On this date July 1st in 1916, 5,500 men of Ulster died in the Battle of Somme. One of them my Great Uncle Sergeant William Gordon went over the top that day never to return. Oral family tradition holds that all of Ulster went silent as the news broke, only the weeping behind drawn...
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Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12999.html Executive Summary A Few Factoids Thirty years ago, ten percent of California’s general fund went to higher education and three percent to prisons. Today, nearly eleven percent goes to prisons and eight percent to higher education.1 China is now second in the world...
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Benjamin Franklin consoled Thomas Jefferson as the new Congress cut over a quarter of his words from the draft of the Declaration of Independence. “We might have been a free and great people together” were cut at the end after his list of offensives the King had committed against his colonies. The Declaration documents...
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The first version of the Declaration of Independence called us “subjects”, later in a very telling and dramatic edit, Jefferson obliterated the word “subjects” and used, “citizens”. On this 4th of July does anything symbolize the spirit of this country, this nation more than the obliteration of “subjects” and the creation of “citizens” ?...
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A movie of San Francisco, 1905 driving down market street. At this point in time (1905) there were less than 1 billion people on the entire planet. The average life expectancy? in the U.S. was 47 years and there were only about 8000 cars. We’re all looking at people who earned a living on...
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Ct Taxes In The News
