“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
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Patrick Henry
Author: Redactor
A new report is in: billionaires are still doing well at the federal trough.
I’m not for it. Are you? More interestingly, what do progressives have to say? Can they mount a principled case against such subsidy? No. See the column.
Oh, and read about the report, too. (Click here.)
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Video: The N-Word Bizarrerie
Word politics. Interesting argument. Does it all come down to “ah” instead of “er”?
Ah, no.
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Earl Warren
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our system worthy of preservation.
Earl Warren, as quoted in Lawyers Guild Review, Vol. 13-14 (1953), p. 47.
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Third March from Selma
On March 21, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Earl Warren
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.”
Earl Warren, as speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published.
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John Dickinson
“Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson, The Liberty Song (1768).
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Abolished!
On March 19, 1649, England’s House of Commons passed an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it “useless and dangerous to the people of England.”
This was during Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector, after the execution of Charles I. The House of Lords did not again meet until the Convention Parliament of 1660, under the Restoration of the monarchy.
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Hawaiian Statehood
On March 18, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill enabling Hawaii to become the 50th state in the Union. The official day of statehood was set for (and became) August 21 of that year.
The statehood signing occurred exactly 85 years after The Kingdom of Hawaii formalized its treaty with the U. S. establishing exclusive trading rights.