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  • New Movement Survey #1


    The ConfluenceAuthority Authority: 620
    The time is right for a new movement.  The American middle class is sick and tired of getting trampled by the well connected who have our government by the balls.   But if we are going to get this baby off the ground, we’re going to have to do this right.   Successful movements have certain things in common. ...
    7 hours ago
  • Origins of "Christian Ideas" that Helped Bring Us into the Modern World?


    American CreationAuthority Authority: 498
    In an attempt to begin answering one of the questions I brought up in my last post I copied and pasted this short excerpt from the notes of John Adams.  The question I asked in my last post was this: Which Christian ideas, if any, helped bring us into the modern world? ...
    15 hours ago
  • Gustavo Dudamels West Coast, Left Coast concert


    Culture MonsterAuthority Authority: 712
    In politics, Californians still quarrel over immigration issues. The arts know better. Ours is a state made with the critical input of others. And if our music is characterized by one thing, that is its openness to outside influences. We look in all directions. To scan the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “West ...
    21 hours ago
  • Did Thanksgiving do in John Adams?


    Universal Hub - All Boston, all the timeAuthority Authority: 603
    Adams apparently was convinced the reason he couldnt get re-elected was becaue he declared a national day of thanksgiving on behalf of, gasp, Presbyterians. J.L. Bell recounts the whole story. read more
    3 days ago
  • Airdate: John Adams


    TV TonightAuthority Authority: 542
    SBS will screen the acclaimed HBO miniseries John Adams next month. The series on the second US President stars Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Rufus Sewell. It has already screened on Pay Television but now it gets its first Free to Air broadcast in Australia. The lavish 7 part drama had garnered a ...
    4 days ago
  • NYCBALLET OPENING NIGHT: NEW MARTINS’ NAIVE & SENTIMENTAL MUSIC A SUCCESS!


    Swan Lake Samba GirlAuthority Authority: 131
    New York City Ballet officially opened its 2009-10 winter season last night, with a performance and black tie gala dinner. The performance included Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH (above photo of that ballet — dancers are Ana Sophia Scheller, Gonzalo Garcia, and Joaquin De Luz — by Paul Kolnik, taken from ...
    5 days ago
  • Nixon in Colorado: Wheres Sellars?


    Culture MonsterAuthority Authority: 712
    “On that summer day of our first meeting in 1983 Peter … wasted little time in proposing that we collaborate on making an opera,” John Adams writes of Peter Sellars in his memoir, “Hallelujah Junction.” “He even knew what to call it: ‘ Nixon in China .’” The poet Alice Goodman recounts in her notes ...
    5 days ago
  • St. Lawrence Quartet gives local premiere of John Adams’ String Quartet


    The Arts BlogAuthority Authority: 133
    CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW SLIDE SHOW REVIEW: The St. Lawrence String Quartet offers blisterting late Beethoven and a new work by John Adams. The Orange County Register , Nov. 23, 2009. SEE SLIDE SHOW The St. Lawrence String Quartet made a meal out of a heavy duty program Sunday afternoon in Samueli Theater. It was ...
    1 week ago
  • Early Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations


    American CreationAuthority Authority: 498
    A Textbook Example of Christian Neutrality With Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought that this might be an appropriate way to embrace the theme of the season. As we all know, Thanksgiving has become an extremely important event in American culture. For the religious and non-religious alike, Thanksgiving ...
    1 week ago
  • Operation: Learn About The Signers, Benjamin Rush


    The Mike Slater ShowAuthority Authority: 130
    Part I of said Operation, Benjamin Rush: Ye men of sense and virtue—Ye advocates for American Liberty, rouse up and espouse the cause of humanity and general liberty.  Bear a testimony against a vice which degrades human nature and dissolves the universal ties of benevolence which should connect all the ...
    1 week ago
  • Tweets for November 22nd


    New Trommetter TimesAuthority Authority: 133
    Taxpayer money , your money and mine, is what gives government whores their power. Time to stop Pelosi & Reid. # 2010 (via @ PolitixGal ) # TJ just looked down at his open fly and said, “How did that hole get there?!” # Patient trapped in a 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along… ...
    1 week ago
  • Music review: Terry Riley launches West Coast, Left Coast Festival


    Culture MonsterAuthority Authority: 712
    “IF THERE IS NO SEDUCTION, THERE IS NO MUSIC.” The capitalized sentiment leapt off the page in Terry Riley’s program note for “Eureka!” the late-night opening event for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s West Coast, Left Coast festival Saturday night. And thus -- after more than two hours of regimented ...
    1 week ago
  • Mob Mentality and Marching to Your Own Drummer


    The Tax Lawyer's BlogAuthority Authority: 432
    I found an exceptionally insightful article by Kiplinger.com’s Bob Frick titled “Don’t Trust the Crowd if you Value the Truth.”What’s scary about the herd mentality is how insidiously it gets you to see things differently. In fact, a recent experiment showed that we may actually be hard-wired to believe ...
    1 week ago
  • Quotes, Pics, and Clips VI


    Gently Hew StoneAuthority Authority: 124
    I’m resurrecting an installment I used to do, a bite-sized anthology of things I had recently seen or been thinking about in the various areas that interest me.  Here are the first five parts of this series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.ARTSLike him or not, it’s fun watching Jackson Pollock [...]
    1 week ago
  • Career politicians are useless


    Coralville CourierAuthority Authority: 513
    "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress" - John Adams
    1 week ago
  • Terry Riley coming to Big Ears in 2010


    Crib NotesAuthority Authority: 139
    One of the true monsters of minimalism will serve as BIG EARS 2010 Artist in Residence
    1 week ago
  • Awesome Article on why Obama should not have bowed


    StupidicaAuthority Authority: 175
    From Article Some of the presidents critics are giving him a hard time, and its true that this president seems never to have studied much American history. Not bowing to foreign potentates was what 1776 was all about. His predecessors learned with no difficulty that the essence of America is that all men stand equal ...
    1 week ago
  • John Adams HBO Miniseries (Blu-ray) for $24.99 or $27.48 Shipped


    Uberi.comAuthority Authority: 169
    John Adams HBO Miniseries (Blu-ray) for $24.99.  Order online for in-store pickup at Best Buy to lock in the price, ensure availability, and save on shipping.  Otherwise, shipping is $2.49, which comes to a total of $27.48 shipped.  Here is a screenshot for your reference.  The box set has 3 Blu-ray DVDs with a ...
    1 week ago
  • Mr. Adams Goes to Washington


    History BlogAuthority Authority: 122
    November 17, 1800 the United States Congress and then president John Adams move the United States government from the comfort of Philadelphia to the hardly finished and rather rough quarters in Washington D.C. Adams would become the first American president to live in the White House. John Adams was the vice ...
    1 week ago
  • The two human natures


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 162
    Immediately following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraqi government collapsed and Baghdad was engulfed by widespread looting and violence. Medical equipment was stolen from major hospitals and many of the worlds oldest cultural artifacts--housed at Iraqs National Museum--were stolen or destroyed. ...
    1 week ago

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