On September 19, 1778, the Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.
Congress last passed a budget in 1997.
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First U.S. budget
Author: Redactor
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Vilfredo Pareto
“We can group socialists and protectionists under the name of restrictionists, whilst those who want to base the distribution of wealth solely on free competition can be called liberationists…
“Thus restrictionists are divided into two types: socialists, who through the intervention of the state, wish to change the distribution of wealth in favour of the less rich; and the others, who, even if they are sometimes not completely conscious of what they are doing, favour the rich — these are the supporters of commercial protectionism and social organisation of a military type.”
Vilfredo Pareto, “Socialism and Freedom,” 1891.
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Washington
On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building.
It has grown, since.
On September 18, 1838, Richard Cobden established the Anti-Corn Law League, which proceeded to bring free trade to Britain.
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Townhall: Attack of the Dreaded Spoilers
Something there is that doesn’t love a spoiler. And yet, there is much to be said for spoilers. They provide, after all, one of the most important strains of competition in politics. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for further reading:
- Townhall last week: Strange Money, Strange Politics, by Paul Jacob
- Ballotpedia: Virginia gubernatorial primary election, 2017
- Ballotpedia: Virginia gubernatorial election, 2017
- Wikipedia: Virginia gubernatorial election, 2013
- New York Times: F.O.B. Puts His Money Where His Friend Is, by Richard W Stevenson and Katherine Q Seelye
- CBS 6/WTVR.com: Governor’s race between Northam and Gillespie is close, VCU poll shows
- Ralph Northam: campaign site
- Ed for Virginia: campaign site
- Cliff Hyra: campaign site; News coverage listing
- Radio IQ | WVTF: Republican Ed Gillespie Calls For Loosening Of Some Marijuana Restrictions
- Cato Policy Analysis No. 580: The Libertarian Vote, by David Boaz and David Kirby
This weekend”s column will appear on this site on Tuesday.
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Yves Guyot
We must not confound liberty with anarchy. Liberty is the reciprocal respect for personal rights, according to certain fixed rules known by the name of law. Anarchy is the privilege of some and the spoliation of others, according to the caprices and arbitrary will of the cunning and the violent, and the feebleness and lack of energy of the timorous.
Yves Guyot, The Tyranny of Socialism, 1894
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U. S. Constitution
On September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1849 on this same day in September, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in Philadelphia, but soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family. She made at least 13 trips into the slave-owning South to liberate more than 70 slaves before the Civil War (in which she served as a spy for the North).
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A Speech in Berkeley
A much-awaited, much-dreaded speech:
https://youtu.be/Ae4VZTVEFC4
The culture of violence around it:
The speechmaker’s wrap-up:
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Ralph Raico
All mass murderers — all of the state terrorists on a grand scale, whatever their ethnicity or that of their victims — must be arraigned before the court of history. It is impermissible to let some of them off the hook, even if the acts of others may be characterized as unique in their brazen embrace of evil and their sickening horror. As Lord Acton said, the historian should be a hanging judge, for the muse of history is not Clio, but Rhadamanthus, the avenger of innocent blood.
Ralph Raico, “The Taboo Against Truth: Holocausts and Historians,” Liberty, September 1989.
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Independence Days
September 16 marks the Independence Days for Mexico (celebrating the declaration of independence from Spain in 1810) and Papua New Guinea (commemorating the exit from Australia in 1975).
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After Porto
On September 15, 1820, an uprising occurred in Lisbon, Portugal, following similar insurrection in Porto the previous month. This was no bloodthirsty mob, but, instead, a popular demand for constitutional government. Unfortunately, the country was beset with imperial and monarchical problems for some time to come.
The United Nations established September 15 as International Day of Democracy, in 2007. An Independence Day is celebrated on this date in Guatemala (a Patriotic Day), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, commemorating independence from Spain in 1821.