Author: Redactor

Tonie Nathan

Our national economy is sick and has been for some time. It requires increasing doses of money to make it function in a manner satisfying to the public. Surely, it is time for the public to face up to the consequences of its expectations. Do we want to end up addicted to paper money to such an extent that productivity ceases and everyone ends up speculating on what few goods and services are left?

Tonie Nathan, “Inflation and Addiction,” Willamette Valley Observer (1977), in On Libertarianism: Historical Notes & Articles (1981).

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Harry Browne

The truth is that no gun-control law works because ‘bad’ people who want guns can always get them. Either they’ll buy them in the underworld or they’ll simply steal them from good folks like you and me.

Harry Browne, “The Limits of Gun Ownership” (October 23, 2003).

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Vietnam

On August 11, 1972, the last of American ground combat troops exited South Vietnam.

Thought

Tonie Nathan

Crime is not nearly the problem that injustice is. Rebellion (lawlessness) is a symptom of the . . . legal contradictions that are now constantly confronting the average citizen.

Tonie Nathan, “Individualism, Rebellion, and Crime,” Eugene Register-Guard, February 1977, in On Libertarianism: Historical Notes & Articles (1981).

Today

Failed Independence

On August 10, 1809, Ecuadorans attempted independence from Spain with the Declaration of Independence of Quito, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators a few days less than a year later.

Independence finally occurred in 1822.

Thought

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, was the only American politician to have voted against America’s involvement in both World War I and World War II.

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Gandhi and Yeltsin

On August 9, 1942, British forces arrested Mahatma Gandhi in Bombay, spurring the Quit India Movement into nationwide action.

In 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and his entire cabinet.

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August 8

Francis Hutcheson [pictured, below at right], philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment and a great influence on David Hume and Adam Smith, was born in Ireland on August 8, 1694.

Followers of Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement against the British rule on August 8, 1942.

On the same day in 1974, President Richard M. Nixon resigned.

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Townhall: Some Days the Bear Eats You

Post author By Redactor
Post date August 7, 2016
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Russia. The Bear.

Putin. The Tyrant.

America. The Oblivious?

Click on over to Townhall for further variations on a theme. With Trump in the picture.

Then retreat back here, for your further edification:

C-Span: Donald Trump on Russia and Missing Hillary Clinton Emails
New York Times: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal
Associated Press: Hillary’s Reset Button to Russia Misspelled
MSNBC: Romney’s comments about Russia being no. 1 geopolitical foe made him look dumb
CBS: 2012 Presidential Debate between Romney and Obama
YouTube: The Haughty John Kerry at 2012 Democratic Convention
CBS: Obama Caught Telling Russian Leader To Wait Until After Election On Missile Defense
Foreign Policy: If Russia Started a War in the Baltics, NATO Would Lose — Quickly
Aljazeera: Is Russia really a threat to the Baltic states?
AntiWar.com: The US Promises to Go to War For More Than 54 Countries
RT: Putin Lectures U.S.
Amnesty International Report: Russian Federation 2015/2016
The Guardian: Three Russian editors resign amid threats to press freedom
Reporters Without Borders: Bush asked to raise Russia’s press freedom violations at meeting with Putin in Bratislava
Common Sense: Bombed Into Submission?
Rotten Tomatoes: The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

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Purple Heart

On August 7, 1782, George Washington instituted the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle, an award later renamed “the Purple Heart.”

Illustration: “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” Emanuel Leutze, 1851, Oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), depicting an event in 1776, not 1782.