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Quote of the Moment: James Madison, on the growth of education
Two Madison quotes today: I congratulate you on the foundation thus laid for a general System of Education, and hope it presages a superstructure, worthy of the patriotic forecast which has commenced...
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The story is the thing; tell the story in history
Son James and I spent July 4 in Taos, New Mexico, where we were working with Habitat for Humanity building homes (a project of the youth group at the church we attend, First Christian Church (Disciples...
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Constitution Day, September 17
Get ready. Constitution Day is September 17, 2007. It’s the anniversary of the day in 1787 when 39 men signed their names to the proposed Constitution of the United States of America, to send it off to...
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Texas was thankful first
Thanksgiving? Texas had it first. No kidding (unless you count the Vinlanders, who probably were grateful to be out of Greenland, but left no records that they ever actually had a feast to say so — but...
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Founders online, great interactive site
Our friends and benefactors at the Bill of Rights Institute put up a great branch of their site, Founders Online. A grant from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation made the project possible. Check it...
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Tagged by Myers to do history! Meet James Madison
One of those memes. I’ve got a couple of them hanging fire still, I really do badly at this stuff. So I have to start chipping away at them. Latest first. P. Z. Myers at Pharyngula tagged me. As he...
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James Madison’s birthday, March 16
Freedom of Conscience Day? James Madison’s birth day is March 16, Sunday. He was born in 1751, in Conway, King George County, Virginia. Father of the Constitution, fourth President of the U.S., Great...
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Torturing children, the Constitution, and a teacher’s duty to protect children
This is the device Ohio teacher John Freshwater was using to shock students and brand them with crosses: A BD-10A high-frequency generator tester for leak detection, from Electro-Technic Products,...
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Dirty play on PUMA blogs, and election history (1800)
Oh, it’s only a little dirty, sure. With but with Democrats like the PUMAs, sometimes you wonder why we need Karl Rove. With Hillary supporters like a few of the PUMAs, who needs Monica Lewinsky? At...
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‘We don’t got no stinkin’ education. We don’t need no stinkin’ education!’
My family’s heritages are migrant and education. By that I mean that moving someplace else for a better life, and getting the kids into better schools, has been a tradition running back at least 6...
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James Madison, Father of the Constitution, March 16
Col. James Madison of the Virginia Militia, Citizen Soldier – National Guard image; click image for high-resolution, poster quality version James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 — date depending on...
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How will you celebrate James Madison’s birthday? What happened to James...
James Madison joined the world on March 16, 1751. Tuesday is the 259th anniversary of his birth. James Madison University, appropriately, made hoopla during the whole week in 2009. What about this...
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Utah report: More false “founders’ quotes” plague American discourse
Utah has a movement out to slander education and the Constitution, with a pointless claim that the Constitution cannot be called a “democracy,” damn Lincoln, Hamilton, Madison, Washington, both...
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May 7: Anniversary of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution
Oops. I forgot this anniversary yesterday. September 25, 1789, Congress had approved and enrolled the proposals, and sent twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution to the states for ratification....
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If it’s an election year, it must be Bogus Quote Time! Patrick Henry on the...
Keep your collections of Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, and “the founders” close to you, and right next to your Bartlett’s or Yale. It’s an election year, and that means people are pulling out all the...
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March 16, Freedoms Day – How to celebrate James Madison?
March 16 falls on Saturday this year, so celebrations of James Madison, who was born on March 16, 1751, will get lumped into the “something else to do” during Saturday errands, category. March 16 is...
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Madison’s birthday celebration at Montpelier
At the Belle Grove Bed and Breakfast blog we get a nice report and lots of photos from the James Madison birthday celebration last Saturday at Montpelier, Madison’s mountain retreat and home in...
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“Return to Madison,” urges James Madison U president on the great man’s birthday
What would Madison do? James Madison’s work, not only on the Constitution, but on making the Constitution and new government work, and on creating the foundation pilings for that Constitution and...
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Nope, Patrick Henry didn’t say that
More misquoting of “the Founders”: For America’s poster featuring a quote falsely claimed to be from Patrick Henry. The racial right wingers won’t tell you, but the painting is a portrait by George...
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Quote of the moment: James Madison, education, or farce and tragedy
James Madison Building of the Library of Congress, the official James Madison Memorial for the nation A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue...
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