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Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Saturday, April 4, 2020
HIS 105 James Brown
In his 1986 autobiography James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, the singer recalled the tensions within the Civil Rights Movement of the time:
Martin was trying to keep things going in a nonviolent way, and Stokely and them were starting to talk about Black Power—and upsetting a whole lot of people with it, too … Black Power meant different things to different people, see. To some people it meant black pride and black people owning businesses and having a voice in politics. That’s what it meant to me … I wanted to see people free, but I didn’t see any reason for us to kill each other.
Don't Be A Dropout, live, 1966
Brown supported Nixon based on their shared enthusiasm for individualist policies and the notion that hard work, and hard work alone, would be the key to success for black Americans. In a statement made in the wake of Dr. King’s death, Brown expounded upon his “up by your bootstraps” philosophy:
You know, in Augusta, Georgia I used to shine shoes on the steps of a radio station… I think we started at three cents, then we went to five and six. Never did get to a dime. But today, I own that radio station. You know what that is? That’s Black Power… It’s in knowing what you’re talking about, being ready.
1969
Endorse Nixon 1972
Friday, April 3, 2020
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Pelosi Tore Up Virus Warning in Trump’s State of the Union Address
“Protecting Americans’ health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China. My Administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat,” he said, without giving further details.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Jack Welch on Change
“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” – Jack Welch.
Theodore Roosevelt Quote
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
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Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Monday, March 16, 2020
Sunday, March 15, 2020
15 March Surprise Chuan Ge with Guzheng
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng
Chinese song 船(chuan) 歌(ge), the whole song, with a Guzheng as the instrument.
dear lover, the wind sends me to this place that I dream about
Wu Su Li Chuan Ge (乌苏里船歌) - Boat Song On The Ussuri, Lyrics by Hu Xiaoshi (胡小石), Music by Wang Yuncai (汪云才) and Guo Song (郭颂), Produced in 1962.
Woo
The wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
Wow, the wind blows my sails
Qinglang, I want to meet you
Tell me how I miss you
When i haven't come to you
You must remember me
Wait for me, wait for me patiently
Qing Lang My Heart
Like the warm sun of dawn
Wow, the wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
When i haven't come to you
You must remember me
Wait for me, wait for me patiently
Qing Lang My Heart
Like the warm sun of dawn
Wow, the wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
Woo
The wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
Wow, the wind blows my sails
Qinglang, I want to meet you
Tell me how I miss you
When i haven't come to you
You must remember me
Wait for me, wait for me patiently
Qing Lang My Heart
Like the warm sun of dawn
Wow, the wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
When i haven't come to you
You must remember me
Wait for me, wait for me patiently
Qing Lang My Heart
Like the warm sun of dawn
Wow, the wind blows my sails
The boat is rippling with the breeze
Show me where I miss you day and night
From Batak Land North Sumatra Indonesia? And, then taken back to China?
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Monday, March 9, 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Friday, March 6, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
1989 CSPAN Make America Muslim
sharifa-alkhateeb-muslim-educator-shares-ultimate-goal-muslim-education-america
03:40:05 Full Speech
Alkhateeb represented Muslims for a Better America in 1989 and said in her speech at a Muslim-American political awareness conference that Muslims coming to America don’t want to become American, but that the long range goal is to make “all of America Muslim,” describing Americans as “potential Muslims.”
She also said, “Education is one of the most important areas that Muslims have to address” and that “our final objective is to create our own Islamic systems.”
03:40:05 Full Speech
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Monday, March 2, 2020
JFK on Taxes
The president finally decided that only a bold domestic program, including tax cuts, would restore his political momentum. Declaring that the absence of recession is not tantamount to economic growth, the president proposed in 1963 to cut income taxes from a range of 20-91% to 14-65% He also proposed a cut in the corporate tax rate from 52% to 47%. Ironically, economic growth expanded in 1963, and Republicans and conservative Democrats in Congress insisted that reducing taxes without corresponding spending cuts was unacceptable. Kennedy disagreed, arguing that “a rising tide lifts all boats” and that strong economic growth would not continue without lower taxes.
The battle over the tax cut and the deficit continued unabated through 1963. The House Ways and Means Committee voted a tax bill out of committee in August and the grateful president reiterated that lowering taxes was the surest path to full employment and lower deficits. Polls showed that over 60% of Americans favored the tax cuts. But, even with the public support of key business leaders like Henry Ford II and David Rockefeller, the Congressional log jam remained unbroken. JFK became increasingly convinced that domestic issues, the economy and civil rights, rather than foreign policy, would prove to be decisive in his 1964 reelection campaign.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-on-the-Economy-and-Taxes.aspx
https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-on-the-Economy-and-Taxes.aspx
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Ken Hartman, Degree Quest
- Links
- The Internet Guide for College Bound Students (1996)
- Prospective Students Seek Information, But Colleges Don't Always Provide
- Above the Noise: The Higher Education Highway
- Acquisitions, Mergers and Reinvention (Not Closures) Will Characterize Higher Ed’s Future
- Back to School 2015 - Dr. Kenneth Hartman (video)
- Degree Quest
- ASU GSV Summit
Monday, February 17, 2020
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Ian Hunter, Friday Night Rock Show
The Friday Night Rock Show episode from April with Ian can be viewed online at Vintage.TV, at least for the time being.
It was no longer available directly on the website, but the page containing it was still in Google's cache (Not sure how long that will last.)
You want to scroll down and watch episode 14:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KC3dUFOHAcQJ:vintage.tv/shows/the-friday-night-rock-show/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It was no longer available directly on the website, but the page containing it was still in Google's cache (Not sure how long that will last.)
You want to scroll down and watch episode 14:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KC3dUFOHAcQJ:vintage.tv/shows/the-friday-night-rock-show/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Ian Hunter, Radio Four's Front Row, Skiffle
an Hunter on Radio Four's Front Row this evening when he was talking about "how skiffle changed the world".http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qxfns.bbc
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
PHI 101 Introduction to Philosophy, Cahn, Exploring Philosophy
What is philosophy?
Difficult, important and everywhere, 11:03
Philosophy1.2
SocialSciences/ppecorino/Online Textbook
Modern Philosophy Workbook & Source Material
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
What Is Philosophy?
Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley
Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley
The Value of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Defence of Socrates
Plato
Plato
Part 2: Reasoning
Logic, deductive-inductive1. fallacies: petitio principii (begging the question), complex question, ad hominem, black and white thinking (either-or fallacy).
2. Definitions: analytical, stimulative, revelatory.
Necessary and sufficient conditions.
Scientific method
The Scope of Logic
Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon
Improving Your Thinking
Stephen F. Barker
Stephen F. Barker
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Steven M. Cahn
Steven M. Cahn
Thinking to Some Purpose
L. Susan Stebbing
L. Susan Stebbing
Pushover Arguments
Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse
Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse
Fixing Belief
Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel
Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel
Scientific Inquiry
Carl G. Hempel
Carl G. Hempel
Antiscientism
Gillian Barker and Philip Kitcher
Gillian Barker and Philip Kitcher
Part 3: Knowledge
Caring and Epistemic Demands
Linda Zagzebski
Linda Zagzebski
What Is Knowledge?
A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Edmund L. Gettier
Edmund L. Gettier
Conditions for Knowledge
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
Appearance and Reality
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
What Can I Know?
D. Z. Phillips
D. Z. Phillips
The Problem of Induction
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Induction without a Problem
P. F. Strawson
P. F. Strawson
Puzzling Out Knowledge
Susan Haack
Susan Haack
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
René Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
John Locke
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
David Hume
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Part 4: Mind
The Ghost in the Machine
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle
Body and Soul
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor
The Mind–Body Problem
Paul M. Churchland
Paul M. Churchland
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
The Qualia Problem
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson
Knowing What It’s Like
David Lewis
David Lewis
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
Do Computers Think?
John Searle
John Searle
The Body Problem
Barbara Montero
Barbara Montero
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
René Descartes
Part 5: Free Will
Free Will
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
Free Will and Determinism
W. T. Stace
W. T. Stace
Freedom or Determinism?
Steven M. Cahn
Steven M. Cahn
The Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Harry Frankfurt
Harry Frankfurt
The Capacities of Agents
Neil Levy
Neil Levy
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
David Hume
The Dilemma of Determinism
William James
William James
Part 6: God
Does God Exist?
Ernest Nagel
Ernest Nagel
Why God Allows Evil
Richard Swinburne
Richard Swinburne
The Desires of the Heart
Eleonore Stump
Eleonore Stump
Pascal’s Wager
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn
Pascal’s Wager: An Assessment
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
The Problem of Hell
Marilyn McCord Adams
Marilyn McCord Adams
Faith and Reason
Michael Scriven
Michael Scriven
The Hiddenness of God
Robert McKim
Robert McKim
God and Forgiveness
Anne C. Minas
Anne C. Minas
God and Morality
Steven M. Cahn
Steven M. Cahn
The Ontological Argument
Anselm and Gaunilo
Anselm and Gaunilo
Summa Theologiae
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Natural Theology
William Paley
William Paley
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume
David Hume
The Wager
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
The Will to Believe
William James
William James
Part 7: Identity and Immortality
A Case of Identity
Brian Smart
Brian Smart
The Problem of Personal Identity
John Perry
John Perry
The Unimportance of Identity
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit
Life after Death
Terence Penelhum
Terence Penelhum
Do We Need Immortality?
Grace M. Jantzen
Grace M. Jantzen
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
John Locke
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
David Hume
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid
Part 8: Moral Theory
How Not to Answer Moral Questions
Tom Regan
Tom Regan
Moral Isolationism
Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley
The Nature of Ethical Disagreement
Charles L. Stevenson
Charles L. Stevenson
The Rationality of Moral Action
Philippa Foot
Philippa Foot
Kant’s Ethics
Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill
Assessing Utilitarianism
Lewis P. Pojman
Lewis P. Pojman
A Supreme Moral Principle?
Steven M. Cahn
Steven M. Cahn
Virtue Ethics
Bernard Mayo
Bernard Mayo
The Ethics of Care
Virginia Held
Virginia Held
Happiness and Morality
Christine Vitrano
Christine Vitrano
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Aristotle
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Part 9: Moral Problems
A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Judith Jarvis Thomson
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren
Mary Anne Warren
Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis
Don Marquis
Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse
Rosalind Hursthouse
Active and Passive Euthanasia
James Rachels
James Rachels
The Intentional Termination of Life
Bonnie Steinbock
Bonnie Steinbock
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
Peter Singer
World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case against Singer
John Arthur
John Arthur
The Case for Animal Rights
Tom Regan
Tom Regan
Why Animals Have No Rights
Carl Cohen
Carl Cohen
Speaking of Animal Rights
Mary Anne Warren
Mary Anne Warren
Part 10: Society
Two Concepts of Citizenship
Jean Hampton
Jean Hampton
Democracy
John Dewey
John Dewey
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook
Cultivating Humanity
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum
Proportional Representation
Celia Wolf-Devine
Celia Wolf-Devine
Facing Facts and Responsibilities
Karen Hanson
Karen Hanson
What Good Am I?
Laurence Thomas
Laurence Thomas
Five Faces of Oppression
Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young
Crito
Plato
Plato
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Part 11: Social Justice
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
John Rawls
Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
Noncontractual Society: A Feminist View
Virginia Held
Virginia Held
The Republic
Plato
Plato
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Part 12: Art
The Role of Theory in Aesthetics
Morris Weitz
Morris Weitz
Interpreting Poetry
Charles L. Stevenson
Charles L. Stevenson
Fearing Fictions
Kendall Walton
Kendall Walton
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
Marcia M. Eaton
Marcia M. Eaton
The Republic
Plato
Plato
Poetics
Aristotle
Aristotle
Part 13: Life and Death
The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Turning the Trolley
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Death
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
The Badness of Death
Shelly Kagan
Shelly Kagan
The Afterlife
Samuel Scheffler
Samuel Scheffler
How the Afterlife Matters
Harry G. Frankfurt
Harry G. Frankfurt
The Significance of Doomsday
Susan Wolf
Susan Wolf
Phaedo
Plato
Plato
Writings
Epicurus
Epicurus
The Handbook
Epictetus
Epictetus
Part 14: The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor
Meaning in Life
Susan Wolf
Susan Wolf
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Impeachment vs. The Constitution
This is the best description of the implications of the past several days, weeks and months. The insane, hate-obsessed Democrats and left are trying to destroy the Constitution. All the while they are committing political suicide. Bold emphasis below – mine. From Newt Gingrich – historian, former Speaker of the House – who went to extremes to treat Clinton fairly during his impeachment. Please note the historical people quoted along with current legal experts.
The coming weeks will be devastating to the Democrats/left. For comparison, take a little time to research the backgrounds/bios of the Democrat impeachment managers vs Trump’s legal team. Many of the points made below will be used/repeated by the Trump’s legal team. The Dem’s impeachment managers will stay away from these arguments – the same ones they used during the Clinton impeachment and trial. Note Clinton had 12 laws he violated and was trial for; Trump has zero laws violated.
The annihilation will be incredible.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemed giddy Wednesday as she announced the impeachment managers who would go to the Senate and attempt to prosecute a case against President Trump.
“He’s been impeached forever,” Pelosi said. “They can never erase that.”
However, Pelosi has it exactly backward. The Senate is going to refuse to convict President Trump. He will be exonerated, and she and the Democrats will be condemned by history.
The wide repudiation of the House Democratic betrayal of the Constitution is already beginning. As a historian myself, I think it’s important to document these reactions.
Consider historian Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis for the National Review, which was subtitled: “The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability.”
This is hardly an endorsement of Pelosi’s trivialization of the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln scholar and highly respected historian Allen Guelzo asserted in The Wall Street Journal:
[Charles] Pinckney and [Rufus] King might have been right in 1787. Americans prefer to choose their presidents with elections, and whenever impeachment is used in an attempt to nullify those choices, the results aren’t happy for anyone. That was true in 1868, and as both Andrew Johnson and his accusers might warn us, it remains true after a century and a half.”
Clearly, Pelosi did not know enough history to understand the warnings of Pinckney and King – or the sad end of the impeachment process against President Johnson.
When he was interviewed by Arun Rath, Harvard law professor and ACLU liberal Alan Dershowitz commented:
“[Alexander] Hamilton said that the greatest danger would be an impeachment that was based on who had the most votes in the House or removal based on who had the most votes in the Senate. And that's precisely what we're seeing happen, and the reason we're seeing it is because of the use of open-ended criteria. Every controversial president since John Adams has been accused of abuse of power. And obstruction of Congress? That's part of our system of checks and balances. ... So I think the House of Representatives violated the Constitution when they impeached him on these two grounds.”
When testifying before by Congress, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley warned:
“One can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects, dangerous, as the basis for the impeachment of an American president.”
So, from these perspectives, it is Pelosi – not Trump – who threatens to undermine the Constitution.
As former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy pointed out on Fox News, the Pelosi strategy is simply to “bruise President Trump with an unending stream of new impeachment allegations” in order to hurt his chances at reelection. McCarthy added that “after over 230 years, we have entered the era of partisan impeachment that the Framers feared. This is what it looks like.”
So McCarthy sees Pelosi behaving in exactly the unconstitutional and narrowly partisan manner the writers of the Constitution hoped to avoid. Again, it is Pelosi – not Trump – who is undermining the Constitution.
In addition, The New York Post’s editorial board noted that “Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff has been lying to the world for years in his nonstop campaign to smear President Trump.” Their judgment is that it is Schiff, D-Calif., – and not Trump – who has been a continuous serial liar.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board summarized the disaster of Pelosi’s bid to delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, saying her move “further exposes how Democrats have defined impeachment down. The House hearings blocked GOP witnesses and limited cross-examination. Despite selective leaks and a pro-impeachment media, they failed to move public opinion or persuade Republicans that Mr. Trump committed impeachable offenses.”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board went on to call Democrats’ actions “an abuse of the impeachment power” and reiterated that the things alleged in the articles of impeachment “aren’t close to impeachable.”
Madison Gesiotto in The Hill called this “the flimsiest and most partisan impeachment in history.”
In fact, as Pelosi played games with appointing impeachment managers, even senior Democrats began to lose patience. “The longer it goes on the less urgent it becomes,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California told reporters. “If it is serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, do not send it over.”
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine suggested that the delays were wrong. As she put it, “doesn’t that suggest that the House did an incomplete job, then?”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., neatly summarized the Democratic House-created calamity in his floor statement Thursday, saying “it was a transparently partisan performance from beginning to end.”
McConnell went on to remind the country of the Founding Fathers’ fears of exactly the kind of narrow bitter partisanship Pelosi has been displaying.
Paraphrasing Alexander Hamilton, McConnell warned that “blinded by factionalism, the House of Representatives would abuse the power of impeachment to serve nakedly partisan goals rather than the long-term interests of the American people and their Republic.”
Finally, it’s clear the House Democrats have failed utterly to live up to the standard of prosecution set out by former Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (who served as chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials). Jackson cautioned the Conference of United States Attorneys on April 1, 1940:
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.”
So no, Nancy. President Trump does not have to fear the judgment of history on this impeachment effort.
The judgment of history is going to be that a group of scoundrels in control of the U.S. House of Representatives placed partisan interests above the country, undermined the Constitution, weakened America in the world, and lied about the duly elected president of the United States.
This will become Pelosi’s moment of shame, and Trump’s moment of redemption.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Religious Freedom
- Ensuring Religious Organizations Are Treated the Same as Secular Ones.
- Requiring Public Schools to Respect Students’ Rights to Express Their Faith.
- Ordering That Federal Grant Programs Cannot Discriminate Against Religious Schools or Organizations.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Computer Companies in Greater Philadelphia
Unisys Corporation is an American global information technologycompany based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, that provides a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology. It is the legacy proprietor of the Burroughs and UNIVAC line of computers, formed when the former bought the latter.
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company, and after the 1986 merger with Sperry UNIVACwas renamed Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters and printers.
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company, and after the 1986 merger with Sperry UNIVACwas renamed Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters and printers.
UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer.
The BINAC, built by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the first general-purpose computer for commercial use. The descendants of the later UNIVAC 1107 continue today as products of the Unisys company.
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