Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia
The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Jimmy Carter emerged from hospice care to attend a memorial for his wife of nearly eight decades, Rosalynn Carter, in Atlanta last year. Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Oct. 16, 2024
The longest-lived president in American history has voted again.
Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and has been in hospice care since February 2023, submitted his absentee ballot on Wednesday, according to Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson.
Jason Carter, the chairman of the Carter Center, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at a courthouse in Americus, Ga. In Georgia, a relative may return a completed absentee ballot for a voter.
For weeks, according to the Carter family, the former president was privately playing down becoming a centenarian. Instead, Mr. Carter’s relatives said, he was most eager about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Under Georgia law, Oct. 7 was the first day that county registrars could distribute domestic absentee ballots. Elections officials began mailing military and overseas ballots last month. Georgia’s in-person early voting period began on Tuesday, and regulators reported record turnout.
Elections officials said they were not certain when Mr. Carter, who spent many days of his post-presidency on Carter Center election-monitoring missions around the world, first cast a ballot of his own. But in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age to 18; when Georgia voters decided to amend the state Constitution, Mr. Carter was months away from his 19th birthday.
Soon enough, though, he was in elected office himself. In 1962, he won a seat in the State Senate, after a chaotic scandal in which Mr. Carter’s opponent initially benefited from a ballot-stuffing scheme. (Decades later, Mr. Carter would recall that he was such an unknown then that a Georgia newspaper identified him as “Jerry Carter from Plains.”)
Mr. Carter cited the episode as a reason that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last year, founded the Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization, after they left the White House in 1981. But before his defeat by Ronald Reagan, one of Mr. Carter’s earliest lobbying efforts as president focused on his ideas about voter registration and campaign finance.
State records show that Mr. Carter has been an especially reliable voter as a former president. He has routinely cast ballots in general elections, of course, but has also been a fixture of primary runoffs and special elections. For more than a decade, he has exclusively voted by mail in the elections tracked by the state.
Mr. Carter still lives in Plains — the tidy city in southwest Georgia that he turned into an outpost of presidential politics nearly a half-century ago — and votes in Sumter County, where plenty of people still know him as “Mr. Jimmy.” A Republican presidential nominee last carried Sumter in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by 126 votes.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a 586-vote margin of victory there in 2020.
The margins have come to matter in Georgia, one of the most closely contested states in presidential elections. Had Mr. Carter gotten his way in the 1970s, though, they would matter less: He recommended abolishing the Electoral College.
Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education. More about Alan Blinder
The longest-lived president in American history has voted again.
Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1 and has been in hospice care since February 2023, submitted his absentee ballot on Wednesday, according to Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson.
Jason Carter, the chairman of the Carter Center, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a drop box at a courthouse in Americus, Ga. In Georgia, a relative may return a completed absentee ballot for a voter.
For weeks, according to the Carter family, the former president was privately playing down becoming a centenarian. Instead, Mr. Carter’s relatives said, he was most eager about voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Under Georgia law, Oct. 7 was the first day that county registrars could distribute domestic absentee ballots. Elections officials began mailing military and overseas ballots last month. Georgia’s in-person early voting period began on Tuesday, and regulators reported record turnout.
Elections officials said they were not certain when Mr. Carter, who spent many days of his post-presidency on Carter Center election-monitoring missions around the world, first cast a ballot of his own. But in 1943, Georgia became the first state to lower its voting age to 18; when Georgia voters decided to amend the state Constitution, Mr. Carter was months away from his 19th birthday.
Soon enough, though, he was in elected office himself. In 1962, he won a seat in the State Senate, after a chaotic scandal in which Mr. Carter’s opponent initially benefited from a ballot-stuffing scheme. (Decades later, Mr. Carter would recall that he was such an unknown then that a Georgia newspaper identified him as “Jerry Carter from Plains.”)
Mr. Carter cited the episode as a reason that he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died last year, founded the Carter Center, a nongovernmental organization, after they left the White House in 1981. But before his defeat by Ronald Reagan, one of Mr. Carter’s earliest lobbying efforts as president focused on his ideas about voter registration and campaign finance.
State records show that Mr. Carter has been an especially reliable voter as a former president. He has routinely cast ballots in general elections, of course, but has also been a fixture of primary runoffs and special elections. For more than a decade, he has exclusively voted by mail in the elections tracked by the state.
Mr. Carter still lives in Plains — the tidy city in southwest Georgia that he turned into an outpost of presidential politics nearly a half-century ago — and votes in Sumter County, where plenty of people still know him as “Mr. Jimmy.” A Republican presidential nominee last carried Sumter in 2004, when George W. Bush won it by 126 votes.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a 586-vote margin of victory there in 2020.
The margins have come to matter in Georgia, one of the most closely contested states in presidential elections. Had Mr. Carter gotten his way in the 1970s, though, they would matter less: He recommended abolishing the Electoral College.
Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education. More about Alan Blinder
The 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
The 79th Annual Dinner
This year's Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner will take place on October 17, 2024. It is SOLD OUT. Thank you for your interest and support.
Watch the Livestream
Since its first dinner in 1946, The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has raised millions of dollars for New York’s most vulnerable women and children. The Dinner has featured renowned cultural, business, and political figures, including most major party presidential nominees during election years since 1960.
Today the dinner is a cultural landmark, a living memorial to one of New York’s most beloved sons, remembered as the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate for a major party and a four-term governor who catalyzed labor reform and social security legislation in America.
Dinner Details
Thursday, October 17, 2024
New York, NY
The 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner benefiting women and children in need will take place on October 17, 2024, at the New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of Americas. The event will be hosted by His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York. The 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump is the featured speaker with comedian Jim Gaffigan serving as the Dinner’s emcee. This year’s event is currently SOLD OUT. Thank you for your interest and support.
Questions?
For general inquiries, please contact us at 646.794.3315 or AlSmith.Foundation@archny.org
This year's Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner will take place on October 17, 2024. It is SOLD OUT. Thank you for your interest and support.
Watch the Livestream
Since its first dinner in 1946, The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has raised millions of dollars for New York’s most vulnerable women and children. The Dinner has featured renowned cultural, business, and political figures, including most major party presidential nominees during election years since 1960.
Today the dinner is a cultural landmark, a living memorial to one of New York’s most beloved sons, remembered as the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate for a major party and a four-term governor who catalyzed labor reform and social security legislation in America.
Dinner Details
Thursday, October 17, 2024
New York, NY
The 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner benefiting women and children in need will take place on October 17, 2024, at the New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of Americas. The event will be hosted by His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York. The 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump is the featured speaker with comedian Jim Gaffigan serving as the Dinner’s emcee. This year’s event is currently SOLD OUT. Thank you for your interest and support.
For general inquiries, please contact us at 646.794.3315 or AlSmith.Foundation@archny.org
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Collectivism poses a threat to America's constitutional and unalienable rights
April 2024
Thesis
Collectivism poses a threat to America's constitutional and unalienable rights
The global shift towards collectivism and political consensus will limit America's freedom of speech by restricting dissent and discouraging individualism. The rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence are inherent and not granted by the government.
The signers and framers of the Declaration of Independence believed in natural law, but their interpretation was not based on Catholic Social Doctrine, but rather on the Protestant tradition of individual ethics. The founders of the emerging American identity established a form of government that valued the principle that "all men are created equal," which allows individuals to follow their conscience instead of a nation governed by the Common Good, which can be seen as communitarian and tyrannical.
There is a growing trend towards limiting speech by left-leaning, politically correct progressives. The only rights progressives believe in are the ones they make up to suit their agenda of social justice. All other rights, especially natural ones, are to be trampled into the dust. Human beings are not all "atoms" or individuals with equally intrinsic rights, but unequal cogs in a hierarchy of social-justice groupings, to be managed by the state. (Holmes 2022). Modern progressive ideology aligns with cultural Marxism, deconstructionism, and race theory. The intellectual forerunners of the contemporary progressive ideology are Nietzche, Gramsci, and other Marxists.
Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier
October 6, 2024
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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
Credit: Nils Sandman, CC BY 4.0
A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.
For their paper published in the open-access journal PLOS Climate, Nils Sandman, Elisa Sahari and Aki Koponen analyzed questionnaires sent to thousands of random adults in Finland regarding lifestyle choices, car use, environmental opinions and how they felt about EVs.
As global warming, exacerbated by human-origin greenhouse gas emissions continues, makers of some goods have begun to alter their products in ways that reduce emissions. One such product is the automobile.
A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.
For their paper published in the open-access journal PLOS Climate, Nils Sandman, Elisa Sahari and Aki Koponen analyzed questionnaires sent to thousands of random adults in Finland regarding lifestyle choices, car use, environmental opinions and how they felt about EVs.
As global warming, exacerbated by human-origin greenhouse gas emissions continues, makers of some goods have begun to alter their products in ways that reduce emissions. One such product is the automobile.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
CANCELLED: Adventism and Catholicism in a Changing World
CANCELLED: Adventism and Catholicism in a Changing World
October 12, 2024
03:00 PM-05:00 PM
Centennial Complex
Damazo Ampitheater
religion@llu.edu
909-558-7478
School of Religion
This event has been cancelled.
Speakers:
Reinder Bruinsma, PhD
Denis Fortin, PhD
Rev. Romanus Ike
The Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Churches have had a turbulent relationship through the years. But in today’s world many people see them as having much more in common than what separates them. The panel will explore the intriguing question of what the two churches can learn from each other and what that might imply for the future. Reinder Bruinsma will premier his new book on the topic at the close of the program.
Sponsored by Loma Linda University Center for Understanding World Religions and Humanities Program
For more information, call 909-558-7478 or email religion@llu.edu
October 12, 2024
03:00 PM-05:00 PM
Centennial Complex
Damazo Ampitheater
religion@llu.edu
909-558-7478
School of Religion
This event has been cancelled.
Speakers:
Reinder Bruinsma, PhD
Denis Fortin, PhD
Rev. Romanus Ike
The Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Churches have had a turbulent relationship through the years. But in today’s world many people see them as having much more in common than what separates them. The panel will explore the intriguing question of what the two churches can learn from each other and what that might imply for the future. Reinder Bruinsma will premier his new book on the topic at the close of the program.
Sponsored by Loma Linda University Center for Understanding World Religions and Humanities Program
For more information, call 909-558-7478 or email religion@llu.edu
Pope Francis to welcome Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to Vatican
Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet privately on the margins of the Group of Seven summit in Borgo Egnazia, in Italy's southern Puglia region, June 14, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
October 09, 2024
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.
The pope and the president had met in southern Italy June 14 on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit. Zelenskyy also had met with the pope at the Vatican in May 2023 and, in February 2020, before Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In a brief video clip of the pope’s June meeting with Zelenskyy in southern Italy, the president could be heard telling the pope, “Thank you so much, thank you for your prayers for Ukraine, for Ukrainians, for peace in Ukraine, for Ukrainian children.”
Later, on a post on X, formerly Twitter, Ukraine’s president said he also thanked the pope for “his spiritual closeness to our people, and humanitarian aid for Ukrainians.”
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