Samuel Johnson In The News
June 27, 2008 'I pledge allegiance...'
"As Samuel Johnson said," Field said, "'Patriotism is often the last refuge of a scoundrel.'" "I take offense," Navy veteran Joe Kutt said later in the ...
June 24, 2008 Veterans fight for Pledge of Allegiance in North Hampton
âAs Samuel Johnson said, âPatriotism is often the last refuge of a scoundrel.ââ âI take offense,â Navy veteran Joe Kutt said later in the meeting. ...
June 16, 2008 When Law is Not Enough
By Michael M. Uhlmann As Samuel Johnson said of the prospect of hanging, war concentrates the mind wonderfully. One might add that an unpopular war ...
June 15, 2008 Political Prose: Divided by bridges? Thereâsa new motto
Well then, before you organize any more of these surely nonpolitical events, keep in mind the words of the 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson, ...
June 02, 2008 Poetry Column: Hanover first with borough laureateship
She has mastered what Samuel Johnson purported, "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." Bowman's keen insight into life's commonalities ever ...
May 14, 2008 Could the tail wag the dog? And should we care?
As Dr. Samuel Johnson once said "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful". ...
May 12, 2008 Barr Has Been Spending Freely
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", Samuel Johnson, 1775. Live radio and true news without the MSM spin. LIVE CHAT ROOM to interact with other ...
May 09, 2008 Realignment in Full Swing...62 TEC Priests deposed...Black Church ...
The venality of the bishop of the DIOCESE OF FLORIDA, Samuel Johnson Howard, reached new revisionist heights this past week when VOL learned that he has ...
April 02, 2008 Stage listings
Three San Franciscan men share a common bond of crystal meth addiction in the world premiere of Terrence Beswick's play performed by Guerilla Rep. ...
April 01, 2008 Stage listings
Three San Franciscan men share a common bond of crystal meth addiction in the world premiere of Terrence Beswick's play performed by Guerilla Rep. ...
March 20, 2008 Science and Engineering Fair winners announced
Junior Division representative to the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair in Indianapolis: Jodie Goodman, Canterbury; Kristine Morr, St. Vincent de Paul; ...
March 19, 2008 Regional Science and Engineering Fair Award winners announced
Junior Division representative to the Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair in Indianapolis: Jodie Goodman, Canterbury; Kristine Morr, St. Vincent de Paul; ...
March 11, 2008 Racism and Mr. T. Wright
Samuel Johnson - not the daddy of those no-account Johnsons who used to live next door to me with the barking dogs, but the English writer - called ...
March 11, 2008 Feed Comcast to the Lions
Samuel Johnson It's been said that America has a lot in common with ancient Rome, but one key difference is that we no longer feed religious minorities to ...
February 07, 2008 Tell Kenny no questions and he'll ask you no lies
... casting himself as an unlikely Dr Samuel Johnson to a load of inquisitive Armani-clad James Boswells: "Sir, I will not be baited with 'what' and 'why'. ...
January 31, 2008 The founding fathers and deism
Representative of them are the following signers of the Constitution: Bible Societies founders Charles Pinckney, John Langdon, James McHenry and Rufus King; ...
January 29, 2008 DeWeese stalwart in plans to run again
Borrowing a thought from the 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson, DeWeese said, "Nothing so concentrates the brain as the certain knowledge that you ...
December 30, 2007 Reading in the 21st Century
Rep. Phill English (R-Pa.) said. ``The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things ― the power to tell the good from the bad, ...
December 05, 2007 Forward on Fuel Economy
Pelosi had to tangle with one of the old bulls of the House – Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., who tried to carry the gas can for the auto industry. ...
November 11, 2007 RICHARD RABB: Holland unplugged isn'ta man immobilized
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson,when any man knows he is facing death in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully. And it fixes the mind when, ...
November 09, 2007 Mayor's Message
If Dr. Samuel Johnson, the 18th century lexicographer and author, could write Rasselas in less than nine days without a word processor she could write a ...
November 08, 2007 Musharraf and Alternative
I have never known a more apt personification of great English thinker Samuel Johnson’s saying that, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”; ...
August 21, 2007 America’s Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy
Samuel Johnson best described the past seventy-five years of nonsense: "Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." Fred Sheehan [send him mail] ...
August 18, 2007 Sesktak Warns Iraqi Oil Law Contains ‘Undue Ability Of US Oil ...
Much like Samuel Johnson said, although it’s not a great quote at times perhaps, “there’s nothing like the prospect of a hanging to focus the mind. ...
August 18, 2007 The War At Home
Wyden was largely speaking to the choir, a point made by state Rep. Peter Buckley, D-Ashland. "You can't go too far as far as we're concerned — we've got ...
August 09, 2007 Marc Lankin recalled with love, tears
Lankin had his detractors in town, but as Samuel Johnson said, “the true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ...
August 08, 2007 Byrne: I Don't Want to Play Games; Board Debate - Is it Fair?
8, 2007 -- One of the characters in a work of fiction by 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson says, "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible ...
August 05, 2007 Gore's call for a more active democracy
On one page, he references Alexander Hamilton, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Plutarch, and the apostle Paul. But for many readers, ...
June 03, 2007 Gathering Place
Samuel Johnson. And whatever happened to cultural continuity? Electronic diversions might be great for economic good times, but don't traditions provide us ...
March 14, 2007 By Samuel P. Ajavon, Jr. - Staff Writer
Every Liberian feels proud of the leaps and accomplishments that the leader, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf continues to make in moving the society forward ...
