On the podium, speakers such as Gary Bauer, the former Presidential candidate, and Dr. James Dobson, the fatherly chairman of Focus on the Family, were gleefully tearing into "activist judges" and "imperious courts".
Last July, at the Democratic National Convention, in Philadelphia, the Sanders faithful shouted down podium speakers, marched out of the hall and occupied a media tent, and covered their mouths with tape, on which some of them had written the word "Silenced".
STEVE COLL: Somebody next to the podium handed Speaker Pelosi a handwritten note, she read it, folded it, put it in her lap.
The device turns hand gestures into commands in a way similar to how theremins turn proximity into sound, making ::vtol::'s machine symphony like a theremin plus: as the human conductor wildly waves his or her arms over the podium, each speaker bends and rotates, the algorithm generating compositional changes.
But tonight the four-block stretch of road is taking on a revival atmosphere, as soapbox speakers mount their podiums and work their rhetorical charms on small groups of attentive listeners.
And while Google's podium included speakers who do not work directly for Alphabet, all speakers at the event were selected by the company to speak, so unsurprisingly aligned with its views.
Jamphel Yeshi, 27, doused himself with flammable liquid and was engulfed in flames as he ran past a podium where speakers were criticising China and President Hu Jintao's visit to the Indian capital, which starts today.
There were corporate tax attorneys, accountants, bankers, and trust administrators, and they faced a small stage with a podium for speakers and a screen to show PowerPoint presentations.
"Free speech does not require furnishing a podium for the speaker," he said.
President Obama warmly embraced Mr. Boehner and then took the podium and said: "Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell, thank you for your commitment to act in our nation's highest interests.
