The Davis Memorial Volume Or Our Dead President, Jefferson Davis, And The World's Tribute To His Memory (1890)
Right Angles (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This living history event couldn’t come at a more opportune time. Join the John Locke Foundation Monday night in Raleigh for a visit with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Monday, November 23, 2009 7:00 pm North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton Street Raleigh, NC 27601-1011 Price: $10 The United States is facing some of its most [...]
Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
JPMorgan Ends SEC Alabama Swap Probe for $722 Million (Update4) | | | By Martin Z. Braun and William SelwayNov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- agreed to a $722 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to end a probe into sales of derivatives that helped push Alabama’s most populous county to the brink of bankruptcy. JPMorgan will give Jefferson County, Alabama, $50 million, pay...
Elektratig (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
In Prologue to War: England and the United States 1805-1812 , Bradford Perkins highlights the unseemly haste with which the Tenth Congress acceded to the recommendation of President Jefferson to enact an embargo law. On Friday December 18, 1807 the president transmitted the following message to Congress requesting embargo legislation: To the Senate and House of Representatives...
freecounterpoint (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I snapped these photos between December 1-2, 2009, about 20 miles north of Bismarck on the east bank of the Montana mountain runoff known as the Missouri River. The top photo was taken this morning as the morning moon descended in the west, just before the sun rose in the east to lighten the day's overcast. Gentlemen, the Lewis and Clark trail, as President Jefferson sent them out, remains...
The Democratic Daily (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... of real Confederates to rebut the neo-Confederates. He quotes a raft of Rebels from Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens to representatives of Confederate states who went to other slave states – including Kentucky – to try to talk their political leaders into secession. “I believe deeply that the story these documents tell is one that...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... recent years. The Barganiers' however, is an original -- the bed was custom-made for Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... a single railroad line that stretched all the way back into Nashville, Tennessee. And Confederate President Jefferson Davis engaged in much big talk given the desperate circumstances of his government, suggesting that Sherman might find himself in the same position as the post-Moscow Napoleon. The unflappable Grant was having none of this: Who will supply the snow? he had asked, with...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Obama Makes First Major Presidential Trip To Asia Facing a daunting array of Asian challenges, U.S. President Barack Obama left today on his first major trip to the region, where a surging China and newly assertive Japan are chipping away at America’s standing on diplomacy and trade . Already the most traveled first-year president ever, he took off for Tokyo on an Asian journey...
Getting Busy Living (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... figures – Generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. It is the largest bas-relief in the world, measuring 90 by 190 feet. This second shot was taken from the top of the mountain, which can be reached either by foot or, for the less adventurous smarter, via a cable car which provides a great close-up view of the...
Schiller Wine (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... famous were those from Hermitage in the northern Rhone valley, in the 18th and 19th century. When President Jefferson was Ambassador in Paris, he visited Hermitage. Syrah arrived in Australia in the early 19th century and was first planted in Hunter Valley. By the end of the century, Syrah was fully established as one of Australia’s grape varieties. Penfolds Grange is the most...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Former President visits research centres in University of Alabama
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... are more similar to the romanticized swashbuckling Caribbean pirates than the Barbary pirates President Jefferson sent the Navy and Marines to fight."Barbary pirates operated with the approval and backing of their states, weak and poor as they may have been," he said. "Somali pirates are a product of the failure of the Somali state. The Somalis more closely resemble the pirates of...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The National Congress of American Indians is opening a new embassy for tribal nations in Washington D.C. today: For the first time since settlement, tribal nations will have a permanent home in Washington, D.C. where they can more effectively assert their sovereign status and facilitate a much stronger nation-to-nation relationship with the federal government," said NCAI President Jefferson...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... from office for taking thousands of dollars, luxury clothes and jewelry while in his past job, as president of the Jefferson County Commission.The county has its own problems with some roots in Langford's tenure: Commissioners are trying to avoid filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy ever over $3.9 billion in sewer debt.Unlike the county, the city is financially sound...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The SEC previously charged Birmingham, Ala., mayor Larry Langford and two others for undisclosed payments to Mr. Langford related to municipal bond offerings and swap agreement transactions made while he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. On Oct. 28, Mr. Langford was found guilty in the related criminal case on 60 counts of bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion....
