Saturday, December 31, 2011

How to Live a Happy Married Life!

Janet was the daughter of rich parents. Her father was a money bag. He was a transporter and a major jobber to a illustrious brewing firm in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital of Nigeria. Janet belonged to a religious sect that inoculated her mind against being rich or successful on earth. She walked out on her parents one evening to live with her pastor in the mission house! Her decision was based on the church doctrinal reliance that her parents were sinners who would end it up in hell fire! And that she as a child of the light must not have anyone to do with they that are children of the dark!

Janet had on several occasions refused to consent to her father's quiz, for a bottle of beer and sticks of cigarettes on the ground that they are of the devil. She had roughly burnt down the house when she burnt off her lace materials in the living room because the church believe that such textile materials are not ideal to be worn by children of light that she is.

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Janet and John met in the Church but John had backslid at that time! He had just realized that religion was deceptive and that most church pastors and Christian Leaders are not saints after all! Apart from the fact that he had caught his pastor in the very act of fornication (having an illicit sex with an opposite sex), he had caught him right in the act of eating while the entire Church was on a three day fast!

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The pastor had declared the fast and every member of the church was religiously involved in it. On that fateful day, John was advent from work at about 4.00 pm. He was to go level to the church but went home instead to pick up his bible which he forgot to take along with him in the morning. Whoa! He found his pastor cooling off with a bow of eba (cassava flour) and egusi (melon) stew!

By that palpate and others, he had to guidance Janet to go back to her parents and reconcile with them. She should go back to school and come to be a university graduate. But she would not! She insisted on getting a job with her secondary school education. She would not get back to school for two reasons. The first suspect being the church's reliance that Jesus Christ would appear in the sky shortly to take her home to heaven in no distant future. The second suspect being that she had a terrible eye qoute that used to ache her with excruciating pains. She would not go straight through the stress of studies and hard work in the light of that pain.

John advised her to get married and decide down as a wife and mother. At least she would enjoy life for a while before rapture takes place if at all it will! It was at that point that she claimed to be a virgin and that she was afraid, she didn't want to lose her virginity except for the man who would marry her!

He was excited in his unbelief! A virgin! No! At least not with Janet's physique, stature and lifestyle! A 21 year old lady with a well built stature and elegant posture! It's a lie! He decided to confirm her claim. If it was true, then, he would marry her!

He had his way! He toasted her and promised to marry her if she would let him confirm that she was the virgin that she claimed to be! She was and she got pregnant immediately after.

Janet and John lived together as husband and wife for over twenty-years with children born into the marriage. The sad news about their relationship is that they had been together in differs houses and locations but had no home! They were incompatibles and Satan hide under their incompatibilities to make them unhappy!

She was born into and grew in wealth John in poverty. She had, loved and enjoyed comfort, John did not. She had way to capability study with ease John with stress. She is a television addict John a bookworm. She is a phlegmatic natured person John a Choleric. She sees no problem ahead John sees dangers. She is older in age John younger by two years.

Looking back several years after all John saw was disappointment, discontentment and depression. He had not succeeded in achieving one percent of his goal and ambition. Anger burn in him everyday! He asks questions. He reads stories of women in the bible -the good and the bad. He sought to know about women's lives in varied homes of Muslims, Christians, Pagans and Moralists. Then he observed that the so much feared Satan is a woman! What he suffered as a husband and a father made him take to that assertion.

Starting with Adam of the bible, Janet came to John's life and brought depression and grief along! He imagined that Adam died of hypertension or one of the Cardio-Vascular diseases in the world today. Mrs. Abraham misled her husband who married Hagar the mother of Ishmael, leading to the religious rivalry in the world, today. Delilah gave up her husband to his enemies. Herodias instigated her husband to come to be a murderer, killing John the Baptist. Jezebel stood by her husband to oppress a poor Nabot. Mrs. Pothipar lied against innocent Joseph and caused her husband to send him to prison. Job's wife pressurized her husband to curse God. The list goes on and on.

I do not aim at production you laugh or pity John as you read this piece. Rather I aim at production you see the need for you to be objective, focus, considered and selective in your selection of the spouse to marry either as a wife or a husband. This is in view of the fact that what happens to you many years after your selection may depend primarily upon who you eventually select as a life partner! select wisely and you are happy! select foolishly and you are not!

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Friday, December 30, 2011

American Government's Chief Cornerstone and Indissoluble Bond

Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for the freedoms we now possess and so casually take for granted.

Samuel Adams, the Father of the American Revolution, the patriot and leader who brought about our notable saying, "No taxation without representation" he said:

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The possession of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully learning the custom of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament."

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Starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, executive produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and directed by Emmy®-winner Tom Hooper, JOHN ADAMS is a seven-part epic miniseries event that explores American history through the eyes of one of the greatest of the founding fathers, John Adams (Giamatti), a fiercely independent spirit whose unwavering vision steered America through a tumultuous period.

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HBO's lavish, sprawling John Adams epic was given vital emotional wallop by the soundtrack. Two composers created music which was needed to convey the fervor of a newly emerging nation, and the quiet moments of a proud man who lived a long life shot through with sadness--losing his first a child, and then later, in his twilight years, his beloved wife Abigail. The orchestral sweep is clearly of the Twentieth Century, undulating like American landscapes. However both Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli are adept at drawing on our shared cultural sensibilities. They evoke the period of the Revolutionary War without stilted mannerisms. While the script, actors and the director portray history, the soundtrack resonates emotionally with the modern world. --David Greenberger


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On September 6, 1774, the second day of he Continental Congress, Samuel Adams proposed that one session be opened with prayer.

Samuel Adams wrote a letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779, stating:

"While the habitancy are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."

Today our generation knows nothing more of Sam Adams than a beer that bears his name. Samuel Adams boldly said:

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will obtain the freedom and happiness of a habitancy whose manners are universally corrupt."

Today with massive and total armament across the nations, nuclear proliferation and building up of war machinery we do well to remember that we are most obtain as a nation when we humbly bow before the God of heaven who enabled us to fight off our British masters when we were outnumbered militarily three-to-one and without sufficient armaments.

The battle cry of the American Revolution must return to our land and sweep this nation from coast to coast saying, "No king but King Jesus!"

Perhaps you don't know but the battle cry of the American Revolution when we were breaking free from England and establishing our own country, that battle cry was "No king but king Jesus!"

The pulpit of churches throughout America (before we ever were America) brought about fiery sermons at to our national sovereignty under God as free people. It was then we rallied together militarily and politically to fight the fight of faith that we might win and gain our free time from European rule.

Our Christian freedoms are in great jeopardy. Secular humanists and atheists have declared war on Christianity in the Usa and have begun removing God from our courts, schools, and collective life.

It is time for we the Church to get off the pew and stand up! Stand up, speak up, and put our foot down on the devil once and for all.

Isaiah 33:5-6 The Lord is exalted; for He dwells on high: He has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and compel of salvation: the fear of the Lord is His treasure.

Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us!

This is the Scripture the American Founding Fathers laid hold of and adhered to when carving out our three branches of government.

The Lord our judge brought about the judicial field of government with the consummate Court.

The Lord our lawgiver was the foundation for the legislative field of government also known as Congress consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives that enact legislation.

The Lord our king speaks for the administrative field of government in which the President is the Commander in Chief.

Thus a balanced and fair governmental theory was set in order with checks and balances so we can have a garage and moral society.

John Quincy Adams (the 6th President of the United States) said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the theory of civil government with the theory of Christianity."

From the day of the proclamation of Independence the American habitancy were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, reply as the rules of their conduct.

On July 4, 1837, in a speech celebrating the 61st Anniversary of the signing of the proclamation of Independence, John Quincy Adams proclaimed:

"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly related with the birthday of the Savior. ...The proclamation of Independence first organized the collective covenant on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth. It laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."

John Quincy Adams revealed his convictions and philosophy:
"The first and practically the only Book deserving of universal attentiveness is the Bible. The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages in all conditions of human life. ...It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. ...In all ages since the obligation of Christianity the great mass of those who have risen to eminence ...have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God."

"Posterity--you will never know how much it has cost my generation to sustain your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

In a day when political parties try to divide our nation and make us take sides, let us remember the words of Abraham Lincoln who declared the holy Bible to be the many gift God has given to mankind. Lincoln said "But for this Book we could not know right from wrong." Lincoln not wanting to take sides said to a divided nation while the Civil War:

"The Lord is all the time on the side of the right. It is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."

John Jay (1745-1829), was the first Chief Justice of the United States consummate Court, appointed by President George Washington. He was a Founding Father, a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses and served as the President of the Continental Congress. John Jay negotiated the peace treaty to end the War with England.

On October 12, 1816, John Jay admonished:
"Providence has given to our habitancy the option of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to pick and prefer Christians for their rulers."

I therefore exhort every American to visit the Christian Coalition website and obtain information about the candidates in your region so you may vote for God fearing Christians who shall uphold the values of the Founding Fathers in our nation.

On May 13, 1824, while serving as its president, John Jay gave an address to the American Bible society saying:

"The Bible will also inform them that our gracious creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement 'for the sins of the world,' and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve."

Two-thirds of the signers of the proclamation of Independence were graduates from Bible seminaries. Jesus Christ birthed America and therefore belongs in America and forever shall be throughout the fabric of American institutions and society. Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone of American government from which we must not stray.

God must be brought back to our government, leadership, the consummate Court, and collective schools. His truth is marching on! Let God arise and let His enemies be uprooted and scattered.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 (Chapter 31) by Murray N. Rothbard

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Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Darrell Castle, vice presidential candidate for the Constitution Party

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Darrell Castle, vice presidential candidate for the Constitution Party speaks in Boca Raton. Below is his biography. For more information on the campaign visit: www.baldwin08.com Born, 1948, Kingsport, Tennessee. Darrell graduated from East Tennessee State University with a BA in History and Political Science. He received a JD degree from Memphis State University Law School (University of Memphis). Darrell is an attorney in private practice with firms in Memphis, TN, St. Louis, MO, and Kansas City, MO. The Castle Law Firms specialize in Bankruptcy and Personal Injury. Darrell enrolled in ROTC for two years and attended the Marine Corp Platoon Leaders class in Quantico, VA. After graduation from college, Darrell was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. His service in Viet Nam followed a family military tradition; his oldest brother served in the Army during World War II, another brother served as a Marine in the Korean War. Darrell trained under then, 1st Lt. Oliver North. After graduation from Basic School, Darrells unit received a unit citation for being deployed in five different theaters of operation at the same time. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and received orders to the Far East for 13 months. Darrell left the Marine Corp in 1974 a very different person than he was when he went in. It was a life changing event and his experience during those years has contributed to his strong belief that war should not be entered into ...

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

John Cage's 4'33"

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A performance by William Marx of John Cage's 4'33. Filmed at McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA. Composer John Adams wrote the following in The New York Times review of Mr. Cage's new biography, "The Zen of Silence" : "John Cage....prodded us to reevaluate how we define not only music but the entire experience of encountering art." Read the complete review of Kenneth Silverman's book: www.nytimes.com

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 (Chapter 71) by Murray N. Rothbard

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Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...

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Friday, December 23, 2011

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John Quincy Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President, following in the footsteps of his father, John. At fourteen he was secretary to the Minister to Russia and, later, was himself Minister to the Netherlands and Prussia. He was U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and then President for one ill-fated term. His private life showed a parallel descent. He was a poet, writer, critic, and Professor of Oratory at Harvard. He married a talented and engaging Southerner, but two of his three sons were disappointments. This polymath and troubled man, caught up in both a democratic age not to his understanding and the furies of passion, was an American lion in winter.

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Who is the real John Quincy Adams? The brilliant secretary of state, prime mover behind the Monroe Doctrine, and principled opponent of slavery, defender of the Africans shanghaied aboard the Amistad? Or the ineffectual president stymied by a hostile Congress and his own self-righteousness, the vindictive political foe famed for his cold, disagreeable character? Paul C. Nagel, author of two previous books about the Adams family, seeks to give readers a more human Adams (1767-1848) whose complex nature contained many contradictions. John Quincy Adams is a valuable revisionist biography of a misunderstood figure at the crossroads of American history.


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

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This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his fourth term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions.


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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.

Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era.

As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President.

Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country.

At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826.

Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget.

It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House.

This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

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Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in building a nation.

Overshadowed by the lustrous presidents Washington and Jefferson, who bracketed his tenure in office, Adams emerges from McCullough's brilliant biography as a truly heroic figure--not only for his significant role in the American Revolution but also for maintaining his personal integrity in its strife-filled aftermath. McCullough spends much of his narrative examining the troubled friendship between Adams and Jefferson, who had in common a love for books and ideas but differed on almost every other imaginable point. Reading his pages, it is easy to imagine the two as alter egos. (Strangely, both died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) But McCullough also considers Adams in his own light, and the portrait that emerges is altogether fascinating. --Gregory McNamee


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 (Chapter 36) by Murray N. Rothbard

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Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Photography Tips Techniques : How to Make a Pinhole Camera

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Making a pinhole camera can be done using a light-tight shoebox, a bit of black duct tape, black and white processing paper and a bit of aluminum foil. Create a pinhole camera to understand how manufactured cameras work with advice from a professional photographer in this free video on photography. Expert: John Budden Bio: John Budden has been a professional photographer for more than 20 years. Filmmaker: Clay Roberts

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

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A vivid portrait of a man whose pre- and post-presidential careers overshadowed his presidency.

Chosen by the House of Representatives after an inconclusive election against Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams often failed to mesh with the ethos of his era, pushing unsuccessfully for a strong, consolidated national government. Historian Robert V. Remini recounts how in the years before his presidency Adams was a shrewd, influential diplomat, and later, as a dynamic secretary of state under President James Monroe, he solidified many basic aspects of American foreign policy, including the Monroe Doctrine. Undoubtedly his greatest triumph was the negotiation of the Transcontinental Treaty, through which Spain acknowledged Florida to be part of the United States. After his term in office, he earned the nickname "Old Man Eloquent" for his passionate antislavery speeches.


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"When the despatches from Congress were read, the first question was, whether I should accept the commission, or return it to Congress. The dangers of the seas, and the sufferings of a winter passage, although I had no experience of either, had little weight with me. The British men-of-war were a more serious consideration. The news of my appointment, I had no doubt, were known in Rhode Island, where a part of the British navy and army then lay, as soon as they were to me, and transmitted to England as soon as possible. I had every reason to expect that ships would be ordered from Rhode Island and from Halifax to intercept the Boston, and that intelligence would be secretly sent them, as accurately as possible, of the time when she was to sail. For there always have been and still are spies in America, as well as in France, England, and other countries. The consequence of a capture would be a lodging in Newgate. For the spirit of contempt, as well as indignation and vindictive rage, with which the British government had to that time conducted both the controversy and the war, forbade me to hope for the honor of an apartment in the Tower as a state prisoner. As their Act of Parliament would authorize them to try me in England for treason, and proceed to execution too, I had no doubt they would go to the extent of their power, and practise upon me all the cruelties of their punishment of treason. My family, consisting of a dearly beloved wife and four young children, excited sentiments of tenderness, which a father and a lover only can conceive, and which no language can express; and my want of qualifications for the office was by no means forgotten." -John Adams, Autobiography

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"When the despatches from Congress were read, the first question was, whether I should accept the commission, or return it to Congress. The dangers of the seas, and the sufferings of a winter passage, although I had no experience of either, had little weight with me. The British men-of-war were a more serious consideration. The news of my appointment, I had no doubt, were known in Rhode Island, where a part of the British navy and army then lay, as soon as they were to me, and transmitted to England as soon as possible. I had every reason to expect that ships would be ordered from Rhode Island and from Halifax to intercept the Boston, and that intelligence would be secretly sent them, as accurately as possible, of the time when she was to sail. For there always have been and still are spies in America, as well as in France, England, and other countries. The consequence of a capture would be a lodging in Newgate. For the spirit of contempt, as well as indignation and vindictive rage, with which the British government had to that time conducted both the controversy and the war, forbade me to hope for the honor of an apartment in the Tower as a state prisoner. As their Act of Parliament would authorize them to try me in England for treason, and proceed to execution too, I had no doubt they would go to the extent of their power, and practise upon me all the cruelties of their punishment of treason. My family, consisting of a dearly beloved wife and four young children, excited sentiments of tenderness, which a father and a lover only can conceive, and which no language can express; and my want of qualifications for the office was by no means forgotten." -John Adams, Autobiography


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Monday, December 12, 2011

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PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com He may have made TV history as the first black game show host back in the 1970s, but the talents of singer/actor/musician Adam Wade extend far wider. Born Patrick Henry Wade, he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the late 1950s he served as part of the research team for Dr. Jonas Salk who invented the polio vaccine. In 1959, he switched to performing and found in himself a smooth, gifted vocalist, his early influences being Johnny Mathis and Nat 'King' Cole. In 1960 he decided to make the journey to New York and pursue his dream. He signed with CoEd Records within a very short time and scored quickly with a string of mild successes including "Ruby" and "I Can't Help It." He also started traveling as a night-club entertainer playing all over the world and highlighting in such important venues as the Copacobana. The next year (1961) proved to be the peak of his recording success with "Take Good Care of Her," "Writing on the Wall" and "As If I Didn't Know" making the charts. Comparisons to Mathis at CoEd Records, however, damaged his momentum and he looked elsewhere, moving to Epic Records. Only one of his singles, "Crying in the Chapel," broke the "Top 100" charts. In the late 60s Adam discovered voiceover work and started grooving as an actor. After appearing in the national ...

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

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Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience.

Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence.

During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington.

Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation.

His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling group, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commercial relations.

Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z."

The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. Y. Z. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular.

Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to build additional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. It also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreign agents out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican editors.

President Adams did not call for a declaration of war, but hostilities began at sea. At first, American shipping was almost defenseless against French privateers, but by 1800 armed merchantmen and U.S. warships were clearing the sea-lanes.

Despite several brilliant naval victories, war fever subsided. Word came to Adams that France also had no stomach for war and would receive an envoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war.

Sending a peace mission to France brought the full fury of the Hamiltonians against Adams. In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided. Nevertheless, Adams polled only a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President.

On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."

Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives." But Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.

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Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience.

Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence.

During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington.

Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation.

His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling group, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commercial relations.

Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z."

The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. Y. Z. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular.

Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to build additional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. It also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreign agents out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican editors.

President Adams did not call for a declaration of war, but hostilities began at sea. At first, American shipping was almost defenseless against French privateers, but by 1800 armed merchantmen and U.S. warships were clearing the sea-lanes.

Despite several brilliant naval victories, war fever subsided. Word came to Adams that France also had no stomach for war and would receive an envoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war.

Sending a peace mission to France brought the full fury of the Hamiltonians against Adams. In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided. Nevertheless, Adams polled only a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President.

On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."

Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives." But Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

President John Adams Biography

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www.facts-about.org.uk Watch this video about President John Adamsproviding interesting, fun facts and info about the life biography of John Adams, the first President of America. Gain a fast overview of his life! Short biography with key dates containing his bio, information & trivia about his career, family, illnesses, major achievements and accomplishments. Perfect study guide for students, children and kids who want to learn about this famous American President. When was he born? What was his background? Who did he marry? How many children did he have? What did he look like - his physical description? When was John Adams inaugurated as President? What were the major events, achievements and accomplishments of the John Adams presidency? When did he die and what was the cause of his death? Our biography and video on John Adams answer the initial question - Who is John Adams, or who was John Adams? www.facts-about.org.uk Related Book: The American Presidents www.amazon.com

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Overview

Listen to a ten-minute interview with Margaret Hogan
Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane

Read Margaret Hogan's HUP blog posting: "The Romance of John and Abigail Adams"

Watch the video of The Massachusetts Historical Society's November 2007 event at which Deval and Diane Patrick, Edward and Victoria Kennedy, and Michael and Kitty Dukakis read selected letters from My Dearest Friend

Visit the Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive

Watch the March 2008 HBO miniseries--"John Adams"--based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography

In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence--and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships--in American history.

As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to "My Dearest Friend," debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president).

Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection--including some letters never before published--invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.

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In this rich and engrossing account, John and Abigail Adams come to life against the backdrop of the Republic’s tenuous early years.
 
Drawing on over 1,200 letters exchanged between the couple, Ellis tells a story both personal and panoramic. We learn about the many years Abigail and John spent apart as John’s political career sent him first to Philadelphia, then to Paris and Amsterdam; their relationship with their children; and Abigail’s role as John’s closest and most valued advisor. Exquisitely researched and beautifully written, First Family is both a revealing portrait of a marriage and a unique study of America’s early years.

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