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J. C. Lester

That individuals have no inherent obligation to do things for the benefit of others does not entail that they will be selfish or that they cannot bind themselves contractually, such as in marriage. On the contrary, it is the dependency state that has undermined the family by playing the husband’s role in ‘one-parent families.’ The church and the state by their natures compete with the power of the family. In fact, the original aspirations of these institutions is typically to destroy family life if only they can. . . . The market, by comparison, will considerably reinforce the family if it is only allowed to do so.

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Gandhi Arrested

On November 6, 1913, Mohandes K. Gandhi was arrested for participating in a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

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C.-F. Volney

Can liberty be born from the bosom of despots? and shall justice be rendered by the hands of piracy and avarice?

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Townhall: Happy Halloween, Racist Scum

O, what a horror show our lives have become! So of course Halloween is now a battleground. Click on over to Townhall; come back here for the joys of the season.

 

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An Illegal Vote

On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony defied the law to vote, and was later fined $100.

Forty-one years earlier, to the day, Nat Turner, American slave and revolt leader, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. His revolt has been celebrated in William Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), and in a recent movie, The Birth of a Nation (2016).

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John Norman

[W]e did not invent the biotruths of human nature, no more than we invented vision, speech, the circulation of blood, the beating of the heart.

We did not invent men and women.

They are what they are, and what they are not is hollow vessels to be filled with whatever sugars and syrups their betters, the anointed cooks of humanity, the intolerant coveters of power and would-be imposers of values, see fit to pour into receptive, neutral containers to be labeled from the outside by strangers who do not know them, or themselves, and to be filled with whatever contents these outsiders might deem in their own best interests!


Dr. John Frederick Lange, Jr., aka John Norman, GorChronicles.com

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Late Onset Autism?

A comic confronts the anti-free-speech Left:

Very funny as well as insightful. Some R-rated language, so a parental (or self) advisory is hereby suggested.

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Will Rogers

On November 4, 1879, American humorist Will Rogers was born. Aside from his cowboy act, and his work as an actor in Hollywood, he gained much fame for being a topical comedian “just reporting what’s in the papers.” Among his most famous quips? “Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”

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Army Disbands

On November 3, 1783, the American Continental Army — its mission fulfilled — was disbanded.

On November 3, 1969, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon made a television and radio appearance, asking the “silent majority” to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort.

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Arthur Kenyon Rogers

“Anything whatever can be made ridiculous; to see this side of it, and nothing more, is to become the mere jester, whose claim to be regarded as the ideal moralist is certainly very slight. But between a too solemn sense of high importance, and that conviction of the intrinsic smallness of everything in particular which some of our satirists have displayed, there is a middle ground.”


Arthur Kenyon Rogers, The Theory of Ethics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922).