Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
C. S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (1966).
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C. S. Lewis
Author: Redactor
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Townhall: That Man Is Dead
Start carving the headstone, inscribe the death date: The dictator is dead. Long live his opposition. Bury the man in the ground. And click on over to Townhall for the obit, coming back here for more dirt:
- Glenn Miller: When That Man is Dead and Gone
- Lyrics Playground: When That Man is Dead and Gone
- New York Times: Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied US, Dies at 90
- Washington Post: Cuban dictator, one of the world’s most repressive leaders, dies at 90
- BBC: Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader of revolution, dies at 90
- Bloomberg: Fidel Castro, Communist Former Leader of Cuba, Dies at 90
- The Real Cuba: The Useful idiots
- Human Events: Hollywood’s Mindless Love Affair with Castro
- The Hill: Sanders Sanders defends past praise of Fidel Castro
- New York Times: Dissident Accuses Cuba of Manipulating Fear of U.S. Invasion
- Human Rights Watch: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression
- Common Sense: Crybaby
- Common Sense: One-Party Socialism?
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Nobel Prizes
November 27, 1295, the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament.”
On the same date in 1895, Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, thereby establishing the Nobel Prizes.
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Why Direct Democracy?
Last week, Paul attended an international conference on direct democracy. Listen and compare rationales:
If you speak Spanish, or are a monolingual English-speaking absurdist, you might enjoy this translated version.
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John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).
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A Grimké Birthday
November 26, 1792, saw the birth of Sarah Moore Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist. She was the elder sister of the equally famed Angelina Emily Grimké Weld.
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Czech, Slovak
November 25, 1975, Suriname gained independence from the Netherlands.
On the same month and date 17 years later, the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia voted to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia (officially disjoined as of January 1, 1993).
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Baruch Spinoza
Without intelligence there is not rational life: and things are only good, in so far as they aid man in his enjoyment of the intellectual life, which is defined by intelligence. Contrariwise, whatsoever things hinder man’s perfecting of his reason, and capability to enjoy the rational life, are alone called evil.
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (1677), Part IV, Appendix V.
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Happy Birthday, Baruch!
November 24th marks the birthdays of philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632) and three influential Americans: ragtime composer Scott Joplin (1868), self-help writer Dale Carnegie (1888), and conservative editor, writer, and television personality William F. Buckley Jr. (1925).
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John Milton
Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).