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Mary Wollstonecraft

Men . . . submit every where to oppression, when they have only to lift up their heads to throw off the yoke; yet, instead of asserting their birthright, they quietly lick the dust and say, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Women, I argue from analogy, are degraded by the same propensity to enjoy the present moment; and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindicaton of the Rights of Woman (1792), chapter 4.

Today

On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration of independence from Great Britain.

In 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, doused himself with gasoline and set himself aflame in a busy Saigon intersection as a protest against South Vietnam’s lack of religious freedom.

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Townhall: Right, Wrong & Getting Along

Post author By Redactor
Post date June 10, 2018
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Baking the cake and meeting principle, too — click on over to Townhall for this weekend’s big story:

The Supreme Court decision: Masterpiece Cakeshop, et al. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, et al.
NPR: In Narrow Opinion, Supreme Court Rules For Baker In Gay-Rights Case
KOMO News: After same-sex cake ruling, E. Wash. florist says state ‘crushing me’ for religious views
CNN: Supreme Court considering taking same-sex wedding flowers case
Washington Post: At Target and Walmart, Pride is profitable. The Supreme Court ought to drop by.
Common Sense: Wouldn’t Freedom Be . . . Easier?
Argus Leader: South Dakota lawmaker: Let businesses ‘turn away people of color,’ later apologizes
Argus Leader: South Dakota lawmaker apologizes, admits Facebook comment was ‘very racist’
The Tom Woods Podcast: The Supreme Court Christian Baker Case Is Crazy
Medium: In 1956, the racist governor of Mississippi started a secretive commission to fight integration
Washington Post: Barry Goldwater’s Left Turn

This column will appear on this website on Tuesday.

Thought

John Hospers

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Today

Nat Hentoff

Apple shipped the first Apple II computer on June 10, 1977.

Born on this day: historian, jazz critic and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff (1925); children’s writer Maurice Sendak (1929); scientist and pioneer of “sociobiology,” E. O. Wilson (1929).

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A Pol Goes Bananas Over Music

Post author By Redactor
Post date June 9, 2018
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Power corrupts, and local power corrupts loco-ly:

Common Sense

Joseph Addison

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act II, scene

Today

John Hospers

Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide on this day in June, 68 AD, ending Rome’s Julio-Claudian Dynasty, later written about with verve by Suetonius and Robert Graves.

Also on June 9, James Oglethorpe received a charter from the British crown to start the Georgia colony (1732); William Jennings Bryan resigned his position as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, disgusted over the handling of the sinking of the Lusitania (1915); philosopher John Hospers (pictured) — who would go on to run as a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1972 — was born in 1918 on the ninth of June.