Instinct is the nose of the mind.
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Author: Redactor
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Jan 7, Rothbard
On January 7, 1940, the Finnish 9th Division completely destroyed the much-larger Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road, in a crucial battle during Finland’s Winter War.
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Jan 6 Montessori
On January 6, 1907, Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy. In 1912 on this date, New Mexico became the 47th state of America’s United States.
In 1941, on January 6, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech, emphasizing vague “freedoms” that enabled government to usurp definable freedoms.
Perhaps Hermine Ricketts should be glad that a SWAT team didn’t descend upon on her front-yard garden. After all, in blatant if ignorant violation of a new zoning law, the former architect had been growing vegetables there.
Yes. Vegetables!
Several months ago, a Miami Shores zoning inspector happened by (doubtless alerted by a troublemaking neighbor) and told Ricketts that she must uproot the vegetables, now illegal because the village council is okay with seeing fruits and flowers in a front-yard garden but has a thing about veggies.
Hermine Ricketts complained to the code enforcement board but was rebuffed. She therefore obeyed the order to uproot vegetables from the garden that she had been tending without controversy for 17 years. But she and her husband Tom Carroll are also taking their case to court with the help of the Institute for Justice, the ubiquitous champion of property rights.
“You can plant fruit, you can have flowers, you can adorn your property with pink flamingos— but you cannot have vegetables!” exclaims Ari Bargill, a lawyer with the Institute. “That is almost the definition of irrationality.”
The couple’s back yard is mostly in the shade because of the way the house is positioned, so relegating the vegetables to the rear isn’t really an alternative. However, that’s irrelevant. Front yard or back, it’s their own property from which their own kale and cabbage are being banned. The city doesn’t own the plot; Tom and Hermine do.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Delphine de Girardin
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
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Townhall: A Movable Voter Fraud Feast?
Head on over to Townhall, where voter fraud and voting reform is the hot topic. Come back here, for the background stories:
- Denver Post: “New El Paso County resident Jon Caldara turns in blank recall ballot”
- Denver Post: “El Paso County Democrat asks DA to investigate Jon Caldara’s vote”
- Denver Post: “Colorado AG: No criminal charges in Jon Caldara’s voter registration”
- Wikipedia: “John Morse (politician)”
- Independence Institute website
- Jon Caldara
- Common Sense: “A Voter Revolt”
- Common Sense: “Two-Way Communication“
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Jan 5 ford motor hours
On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
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Joseph Hiam Levy
Socialism is essentially inimical to family life, which it regards as a bourgeois institution – to use its own favorite anathema. Socialism would make motherhood a State business or profession, would pay women for this sexual function, and deprive fathers of all status or recognition.
Voters must “take control” because politicians won’t solve our problems. They ARE the problem.
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Joseph Hiam Levy
Individualism . . . means neither egotism nor isolation. It means voluntary beneficence and public spirit, as against all attempts to enforce these by penal laws. It means voluntary cooperation as contrasted with the forced cooperation of the State.