in the west virginia supreme court of appeals held its sessions here. the overriding problem with the court-appointed attorneys was simply that brown did not choose them to represent in and he had no confidence in them. shortly after he was captured, brown wrote letters to ohio and massachusetts. in both of which states he had formerly lived, asking attorneys there to come to charlestown to represent him as codefendants. but by the time the attorneys were able to respond to brown's letters, the trial that artie begun in charlestown without him. the three attorneys who came to charlestown response to brown's letters were hiram griswold from ohio, samuel chilton from washington d.c. and george white from washington and

we still don't have the services we need here in west virginia. we live in a pretty productive city. but i have hired attorneys to try to protect my son. they sent him away for 60 days. put him on drugs. as far as i'm concerned, he's worse now than he was when we had him on omega 3 supplements and kept him on the schedule. even to the weekend when the schedule changes from school to the weekend, he's only up until 1:30 now. he just goes off. and the pass two weeks, he's declined. so severely, my husband is out walking with him now. he's great in the woods. and he's a great athlete. wonderful baseball player. but i would consider him more asperger when he was younger. now he can barely write, he can barely stick with anything. we just don't know what the next step is. i've even looked into a special residential place. >> you can get people loaded up on too many of the drugs, he is a zombie. if he can't write. did he write before, now he can't, you need to look at all of the drugs. he maybe on all of the wrong stuff. i have found in traveling around

of the commonwealth of virginia. that's all there is to it. and brown said, well, he department care particularly one way or the other, so he let them do it. >> how about his individual constitution? >> it was introduced in evidence in the trial, and portions of it were read to the jury. >> [inaudible] >> yes, uh-huh. yes, sir. >> [inaudible] tried in federal court, but if he'd been tried in federal court, the evidence, would he still have been convicted and hung? >> yes, i think he would have been. >> thank you. >> oh, that satisfies you? [laughter] well, i think he would have been. he was -- he broke the law. i mean, he broke the law in a violent way. you break the law in a violent way, they don't say go home and don't do it again. they, in those days they strung you up and hanged you, and i think that would have happened. but it would have been a much different trial in many respects. one, one important difference would be that the aggrieved party in that case would have been the united states of america. seeking

i'm from west virginia and in the eastern panhandle there's a single-payer group in west virginia and there are literally scores of these groups and the list a lot of them at the resourced page at single-payer action.org. a lot of it is spontaneous grassroots. their national organizations. as mikuak said we are coming together. the first thing would be to defeat this democratic bill and to have a single-payer advocates in the house and senate in the lead on defeating the bill so for the second round we have a leg up on the debate and not just let the republicans take charge in the defeated the bill. last question. >> back to the whole process thing, before the teabagger thing happen in august as you noted that the beginning of the news conference, a bunch of you were arrested at those hearings and what was a mistake to step back from that? the illusion that there is a settlement made. >> that was just a legal settlement and it was a legal settlement and it was pretty much a plea agreement with part of the condition of the plea, we did not plead guilty, but we said we would not protest

perhaps we found some this election tuesday in virginia. i am sure we will find more. it may take a cycle or two to get the new generation of republicans out there. all of a sudden we're seeing a lot of republicans encouraged to run, a lot of new candidates as a result of tuesday's election. >> what lesson do you thought of bob macdonald's victory? beside a big shift among independents. do you need to run to the center to be successful republican? >> guest: yes that are two ways of doing that. the lessons of the past election, the democrats are in this wonderful place where when you ask why they're going to win in 2010, because the republicans are a mess, they are divided and eating their own, i have told that story. usually when you tell that story, that is a bad place. the republicans are very unified at this point. we are unified, fiscal issues, a big umbrella. you saw it in congress when voted against the stimulus and in places like florida where the fellow out of the mainstream is one guy who happens to be the governor. every other republican in the state doesn't

possessed weapons and 20,000 rounds of ammunition and had plans to attack the marine base at quantico virginia. these men known as the raleigh seven were inspired by al-qaeda and radicalized in the united states. this past september, zazi, age 24, was arrested as part of a al-qaeda conspiracy to attack locations in new york city with hydrogen peroxide-based explosives. zazi who lived in ing queens during his formative years, ages 14 to 23 before departing for pakistan radicalized in the united states. later that same september, a 21-year-old from new york, brooklyn but indicted for a conspiracy to commit murder abroad in support for foreign transcripts. -- terrorists. arrested in kosovo he fought to take up arms against perceived enemies of islam. meaning, american troops, potentially in iraq or afghanistan. he was also radicalized in the united states. and there are more. in boston, a man aged 26 a graduate from the massachusetts college of pharmacy was arrested last month. not only did he seek to fight abroad but he was also charged with conspiring to attack civilians at a shopping mall in t

the gentleman from virginia is recognized for one minute. >> thank you mr. chairman. it is not like we haven't done anything. earlier this year and on the ms. appropriation bill we did relax certain restrictions on cuban travel but now i believe having extended that olive branches up to the castro regime to respond. for the relaxing the trade restrictions without reciprocal actions only undermines our efforts to improve human rights and my in bold and the castro regime in its twilight. while i sympathize with the flight of those with families in cuba i can't-- i believe we can afford to give away what leverage we still have over the castro regime if we are intending to realize improvements to the cuban people and their families here in america and i yield back. >> the time of the gentleman has expired and the gentlemen from arizona mr. flake is recognized. >> when i was elected to this office i thought i was being elected a member of congress, not a travel agent but for some of the discussion already today we are being told you what to travel to bermuda or to haiti bu

elsewhere, west virginia a big lead on the citadel. cincinnati over maryland by 13 in the second half, virginia and stanford tied at 45. wake forest has a 14 point lead in the second half as well. georgia 79-58 winner over u.n.c. asheville. 2-2 as they welcome jacksonville state to the stegeman coliseum on friday night. coming up next, the virginia-clemson football replay. tigers clinch a spot in the acc title game followed by "sports night" at 11:00 eastern. and now from our partners and our producer/director mike jones and the entire crew, i'm matt stewart. stewart. good night from the stegema oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. good call. honey... the credit fairy... doesn't exist. what? it's make-believe. nobody left anyt

other scores around the southeast, number 8 west virginia with an 11 point lead on the citadel. 18th ranked ohio state leading lipscomb by nine and number 22 maryland trailing at cincinnati in the first half. also, stanford leading virginia by a point in the first half and wake forest with a two point lead on winston salem state. in the big south conference, coastal carolina was the losers. v.m.i. trailing u.n.c. wilmington by 27 in the first half and presbyterian at bradley coming up in just a few moments. halftime here in athens, georgia, where georgia has a 17 point lead. matt: it's halftime in athens, georgia. bulldogs leading u.n.c. asheville. announcer: there is a place not so far away. a place where you don't have to keep the volume down.

jay rockefeller of west virginia chairs the commerce and transportation committee. this is one hour and 35 minutes. >> this social event will come to order. and i'm going to give my opening statement, and then the ranking member, kay bailey hutchison will do the same. and then we'll call on an interesting very successful, beginning a political person from the state of new york i think. the honorable charles -- yes. thank you so much. and i needed that. i needed that a law. okay. at this very moment right now, 11 percent of all drivers on the road are holding an electronic device. they are calling home on their cell phone or they're reading text from a friend. or they are sending an e-mail to their office on their blackberry. or they are looking up directions with a gps system. that amounts to, please note, 812,000 distracted voters at any given moment. and those 812,000 drivers are not focus on the road. they are focused on their devices. and in this is much danger. they are putting their own lives at risk. that is their right. they are putting their passengers lies

. >> and senior member of the judiciary committee from virginia, bob goodlat. scry want to take the opportunity to welcome ticky barber, a star of the giants now retired who hails from my hometown of roanoke, virginia and who will be testifying on the second panel i believe and can share a lot with us. he and his brother rondy not only were great stars in the nfl but also, at the university of virginia and -- prior to that, in -- in the city of roanoke in -- in football played there. and -- and in high school. and so they could share this perspective with us, at each level of competition. and i also -- want to note that the great work that he has done in promoting football and -- recreation and athletics in general. he and his brother have -- have sponsored camps and other activities and i have seen first hand their great passion for -- for our young people. and i also want to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from california and -- as well, the ranking member. i share the concern about some of the practices that take place in football and i th

and most expect bob huggins and west virginia to win that conference this year. you were talking last night. watch out for rick patino. >> larry: yeah. i think louisville is going to be very good. >> dan: rebound to jones. that's jones. >> larry: he finally got one. >> dan: maybe that gets him going. >> larry: well, he was 1 for his last 12 counting last night and tonight. maybe that will get him going. >> dan: gives you an idea of his quickness and speed to the goal. 4:30 to play. >> larry: depaul went on a 10-0 run before that basket. >> dan: 27-18. nice look on the left block. trying to go up and understand. and picking it up and krys faber. >> larry: faber doing a nice job. how about the work down inside by the guys they need down there, faber and devin hill? >> dan: faber with four. three up from the right side. that's the second of the night for chris prescott. >> larry: well, if anything is going to happen for st. joseph's offensively, it has to be their guards. >> dan: the lead is caught to eight. walker in the lane. got it, blocked. st. joseph's has it.

it would be like the state of virginia being wiped out every year. it's only projected to get much worse. that's why we need your help. the plain fact is the cases are projected to rise. and 13 million to nearly 27 million by 2030. and by then, cancer would easily consume 17 to 20 million lives every year. if this is accurate or not, there are still too many people in the u.s. who are dying of cancer of all kinds. i know we can do this. i know we can do this, because we know enough and we have enough resources to make it happen. not just in america, but around the world. we can always use more. but let's recommit ourself to what we have now. and turn more of our energy and resources on this crisis, to move faster towards saving more lives. the other day someone asked me why i keep doing this work, and why we work so hard every day. to complete our mission. and after 30 years of laboring in the field, it's only more confident, and feeling more charging to victory. because i remember a horrific disease cured by generations where the victims were hidden

most of our green jobs in west virginia and kentucky and louisville, all around our wonderful country, they're discussing green jobs and i think there's a hunger to fix the two most critical problems of our day, our economic catastrophe and our climate crisis. if there's ever two times we want to put two words together, are the two word, climate and crisis. but we're there. but out of a climate crisis, the two sides to crisis, there is the one side that is danger and if we do not fix what is wrong with our climate, there's no more snow on mount kill man jar row, there's now huge lakes in the greenland, the arctic is beginning to melt away, there's asthma, there's cancer, we saw katrina. if we don't fix the climate crisis, and we move toward a catastrophe, but the other side of crisis, there are two sides to crisis. there's crisis on one side, but there's also opportunity. we have the opportunity to fight poverty and pollution at the same time. and we can also put the people who most need work and give them the jobs that we most need to be done, the jobs are retrofitting and weatherizi

. >> you lived in southern california, in northern california and now here in charlottesville, virginia. are you able to get around on public transportation? >> not to get around here, this is a rural county, i was able to get around in public transportation in san francisco, and oakland and l.a., i walked a lot. where i lived and here it is reviewer and really, is not, you know, charlottesville is gorgeous but not, to my mind, the look of the most sustainable development patterns with large lots, so we have a beautiful large lot with trees but it is far away. and i try to combine trips and try... and i do telecommute and send a lot of time in front of my computer at my desk which saves my daily commute but i would like to be more on foot and be closer in, eventually. >> down where the picture on the front of the book is taken? >> i believe, i need to check, i think that is the border crossing to mexico. >> and, who is your coauthor, daniel sperling. >> i have known him for 25 years, u-at uc davis and i spend so much time at berkeley with the union of concerned scientists, i know him ve

and monroe like washington and other virginia planters owned slaves. but consider slavery in laurel. but saw no way to end the practice without a blood bath. but i will use one myself. the first thing to remember is that slavery was not in america's institution. it was british, french and spanish. america's inherited after it was 200-years-old. virginians have actually voted to ban slavery in the early 1700's. but the british government of good clean overruled the act largely because the royal treasury depended on revenues from british slave traders. in the decades that followed under the three king george's virginians petitioned time after time to end slavery importation. the georges all refused to and during their brains or africans crossed the atlantic to america than europeans and voluntarily of course. ironically the increase in the number of slaves was more of a burden than benefit to most virginia planters. sleeves were usually unskilled and unable to speak english and they had fewer incentives to work in peace workers in the north and as they a

varied as the hair in your head, there is a program in kansas, tuition remission programs and west virginia and maine. there is the come back to iowa, please come campaign. quite literally that is what it was called, because on the winds are very polite or so i'm told, right? [laughter] we will find out in a few minutes when we get to the q&a, right? [laughter] where did you say that was, right at the front, write? [laughter] there are ways to do this. one of the things we thought about, there's an earlier statistic i didn't use early on but i will from now there. over half of all counties in the state of iowa, just the city of iowa, i can tell you about missouri and other states, have at least one medically underserved areas. and that is an area that doesn't have a doctor, nurse, nurse's assistant, a dentist and so on. so over half all counties in the state of iowa have at least one medically underserved area and about one-third of them have more than one. here is a thing the you can think about. why not again prospectively instead of trying to attract people back once thick of gone, right

i had won a ringing the other night about the virginia race. i don't know why, i don't live in virginia, but there was and i didn't answer it. i'm sorry to say. but there is more online polling. so the industry itself knows that this is a big import issue and yet there is still -- because there are so many of them you can screen out which ones are not so good and which are fairly reliable. >> here is one of the audience that says he or she soared in a queens the independent voter with the agnostic or atheists. that is them speaking. how did these groups get into thinking and i think that they mean the non committed religious. >> if you look at the secular, the people that aren't attending, you know, it's not a situation where is driven by a philosophy. whether it is liberal or conservative necessarily. we can find lots of a non and tending toward non mass going liberals and lots of a non church attending conservatives. i think there is this connection in that the non church attendance is defining religion for himself or herself and independence

i live in virginia, which voted for the last races of the two candidates for the first time in history, and it was a black man. this is good for projective. but we behaved as if it was a goat. i will grant you, we had a two in 2000, we headed to a 2004, but in 2008 we had an election and following an election you don't sit at home and wait to see what happens. you have made a deal and you are half of the deal is exactly what barack obama asked for. and that is to get out there and make them do it. and i don't mean make the president do it. the low-hanging fruit, is what's left of our representatives is to make your representatives in the house do it. and that means block bad bills, that means subpoenas, that means begin impeachment proceedings and that means put forward good built at the house doesn't always have to go second. the senate doesn't always have to go first. the house can push the senate. the senate has been worse than the house for over two centuries. the house passed bills against slavery at least eight times. the senate thought a war might be a better idea. we are in a s

finally, to quote representitive about your another senior democrat from virginia, says i did intend to oppose the bill because of my concerns that the insurance plan could place at risk the survival of our region hospitals. i am concerned and it determined to protect the rural health care that we have been the state of mississippi and in the districts represented by these comments. and the senator from arizona can conclude his part of the initial remarks and say that the concerns are not only coming from republicans but from actuaries, people who have analyzed this bill and coming from democrats who have read the bill and understand its meaning and understand the cuts to medicare are real and hurtful. i yield back. >> senator from mississippi is exactly right for, not just members of the house or senate republicans, democrats come as senior citizens in arizona. here are either a third party sources. the senators from medicaid services, the outfit that runs medicare they confirmed the cuts will compromise the care seniors receive. "the washington post" newspaper. how about that? is s

arlington cemetery in virginia. he place aid arlington cemetery in virginia. he place aid wreath arlington cemetery in virginia. he place aid wreath at the place aid wreath at the tomb of the unknowns onoring place aid wreath at the tomb of the unknowns onoring not only those who unknowns onoring not only those who lost their lives in battle, but lost their lives in battle, but also the men and also the men and women currently serving also the men and women currently serving in the us military. also the men and women currently serving in the us military. for serving in the us military. for those who serving in the us military. for those who are serving in serving in the us military. for those who are serving in far flung those who are serving in far flung places those who are serving in far flung places today, when your places today, when your tour ends, when you see places today, when your tour ends, when you see ourflag, when you when you see ourflag, when you touch our soil, when you see ourflag, when you touch our soil, you will be touch our soil, you will