Ron Baker

Quest: To bury the billable hour and timesheets. Founder of VeraSage Institute. Radio Talk-Show Host, The Soul of Enterprise, on @VoiceAmericaTRN

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“It had about it nothing of the lawless and disordered nature of a riotous insurrection. It was maintained on a plane which rises above the ordinary conception of rebellion. It was in no sense a radical movement but took on the dignity of a resistance to illegal usurpations.” —President Calvin Coolidge's 1926 speech on the 150th Anniversary #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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TIL Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day—July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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Timeline of the American Revolution https://t.co/GFhxYORzIW #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“What the Founders’ Drinking Habits Have to Do with Gun Rights” by Charles C. W. Cooke https://t.co/cdz3qrhQQh #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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The "original" First Amendment passed by Congress in 1789 was an unratified proposal detailing a formula to continuously increase the size of the House of Representatives as the population grew. Because it failed to secure enough state ratifications, the "third" proposed amendment regarding religious, speech, and press freedoms became today's First Amendment to the United States Constitution. https://t.co/KTj7dDJptI #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power.” —John Quincy Adams https://t.co/zCFsFlUhU5 #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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Liberty “can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.” —Harry Truman #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“The American, is the Englishman left to himself.” —Alexis de Tocqueville #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“A land, perhaps, the only one in the universe, in which political or civil liberty is the very end and scope of the constitution.” —Sir William Blackstone #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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Evidence heavily points to Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a delegate from New Jersey, as the designer of the American flag. https://t.co/IDtOS95WDB #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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18 were under 40 years old, 3 were under 20. What are we talking about? The signers of the Declaration of Independence #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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The Americans Who Risked Everything https://t.co/04ihDlwnTE #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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The actor who played John Adams in the original Broadway production of 1776, William Daniels (later famous as Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World), was nominated for a Tony Award—but he actually declined the nomination because he felt the entire cast deserved recognition rather than just him. It's one of the rare instances of a performer turning down a Tony nomination. #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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Is it unalienable or inalienable? https://t.co/D3uWxXkM0c #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“Why anyone would want to leave Britain is beyond us.” America at 250 from The Economist https://t.co/zgRPMZ4o2F #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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Yes, Thomas Jefferson did include a fiery, 168-word anti-slavery passage in his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, but it was removed by the Continental Congress before the document was finalized. https://t.co/iMC9Babtzn #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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1776 (musical) https://t.co/3ipSQS7xWu #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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The Semiquincentennial is the official 250th anniversary of the United States, marking the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. Also known as the Quarter Millennium. #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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“If you really think about it, the billable hour is based on the labor theory of value….which is actually Marxism.” —Ed Kless @whignewtons #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless

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On the billable hour: “It’s why I decided I couldn’t work at a law firm.” —Sarah Isgur @whignewtons #AskTSOE @ronaldbaker @edkless