Board of Directors of Primerica, Inc. Declares $0.11 Quarterly Dividend DULUTH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Board of Directors of Primerica, Inc. ( NYS: PRI ), the largest independent financial services marketing company in North America, today approved payment of a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per share for the first quarter of 2013. Show More Summary
Millennial Media celebrated it’s “Independence Day” on Wall Street yesterday as the company reported earnings for the first quarter of 2013. What’s more, the mobile ad giant declared during its earnings call that Millennial Media will remain independent for the foreseeable future. That is, the public company is not for sale. Millennial Media Chief Executive [...]
At the end of the Declaration of Independence, its signers pledged "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." More than two centuries later, we...
The Hair Tiara (D-TX) graced the House floor with her soaring rhetoric, elegant charm, sparkling charisma, dashing humility, and submissive...
Anyone who has studied American history knows that Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant thinker who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was our third president, and also founded the University of Virginia.
Nigel Farage, Founder of the UK Independence Party, claims a "sea of change in British politics" as UKIP Makes Big Gains in local elections.
The UK Independence Party has made huge electoral gains and declared itself the "official opposition"...Show More Summary
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Green Lobby Concerned The UK Independence Party has overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third party of British politics, Nigel Farage declared today as he made major gains in local elections. As senior … Continue reading ?
A Prince-y empowerment anthem for the ladies of the #expressyourself generation, “Q.U.E.E.N,” Janelle Monae’s new single from her forthcoming The Electric Lady LP, is all about declaring independence from shade, sin, and shame. Against a backdrop of squirmy synths and funk guitar, Monae breaks down the paradigms of modern womanhood. Show More Summary
April 19On this day. 1809: The father of the Constitution — President James Madison — purchased a slave to work in the White House. The seller: the father of the Declaration of Independence, former President Thomas Jefferson. Even more ironic, the name of the slave Jefferson sold to Madison was... Show More Summary
Jonathan Rieder from Barnard College looks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and how its values reflected the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence without mentioning those documents directly...
After a great deal of thought, DougJ, Mistermix, and I have decided that we need to make a few additional changes along with the site rebuild we will be rolling out. When I first stumbled into blogging over 12 years ago, it was for two one reasons: curiosity and freedom I’d grown tired of Unreal [...]
This week's Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of denying marriage to same-sex couples revive Lincoln's contempt for popular sovereignty, implicate his fervor for the Declaration of Independence and test his determination to forge a United States infused with its spirit of equality.
As a proud supporter of the local independent record store former The Jam front man declared a very special release for this year's Record Store Day.
America is dedicated to the principles of human liberty, grounded in the truths expressed in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights. As Abraham Lincoln once said, these permanent truths are “applicable to all men and all times.” Our founding fathers were steeped in the Judeo-Christian traditions. [...]
Writes Kate in Georgia: “My niece, Emily, has to be the most adorable revolutionary in existence. Last week she self-published her manifesto. There are actually six pages of demands, each printed on butterfly stationary. (We assume the butterfly symbolizes her freedom from authority.)” related: See you never again in my life!
Q: When President Obama quoted from the Declaration of Independence in his Inaugural Address, he used the word “unalienable.” But I’ve also seen the word as “inalienable.” Which is correct English? Which is actually in the Declaration? A: Both “inalienable” and “unalienable” are legitimate English words, and they have identical meanings. Show More Summary
In a letter from Eric Holder to Rand Paul it seemed clear that we have never used domestic drone attacks in America and have no intention to do so. However he did argue that the President had the authority to use drone strikes on an enemy combatant in national emergencies similar to attacks on Pearl Harbor or the World Trade Center buildings.
The National Archives announced this week that effective Friday, its record rooms for researchers and exhibits of the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and other famous documents will be open to the public for fewer hours. The cut … Continue reading ?
Obama declared his confidence his nominees will help achieve his goals of energy independence, more clean-energy jobs, tackling climate change, and economic growth.
No my native state of Texas hasn’t seceded from the rest of the U.S (yet!) Texas Independence Day celebrates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836 officially breaking from Mexico to create the Republic of Texas. That independent spirit is nowhere better proven then in the music and musicians that [...]Show More Summary