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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
HERSHEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ben Franklin Venture Idol is an event similar to the popular television show American Idol, except with entrepreneurs instead of vocalists. On November 5, 2009 at the Hilton Scranton and Conference Center, three early-stage entrepreneurs presented pitches to a panel of investors and the audience. Led by Venture Idol emcee, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Rob McCord,...
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jonrowe.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Moses and the "Key Founders": The reason why I titled this post that is because, as you will see, Bruce Feiler has a book out entitled America's Prophet, Where God Was Born that stresses Moses as a central figure of inspiration to America, and Feiler argues the central historical fact that buttresses his thesis is when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin were asked to design...
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FIRE (Free subscription) | yesterday
... around the world to control and dehumanize their citizens and squelch opposition. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, will get neither liberty nor safety. Check out Greg's article, and the full statement, here .
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Third of four parts James Reilly sips morning coffee on his new front porch so he can watch the sunrise glow upon the looming Ben Franklin Bridge.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Third of four parts James Reilly sips morning coffee on his new front porch so he can watch the sunrise glow upon the looming Ben Franklin Bridge.
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Ignite Seattle! (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... networking events all summer and most people think I’m out of school and already graduated. Benjamin Franklin – Intellect: without an outlet in the world Do we remain in awe of Ben Franklin’s capacity and accomplishments or do we take on his mantle of “Doing the best with what we have” and look at our issues and do something about them? Better yet, WWBFD? Wendy Chisholm ( wendyabc...
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s k y p l u m b e r (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
indians. frontier. tea. taxes. revolution. laws. punishment. capital punishment. ben franklin. inventions. original sin. deism. chattels. status. slaves. gunpowder. powder.powdered wigs. portraits. empathy. monarchy. rights of man. tights. individualism. novels. autonomy. salons. agriculture. ocean exploration. debt. scurvy. sugar. trade. louis xvi. monarchy. hessians. kant. self-evidence.
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...on pampers, programming & pitching manure (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... then to mixed reception, and then, after his death, to acceptance. While others, including Ben Franklin, had the idea and proposed it in various forums, it was one man, William Willett, who spent the better part of his life trying to convince society we could be more productive and efficient by getting our collective ass in gear by sunrise. Roughly a hundred years later, a billion people...
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Sense of Events (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... an enormous level of our freedom to gain a little level of health care. We should remember, as Ben Franklin warned in 1775, if we give up liberty to obtain security, we will find ourselves with neither. It stinks to be right. Now we learn that in the US House's health care bill to be voted on this weekend or next week is a section requiring every American to buy a government-approved health...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... health insurance! Except that it’s only visible to people using those special glasses that Ben Franklin made… Moe Lane
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Jusitified Right (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
He’ll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.” Ben Franklin Yankees were at one time the “classiest” team in baseball. It’s what I liked about them. Short haircuts. No facial hair. No names on the back of the jerseys. It...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... housing stock. It's just a longer time span that I'm used to using in my thinking. Then there's Benjamin Franklin. The printer/inventor/Declaration of Independence signer planned the use for part of his estate for TWO HUNDRED YEARS. Serious. In his will, he left the cities of Boston and Philadelphia 1000 pounds each (roughly equivalent to $100,000 today), but limited their use of...
