Tag: Thomas Edison
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He Brought Us From Darkness
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2026 (Jan. 15, 2026) — Into the chilled October night four figures cut through the dark. Over the railroad tracks, down the dirt streets, past the preserved homes and the silent shops, they quietly made their way to a group of buildings just ahead. The short elderly man in…
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What Can I Build?
CAPITALISM REWARDS PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY by Don Fredrick, ©2013, blogging at The Obama Timeline (Dec. 7, 2013) — I marvel at what I have today, especially when I compare it to my life growing up in the 1950s. No one could have told me 60 years ago that I would some day have my own computer,…
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What Happened to the Mavericks?
AMERICA IS SUFFERING FROM A “DEBILITATING MINDSET” by Ron Ewart, ©2012 (Feb. 26, 2012) — “The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they’re expected to do – they always reach.” — Lee Iacocca The other…
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Cheap, Clean, Limitless Energy May be Mankind’s Only Salvation!
A NEW ENERGY SOURCE? by Ron Ewart, ©2011 (Aug. 29, 2011) — There is probably no one alive today who can remember life without electricity, and yet 98% of man’s rise out of dark sub-Sahara Africa was without this form of work-saving energy. The only forms of energy to do work that were available to mankind prior…