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Townhall: I Call BS

This weekend over at Townhall.com, the subject is guns, gun violence, and protest.

Oh, and “BS” — and the calling of same.

Click on over, then come back here for more hits of wisdom:

Washington Post: A school shooting could happen anywhere. That’s why students from everywhere are marching.
CNN: Maryland school officer stops armed student who shot 2 others
Common Sense: Good Guy with Gun
NY Mag: Democratic Congressman Hints at Armed Rebellion Against Trump
Red Blue Divide (video): Rep. Tom Suozzi Hints Using the 2nd Amend to Resist Trump
CNN: Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS’
Common Sense: Civic Engagement Activities
Townhall: Newtown Chooses Good Guys with Guns
Washington Post: Scared by School Shootings
Washington Post: Students push back on clear plastic backpack rule at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High

The column will be available on this site on March 27, 2018.

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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Post author By Redactor
Post date March 25, 2018
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The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

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From Selma to Montgomery

On March 25, 1965, civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr., successfully completed their four-day, 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The 2200-page $1.3 trillion Omnibus bill at least one senator is trying to read before voting on it. That man? Sen. Rand Paul, of course. He speaks of an “unholy alliance” to engage in evermore spending. There is, he says, not too little but, instead, “too much compromise” in Washington:

https://youtu.be/-yd-Xy4k05c

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Sen. Mitch McConnell

“Only one thing can save this country, and that’s to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell, as quoted in Jack Brammer, “Sen. Mitch McConnell says Medicare, Social Security must change to fix U.S. debt,” Wichita Eagle (Jan. 21, 2013).

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Intolerable

On March 24, 1765, the Kingdom of Great Britain passed the Quartering Act,* which required the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

On the same date in 1855, slavery was abolished in Venezuela.

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“Give Me Liberty”

On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.

On this date in 1992, economist and social philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek died.

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F. A. Hayek

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960).

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Herbert Spencer

The mere gathering of individuals into a group does not constitute them a society. A society, in the sociological sense, is formed only when, besides juxtaposition there is cooperation. So long as members of the group do not combine their energies to achieve some common end or ends, there is little to keep them together. They are prevented from separating only when the wants of each are better satisfied by uniting his efforts with those of others, than they would be if he acted alone.

Cooperation, then, is at once that which can not exist without a society, and that for which a society exists.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

On March 22, 1630, the Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. Exactly eight years later, the colony expelled Anne Hutchinson for religious dissent.

In 1812 on this date, Stephen Pearl Andrews was born. Andrews would go on to become an important American abolitionist, free love advocate, and theorist of “individual sovereignty,” promulgating the reforms of Josiah Warren.