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So Donald Trump is now telling us that having Mike Pence overturn the electoral college result would have been “perfectly legal.” He’s dead wrong, both factually and conceptually, and his admission should lead him straight to a jail cell.The electoral college wasn’t put in place so that a president ...
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Grab a chair and enjoy these suggestions Some finance-related books on tap for P&I readers this summer, but still lots of escapist fare to peruse Norman Bendell Biographies, history and escapist fare ranging from popular fiction to travel guides top the summer reading lists of readers of Pensions & Investments. Ashbel C. "Ash" Williams Jr., executive director and chief investment officer of the $245.8 billion Florida State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, will be reading Hank and Jan Taft and Curtis Rindlaub's book "A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast" this summer. The book is for backg...
Historian John Ferling's book Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781, explores the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. Winning Independence tells the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain, so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation, ultimately failed to win the war. Trending
William Urban: Adams versus Jefferson William Urban Six years ago I listened to John Ferling’s book (getting the Audio-Book from the Warren County Library) with its subtitle “The Tumultuous Election of 1800,” so a while back I listened to it again. One characteristic of a good book is that it bears reading at various points in each person’s life. In this case, the election of 2020 seems to have been even more contentious than what seemed likely in 2015. Moreover, there were strong resemblances to the election of 1800. If anything was different, it was that passions were higher two hun...