While ThomasJefferson is best known as the third president of the United States, Ambassador to France and Secretary of State, he was also the second Vice President, Virginia Governor, an inventor, gastronome, an avid write and a wine connoisseur and vineyard operator. His role in promoting grape growing and wine making in the US is probably his least known accomplishment, but one of...
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them" - ThomasJefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, July 30, 1816 As a regular viewer of Beck's conspiratorial, anti-intellectual nonsense , I must say that Stewart's performance is impeccable. The glasses, the piling up of books...
There is only one thing worse than voting to deny somebody their rights: Voting to give it to them. Sometimes I wonder how the framers of the Constitution would react to Maine's vote this Tuesday on whether gay people should keep their right to marry. I'm pretty sure Jefferson would weep. And the others would share his hankie. For this must be the founding father's nightmare: Seeing one group...
Picture: Signpost in Hochheim am Main in the Rheingau in memory of President ThomasJefferson's visit on April 10, 1788. Before becoming President of the US, ThomasJefferson was American Ambassador to France. He was appointed in 1785 and spent five years in Europe. There, he mingled effective statesmanship with frequent trips to the wine regions of France and Germany....
Four researchers from ThomasJefferson University have received $3.9 million in Challenge grant funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
( ThomasJefferson University ) Four researchers from ThomasJefferson University have received $3.9 million in Challenge grant funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
... lay down their arms and give all of America a group hug, he did get one thing right. The fact that ThomasJefferson kept a copy of the Koran (Qur’an) in his Presidential library. Allah only knows why Mr. Obama would cite Jefferson’s ownership of the Koran as an attempt to show solidarity between America and the Muslim world. Well Mr. President, I’m not quite sure how to break...
Christopher Hitchens, one of the most highly-regarded political commentators in the U.S. today, visited Grand Rapids on October 3, 2006, to talk about President ThomasJefferson's war in Tripoli and President George W. Bush's war in Iraq.
3 votes could have killed it - 2 Democrats and 1 Republican: 220 - 215 ThomasJefferson: Freedom and LibertyWhen has Obama, or Pelosi, or Reid ever said those words with the same MEANING, the same definition, and the same...
... care. Congresswoman Bachmann urging these people to rebel. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BACHMANN: It was ThomasJefferson who said—a revolution every now and then is a good thing. What do you think? (CHEERING) BACHMANN: You feel so good right now, and we, the members of Congress that are gathered on these steps for this press conference, are so honored that you are here. (END VIDEO CLIP)...
The Republicans are obstructing any way they can this morning. Watch the videos. The way I feel about this compromise vote is probably akin to how ThomasJefferson felt when the anti-slavery clause was stricken from the Declaration of Independence in order to get enough votes to pass. Stupak probably doesn’t have the votes, but again: Why [...]
I n his victory speech, Virginia's new governor-elect Bob McDonnell spoke of his pride at holding the same post as so many awe-inspiring political figures and symbols of American Freedom and Rights of Man such as ThomasJefferson. As a non-Virginian who happens to live here, I am constantly amused by the mythology that white and mostly Virginian historians lay down about Jefferson...
The way I feel about this is probably akin to how ThomasJefferson felt when the anti-slavery clause was stricken from the Declaration of Independence in order to get enough votes to pass. Stupak probably doesn't have the votes will be joined by the Republicans and will probably get his amendment passed. Again, I ask: Why does someone's personal religious beliefs get to infringe on mine...
... care. Congresswoman Bachmann urging ase people to rebel. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BACHMANN: It was ThomasJefferson who said—a revolution every now & an is a good thing. What do you think? (CHEERING) BACHMANN: You feel so good right now, & we, a members of Congress that are gaared on ase steps for this press conference, are so honored that you are here. (END VIDEO CLIP) OLBERMANN: Press...
