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“A room without a book is like a body without a soul.”
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by Randy Barnett

As we celebrate Independence Day, I thought I would post a couple excerpts about the Declaration of Independence from my forthcoming book, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Sovereignty of the People (which is now available for pre-order on Amazon). This passage of the book appears after the one I posted here.]

Click on the link below for the complete article

http://wpo.st/E-LP0

Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center, and Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. His books include: Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2d. ed 2014); and The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law (Oxford, 2d. ed. 2014).

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In the Library … The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns

06/02/2015 Nativegrl77

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s ‘Bully Pulpit’ brings Roosevelt-Taft era to life

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Interview with Author Jonathan Bloom

01/22/2014 Nativegrl77

‘American Wasteland’ Author
Talks Food Waste

Photo used in American Wasteland book cover, courtesy of Jonathan Bloom.
We all have a role to play in the food waste problem — and in the solution, according to American Wasteland author Jonathan Bloom. Read our Q&A with Bloom, and get his tips for reducing food waste.

~ Culture & History, ~ In the Library, ~ pop culture

Official Google blog …

12/13/2013 Nativegrl77

Conquer the Lonely Mountain in Chrome

In “The Hobbit,” a company of Dwarves tries to reclaim the lost kingdom of Erebor from Smaug the Terrible, a fire-breathing Dragon. While the Dwarves’ quest is fraught with danger, your journey to Erebor is just a click away in “A Journey Through Middle-earth,” the Chrome Experiment released a few weeks ago from Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM).
You can now follow the Dwarves’ journey to Erebor and try to outsmart Smaug on your desktop, mobile phone or tablet. But it might be wise to first pay a little visit to the folks who live in nearby Thranduil’s Hall and Lake-town—locations that recently became accessible in this Chrome Experiment—just in case you need their help against the mighty Dragon.

To best equip you on your journey, you may want to stop by Google Play. There you’ll find all sorts of Hobbit-related apps, games, books, music and films*. Together with the recent recording of a Google+ Hangout with director Peter Jackson and actors Evangeline Lilly and Richard Armitage, these can also help you get up to speed for the upcoming release in theaters of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.”
And for those of you more interested in web development than Dragon-slaying, check out the second technical case study on “A Journey Through Middle-earth” (the first one is already available on HTML5 Rocks). You can also watch a Hangout with North Kingdom, the team of designers and hackers who built it, on December 18. We’ll be posting more updates for the developer community on +Google Chrome Developers.
Posted by Adrian Soghoian, Product Marketing Manager & a Fool of a Took
*Available content and promotions vary by country.

~ In the Library, ~ pop culture

In the Library … Tom Clancy

10/02/2013 Nativegrl77

Undated picture shows author Clancy in Huntingtown

Author Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66, according to the New York Times.

The cause of his death wasn’t immediately known.Clancy was best known for his thrillers dealing with political intrigue and military technology.

He published 28 books, including those in the popular Jack Ryan series, such as “The Hunt for Red October,” “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger.”