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Townhall: ObamaCare, Dead Plan Walking

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Post date January 8, 2017
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Just how deep in whose mess are we in?

Click on over to Townhall for an answer. Then come back here.

Melanie Hunter, CNS — Schumer: GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare ‘Will Make America Sick Again’
AM New York — Trump’s Tweets: ObamaCare Was a Lie, Schumer Is Democrats’ Head Clown, and More
Peter Suderman, Reason — The Republican Plan to Repeal and Replace ObamaCare Will Do Neither
William Graham Sumner — The Forgotten Man
Amity Schlaes — The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (which focuses on Sumner’s metaphor and FDR’s expropriation of it)

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State of the Union

On January 8, 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.

In 1835, on this date, the United States federal government achieved a zero debt for the first and only time.

In 1867, African-American men were first allowed to vote in Washington, D.C.

Thought

Washington said, in one of his messages to Congress, “We are more enlightened and more powerful than the Indian nations; we are therefore bound in honor to treat them with kindness, and even with generosity.” But this virtuous and high-minded policy has not been followed. The rapacity of the settlers is usually backed by the tyranny of the government.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I (1835; Henry Reeve/Francis Bowen, trans., 1898)

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Greenwald on Fake News @ the Post

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Post date January 7, 2017
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Begins with Assange, continues with Greenwald:

https://youtu.be/PJKUnfftsf0

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Winter War

On January 7, 1940, the Finnish 9th Division completely destroyed the much-larger Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi Road, in a crucial battle during Finland’s Winter War.

Thought

Anthony Lewis

There will always be authorities who try to make their own lives more comfortable by suppressing critical comment. . . . But I am convinced that the fundamental American commitment to free speech, disturbing speech, is no longer in doubt.

Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate; A Biography of the First Amendment (New York: Basic Books, 2007)

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Maria Montessori

On January 6, 1907, Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

In 1912 on this date, New Mexico became the 47th state of America’s United States, and in 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech, emphasizing vague “freedoms” that enabled government to usurp definable freedoms.

Thought

Max Stirner

Adapted from a sketch by Friedrich Engels

If one awakens in men the idea of freedom then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves; if, on the contrary, one only educates them, then they will at all times accommodate themselves to circumstances in the most highly educated and elegant manner and degenerate into subservient cringing souls. What are our gifted and educated subjects for the most part? Scornful, smiling slave-owners and themselves slaves.

Max Stirner, “The False Principles of Our Education,” Rheinische Zeitung (1842)

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