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Guests: Howard Fineman, Simon Hobbs, Stephanie Gosk, John Marshall, Marty Beil, John Nichols, Andre Carson, Janice Schakowsky, Bill Richardson
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Right-wing purity test.
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Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews down in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Republicans' race to the right. For the five potential Republican presidential challengers who met last night in Iowa, it was a test to see who could go furthest right, who could make the best appeal to the social conservative base of the party. In the first real candidate forum for 2012, believe it or not, instead of talking about the economy, these fellows talked about God, gays and abortion. Is this the fight the party really wants to use to beat President Obama next year? That's our top story tonight.
Then we jump into the political battle raging in Wisconsin. Two polls now show the governor out there, Walker—his negative poll numbers are spiking upward, and voters want a compromise from the guy. Can the Democrats use this attack by him on unions to rally their base?
Plus, Congressman Peter King has released a witness list for Thursday's congressional hearings on what he calls the "radicalization of American Muslims." Twenty-eight House members have signed a letter opposing the holding of the hearings. We're going to hear from two members of Congress about the issue.
And President Obama has limited options, everybody knows, in Libya. I'll ask former United States ambassador Bill Richardson what the president should do. He'll be right here at the table.
Finally, John Ensign's retirement out in Nevada may open the door for the old (ph) Sharron Angle to win a seat in Congress—old "2nd Amendment remedies" herself. That's in the "Sideshow," if you want to be scared again.
We begin with the race for the right, to the right, by the Republican candidates for president. The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman is an MSNBC political analyst and Josh Marshall is with Talking Points Memo. Let's take a look (INAUDIBLE) gentlemen, let's take a look at some scenes from last night. This is the first forum of the season. Here's the GOP talking social instead of economic. Here's Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty talking about God last night in an effort to win, I guess, that vote. Let's listen.
RICK SANTORUM ®, FMR. PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR: Once you stick your head out on the social issues, once you fight for the moral fabric of our country, you're labeled. You're labeled.
NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA), FMR. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: -- because it means the power comes from God to each one of you personally. You are personally sovereign. You loan power to the government, the government does not loan power to you. And that is the fundamental division between most Americans and the secular socialist people around Obama.
TIM PAWLENTY ®, FMR. MINNESOTA GOVERNOR: We need to be a country that turns toward God, not a country that turns away from God.
MATTHEWS: Well, Howard, what is this, an audition for "Elmer Gantry"?
Is this what's going on here? Are they applying for a televangelist job? They're running for president of the United States, which the last time I looked, had no religious test for the office under the Constitution.
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Chris, they're running to try to win caucus votes in Iowa. And if you know Iowa as I do, on the Republican side, in the Republican caucuses, that's going to be 50 percent, 60 percent or more evangelical Christians.
MATTHEWS: What was the percentage?
FINEMAN: Fifty or sixty percent of the people who show up—
MATTHEWS: Show up.
FINEMAN: -- at the caucus vote.
MATTHEWS: They come from the church-based (ph) party.
FINEMAN: They're motivated, come from the megachurches. They come from all over. Now, in Iowa, the farmland prices are soaring., Commodity prices are up. Most of Iowa is not destitute economically. It's not like Michigan or parts of Ohio or Pennsylvania. And especially because of that, plus the strength of evangelical churches in Iowa, Iowa more than New Hampshire or even South Carolina, Nevada, Florida, you name it, other early stops—
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: -- on the Republican trail, Iowa is going to be all about, on the Republican side, the evangelical vote, which is why (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: Does it have the same power as Obama winning the Democratic caucuses in Iowa last time? Does it have the power to propel you, where the only thing that can stop you is a thumping, really, in New Hampshire after that?
FINEMAN: Possibly. Possibly. I think it's a little bit different because I think on the Republican side, the qualitative difference between what voters in Iowa are interested in and what voters in New Hampshire are interested in is greater than on the Democratic side.
MATTHEWS: I see.
FINEMAN: You see what I'm saying? But it's similar in that on the Democratic side last time in Iowa, it was all about the anti-war movement.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: It was all about Iraq. And Obama as a candidate got the inside track on Hillary on the war, and he never—
MATTHEWS: Because the war was an issue across the board.
FINEMAN: The issue in Iowa.
MATTHEWS: But is God? I don't want to be disrespectful or blasphemous at all, but is the focus on religious issues—let me go to Josh Marshall. Do you believe the focus on religious issue is a paramount issue for Republicans in picking a candidate to run against Obama? Is culture trumping economy? Would they rather have an evangelical fellow like Pawlenty, working all the way to the right to a Huckabee or even further to someone else, or would they rather have a Chris Christie show up in this race and win it as a secular candidate on the jobs and taxes issue?
JOSH MARSHALL, TALKINGPOINTSMEMO.COM: I think, you know, what you really—what the Republicans really want, what—what—what the base of the party wants is not that different from what you saw, you know, in the 2010 election. Even though that election seemed a lot about the economy and jobs, there was a backdraft about, you know, President Obama being alien to us, that he's a socialist. There was a lot of kind of cultural backdraft to that, even though a lot of the discontent that they were working with was economic.
So I think part of the issue here is whether or not it's, you know,
about God or religion, that the -- 2010 really set the Republicans up for -
MARSHALL: -- a primary battle, even a general election battle, that's hard on the social issues—
MARSHALL: -- the kind of base red meat issues.
MATTHEWS: So it sounds like you're saying, yes, these could be the deciding issues. Let's take a look—in picking the candidate. Just to make your point, Josh and Howard, here's an interesting—looking at Iowa here. Look at what they all talked about. They all focused on the issue of women's right to have an abortion, if you will, pro-choice issues, pro-life issues. Here they are talking abortion last night. They're all male candidates, by the way. Let's listen.
SANTORUM: We have an opportunity in this election to frame a great moral cause.
BUDDY ROEMER ®, FMR. LOUISIANA GOV: I'm a pro-life, traditional values man.
HERMAN CAIN ®, FMR. GODFATHER'S PIZZA CEO: We have to defend the life of the unborn.
PAWLENTY: We have people in Washington, D.C., who believe the unborn do not have a right to life. Yes, they do!
GINGRICH: You had a great speaker last year in Mike Pence, and I want to say I strongly endorse his cutting out all funding for Planned Parenthood, which has become a major source of abortion in America.
MATTHEWS: You know, Howard, language is important. To say that Planned Parenthood is a source of abortion is pretty strong language.
FINEMAN: Yes. Well, that's not the least of the strong language that even Newt Gingrich himself—not even, especially Newt was using, in terms of socialists, secular, this and that. The trick out of Iowa, and more generally, on the Republican side, is to somehow combine the moral force of their cultural critique with something in economics. You heard Newt attempt to do that, where he talked about individual rights, and so forth, being God-given. Mike Huckabee, I know, I talked to one of his top advisers—
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: -- said, Look, the person who's going to win this, this Huckabee guy said, is the one who can somehow—it's an obvious point—combine the two—
MATTHEWS: Oh, sure.
FINEMAN: -- and make their economic message sound like a moral crusade. That's what they've got to—
MATTHEWS: There were so many dog whistles last night. And we know what the term "dog whistle" means. Some people hear them, Josh, and some don't. Last night in Iowa, you heard Newt, for example, talking about moving our embassy. This is an old issue in every presidential campaign on both sides, but it has a particular meaning, doesn't it, to evangelical Christians. When he talks about moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, isn't that a dog whistle? Isn't that a statement of very overt religiosity for the Republican Party?
MARSHALL: Oh, absolutely. And I think that again, you have that, you have a lot of the stuff about Israel, the Middle East—there's a—there's a—a kind of a—
MATTHEWS: Is this rapture talk? Is this "end of days" talk?
MARSHALL: It's the politics of cataclysm that—that is—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MARSHALL: -- a dog whistle. But again, I think—and you know, and what Howard was saying—
MATTHEWS: See, it's a different message to—the Democratic Party would be concerned about the integrity and security of the state of Israel and even about the right of Israel politically to set its own capital where it would like to. But everybody knows this is a very—what's the right word? I was going to say start a fire issue. I forget what the Latinate term for it is, but it's—it starts a fire—
FINEMAN: Incendiary.
MATTHEWS: Incendiary issue in the Middle East. It may not seem that important to people in Iowa. We move the capital to Jerusalem and say all the talks are over about the future disposition of Jerusalem, and you're just going to war with some people. But you know, I know that everybody feels a certain way on these issues. But these signals to the evangelical right, it seems to me, are being sent pretty clearly out there, starting last night.
MARSHALL: You know, I think that's right, and I think Howard's point about Iowa being somewhat unique in terms of Republican politics going into 2012 is right. But again, I think that even though it's really aimed strongly at evangelicals in Iowa, this is something that really is going across the country, and you see—
MARSHALL: -- it with appeals to nullification in different states, in the 10th Amendment, and a lot of this stuff are very kind of radical right-wing politics that, again, I think they made this bed for themselves in some ways in the 2012 election.
MATTHEWS: OK. Speaking of that, I wonder whether Newt is going to sell out. I'm expecting him to show up in sandals next time he goes out there, in some sort of, you know, Christian-era robe on because he's becoming so Christian in his politics. Here he is talking about morality. I knew Newt as a sort of a GOPAC political hotshot in Washington. Whatever you thought of him, he was very secular in his politics. Here he is now, retooling himself on the religious side. You're laughing because it may work! That's why—it may work with some people. They may say, yes, I like the new Newt. Here he is. Let's listen to Newt Gingrich in the new guise.
GINGRICH: Morality applies across the board. We should all base our principles on fundamental questions of morality.
MATTHEWS: You know, even the hand gestures, there's something very Christian about that. It's like he's receiving information, and he's giving it to us. It's something—I'm holding my hand up, Josh. It's something very Christian-era about this guy.
FINEMAN: I don't think Josh is old enough to even remember this, but I have—
MATTHEWS: I'm looking at my catechism books!
FINEMAN: All right. When Newt came on the scene—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: -- it was a sensation because here was a Republican guy
talking about science, talking about everything from brontosauri to science
fiction. And it was all secular, I agree. Now, it was humanistic, but it
was secular. And he was fascinating in his ability to connect the dots and
MATTHEWS: What about women couldn't fight in combat because the men, like, hunt giraffes, all that crazy talk?
FINEMAN: Well, exactly, but it was—so he's always been an interesting guy to watch—
MATTHEWS: But now he's—
FINEMAN: -- to watch him now, to be—well, and also, he can—
MATTHEWS: I know he's—
FINEMAN: -- you know, on the personal side—
MATTHEWS: -- he's become a Roman Catholic. I know.
FINEMAN: He converted to Catholicism—
MATTHEWS: But let's (INAUDIBLE) the politics of this. He is now selling himself as an Iowa sort of born-again, very culturally conservative Christian, in a political sense. I've got to be careful about—
FINEMAN: But only—
FINEMAN: Newt is one of the few people to have the ambition to try to come up with some theory, some unified field force theory to combine his new religiosity with the past.
MATTHEWS: You know, it reminds me—
FINEMAN: And also can do it.
MATTHEWS: -- of a guy trying to—it reminds me of the old days. I shouldn't even say this, but Josh, I'll try this on you. You know how the guys would try to rob a bank by wearing a zoot suit or something so strange that it would focus on the costume and ignore who was wearing it!
MATTHEWS: -- zoot suit next time!
MARSHALL: Chris, there's a point of consistency, I think, with Newt, and what's always been about—
MATTHEWS: Oh, good. This is important.
MARSHALL: -- New, going back—
MATTHEWS: A point of consistency.
MARSHALL: Yes, a point—going back 30 years now, is that Newt is always about "the best defense is a good offense," and not just a good offense, a totally in-your-face, over-the-top offense.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MARSHALL: And I—you know, clearly, there's a religious conversion that he's gone through, and I don't second guess that—
MARSHALL: -- on a personal level, but I think there's also—it's undeniable that he's going into this with not just one but, like, arguably two, even three, sort of, you know, relationship scandals in his past. And so this is a good footing, very much in the new tradition, to go in with.
MATTHEWS: It's blindingly audacious!
MARSHALL: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Howard Fineman, and thank you, Josh Marshall. I like the way you said that!
Coming up—Newt Gingrich, a power to be dealt with. Anyway, senate Democrats in Wisconsin say they no longer trust Republican governor Scott Walker, who refuses to compromise, they say, in that standoff over the rights of public employee unions to exist. Can Democrats use this battle over the right to collectively bargain to rally their base nationally? This is a big question for a lot of Democrats who think the answer is a big yes.
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MATTHEWS: Pennsylvania, of course, went heavy for Republicans last year's election, but a new poll shows President Obama in good shape for next year. The president leads three top potential challengers. He has a 7-point lead over Romney. That's a good thing to have against Romney in Pennsylvania. Against Mike Huckabee, 10-point lead, 44-34. Sarah Palin also trails the president by a 28-point margin. No surprise there, although that's a hell of a gap. Obama carried Pennsylvania by 10 points back in 2008. Actually, I'm very impressed, the fact that he's in good shape there. Next step, Ohio, then on to Wisconsin. They get tougher. We'll be right back.
MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER: America is not broke! Not by a long shot! The country is awash in wealth and cash! It's just that it's not in your hands! It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
MATTHEWS: Wow. That's Michael Moore. Welcome back. That's, of course, filmmaker Michael Moore, who knows how to talk, knows how to make a movie, this weekend showing his support for the union workers out in Wisconsin and the standoff between Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who's plunging in the polls, and state Democrats out there over the issue of collective bargaining. And that fight goes on.
How's the fight playing right now with both Republicans and Democrats across the country, as well as back in the state, the Dairy State? Marty Beil's director of Wisconsin AFSCME council 24 and John Nichols is with "The Nation" magazine here in Washington.
Gentlemen, I want you to look at a poll which shows, I think, how the public's reacting to the performance of the governor out there. Governor Walker's unfavorable rating has shot up 10 points in the last couple weeks because of his behavior. His unfavorable rating has risen 18 points since November. That is a hell of a spike, from 35 percent unfavorable up to 53 percent.
I want to go to a man on the site there, Marty Beil. Marty, what do you make of this? What's caused this? It's 63 percent, or 65 percent, which is about two thirds, say, Deal. They want him to deal with the workers, with your union. Your thoughts? Give me a couple minutes on this. What's this tell you about the fight as it stands right now?
MARTY BEIL, EXEC. DIR., WISCONSIN AFSCME: Well, I think it's—I
think it's the Wisconsin citizens and workers finally beginning to get
their point across to this governor and to the citizens in general. I
mean, what you see here every day in Madison and throughout this state is
that common, ordinary citizens and workers are saying, This isn't
Wisconsin's tradition, this isn't part of Wisconsin's fabric here. This is
we're getting turned upside-down.
In three months, we have a 44-year-old politician that's turned Wisconsin upside down. I think the citizens and the taxpayers and the voters have seen this and said, This isn't our tradition, we don't want you to go down this path. Unfortunately, Scott Walker is pretty head-strong, pretty arrogant about things, and he's not budging.
But I'll tell you what. At the end of the day, the taxpayers, the citizens and the workers of this state will prevail.
MATTHEWS: I always try to remind myself, John, that most voters are not rich or very poor. Most voters are middle class, largely defined. And it seemed to me there was a calculation on the part of the governor of Wisconsin, based on last November's returns, the election returns, which were very good for the Republicans, that he could build a battle of private sector middle class people against public sector middle class people, that he could make that to be the carving issue, right down between them, and have the middle class private sector people resent deeply the public service employees and join the governor in that fight.
He made a miscalculation, I think. What do you think?
JOHN NICHOLS, "THE NATION": I think he made a huge miscalculation. And frankly, during the campaign, when I spoke to Scott—and I talked to him several times about this—he did seem to be setting up a class warfare, internal class warfare—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
NICHOLS: -- if you will, between public sector and private sector workers. But the problem was that he went after their union rights, and that was—that was the big mistake. Suggesting that public employees were paid too much, that's an issue that he might have been able to sell. But when he went after their collective bargaining rights, that's the point where you actually saw something remarkable happen.
Within those polls, Chris, if you look at the polls, you look at union households, be they private or public, there's a dramatic shift going on. The Reagan Democrats in the private sector are coming back to the Democratic Party.
MATTHEWS: This country's a lot more centrist than people realize on both—going from both ends.
Let's take a look here at the new ad from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Let's listen. They argue in this ad on the progressive side that what's on here is an attempt by, well, corporate power to go after the little guy. Let's watch.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This bill that Walker's proposing is going to cost me over $3,000 a year, not to mention more down the road, when we lose our collective bargaining rights.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe the issues that are being discussed for Madison are not unique to Madison or the state of Wisconsin. These are national issues. Money is being taken away from workers and tax breaks given to major corporations.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Republican class warfare, an attack on the middle class. This is a battle we need to win.
MATTHEWS: Marty Beil—Marty Beil, it looks like some of the conservative in the country are going for the kill, even though they're losing.
It's a strange strategy, when you're losing a fight, as Governor Walker apparently is out there, to go on the offense. Now, you have got Jim DeMint of Georgia, who is a pretty conservative guy, out there now saying, let's go for a national right-to-work law. In other words, these guy say they believe in states' rights, but now what they want to do is beyond Taft-Hartley from the late '40s, which allowed each state to go to right-to-work, if they chose to, and Southern states largely did, but now they want to make it a national policy you don't have to join a union.
What do you think of this move? Is this a joke?
BEIL: Well, I think—well, I think, again, it shows that Republicans are out of touch with working men and women in the middle class. And I think what you see here in Wisconsin and you're now seeing in Ohio and Indiana and other states across this country is only the first chapter in this.
I am certain that, if the Republicans are successful in trying to move national right-to-work, you will see an outcry and demonstrations as if you have never seen them before, because people are getting it. You know, it's time for workers in the middle class to take their government back, and that's what we're all about.
MATTHEWS: Do we even know if it's constitutional, John, if—Jim DeMint of South Carolina, he's from—if it's even constitutional to tell companies they can't cut a contract which makes employees join unions, a state government, a local government can't cut a contract that allows—that requires people to participate and pay dues, at least, to a union, or at least pay some money to compensate for not paying dues? Can they come in and regiment the country according to the purposes of Jim DeMint? Is that constitutional?
NICHOLS: Well, let's hope not. Let's hope not.
In fact, the courts have dealt with this, and up to this point, there's been a great deal of protection for union rights, especially in non right-to-work states.
Now, what DeMint is doing, though, is actually I think useful in the current debate, and I will tell you why. He is putting the reality out there. The Republican Party, which historically, until very recently, tried to compete for at least some union votes, is essentially saying, we're done with that. We are now the anti-union party.
And if they want to communicate that message, you know, I would welcome them to do so.
MATTHEWS: Well, they lose a lot of Reagan Democrats, I'll tell you that, when they do that.
NICHOLS: But I have got to tell you, it's not working—it's not working in Wisconsin.
MATTHEWS: Your thought, Jim, John, quickly—John—I mean—I'm sorry—Marty Beil, quickly, what is going on among your union—your union more unified than ever or what? What's going on?
BEIL: Our unions are more—our union and the unions as a whole here in Wisconsin are more unified than ever.
I mean, the level of activity out there by my rank-and-file members in terms of protests around the state, every little city, every little town, every little burg, even John Nichols' hometown of Union Grove, Wisconsin, had a rally of some 200 people, unheard of in that part of the state. Our members are involved in recall elections.
In three days, over 2,000 volunteers are collecting signatures for recalls. It's incredible.
MATTHEWS: Marty, you included, you have got some sharp union leadership out there. I hope it catches on nationwide, that kind of sharp thinking, conceding on the co-pays right off the bat, queen sacrifice, like in chess. We say, no, we don't want to do this, but we know this is the smart strategic move.
Don't make the issue co-pay, because everybody who goes to work has to do a co-pay. Make the issue rights to exist, smart, quick decision. It takes real leadership to make quick calls like that in the huddle or out of the huddle, audibles.
Thank you, Marty Beil.
Thank you, John Nichols from "The Nation."
Up next: A Republican lawmaker wants to ban college kids from voting. Guess why? They vote Democrat. How inconvenient. That's ahead in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. And time for the "Sideshow."
First up, Stephen Colbert took on Mike Huckabee last night for wrongly saying that President Obama was raised in—actually born in Kenya. Here's Colbert.
MIKE HUCKABEE ®, FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR: If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours, because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE COLBERT REPORT": Oh.
COLBERT: Now, in case you missed it, he said Obama grew up in Kenya with his Kenyan father—Kenya, Kenya, Kenya.
COLBERT: My feelings about this, folks, I have got to say, are complicated. First off, Obama didn't grow up in Kenya. He was born in Kenya—
COLBERT: -- before moving to Islamistan, where he then traveled back in time to plant his birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper.
MATTHEWS: Point well made.
Next: curbing the youth vote. New Hampshire's Republican House speaker, William O'Brien, is trying to keep college kids from voting. Why? You have got to hear it to believe it. Here's O'Brien at a Tea Party event in January.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN ®, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE REPRESENTATIVE: They will have 900 same-day registrations, which are the kids coming out of school and basically doing what I did when I was a kid in school, is voting as a liberal.
Now, that's what kids do. They don't have life experience, and they just vote their feelings. And they're taking away the town's ability to govern themselves. And it's not fair.
MATTHEWS: Well, he doesn't want all those kids voting up at Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire and Saint Anselm because they tend to vote Democrat.
And it's not just talk. The state Republican Party is pushing through now two bills, one that would allow students to vote only if their parents had established residence in the college town itself, and another that would end same-day registrations.
Finally, Second Amendment Sharron. State Republicans breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when tarnished Senator John Ensign announced his retirement from the Senate. The hitch? Sharron Angle might run for Congress or Senate. Angle's former campaign adviser yesterday said her Tea Party following and fund-raising ability could win whichever office she chooses to run for.
If this doesn't concern you, by the way, ladies and gentlemen out there, I don't know what would—Sharron Angle, the one who says we ought to be able to use Second Amendment remedies if they don't like a politician. Think about it.
Up next: Congressman Peter King's hearings into the radicalization, as he sees it, of American Muslims is set for Thursday. We are going to hear from two members of Congress who are trying to stop it, stop those hearings from being held.
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MATTHEWS: Well, we have got trouble.
A week—two days from now, the House Homeland Security Committee is going to hold a hearing, its title, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim community and That Community's Response."
But the title belies the passion around these hearings. Opponents say the hearings will single out and stigmatize one group, American Muslims.
Joining me are two people opposed to holding the hearings, U.S. Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslim members of Congress, and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.
MATTHEWS: Congresswoman, you first. Thank you for coming on.
And, thank you, Congressman.
REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY (D), ILLINOIS: Thank you.
REP. ANDRE CARSON (D), INDIANA: Pleasure.
MATTHEWS: I'm going to be really tough here, but if you had had hearings on this 20 or 30 years ago, and said, I'm going to—I'm a Protestant guy and I'm going to hold hearings on the radicalization of American Irish, and I'm going to look for who might be supporting NORAID, who might be supporting the provisional wing of the IRA, and just go looking for them, and make some assumptions where we can find them, and root them out, that would have been seen as a pogrom, it seems to me, Congresswoman—
SCHAKOWSKY: Exactly. There's no question about it.
MATTHEWS: -- and when you start rooting through an ethnic group, rooting through them, trying to find where the problem is and who the troublemakers are, as a presumption that they have got them in that group, let's go nail them.
Your thoughts?
SCHAKOWSKY: You know, we have actually done that, during World War II, when we incarcerated Japanese Americans. We made an assumption about all the Japanese Americans.
But I have to tell you, Chris, not only is it counter our American values, but it's also counterproductive to our national security, because we have a very impressive collaboration with the Muslim-American community, many of whom live in my district. And they have actually rooted out and foiled domestic terror plots, seven out of the last 11 times, 48 times over the last 120.
SCHAKOWSKY: So, you know, this is not making us safer. It's making us more—less safe.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about your district. And then I want the other congressman to talk. Tell me about the feelings you have heard expressed to you by your constituents who are of Islamic faith about the holding of hearings about their community and their danger to America. Your thoughts?
SCHAKOWSKY: Well, there's a tremendous amount—
MATTHEWS: What do you hear from your people?
SCHAKOWSKY: There's a tremendous amount of resentment, but also a very hurt feeling. People feel hurt.
They feel as if they're loyal Americans, they're entrepreneurs, they're professionals, they work for the local governments, they drive cabs. They feel really hurt that they're being singled out, particularly because they do see themselves as loyal Americans, and are.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's fact.
You know, if you're in my business, Congressman, you meet a lot of guys driving limousines, if you're lucky. You meet them at hotels. You meet them around the country.
CARSON: Sure.
MATTHEWS: You meet them at church, if they're Maronite Christian or Catholic. I meet a lot of them in my church, and not a lot of them, but a significant number of them are friends. And they must wonder, how did we get under the beacon of investigation? What did we do?
CARSON: It's so unfortunate, Chris.
The National Consortium on the Study of Terrorism released a report. The report was a compilation of studies done by state police agencies across this great nation. And Islamic jihadists ranked number 11, a distant 11, behind the Ku Klux Klan, behind neo-Nazis, anti-immigration groups and others.
Islamic terrorism, or at least the label Islamic terrorism, is certainly a threat in this country.
MATTHEWS: Anti-abortion people, too.
CARSON: Anti-abortion. Animal rights activists as well. It's certainly a problem. We need to contain the threat, identify the threat and isolate the threat, and bring that threat to justice.
MATTHEWS: OK. I just don't like the idea of going after a group of people and putting a big blanket over—a big, wet, hot blanket and saying, you're the trouble, let's find out which of you are the guilty ones.
Here's Congressman Peter King making his effort to defend the hearings that are coming up Thursday. Let's listen.
REP. PETER KING ®, NEW YORK: There is no other group in this country, other than al Qaeda and Islamic terrorists, which is recruiting. We have always had neo-Nazis. We have also had environments—always had environmental extremists.
What makes this unique and different is, this is a homegrown group of people being recruited by an enemy from overseas.
MATTHEWS: Congressman, it seems to me that one of the things we have been proudest of in our country over its history, in what is American exceptionalism, is the ability to come to this country and become an American, 100 percent.
CARSON: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: A lot of countries—you can't go to Japan and become 100 percent Japanese. You look different. You're not going to be Japanese. Or in China or other countries—a lot of countries are so monocultural, you can't break in, no matter what you do, no matter how many years you stay there.
MATTHEWS: We have had problems like that over the years, but we're working on them. Is this work for or against assimilation?
CARSON: America—
MATTHEWS: Is it going to work against it?
CARSON: Chris, absolutely. America will not win the war against terrorism without help from Muslims. I was one of those Muslims who worked in homeland security who helped with local law enforcement, as well as the FBI.
MATTHEWS: So, you're Muslim?
CARSON: Absolutely. I'm one of two Muslims in Congress. My dear friend, Keith Ellison, is the first. Who helped thwart these efforts.
Congresswoman Schakowsky was right. I was reminded of a conversation that Ben Franklin had at the Constitutional Convention with Mrs. Powel. She asked Ben Franklin very definitively, "What do we have, a monarchy or a republic?" And he said, "We have a republic, if you can keep it." How do we keep it?
MATTHEWS: Well said again.
Let me ask you, Congresswoman, your thoughts on the end. I want you to speak for the feelings of people that you represent. I know you have people of Islamic faith in your district. You have a very varied district. What's this going to do a week from now when they know that they've been investigated as a community?
SCHAKOWSKY: Well, they feel very resentful. I've talked to a number of young people, older people, too, and it's created also fear in the community. Are we going to be targeted? What's next? Are there infiltrators in our mosques on Friday? Are my kids safe going to school with their heads covered?
So, I think it really has alienated a number of people or made them mistrustful. I mean, these are, again, loyal Americans. They want to be part of our society, of our communities, and they feel that they're being excluded and targeted in an unfair way. And, of course, that's exactly what's happening. This is unfair toward them.
MATTHEWS: OK. We've heard your voices. I hope the country hears them. I hope the Muslim community in this country hears them, that people don't like these hearings.
Thank you, Congressman Carson, for coming in.
CARSON: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Congresswoman Janice Schakowsky from out of Illinois.
Up next: Does President Obama need to do more in response to what's going on in Libya? That's a hot question right now. We'll see if there are options.
We have former United States ambassador to the United Nations, a real trouble-shooter. Bill Richardson is going to be sitting right there in just a minute. Stay tuned to watch Bill Richardson's thinking about Libya.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Who's hot and who's not? According to a new Quinnipiac Poll, voters feel warmest towards Michelle Obama. The first lady scored a 60 out of a 100. Atop of the list, ahead of Bill Clinton and the rising star of the Republican Party, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Look out for Christie. Christie edged out President Obama, who scored a 56.5 on the list.
Who are voters cool on? Pelosi scored just 33 percent. Harry Reid, just 35 percent. Palin, 38 percent. They're all in the 30s and they get all the publicity.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
Moammar Gadhafi appeared and then disappeared from a hotel in Libya tonight, but his forces were on the offense—offensive earlier today outside the capital of Tripoli. And there were conflicting reports that someone had approached the opposition there in Libya on behalf of Gadhafi to negotiate a possible transition of power, though later that story was denied by Libyan state TV.
NBC's Stephanie Gosk is in Benghazi.
Stephanie, what's up? Is there any talk of a pullout by Gadhafi, or is this a fight to the finish?
STEPHANIE GOSK, NBC NEWS: Well, there were a lot of mixed messages in the last 24 hours on this issue. And what happened was originally it was reported that a number of people here in the interim government had said that they had been approached by the Gadhafi government with an offer, that he would be willing to step down if they would protect his family and his money and insure that they wouldn't go after him for human rights violations.
They then retracted that, and that came because of public pressure here. People were nervous on the ground that they had all of a sudden decided to negotiate with Gadhafi. And in Tripoli, Gadhafi's officials said uncategorically that that kind of negotiation was never under way.
So, you know, you do have on both sides a bit of propaganda going on. But it doesn't seem like negotiations, if they're happening, are going very quickly or very successfully—Chris.
MATTHEWS: Maybe this is too hard a call for a straight reporter—but do both sides think they can win now?
GOSK: Yes, both sides definitely think they can win. And you see Gadhafi digging in his heels and you see the rebellion here digging in their heels.
Although it's worth mentioning that on this side of things in Benghazi, with the interim government, there was a lot of very quick success here. The protests happened. They took over this town, this region very, very quickly. They had a lot of momentum.
And in the last few days, they've seen that momentum kind of grind to a halt. There have been some brutal battles to the west of here in these oil towns, and we've been talking about Brega and Ras Lanuf. The rebels really stuck in the desert there and not being able to move any further west. They want to go all the way to Tripoli, and it's clear Gadhafi's not going to allow that to happen.
And what the officials here are seeing is a government that's not willing to negotiate, not willing to step down, and they don't seem to be going anywhere. It's a kind of stalemate at this point—Chris.
MATTHEWS: Sharp report. Thank you very much for the reporting—
Stephanie Gosk in Libya.
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was the United States ambassador to the United Nations for many years.
Governor, thank you.
You are very good at dealing with trouble. No, you are. You've been to North Korea, all over the country dealing with hostage situations and really bad situations.
What is your political sense? You're hearing a lot of people, even John Kerry, chairman of foreign relations, and you're hearing from people like John McCain on the Republican side—go in, do a no-fly zone, get involved militarily. Should we?
BILL RICHARDSON, FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR: I believe that the international community should and we should take the lead. Yes, I think the time has come for a no-fly zone, internationally recognized, perhaps NATO-led, with our assistance. I think we need to take steps, Chris, the United States, to airlift humanitarian supplies, possibly some weapons to the rebels.
I have said that it makes sense to covertly find ways to help the rebels, give them some ammunition, give them some weapons. I think the time has come to step in.
I think the president has handled it well. He's calibrating his remarks. He's building international support, diplomatic support, economic support.
I wouldn't discount this report about Gadhafi going to his opposition and saying, let's talk. I think he's feeling the pressure.
MATTHEWS: What about something short of that, because the president's holding back on no-fly, what about some kind of embargo against oil exports? Just stop them from exporting oil. Maybe that would be against our economic interests, but it would certainly shut down that government, wouldn't it?
RICHARDSON: Pretty much, their oil operations have literally ceased. But at the same time, any kind of economic boycott, any kind of economic sanction, any kind of efforts to ensure that the regime and the leadership doesn't travel, that always was a tactic that we used. Getting some of the Libyan to peel off and go to the other side. This is the time where I think that his internal support is eroding. So, take advantage.
MATTHEWS: My worry is that we've had good reasons to go into other countries before, like Somalia, during the famine. (INAUDIBLE) the country becomes a shooting war, where there's chasing after a warlord like Aidid or something.
And my question is: what happens after we shoot down the first Libyan plane and we've killed somebody in Libya? Will we still be the good guys? Or we'll be the bad guys, the foreigners from the West?
RICHARDSON: Well, I think we need to recognize—I remember President Clinton said that one of his great regrets was in Rwanda, not intervening.
MATTHEWS: I know.
RICHARDSON: I think you have to have a threshold—there's huge human rights violations, human carnage. I think we're taking the side of democracy, of civil society, of a group of young men and women in Libya who want to get rid of their dictator. I think in the end, tilting that way, doing it carefully, building diplomatic support, having a carefully constructed, internationally recognized no-fly zone, helping the rebels with airlifts.
MATTHEWS: Would you go see Gadhafi if the president asked you to do it? You're pretty good at this stuff. You seem to get along with bad guys by the name that I know. They like you.
RICHARDSON: Yes. Well—
MATTHEWS: You don't make moral judgments about these guys in the way their used to.
RICHARDSON: Well, if the president asked me, I would do it. But I'm not—
MATTHEWS: You'd be in Tripoli tomorrow morning.
RICHARDSON: But—yes—but I'm not the traditional diplomat.
MATTHEWS: Oh, that's why they like you. Look at this guy, you could get along with him. I'm just teasing.
Let me ask you about your part in the country, politically. It looks to me like we're going to have a real stalemate in the Midwest, going really tough, the east coast and the west coast would be probably be Democrat next time the way things are going. Pennsylvania looks good. Ohio is going to be tough.
It seems to me these elections are going to be fought in the Southwest. It's going to be Colorado, New Mexico, your state, Arizona, states like that with heavy Latino, Hispanic populations.
Now, if the Republicans are sharp enough to put Rubio on the ticket from Florida, who speaks Spanish, comes from a Cuban background, could they -- could they knock out the Democrats in the part of the country they need, which is the Southwest?
RICHARDSON: Well, the danger is that traditionally in presidential races, the Democrats have gotten 65 percent. If you put a Rubio on on a national basis, you could increase to 35 percent that Republicans traditionally get. However, I think President Obama is very strong among Hispanics right now, especially in the Southwest.
So I think we can survive a Rubio threat, and it would be a threat. I think the Democratic Party cannot continue to take the Latino vote for granted. And that means a lot of outreach. That means progress and comprehensive immigration reform, the DREAM Act, jobs.
I mean, one of the things about Latinos, Chris, is there's a perception that they only care about civil rights and immigration. They care about jobs. They care about national defense, foreign policy. And I think it's important the Democratic Party speak to them, not as an ethnic group, but as Americans.
MATTHEWS: Do you think the Republican Party—I know you're a Democrat—you think the Republican Party, I think they do have a great opportunity with Hispanics because they're—it seems to me a lot of Hispanic people are business people. They want to be entrepreneur. They want to get a piece of the American Dream, not just get a job. They want to have a business.
Republicans can offer that as part of their ideology, their philosophy, right?
RICHARDSON: Well, they have—they've made some progress, and they're the only ones that elected on a national basis three Latinos, the governor of Nevada, governor of New Mexico, and Rubio in the Senate. So, Hispanics don't have any national elected officials at the Senate/governor level. I was the last one.
MATTHEWS: You look upon—coming from the Southwest, representing the people I should say—do you think people in the Southwest who are Mexican-American, do they look at a Cuban-American as a fellow national—fellow Hispanic?
RICHARDSON: Yes, they do, not the same as Hispanic because like any ethnic community, you know, there's some divisions, there are some rivalries. But I think a Cuban-American would be appealing to all Hispanics.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RICHARDSON: However, I think Obama's strength among Hispanics is quite strong and can override that right now.
MATTHEWS: You're one of my favorite politicians, Mr. Bill Richardson.
RICHARDSON: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Energy secretary, U.N. ambassador, governor of New Mexico, United States member of Congress, you've done it all. But not yet, you're not finished, sir. Thank you, Bill Richardson, for coming to HARDBALL.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with the Republican field on 2012. Can they beat Obama by not talking about the economy? What's all this religious talk? Is there a religious test on the Republican Party? Is that what's going on in Iowa? I think it is.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" with this strange opening of the Republican presidential campaign for 2012. It seems to the observer like there are two different campaigns afoot here.
Out in Iowa last night, a quintet of conservatives rivaled over their religious and moral credentials with Newt Gingrich arguing the conservative principle should be based on questions of morality. On it went last night at the forum about abortion and marriage and morality. From the mouth of one speaker—the evils of entitlement programs such as—without daring to mention them—Social Security and Medicare.
Call this the western conference. It's a battle for the cultural right with Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and Michele Bachmann still on the bench. It's a battle for who can be the most right wing, the morality, the religion-based reasoning, the sharp-elbowed positioning to be the most fundamental of the fundamentalists.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney has begun the battle for the eastern conference, those Republicans who believe that this is a fight to see who can match and outpoint President Obama on economics. That's also begun.
The problem for the teams in each of these two conferences, eastern and western, is that everyone knows the real competitors have yet to take the field. Out in the west, people like Santorum and Newt are hoping they never do because how does one of them compete with Palin and Huckabee when it comes to exciting the cultural right, the folks who head the polls and the church bus. And now, there's anything wrong with that, not to say any wrong with it.
Same with the eastern conference based on up in New England—Romney can hum about trying to retread himself and keep trying to get people to forget the old set of tires he ran on last time, abortion rights to win the governorship of Massachusetts, health care, including the individual mandate once he got in office up there in Boston.
But Mitt knows, doesn't he, that he's going nowhere in this salesmanship department once the truly conservative, pro-life governor named Chris Christie takes the field.
So, the best you can say about the Republican race so far is that we know the brackets. There's the west that demands culture wars 24/7 and the east that wants job and the government spending cuts that somehow—well, they're going to somehow create.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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March 22, 2013 - BET continues to dominate primetime with last night's finale telecasts of breakout hits REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD and SECOND GENERATION WAYANS. Closing out the season with stellar ratings, REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD is now cable's #1 sitcom among all adults 18-49 so far this season, outperforming all new and returning sitcoms. The series finale is also cable's #1 weeknight sitcom telecast in March among all viewers. SECOND GENERATION WAYANS finished its season as cable's #2 new sitcom among all adults 18-49 this season, only behind REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD. For the month of March, SECOND GENERATION WAYANS' series finale is the #1 cable sitcom telecast in its 10:30 P.M.* time-slot.
The BET Season Finale of REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD premiered Tuesday night to a total of 2.2 million viewers during its 10:00 p.m.* premiere. When combined with REAL HUSBANDS OF HOLLYWOOD'S 11:00 P.M.* encore, the finale episode attracted 3.4 million total viewers. And, SECOND GENERATION WAYANS 10:30 P.M.* premiere drew 1.3 million total viewers. When combined with SECOND GENERATION WAYANS' 11:30 P.M.* encore, the premiere episode attracted 2.2 million total viewers. In total, BET's entire Tuesday night scripted block garnered almost 6 million total viewers from 10:00 P.M.-12:00 A.M.!
On the digital side, BET's hashtag #RHOHFinale trended at #3 worldwide on Twitter during the 10:00 p.m.* premiere, and Nicole Ari Parker and Tisha Campbell Martin were also top trends. In addition, 13.9 million visits have been made to Real Husband and Second Generations content on BET.com since the premiere date.
Source: BET Corporate Research via Nielsen Company LIVE + SAME DAY DATA; Omniture 1/15/13 - 3/19/13.
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BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.

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ESPN's "Monday Night Football" Wins the Night among All Key Male and Adult Demos
Last night, ESPN's Monday Night Football - a record-setting 59-28 Philadelphia Eagles road victory over the Washington Redskins - earned a 10.8 household coverage rating (9.3 US rating), representing an average of 10,816,000 households (15,032,000 viewers - P2+), according to Nielsen.
MNF led all programs (broadcast or cable) in all key male and adult demos, helping ESPN win the night among all networks in those same categories.
In the game, Eagles quarterback Michael Vick accounted for six touchdowns (four passing, two rushing) and more than 400 yards of total offense as Philadelphia scored a MNF-record 59 points against its longtime NFC East rival.
Through the first 10 weeks (11 games), ESPN's MNF is averaging a 10.6 household rating, 10,629,000 households (14,700,000 viewers), slight increases in all measurements versus 2009. ESPN MNF games rank as the 11 biggest audiences among households and the nine biggest among total viewers for cable television in 2010 (including the 2009 MNF season finale - Minnesota vs. Chicago, 12/28/09 - which falls within the Nielsen 2010 calendar). The Eagles-Redskins game ranks as cable's sixth most-viewed program of the year among viewers and seventh most-viewed among households.
ESPN.com had 214 million page views (a 17 percent increase) and 284 million minutes (a 32 percent gain) generated with NFL content on Sunday and Monday. ESPN's Mobile web site had 48 million page views (a 20 percent increase) and more than 110 million minutes (up 79 percent), spent with NFL content on the ESPN mobile web site and ScoreCenter App.
ESPN's MNF continues next week (Nov. 22) with Phillips Rivers and the San Diego Chargers hosting the Denver Broncos at 8:30 p.m. ET. ESPN's game around the game coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. with NFL Live and continues throughout the afternoon.


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According to a source at Microsoft, the company hopes to show off its new Windows 8 design for tablets by the end of its fiscal year in June.
This person claims that Microsoft is taking a more Apple-like approach to interface design this time around, and will also be using concepts from the "Metro" interface developed for Windows Phone 7. Ironically, that interface grew out of the Media Center UI that shipped with Windows XP back in 2004, but the Media Center interface was meant to be viewed from up to 10 feet away and controlled with a remote control, whereas Metro is meant to be used with touch screens.
This schedule is close to reports from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley that Microsoft recently passed an internal marking point called "Milestone 2" for Windows 8. Based on past Windows development schedules, this would put "Milestone 3" at the end of July -- about a month after the company's 2012 fiscal year begins.
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Embryonic stem cell research: A Dickey-Wicker of a situation
August 2011
For at least the last decade, uncertainty and controversy has swirled around human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchhow it is performed and funded, specificallyin the United States. The American public may have been first made aware of hESC research concerns in the mid-1990s, when President Bill Clinton signed into law a measure that prohibited the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes, or for research in which human embryos are destroyed. Called the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, the legislation was actually a rider attached to an unrelated appropriations bill passed by Congress.
During the next administration, President George W. Bush passed an executive order that restricted federal funding of research in which cell lines were "derived without creating a human embryo for research purposes or destroying, discarding or subjecting to harm a human embryo or fetus." Many researchers will tell you that these actions, which cut off much-needed government grants, effectively shut off work in this area.
It took a third presidency to change that, as in March 2009, President Barack Obamaas one of his first acts as the nation's newly elected leaderissued an executive order intended to reverse Bush's policy. The order was quickly followed by new NIH guidelines for hESC research and its December 2009 approval of 13 human stem cell lines for research.
It didn't take long, however, for this order to be challenged in several court casesthe most-watched of them taking Dickey-Wicker to task. Sherley, et. al., v. Sebelius, et al., a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argued that Obama's order violates Dickey-Wicker. Last August, federal district judge Royce Lamberth, finding enough merit in the plaintiffs' arguments, issued a preliminary injunction that brought federal funding for embryo-destructive research to a halt.
About a month later, the U.S. Court of Appeals temporarily suspended the injunction while the case was still pending.
In May, the court completely reversed Lamberth's ruling, saying it would impose a substantial hardship on stem cell researchers who have multi-year projects already underway. The court's 2-1 decision also found that the funding of hESC research is permissible under Dickey-Wicker, as Congress has renewed the amendment every year with the knowledge that it funds such research.
And as we went to press with this issue, the court pounded its final nails into the case's coffin when it dismissed the lawsuit altogether.
"This court, following the D.C. Circuit's reasoning and conclusions, must find that defendants reasonably interpreted the Dickey-Wicker Amendment to permit funding for human embryonic stem cell research because such research is not 'research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed," Lamberth wrote in his ruling.
The jury is still out, of course, on whether the plaintiffs will appeal this ruling.
But while grant applications are once again flowing, it's clear that concerns about hESC research are not pacified. In fact, hESCs have become so controversial, the field of stem cell research as a whole is shrouded in uncertaintyat least according to the court of public opinion and some rogue lawmakers who are under the impression that something more insidious is afoot, like "the creation of animal-human hybrids," as one Ohio legislator has suggested.
The question of whether the government should fund hESC research is also being asked at the state level, as many states have enacted laws that encourage it, restrict it or even ban it altogether. Many of those battles are still being waged, commonly in the name of Dickey-Wicker.
With all of this uncertainty, I can't help but wonder: Isn't it about time Congress revisited what is essentially an afterthought on a 15-year-old appropriations bill, clearly articulated the facts and concerns about hESC research and put forth a specific policy on the matter?
Meanwhile, in our ongoing summer series on stem cell research, we've got an interesting discussion with three scientists currently working in the fieldone of whom was one of the named plaintiffs in the Sherley case. We hope you will enjoy reading their views on the subject in our editorial roundtable, which you can see here.
We'll wrap up our series next month with a look at the stem cell industry's major players, so until then, have a Dickey-Wicker of a summer.
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Welcome to the Longreach Motor Inn and Harry's Restaurant, they are located across the road from the Longreach Railway Station and 200 metres from downtown Longreach. There you will have a convenient base for exploring Longreach and its hero attractions including Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Qantas Founders Museum.
They have different room types to suit every ones needs. All rooms include new superior Queen or King Bedding guaranteeing a restful sleep.
The Longreach Motor Inn is home to the award-winning Harry's a la carte restaurant, open Monday to Saturday from 5.30pm.
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Deluxe Queen Room with split system air-conditioning, flat screen digital television, undercover parking. The room is non-smoking.
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Schools' autism programs increase along with numbers of cases
BRIDGEPORT -- The students in Room 309 at Madison School can tell you what autism looks like.
Ethan Aponte says it's rocking back and forth. To Jonathan Revolus, it is worrying and fidgeting. For Kenny Jones it's pacing.
The programs serving students like Ethan, Jonathan and Kenny, however, can look as varied as the students themselves.
At Beardsley School, regular and special education teachers work together in a "co-teaching" autism program. While at Johnson School there is a full continuum of services for those on the spectrum, from self-contained classes that offer intensive instruction, to regular classes where autistic students work with mainstream students, but are provided extra support.
"Every child on the spectrum is an individual. Students have the right to their neighborhood school, but if that is not working and parents agree, we have other options in our district," said Doreen Tilt, supervisor of the district's Autism Spectrum Disorder Program.
The variety of Bridgeport school programs serving students on the autism spectrum has increased over the last decade as the district has sought to educate more students in its own schools instead of expensive outside programs. In all there are 31 classrooms in 12 schools serving some 269 students on the autism spectrum or with certain other special needs, and that's not counting 81 students with autism in pre-kindergarten classes, and 53 who attend school out of district.
Ten years ago there were 106 students in nine classes.
It costs a lot to develop the programs, but costs more not to, Tilt said. A neurological disorder marked by a difficulty with communication and social interaction, autism now affects 1 in 88 children. The average cost for an out-of-district placement is $65,000 plus transportation, which can range from $30,000 to $100,000 per student. In district, the cost is about $25,000 per student.
"I don't want to bring them back if it doesn't fit," said Tilt.
With the district 10 years, Tilt has slowly been developing a program that pulls from a number of nationally recognized models, but which is also custom-designed to meet the needs of the students it serves. Bridgeport's program is gaining national, and international attention. Delegations from Holland and Japan have visited. Tilt has been asked to present at the annual Autism Conference in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with educators from Southern Connecticut State University's Center of Excellence on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Last month, that center presented Tilt with its first-ever school administrator's award.
"Every district is different," said Ruth Eren, director of the autism center at Southern. "Every district strives to meet the needs of their children in the spectrum. I think in Bridgeport you have a person in Doreen Tilt who has certainly addressed the complexities of autism. She always has the best interest of children at the core of what she does."
Marisola Vigil, a parent, says Tilt is a matchmaker.
Two of Vigil's three children are on the autism spectrum, one in school at Johnson, the other at Madison. The family came from Norwalk and Vigil remembers being so petrified at the programs she would find here she considered putting her children in an out-of-district placement. At a planning and placement team (PPT) meeting held to weigh her options, however, Vigil said she was impressed with what Tilt offered her.
"She offered them classes to fit their needs," said Vigil. That meant separate schools, but each program seemed right.
In some classes students learn to raise their hands, ask for help, take a deep breath and, perhaps most important, identify autism and advocate for themselves.
LaTonya Mooney, whose son DyShaun Sistrunk, 12, has been in the program two years said she appreciates the skills he is learning.
"It really is teaching him to cope with the outside world," said Mooney.
In the self-empowerment class led by teacher Keriann Maxelix and assisted by Kevin Sheehy, a social worker, and Jessica Caird, a speech pathologist, DyShaun raises his hand often and is quick with answers.
"Autism, it's like a disorder," DyShaun said, when asked to explain autism. "More boys get it than girls, but autism happens out of nowhere."
DyShaun spends much of his day in regular classes. That is the goal for all students in the program.
At Beardsley, the co-teaching model includes first-grade teacher Dina Vogt, special education teacher Tara Oliwia, two teacher aides and 17 students, some with autism. It is impossible to tell them apart. Little pictures that illustrate class rules throughout the room seem to aid all students, not just the ones who have trouble reading.
"Some of these kids just need that little push before regular ed," Oliwia said, pointing to one student who cried the first couple of weeks he was there and is now on the honor role.
"We work as a team," said Vogt, who has been teaching 13 years, two as a co-teacher.
Tilt spends a lot of time training teachers and working with parents. One of the reasons Tilt was recognized was because of her extensive outreach to parents.
Jacqueline Kelleher, vice chair of the school board and a special education professor at Sacred Heart University, has twin boys on the autism spectrum. They are sophomores at Bassick High School.
"It's been the best programmatic experiences we have ever had," said Kelleher, who used to be the autism program liaison between the state Department of Education and school districts.
Her job was to consult on appropriate, compliant programs and train on autism spectrum guidelines.
"I know when a program is not working," said Kelleher. "I know when a program is pretending to work. I know when a program stands out above others. The latter is the case of Bridgeport. Before, we had great teachers, but they didn't always know how to help. It is the first time they have ever been to a PPT meeting where people were fluent in autism."


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Plaid Crafts, the makers of Mod Podge, asked a number of bloggers to try out some of their new formulas and products.
Here's the loot from Plaid below. Mod Podge, it turns out, came into being the same year I did - 1967. It was obviously a great time for innovation. To celebrate 45 years of adhesiveness, Plaid came out with new formulas and has worked its way down the decoupage supply chain by creating papers and "Podgeable Shapes" that reviewers were asked to feature. (Products are available at Michaels.)
To be honest, the shapes and papers would not have been the first thing out of the box I would have tried - not when there are also new formulas like Mod Podge for fabric, photo transfer Mod Podge and the easy-to-use resin Dimensional Magic. (I plan to dig into these later.)
I chose the smaller Podgeables, some of which had a hole in them and some of which did not and some of which were odd (Odd Podge? I crack myself up.) It's so Resort 2011, but I went with botanical prints, searching Google, Graphics Fairy and the New York Public Library's digital archive for images. I took a hint from Stella McCartney and primarily picked images from 19th Century botanist Robert John Thornton's Temple of Flora for their lush color and interesting detail.
At first I traced around the Podgeable Shape, but ended up with a paper piece that was too big. But, in that big box of stuff from Plaid was a package of tracing stencils, which includes stencils exactly fit to the shapes. Like they all came from the same company or something.
I made a paper sandwich with Podge on the plastic shape, one image face down on the the Podge, another layer of Podge, and a second image face up topped off with a layer of Podge.
Then I experimented with Dimensional Magic.
Dimensional Magic is, well, magic. You squeeze it on top of your shape and it immediately fills and smooths out. My Dimensional Magic had glitter in it, which I didn't really want. I tried ignoring the instructions and did not shake the bottle before applying to avoid the glitter. As a result, I got a big glob of glitter.
I switched to High Gloss finish. The finish emphasized every brush stroke of Podge, but the more coats I put on, the smoother it got. Here is the Dimensional Magic and the gloss finish below.
I attached the shapes with jump rings. I like that I knocked off the exact same botanical prints as Stella.
Each charm is different, with a different image on each side. If Mr. Bromeliad will drill, I will eventually add more of the shapes to my bracelet.
See other recent Mod Podge and Podgeable projects here.
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Full festive marks to the American Shakespeare Centre for their inspirational "12 Days of Christmas" with a Shakespeare twist!
They ran a poll over a few weeks to get lyrics ideas for each day from their facebook fans, then picked the best to put to a rousing performance. Click play and check it out:
If you're struggling to understand any of the lyrics here they are for you to read:
- A speech that goes "to be or not to be"
- Two sets of twins
- Three Scottish Hags
- Four Capulets
- Five Aaaaaaaact Plays
- Six Dudes a-Dying
- Seven Ages Passing
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Archive of 2006
Tories to put working families first in 2007
The Conservatives are aiming to portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.
Minister: Refined drinking culture distant dream
Britain will never be able to achieve the 'cafe drinking culture' found in many European countries due to UK residents' love of getting drunk, cabinet minister Hazel Blears has claimed.
CPS and MI6 chiefs lead new year's honours
The director of public prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Ken McDonald, leads the list of knighthoods in the Queen's 2007 new year's honours.
NI policing agreement moves closer
A formal consensus over policing in Northern Ireland has become a realistic possibility after Sinn Fein agreed to hold a special party conference on the issue next month.
Britain 'respects' Saddam execution
The government says it respects the decision made by its Iraqi counterpart to execute former president Saddam Hussein.
Archbishop says Iraq war 'morally flawed'
The archbishop of Canterbury has described the decisions that led to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 as morally flawed.
Police get thousands more 'dirty bomb' suits
Thousands more protection suits for police dealing with dirty bombs have been ordered by the Home Office.
Britain finally pays off WWII debt
Britain will today make the last repayment on loans lent by the US and Canada during the second world war - 61 years ago.
Tories back high-speed rail lines
The Conservatives are backing detailed studies into three major potential rail projects, including the Maglev 'levitating' train and a high-speed north-south rail line.
Blears defends protest against NHS reform
Hazel Blears, the Labour party chairwoman, has defended her decision to protest against the closure of her local NHS maternity unit.
Blair 'paid for' luxury Miami holiday
Downing Street has insisted that Tony Blair is paying to stay at the multi-million pound home of Bee Gees star Robin Gibb in Florida.
Education vouchers mooted for talented pupils
The brightest children from every school in England could be given vouchers to spend on extra courses, under proposals being considered by ministers.
Worst areas get anti-social behaviour cash
The 40 local authority areas with the worst anti-social behaviour will get extra money from the Home Office, the government's 'respect' tsar has announced.
Tests at 11 and 14 'should be scrapped'
National school tests at age 11 and 14 should be scrapped in favour of teacher-led assessments and more focus on reading, writing and maths skills, a new report has urged.
Cruddas warns of declining Labour membership
Labour party membership could disappear within seven years if the current rate of decline continues, a candidate for the deputy leadership warned yesterday.
Ming gets tough on crime
Menzies Campbell today called on the Liberal Democrats to "sharpen" their message on law and order and show that the party can be trusted to tackle crime.
Watchdog probes Tory Commons misuse claims
The parliamentary standards watchdog is investigating claims that the Conservatives have misused House of Commons facilities.
Blair reveals 'people's panels' plan
Tony Blair has announced a new layer of government which will help ministers make difficult policy decisions - 'people's panels'.
Leaked report warns of UK crime wave
A leaked report has warned ministers to prepare for a crime wave if the country's economy takes a turn for the worst.
Middle Eastern Christians 'forsaken' by Iraq war
Christians living in and around the Middle East have been put in jeopardy by the US-led war in Iraq, the archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Labour minister quits over Trident
Malcolm Chisholm quit his role as communities minister in the Scottish parliament last night after voting against the government.
BBC licence fee deal could hit jobs
The television licence fee will rise by less than inflation, after chancellor Gordon Brown turned down requests by the BBC for a higher increase.
Browne: The army might be too small
Defence secretary Des Browne has said he thinks the army might be too small to maintain its current operational tempo.
Livingstone blasts CRE chief
Ken Livingstone has released a broadside against Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) chief Trevor Phillips, saying he is failing minorities.
Blair seeking job with purpose
Tony Blair has said he wants a job with "a real purpose to it" after he steps down as prime minister next year.


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In the world of USB gizmos there's the useful, the strange and now the totally and utterly useless. Brando's "Fidget" toys are designed to replace doodling as a time-wasting activity in the office, or something like that anyway. They're mini USB devices in the shape of different sports balls, that come with a desktop mini-game that you control simply by tapping on the ball. The game's bleeping and repetitiveness may either de-stress you, or distress you: but you'll have to find that out for yourself. There's soccer, golf and basketball to choose from, they play with Windows, and will cost just $14 when on sale at the end of July. [Brando]
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Man agrees to plead guilty in ESPN reporter case
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An Illinois insurance executive agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, according to court documents filed Thursday and first obtained by The Associated Press.
Michael Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Ill., will plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman with the U.S. attorney's office.
Barrett is suspected of renting hotel rooms adjacent to Andrews in three cities last year, altering the peepholes and shooting videos of Andrews in two of the locations -- in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008 and in Nashville, Tenn., seven months later. He adjusted a hotel peephole in Milwaukee, Wis., in July 2008 and called 14 hotels to find out where Andrews was staying, prosecutors said.
Barrett is accused of uploading the videos to the Internet and trying to sell them to the Los Angeles-based celebrity gossip site TMZ this year. Several TV networks and newspapers aired or published images of Andrews taken from the videos.
"Mr. Barrett accepts full responsibility for his conduct," said Barrett's attorney David Willingham. "He apologizes to Ms. Andrews, and expresses his deep regret for his conduct that caused her so much pain. It is his sincere hope that these events can now become an opportunity to make positive changes in his life."
Barrett could face up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000. But as long as he accepts his responsibility for his actions, shows remorse and stays out of trouble, prosecutors will recommend a sentence of 27 months in prison, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Wesley Hsu.
Barrett will have to pay full restitution to Andrews, according to the terms of the plea agreement, but the amount is unclear. He also would be subject to a three-year protective order that would bar him from contacting or coming within 100 yards of Andrews and her family.
Attorney Marshall Grossman, who represents Andrews, told the AP that his client and her father will attend Tuesday's hearing and may ask the judge to impose a harsher sentence.
"We are pleased that the government has been able to obtain a guilty plea from Mr. Barrett," Grossman said. "We are now reviewing the agreement reached between Mr. Barrett and prosecutors, and Erin reserves the right to address the court and urge a greater penalty."
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have agreed not to pursue further charges against Barrett. However, he could face criminal action in other states stemming from other videos he allegedly shot of unsuspecting nude women through peepholes.
Hsu said dozens of videos were later posted on the Internet, including one of a naked woman, entitled "Hot Blonde Out of Shower," that FBI agents sought to have Yahoo Inc. turn over after serving a search warrant at the tech giant's Northern California offices last week.
The video was posted in June to Flickr.com by a user believed to be Barrett. The video, which appeared to be taken through a hotel room peephole, was viewed nearly 3,000 times before it was taken down. Flickr is owned by Yahoo.
Federal agents also wanted additional information pertaining to Andrews from Google Inc. Hsu wouldn't say whether the items have been given to authorities yet. Both Yahoo and Google have declined comment.


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