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The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted...

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and...

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to...

[T]o exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender our own, too liberal...

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with...

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.-- Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 22,...

As Peter Jackson and Co. did with The Lord of the Rings, New Line founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, under their new Unique Features banner, are looking to bring Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series to the big screen. An epic science fiction series, spanning literally hundreds of years and cataloguing the rise and fall of civilizations, [...]

by Rep. Ron Paul The Latin term “fiat” roughly translates to “there shall be”. When we refer to fiat money, we are referring to money that exists because the government declares it into existence. It is not based on production or earnings, and not backed by any commodity. It is solely based on [...]

[W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves, if they do not establish an American republic. This is the only form of government we wish to...

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the...

A week ago today, Independence Day (not “the 4th”) was celebrated - but it seems that many people are missing the point of this holiday.  We all enjoy taking time with family and friends - celebrating and appreciating the warm summer - but do we ever really take time to reflect on just what we’re [...]

The company’s co-founders were awarded for entrepreneurial success in the financial services category; qualify for national awardsBLUFFDALE, Utah – July 3, 2008 – Skyler Witman, John Washenko, Matt Lovelady, Jonathan E. Bonnette, and Don Jorgensen of United First Financial™, a financial software services and support company, were recently awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

The plot continues to thicken as swindled investors scramble to recover what few pennies exist from their embezzled 1031 exchange funds, many representing investor life savings, in the fallen Ed Okun 1031 Tax Group “Ponzi” scheme. A concerned “citizen” sent the following link to a June 20, 2008 Denver Business Journal story “Ex-clients sue IXG [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the co-founders of photo-sharing Web site Flickr, are the latest executives to leave Yahoo Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday on its Web site, citing a company source. Yahoo told the newspaper that Fake left June 13 and that Butterfield’s final day will be July 12. Fake and [...]

For those of us who are engaged in the media game for reasons other than spreading gossip about celebrities this story about Allhiphop is a must read, or in this case just LISTEN. The dudes over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I had a chance to speak with Bebo co-founder Michael Birch last weekend and congratulate him in person for the $850 million sale of Bebo to AOL earlier this year. Birch was recently interviewed by the Telegraph and spoke about the history of Bebo. He was vague on his plans for the future, though, saying “I [...]

by Robert GillisPublished in The Foxboro Reporter 6/2004 and 6/2008Founders Day!The annual day-long celebration of our town’s birthday starts as you drive through Foxboro at 8:45, 9:00, and people are already putting out beach chairs, staking out the best viewing spots. Business owners and employees are opening windows and doors, hovering, getting ready for the event. The police begin closing ro

By GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Securities regulators on Wednesday charged Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company’s reported income, leading to what is believed to be the largest accounting restatement yet because of backdating stock options. Samueli stepped down as chairman of the company’s board [...]

The founders of Allhiphop.com spoke to Remix magazine and gave some insight into the branding of their site at its infancy stage. What compelled them to create an all hip hop service, online... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely...

Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1747

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.-- Samuel Adams (letter to the Legislature of Massachusetts, 17 January 1794)

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and...

Endeavor, www.endeavor.org, the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets, honored the founders of Skype and Joost, Niklas Zennström & Janus Friis at Endeavor’s 10 Year Anniversary Gala in New York City. Endeavor’s gala is an annual event that hails the achievements of high-impact entrepreneurs world-wide. On the occasion of its 10 Year Anniversary, Endeavor honored Messrs. Zennstrom & Friis as Entrepreneurs of the Year. “What Niklas and Janus started Skype as a matter of necessity and as a result have radically transformed the way we communicate. More importantly their initiative has invigorated the entrepreneurial drive to invent and develop breakthroughs that will improve our lives. It is the example we want our Endeavor Entrepreneurs to follow,” Rottenberg said. Tags: Skype, Joost, Niklas Zennström, Janus Frii

Founders Day was such a blast. I had so much fun and the university went to such an effort. Every year they have this fantastic band - the live music really creates the atmosphere. I wish they would have live bands like this on campus more often, like one Friday a month? It would definitely bring more of a sense of community to campus (not that we don’t already have one! but it would be fun). I am just so impressed with all the thoughtful efforts that went into the event (such as the jumping castle games, the snowcone machine etc). Earlier on in the day I participated in the canoeing race around the lake. My friend, Shira, and I desperately wanted the beautiful Lynn towels they were giving to participants of the canoeing race, thus we decided to compete! We tried begging for towels first, that didn’t work - so, we signed up a team. The Water Warriors (as we were called) were going to make a splash! Only one problem…I live off campus and I was not prepared for a day

Charity founders bow out to concentrate on family (Orange County Register)Founders of Snowball Express will lay low and attend to their own needs for now.Debate ’scandal’ plagued (The Kentucky Post)It was the night of the dueling “scandals.” The investigation into hiring practices that has plagued Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s administration and lingering questions about how Steve [...]

Watch out Bill! Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, each worth an estimated $18.5 billion, have joined the ranks of the top 10 richest people in the U.S., according to Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 most wealthy Americans. The 34-year-olds are tied for fifth place, behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is worth $59 million; [...]

Charity founders bow out to concentrate on family (Orange County Register) Founders of Snowball Express will lay low and attend to their own needs for now. Bombay Co. files for bankruptcy 10:52 AM CT (Dallas Morning News) The Bombay Co., a specialty home-furnishings retailer, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors with a plan to sell its assets. The company [...]

Hello Fellow Reader, LAST-EVER “evolution” broadcast before pre-launch, an interview with Co-Founders Len Fitzgerald and Tom Brodie: Hear Tom discuss the genesis of project e-play, what inspired this new business, and why it has created such a shockwave, even before its pre-launch! Len discusses the ethos behind the business and the top-notch international customer support it provides, then re-caps the overwhelming momentum that has been building up over the past three and a half weeks. The Co-Founders express their admiration for those who have already far exceeded their expectations. http://www.evolutioniscoming.com/euromillionsuk With Success Pedro Sardinha

Book Description ISBN-1590597141Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin

I've decided to write about a book that had an excellent exposure amongst bloggers. I know some smarter and better bloggers have reviewed the book so far, but it is the kind of book that you can't let go and read in 2 days. It's Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston I actually bought the book following the very nice reviews, and now it's the time to make now. If don't know already, its a collection of interviews with some very famous entrepreneurs. Tully we take for granted great tools that we use today like Paypal, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Shoops, Apple, Blogger... But the interesting thing is that behind every each tool we have a great entrepreneurship experience - which we are not aware of in the day by day life. Each of these services or products have been a start-up once, with all the problems, crisis, ups and downs at some point. I'm not going to talk about each of the businesses presented in the book (you should buy the book for that) but to make some conclusions of my o

Hi all,Aye, there are rumblings in the eBay jungle! P*ssed off punters aplenty (myself included) vent our displeasure as the Internet colossus flexes it’s (not so subtle) online muscle…I know, it’s a sad sorry tale of greed and disgruntled dreams. So, what’s the beef?...Well until recently, items listed for sale by eBay punters on the UK site would automatically appear in the search results on it’s the bigger American brother .com site (and very nice too)But since February, the most common 'simple search' on eBay.com only brings up items for sale by US sellers. (not so good at all)OK, it is still possible for American users to find items listed by UK sellers, but only if they click on the 'advanced search' option, which of course isn’t (on a pro-rata basis) likely to be too often the case. Getting in on the .com action is vital to sellers as it receives mega more hits than our smaller UK site could ever dream of as well as offering simple access to nearly 300 millio

Seemingly in direct response to my earlier question, why don’t VC’s simply start their own companies, VentureBeat today features a story on Sean Parker a young VC at the Founders Fund who is also serving as CEO of a company he has recently co-founded with Mark Zuckerberg’s former Harvard roommate. The new company called Project Agape is being dubbed a “meta non-profit” with a stated purpose of ‘working to empower people to further their political or social cause using the Internet.’ From what I gather it will essentially deal with online fundraising using social media tools and by significantly lowering the overhead typically associated with fundraising. It is well positioned to take advantage of significant market potential in online donations and seems not to be a pure profit play. Project Agape has recently acquired $2.35M in funding from the Founders Fund, but is remaining secretive. You can sign up for updates and news via the temporary website. Perhaps this will

The three executives who run Google Inc. each drew a salary last year of $1. But Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin more than made up for it in the large stakes they own in the online search leader, which has made them billionaires.Besides his $1 salary, Schmidt, who was No. 116 on Forbes magazine's most recent ranking of American billionaires, received a bonus of $1,723 and "other compensation" valued at $555,742, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The bulk of that other compensation, $532,755, was for personal security.Google's shares closed 2006 at $460.48 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, up 11 percent for the year. The stock started at $85 when it went public in August 2004.Schmidt, 51, owns 10,096 of Google's Class A shares and 10.7 million of its Class B shares. At the end of 2006, those securities were worth about $4.9 billion.Brin, 33, and Page, 34, shared the No. 26 spot on the Forbe

Steny Hoyer has had a meeting with radical Islamists according to cnsnews.com. If this report is true he has met with the founders of Hamas known as the Muslim Brotherhood. From the article: Top terrorists who have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood include 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who joined the organization in Kuwait; al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri, a former top member of the Brotherhood in Egypt; and the jailed World Trade Center bombing plotter sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, also an Egyptian. This is just the type of people you would want to associate with now isn’t it? But it gets even scarier: Khaled Salam, said the meeting “clearly signals a positive shift in the attitude of both sides to explore the prospects of a more formal dialogue which hopefully will gain more supporters in the U.S. if Democrats win the White House in 2008.” Great, more talks with the people who want to destroy us. More appeasement, it worked so well for President Clinton. Just tal

For the third year in a row the CEO and co-founders of google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin received a salary of $1. Interesting, and here I am thinking that I'm underpaid. Their main compensation comes from returns on their ownership of google. As major shareholders, their personal wealth is tied directly to the stock price appreciation and performance. Shares of google stock closed Tuesday at $472.60 each. Guess this helps out in between the pay checks...

Yo word up, check out some new beef shit. This time some unknown mad-rapper group named El-P (who the hell are these clowns?) try to put the smack down on Rawkus Records and Puff Daddy in an interview on HipHopdx. Click Here to ReadAfter getting wind of this, the Co-Founders of Rawkus Records (Jarret Myer & Brian Brater) strike back at El-P in this letter addressed to them:We thought the photo of you and Puff was cool. We posted it without comment. We immediately removed it upon request. But you had to go there... Straight attack our credibility and intentions with that slanderous rant. Keep in mind WE HAVEN'T SAID A WORD to you since 1998. Why are you salty? Be happy, you are successful and rich. Regardless of our obvious distaste for one another, we’ve admired Def Jux's success and sincerely respect your roster of artists. But you had to go there......El-P, your recent post has drawn attention to our intentions as promoters and marketers in the Hip Hop community. Haters, like yo

The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers "the best of the internet with the best of TV". Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, who sold their online telephony business to Ebay for $2.6bn last year, have invested part of the proceeds in developing the service, [...]

As it turns out Chad Hurley met Steve Chen when they were both working for Paypal. Hurley just graduated from design school at the University of Indiana and as part of his interview mocked up a design for the Paypal logo and landed the gig.