very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tales for juries. one time, he said, this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running into his father and says, pa, pa, sister s in the barn, and she s got her pants down, and she s a-peein in the hey lost, and her friend, joe, has got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. and his father says, boy, you ve got the facts straight, but you ve come to the wrong conclusions. then he would turn to the jurors and say, sometimes the facts don t give you the right conclusion. lincoln was honest abe, but he often cut his answers to serve his cause. there s a ten dency to say he s this moral paragon, or he s just a political animal. no. he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you ve got to understand both sides. by 1854, spain, france, and britain have abolished slavery, but it s very much alive in the united states. in may, president franklin pierce signs the kan
when lincoln and his family leaves washington, d.c., he was disappointed. but, he worked very, very hard to build up his law practice. lincoln was a great spinner of tails for juries. one time they said this reminds me of the little boy on the farm who comes running into his father and says pap, pap, sister is in in the barn and she got her pants down and she s a p pin and her friend got his pants down and he s squatting to do the other thing. he would turn and says sometimes the facts don t give you the right conclusion. lincoln was he often cut his answers to serve his cause. he s this moral or a political animal. oh, he s a hybrid. if you want to understand him, you have to understand both sides. by 1854, spain, france and britain abolished slavery. it is very much alive in the united states. may, president franklin pearce signed the kansas nebraska act. there could be no slavery north of the 36/30 line. the kansas nebraska act says slaveries can decide themsel
court has given in brown -v- scott and mcduffie -v- mc pearson asked for what a public officer should be. in that context, we have the same thing actually. it popped up again on the issue in morris -v- peters, another supreme court case dealing with whether or not somebody is a public officer. that had to do with a warrant against the chairman of the georgia democratic party and whether or not he would fall in as a public officer. bottom line, like in that case, and we found he was not, like grand jurors and public officials, presidential electors are not public officials under georgia law, especially for purposes of 16.10.23. their jobs services are temporary, like the grand jury. they have a position that only really arises once every four years. it is limited to a single meeting on a single day. it lacks the element of tenure and duration which must exist. it is kind of like back to the political case which dealt with the state party political chairman. nominated in accord
missiles that were loaded to be fired in houthi controlled areas in yemen. these missiles on launch rails presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and us navy ships in the region and could have been fired at any time. the raids came hours after the us added houthis to its specially designated global terrorist list. speaking at the world economic forum, national security advisor, jake sullivan, called for the iran backed group to stop its attacks on shipping vessels in the red sea, despite houthi fighters saying they would continue until there is a ceasefire in gaza. at the same conference in davos, iran s foreign minister said an end to the war in gaza is needed to stop houthis targeting ships in the red sea. the attacks on merchant vessels since november have disrupted global shipping and raised concerns that inflation could worsen as a result. live now to our correspondent will vernon. what can you tell us about the new statement that we just received from us centr
with what economists are expecting for the latest inflation figures that they will likely show that inflation went up slightly month over month, but it will drop year over year. numbers like that would be encouraging for the us federal reserve as it debates whether or not to make a change to interest rates. well, the us central bank started hiking rates aggressively last year. authorities have hiked rates ten times marking the fastest tightening cycle since the 1980s. expectations are high that this time , they might pause. earlier, i spoke with market strategist charu chanana, and she gave me her outlook for the us federal reserve. expectations are built in for the next two quarters. this time. i think the markets are being complacent about that slow down in information that you just talked about as well as a potential fall or skip, whatever you might call it. if you remember, last week we got some hock wish trends in the market from the reserve band of australia and reser