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26 Oct 2023, 11:10 am by Christian Romero
” Alexis Hancock speaking about Signal Foundation Josh Lund and Riya Abraham, longtime staff members of Signal Foundation, took the stage and spoke of their memories watching the first 100,000 messages go through the signal protocol to more than 100,000 messages per second. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 1:15 pm by Heather L. Weaver
The county’s first mosque, the Abraham House of God, finally broke ground in the City of Horn Lake. [read post]
22 May 2019, 3:42 pm by Margaret Colgate Love
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s attorney general Edward Bates worked hard to control access to his notoriously merciful chief, whose inclination to pardon deserters frustrated his wartime generals. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 12:00 am
I say we close a law school or two and permit aspirants to the bar to train for the law the way Abraham Lincoln did — apprentice with a practitioner. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 5:34 am by Michael C. Dorf
I also understand that it came to stand in for the broader process of emancipation.The question is why not some other date.To my mind, the answer is that Juneteenth makes more sense than either of the plausible alternatives--commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation or the Thirteenth Amendment.(1) When I was in elementary school, I was taught that Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and shazam, slavery ended. [read post]
13 May 2022, 4:36 pm by Sandy Levinson
  All coerced pregnancies, especially if they inflict physical or mental pain on the unwilling mother, violate the fundamental entitlement to a life without illegitimate domination that is guaranteed by the most important single outcome of a War that killed some 750,000 Americans as part of what Abraham Lincoln called the striving for a "new birth of freedom. [read post]
18 May 2020, 9:14 am by Sandy Levinson
 And, most importantly, Abraham Lincoln took the White House in 1860 with only 39.8% of the popular vote, and civil war ensued. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 9:49 am by Chuck Rosenberg
Douglas did in 1860, when Douglas told President-Elect Abraham Lincoln after a fiercely contested election: Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
In a famous 1855 letter, Abraham Lincoln drew a connection between racism and hostility towards immigrants, then epitomized by the nativist Know-Nothing movement: I am not a Know-Nothing. [read post]
8 May 2014, 5:13 am by Michael W. Dowdle
  But of course, my argument is dependent of a particular definition or understanding of freedom that values freedom principally as a means of realizing that more elite order of psychological needs that Abraham Maslow termed “self-actualization”. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 8:00 am
  Abraham Lincoln thought differently and by sending troops to prevent succession, and the Civil War began.Fast forward 140 years to the year 2005. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 8:25 am
David's presentation featured a letter to Abraham Lincoln -- the only US President to hold a patent -- which sought to update him on the developments that had taken place since his death, together with the challenges facing the utility of the patent system. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 12:22 pm
Further on, Surah al-Baqarah, implies that the Sabeans, a people who worshipped the seven visible planets (most likely a metaphor for all members of non-Abrahamic religions) were entitled to the same rewards as any other people (2:62), provided that they “did righteousness”. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ruckman Jr’s excellent blog Pardon Power, Abraham Lincoln granted clemency every single month of his administration as an act of mercy and a canny political strategy. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 6:58 am
In Abraham Goldfaden’s famous operetta, “The Witch,” the sorceress herself is called Bubbe Yakhne. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 10:33 am
  Like most lawyers, we've read what Abraham Lincoln said in favor of settlements. [read post]