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  • Naval Observatory Donates Maupertuis’ ‘Figura Telluris de Maupertuis’ To Library Of Congress


    Newsroom Magazine — Authority Authority: 123
    While serving as the American ambassador in Paris in 1789, Jefferson ordered a copy of Maupertuis’ Latin version, “Figura Telluris de Maupertuis,” which was published in Leipzig, Germany in 1742. It was one of a number of books he selected from a catalogue issued by bookseller Armand Koenig in Strasburg. ...
    6 days ago

  • Make It Happen


    Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote — Authority Authority: 108
    Believe you can - and then make it happen. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Winning isnt everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi Do you want to know who you are? Dont ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. - Thomas Jefferson 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love - You can live ...
    1 week ago

  • By George, Romney would not be the richest U.S. president


    Front Row Washington — Authority Authority: 116
    A furor over his refusal to release his tax records has focused renewed attention on Mitt Romney’s vast personal fortune, which puts him in the top tier of wealthy Americans. But Romney would not be the richest president in U.S. history if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee and defeats President Barack ...
    1 week ago

  • Candidates Line Up For Lew Fidler’s City Council Seat


    Sheepshead Bites — Authority Authority: 125
    With Councilman Lew Fidler running for disgraced State Senator Carl Kruger’s seat, Frank Seddio is hoping to fill Brooklyn’s 46th City Council District seat, which would be empty if Fidler wins the special election in March. “I’m very confident that somebody like Lew would win any district that he has to run ...
    1 week ago

  • Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3 – YouTube


    -THE "G" BLOGS ~ Gunny G Online - — Authority Authority: 562
    Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3 via Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3 – YouTube.   Related articles The government as lawbreaker, again ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano (gunnyg.wordpress.com) (“Can Congress make legal something that is ...
    1 week ago

  • Virginia’s political history: Mother of presidents, and favorite foods


    UVA Today News Blog — Authority Authority: 110
    Photo credit: Reggie Jackson, U.Va. Center for Politics The Commonwealth of Virginia holds the distinction of producing the most presidents of any state in the Union, narrowly beating out Ohio as the “Mother of Presidents.” The benefits of such a distinction are legion, although students in a January term class ...
    1 week ago

  • Clockers (1995, Spike Lee)


    The Stop Button — Authority Authority: 110
    Clockers opens with actual crime scene photos juxtaposed against filmed sequences of a crowd gathering to watch as the police arrive. Lee is dealing with a lot in the film and opening with that startling sequence—against a beautiful song—at least shocks the viewer into paying attention. Though the film is too ...
    1 week ago

  • 5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism About Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today


    Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority Authority: 108
    "To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry Falwell in powdered wigs and stockings. Nothing could be further from the truth."
    1 week ago

  • Romney Pays Less In Tax Than His Secretary


    Tarpon's Swamp — Authority Authority: 539
    First Buffet, now Mitt Romney. Via Bloomberg: ROMNEY SAYS HIS EFFECTIVE TAX RATE CLOSER TO 15% ROMNEY SPEAKS TO REPORTERS IN FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA ROMNEY SAYS MUCH OF HIS INCOME COMES FROM INVESTMENTS Next thing you know he too will offer all Republicans a one for one match on all US sovereign debt ...
    1 week ago

  • Thomas Jefferson defines a real Christian


    it's all one thing — Authority Authority: 108
    "I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials (The Gospels) which I call the Philosophy of Jesus. It is a paradigma of his doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more beautiful or precious morsel of ...
    1 week ago

  • The $25m Stearns collection of musical instruments languishing in a Michigan storage vault


    Paternal Prose — Authority Authority: 146
    by associated Press Last updated at 8:42 AM on 16th January 2012 A massive cache of musical treasures that’s grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for ‘The Green Hornet’ radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn and now ...
    1 week ago

  • Limiting Government: The Only Way to Help America


    The Carolinian Conservative — Authority Authority: 100
    Thomas Jefferson once stated, " A wise and frugal Government, which shallrestrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free toregulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not takefrom the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of goodgovernment." It is ironic ...
    1 week ago

  • Defending The Constitution


    My View of the World — Authority Authority: 397
    As one might expect, I sometimes engage in political discourse with some of my liberal friends (yes, I do have some), and quite often during those discussions we find ourselves debating the constitutionality of various liberal positions. In virtually every case, these liberals are woefully ignorant of the ...
    1 week ago

  • National Sports Law Negotiation Competition (NSLNC 2012)


    SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News — Authority Authority: 464
    What:  Second Annual National Sports Law Negotiation Competition 2012 When:  September 28-30, 2012 Where:  Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California The Competition will include 4 rounds of negotiation problems in sports topics.  The San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants baseball game will ...
    1 week ago

  • Thomas Jefferson On Spending Public Money


    Samuel at Gilgal — Authority Authority: 495
    Quoting Thomas Jefferson: “The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” Filed under: Constitution, Economy, Education, Founding Fathers, Government, History Tagged: Alexander Hamilton, History, ...
    1 week ago

  • 5 Founding Fathers Whose Skepticism About Christianity Would Make Them Unelectable Today by Rob Boston


    carapace - Not your father's america — Authority Authority: 131
      Rob Boston / AlterNet Thomas Jefferson believed that a coolly rational form of religion would take root in America. Was he ever wrong. January 10, 2012 To hear the Religious Right tell it, men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were 18th-century versions of Jerry ...
    1 week ago

  • Teenage Inventor Rebecca Hyndman Discusses Patents, Inventing, High School and President Obama


    IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority Authority: 506
    On September 17, 2011, I attended the Signing of the America Invents Act at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A young lady named Rebecca Hyndman, who is a senior at the high school, introduced President Obama, which took place immediately prior to his signing the Act into law. Rebecca was ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Paint Palettes New and Old


    EYE ON DESIGN BY DAN GREGORY — Authority Authority: 94
    Hues and Dyes I just played the online Color Sense Game by Voice of Color from Porter Paints (part of PPG Paints). It’s a kind of test – your answers to a range of questions like “pick 5 words that inspire you” (out of a given list), or “where would you feel most at home?”(you select one image out ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Question time on the FM website (plus The Week in Review)


    Fabius Maximus — Authority Authority: 458
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Contents Questions received so far To start the discussion: articles of interest this week A disturbing fact to disturb this week’s sleep Quote of the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Thomas Jefferson School of Law Believes Its 2011 Graduates to Be Kind of Stupid


    Above the Law — Authority Authority: 641
    When I saw the abysmal bar passage rate posted by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law on the July 2011 administration of the California bar exam, I opined that TJSL should lose its American Bar Association accreditation. Of course, that won’t happen. The ABA standards on accreditation are so lax that law schools ...
    2 weeks ago

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