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Did Baptists Influence Thomas Jefferson?
2008-07-11 18:42:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. Baptist people have been the most principled people since the time of Christ. I do not believe that the designation of ?Baptist? is nearly as important as the doctrine, but I want people to know where I stand. I am a Baptist, and am proud of my heritage that has made an ...
By: Publius Forum
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-06-09 14:56:00 My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Edward Rutledge, 1788)
By: Stix Blog
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-06-06 20:42:00 Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts...in which all religions agree.-- Thomas Jefferson (Westmoreland County Petition, 2 November 1785)
By: Stix Blog
Nihilism/Democracy
2008-06-05 18:54:00 In Revolutionary Characters–What Made The Founders Different, author Gordon Wood says the following about Thomas Jefferson— Jefferson’s faith in the natural sociability of people…lay behind his belief in minimal government….Jefferson would have fully understood the Western world’s recent interest in devolution and localist democracy….For Jefferson, there could be no power independent of the people, in whom he ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nihilism/Democracy", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/06/05/nihilis-mdemocracy/" });
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-06-04 15:53:00 No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government.-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Trustees for the Lottery of East Tennessee College,...
By: Stix Blog
WordsDay: Jefferson no Lion in Winter in ?Twilight at Monticello?
2008-05-29 18:00:00 Alan Pell Crawford?s Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson tries to simultaneously be a Jefferson lovefest and an attempt at balanced history. Jefferson himself was a man of well-documented contradictions?he said ?All men are created equal,? yet he owned slaves; he opposed strong central government, yet he made the unilateral decision to buy the Louisiana Purchase; he suffered under crushing debt yet spent lavishly beyond his means. It?s perhaps no surprise, then, that a book about Jefferson might be filled with contradictions, too. Crawford, like most Jefferson defenders, tries his hand at explaining away inconvenient contradictions. Take slavery, for instance: ?Although he was sincerely opposed to slavery, Jefferson simply could not imagine a realistic way to end it,? Crawford writes. ?Jefferson genuinely believed that all men were equally free moral agents who functioned at their best as individuals?a position convenient for the slaveholder but less so for ...
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-05-27 15:28:00 To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts, in writing; To improve, by reading,...
By: Stix Blog
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-05-20 15:31:00 One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to George Washington, 19 June 1796)
By: Stix Blog
Obama Comes Back Tough and Eloquent Today on Bush/McCain
2008-05-17 02:25:00 Barack Obama came out swinging today in a South Dakotan town hall meeting and subsequent press conference - tough, eloquent, intelligent response to Bush and McCain's slurs about Democratic "appeasement".Among the highlights of what Obama said -.The Bush administration, supported by McCain, is responsible for the strengthening of Iran - a consequence of the U.S. destruction of Iran's enemy, Iraq, and on the basis of weapons of mass destruction which were never found..American Presidents ranging from Kennedy to Nixon to Reagan were unafraid to sit down and talk with our enemies, because they understood that talk is not at all the same as appeasement..Hamas was strengthened by the Bush administration's pushing of elections in the Palestinian territories before those places were ready. And - it was McCain, not Obama, who called for talks with Hamas several years ago, before McCain adopted the Bush agenda..Obama also made a good, clarifying statement about the Second Amendment: he s...
By: Infinite Regress
The Tudors and the Printing Press
2008-05-11 22:44:00 Some wonderful, decisive moments in history have been brilliantly portrayed in the past few episodes of The Tudors on Showtime. I've currently seen 8 of the new season, thanks to Showtime On Demand.My single favorite moment, being the media historian that I am, was Thomas Cromwell's introduction - to us as well as Archbishop Cranmer and George Boleyn - of a great "new weapon" for the Protestant reformers, in Episode 6: the printing press. This scene was right on in its portrayal of how monarchs such as Henry were able to harness the advantages of the press in their campaign to break free of Rome, and establish their national identities. (And James Frain superbly played Thomas Cromwell, as he does in every episode.)As media historians such as Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis explained back in the 1950s, and I elaborated upon in my 1997 The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution, books printed in English and other national vernaculars in Europe ...
By: Infinite Regress
Fave Podcast: The Thomas Jefferson Hour
2008-05-07 18:13:00 It was 1996, when the book Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West came out, that I found myself gettin’ into T.J. History always seems more enjoyable in the form of a story, and this journey’s written in such a way that it sweeps you up in characters and ...
Obama Is Now Unbeatable for Democratic Nomination
2008-05-07 07:24:00 A great night for anyone who loves to watch politics and election coverage on television - not to mention supporting Barack Obama.Obama beat Clinton by 14% in North Carolina. Clinton won by a bare 2% in Indiana after a long, edge-of-your seat night which started with Clinton well ahead. These results will more than make up for the 12 delegates and popular vote lost by Obama in Pennsylvania. Obama will gain at least 15 delegates in North Carolina, and lose a total of 2 in Indiana - he'll be leading by at least 160 delegates again, and considerably closer to the finish line. With just a handful of primaries remaining, there's no chance for Hillary to overtake him.These results show that Obama has indeed come back from the damage done to him by Rev. Wright. As he said in his victory speech in North Carolina tonight, he loves America. The people of North Carolina and Indiana, added together, believe him.They also were responsive to his refusal to play games with our out-of-co...
By: Infinite Regress
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-05-02 14:55:00 [B]ut whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they...
By: Stix Blog
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-04-29 15:14:00 In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable. I am myself a nail-maker.-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Jean Nicolas D?meunier, 29 April 1795)
By: Stix Blog
Rev. Wright in Better Context in Bill Moyers PBS Interview
2008-04-27 18:45:00 I just saw Bill Moyers' lengthy interview PBS interview with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Barack Obama's former paster, who was been the center of considerable controversy for his "God damn America" and other inflammatory statements.I urge everyone to see it, because the sound bites that the media have presented, up until now, have taken Wright's comments seriously out of context.Let's look at his "God damn America" sermon, as one example. Now, I think America is the most free country in the history of the world. Despite its many flaws, I feel happy and lucky to be living in the nation that Thomas Jefferson helped create. So those three words, taken on their own, were and are highly offensive to me.But Rev. Wright did not say those just those three words in his sermon. He started that part of his sermon with a list of nations whose abuse of power, whose attempts to act like God, made them "fail". He mentioned Germany, Japan, Russia, and England (actually, the British Empire)....
By: Infinite Regress
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-04-21 17:18:00 My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in...
By: Stix Blog
John Adams on HBO: 6: Flawed President and Flawed Father
2008-04-15 22:46:00 People sometimes ask me why I'm so critical of John Adams - the real person in history, not the superb HBO series - and the answer is the damage done to, and near death of, our democracy brought by the Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by Adams. This grim episode, and Jefferson's protest that these acts trampled on the Constitution, were vividly portrayed in this 90-minute episode that covered the whole of Adams' Presidency.But the episode brought to light something equally lamentable about Adams - pertaining to his family not his country. Charles, the reprobate son, is disowned by John Adams. His son-in-law is turned away when in financial need. It's not that our culture was so different then. It's that John Adams could not overcome his stern New England upbringing, and give his son the love and emotional support, his son-in-law the economic support, that they needed. John Adams meted out punishment instead - just as he did to his country by jeopardizing the Firs...
By: Infinite Regress
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-04-14 15:18:00 [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought...
By: Stix Blog
John Adams on HBO: 5: Jousting of Ideas
2008-04-07 22:54:00 An intellectually powerful and sophisticated Episode 5 of John Adams on HBO last night - the most vivid so far in the mini-series in portraying the contest of political philosophies that made this country. Indeed, the most compelling I've ever seen on television. We see:.John Adams, who believes the best (and only reliable) path to a continuing, free America is a strong central government. Towards this end, Adams even wants a monarch-like way of addressing the President - an idea soundly defeated in the nascent U.S. Senate. Adams protests that he's not really a constitutional monarchist, but it's difficult to see exactly the ways in which he is not..Thomas Jefferson, who shocks even Abigail Adams with his famous statement that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - not insignificantly putting patriots ahead of tyrants in the blood letting. What's really at stake here is Jefferson's view that government is not the pr...
By: Infinite Regress
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-04-07 15:44:00 If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150...
By: Stix Blog
Founder's Quote of the Day
2008-03-28 17:55:00 For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Adams, 28 October 1813)
By: Stix Blog
Founders Quote of the Day
2008-03-20 14:21:00 If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely...
By: Stix Blog
My ideal President summed up in quotes?
2008-02-11 01:43:00 I have been doing a lot of reading lately and trying to figure out how to best express what I want most in a President. I’ve opted to present the “Ideal“ as a series of quotes because it seems people can be polarizing on reputation alone, and I’m hoping listing quotes will lead others to think about where ...
Thomas Jefferson rocks!
2008-02-03 23:59:00 I'm getting chills listening to NFL players read the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document ever written -- a document that gives us the freedoms we take for granted. Poll after poll shows that most people know little about this amazing document and that fewer than 20 percent can name more than two of the five freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution's Bill of Rights -- speech, press, religion, and the rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Let's remember these inalienable rights past today's Super Bowl. Get out and vote in Tuesday's primaries. Show that you care about this great country. God Bless America, baby!When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opin...
By: On Sports
Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson
2008-01-30 08:08:00 “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
...holy crap. Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, Locke, et...
2007-12-27 20:18:00 ...holy crap. Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, Locke, etc. etc. etc. "have no standards." sweetie. the Koolaid: is it at least a decent flavor? Raspberry, I like raspberry. but I mean, yeah: wouldn't it just suck if you were wrong about all this? imagine living such a miserable constrained life all for -nothing-.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Separation of Church and State
2007-12-20 23:57:00 I was watching a program recently that really opened my eyes. Now, I love history, but it's been awhile since I actually studied the Constitution of the United States, or it's Amendments. What I learned during the program told me alot that I didn't know. This is the full text of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Did you notice that there is nothing even related to the phrase "Separation of Church and State"? Did you notice that the First Amendment actually states that Congress will make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion? Or the right for others to peacably assemble (even in a religious setting)?So where did that term come from? It actually came from Thomas J...
Rediscovering Thomas Jefferson
2007-10-29 04:33:00 This Jefferson quote is from a letter to George Washington in 1789 and part of an inscription at the Thomas Jefferson memorial in Washington DC. Maybe one should reconsider these thoughts in times of Globalisation: “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand ...
Thomas Jefferson: “I am captivated more by dreams of the future, than
2007-10-26 04:36:00 Nice quote, found in an “old” book about the future, “2020 Vision”, by Stan Davis and Bill Davidson…More comments about this book will be placed here soon…
Is Ron Paul The New Thomas Jefferson?
2007-10-15 16:48:00 This is from the Salem, Oregon StatesmanJournal. Oregon Republicans got a wake-up call when their straw poll at the Portland World Trade Center was transformed into a Ron Paul rally, and his supporters crushed the opposition in the poll. About 100 Paul supporters brought signs and banners, waved at traffic and pedestrians for blocks around the center, ...
Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson
2007-10-11 07:59:00 “Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
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"A Conversation With Thomas Jefferson"
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Our presidentail choices?will the next Thomas Jefferson please step forward
2007-07-18 20:53:00 The presidential election of 2008 is over a year away, and perhaps that?s a good thing. The reason: we still need time to identify someone who is truly an outstanding candidate for the office of president. Yes, there are loyalists who will quickly say we already have such a person, then name one of the ...
Deja Vu all over again?
2007-07-05 00:21:00 Well maybe things aren't all that different after all. Over at Harper's Scott Horton reminds us we have been here before and that "The Reign of Witches" came to an end then and maybe it will once again. Washington had wisely cautioned against entanglements with the European great powers and urged distance. His view maintained peace and unity. But after his departure came a period of rule by the heavier hand of the unfortunate John Adams. For Adams, the nation faced grave perils from abroad and retrenchment of civil liberties was therefore needed. He secured?though by a single vote in the House?passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, under which measures of political repression were taken against those who opposed the Federalists (which was roughly half the country). In many ways, Adams?s heavy-handed rule resembles that of George W. Bush more than two hundred years later.And this is what Jefferson called the ?reign of witches? in his famous letter to John Taylor, reproduce...
Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson
2007-04-22 07:20:00 “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
Thought of the Day: Thomas Jefferson
2007-04-19 01:37:00 “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” Thomas Jefferson, via David B. Kopel, Wall Street Journal Š Extend This Post Reach
By: BitsBlog
thoughts of Thomas Jefferson
2007-03-05 17:44:00 "The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." and: "If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." : Thomas
Was Thomas Jefferson Jewish?
2007-03-04 03:30:00 Researches think they may have found some DNA evidence linking the American President Thomas Jefferson with some mysterious mid-eastern roots.(Forward) As The New York Times reported Wednesday, "Researchers studying Jefferson's Y chromosome have found it belongs to a lineage that is rare in Europe but common in the Middle East, raising the possibility that the third president of the United States had a Jewish ancestor many generations ago."Although Jefferson was probably not a full Jew (or even half) there may be a case displaying kosher roots deep in American history (either that, or this sounds like a great rumor to start ;-)).Content Copyright 2006-2007 of IsraGood. All Rights Reserved. Violators (and hosts) can be prosecuted under national and international laws.
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13 Best Quotes Thomas Jefferson
2007-02-21 14:25:00 " I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.” " I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect." “When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.” “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time” “He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.”
What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
2007-02-12 18:36:01 From U.S. Veteran Dispatch: What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad By Ted Sampley Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in. Capitol Hill staff said Ellison’s swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota. The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America’s founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library. Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson’s Quran because it showe...
Thomas Jefferson: The Author of Customized Employment?
2006-10-21 17:53:00 One-by-one, the invited stakeholders shared their views with the group’s facilitator. It was the usual chorus of proclamations:"We definitely need more money to increase employment results," offered one participant."Jobs are really tough to come by in rural Minnesota," said another."You know, transportation access is a huge barrier," echoed someone else to the affirming nods of other group members."We need for more employers to get on board and take an interest," another person shared."It’s going to take better training and pay for our direct service practitioners to make a difference," exclaimed another.As we moved around the large table, I was eventually the next person in queue. I offered the following: "We need to increase our expectations."Looking somewhat confused, the event’s participants and facilitator stared in my direction as though dementia had finally set in on the old boy. It was the look that said: "This guy has three decades of management experience in providin... |
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