Anders Chydenius, Thoughts on the Natural Rights of Servants and Peasants (1778).
The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
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Anders Chydenius
Author: Redactor
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad
The person who sent me here has been arrested. Now I’m going home.
What Svinhufvud said to the Tomsk, Siberia, police station attendant after news of the February Revolution reached him in his forced exile from what was then still the Grand Duchy of Finland.
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Tolvajärvi Victory
On December 12, 1939, Finnish forces defeated those of the Soviet Union in the first major victory of what became known as the Winter War, in the Battle of Tolvajärvi.
December 12th birthdays include:
* Erasmus Darwin (1731) – English physician, slave trade abolitionist, inventor and poet
* John Jay (1745) — First Chief Justice of the United States
* William Lloyd Garrison (1805) — American abolitionist, editor of The Liberator
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Townhall: The Russian Hack Cracked?
If it is the inside story you want, click on over to Townhall. Paul Jacob has received a special briefing.
Click back here for public information:
- Washington Post: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
- New York Times: Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says
- Wikipedia: List of US presidential elections by Electoral College margin
- CNN: Donald Trump takes aim at US intelligence community on Russia
- The Intercept: Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
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Edmond About
This discipline of the understanding reflects infinite credit upon the nineteenth century. If posterity does us justice, it will be grateful to us therefor. It will see that instead of cutting one another’s throats about theological questions, we have surveyed lines of railway, laid telegraphs, constructed steam-engines, launched ships, pierced isthmuses, created sciences, corrected laws, repressed factions, fed the poor, civilized barbarians, drained marshes, cultivated waste lands, without ever having a single dispute as to the infallibility of a man.
Edmond About, The Roman Question (1859), H. C. Coape, translator.
On December 11, 1957, American cartoonist and Reason magazine contributor Peter Bagge was born.
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Video: Red Pill Diaries
Comedian and conservative contrarian Gavin McInnes rants about the way mainline Third-Wave feminists have reacted to the documentary The Red Pill. Caution: “explicit language.”
Wondering about the movie itself? Here is a trailer for it:
And here is Dave Rubin interviewing documentarian Cassie Jaye:
Privacy is the foundation of all other rights. Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
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Passy, Dunant and Huck
On December 10, 1884, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published. This novel, narrated in the first person by the title character, is a dark comedy of the antebellum South and slavery, and has been considered by many American critics and writers to qualify as the “Great American Novel.”
On this date in 1901, the first Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded — to economist Frédéric Passy (pictured above), co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; and to Henry Dunant the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Passy was an admirer of Cobden and an active member in the French Liberal School of Political Economy that developed in the tradition of J.B. Say, Destutt de Tracy, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, and Frédéric Bastiat. His published works include Leçons d’économie politique (1860-61); La Démocratie et l’Instruction (1864); L’Histoire du Travail (1873); Malthus et sa Doctrine (1868); and La Solidarité du Travail et du Capital (1875).
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Mutual Aid & the Areopagitica
On December 9, 1958, the John Birch Society was founded in the United States. December 9 also marks the birthdays of
- Poet and anti-censorship advocate John Milton (1608), author of the masterpiece of blank verse narrative, Paradise Lost (1667) and a classic prose defense of free speech and the press, Areopagitica (1644).
- Russian prince and anarchist theoretician Peter Kropotkin (1842), author of Mutual Aid and other books and pamphlets.
- John Malkovich (1953), who directed The Dancer Upstairs (2002) and starred in the odd eponymous film Being John Malkovich (1999) . . . and many other movies.