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Video: DNC Dirty Tricks

Inciting Hate Violence Rigging Election Mass Voter Fraud by DNC & Clinton Campaign: James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Action…

https://youtu.be/yi9O_Gl15XA

Fox News: “You’re Like a Thief” — Donna Brazile Snaps at Megyn Kelly When Asked About WikiLeaks…

https://youtu.be/_qVtNudSZLo

And, for a little reading: the WikiLeaks email exposure.

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William J. Locke

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.


William J. Locke, The Glory of Clementina (1911).

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Sartre Doesn’t Take the Prize

On October 22, 1964, philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turned down the honor — establishing a precedent that should have been followed by numerous Peace Prize winners, including Barack Obama and the European Union.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Temps modernes, 1961.

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Harding Spoke Out

On October 21, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

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Ernest Bramah

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.


Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, “The Story of Lin Ho and the Treasure of Fang-Tso” (1928)

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American boundaries

On October 20, 1803, the United States Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

Exactly 15 years later, the Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada-United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

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Cornwallis Surrenders

On October 19, 1781, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’s sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, at Yorktown, Virginia. The Revolutionary War (or War for Independence, or Colonial Rebellion, or whatever you wish to call it) was over.

In 1918 on this date, conservative writer Russell Kirk was born.

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William J. Locke

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.


William J. Locke, Simon the Jester (1910)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

[W]e judge of a man’s character, after long frequenting his society, not by one speech, or by one mood or opinion, or by one day’s talk, but by the tenor of his general bearing and conversation….

William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), preface.