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Townhall: Obama Violence

Barack Obama wants to go out swinging, like a take-charge super-president. And his next target? Gun rights. Click on over to Townhall.com for the January 3, 2016, column by Paul Jacob. Then come back here:

Washington Post: Obama plans curbs on guns
Wall Street Journal: Obama to Discuss Gun Control Options with Attorney General
Washington Post: Obama explores unilateral steps on guns
Fox News: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
Address to the Nation by the President – Dec. 6, 2015
YouTube: Trey Gowdy grills DHS official on due process
New York Post: Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism
CNS News: Obama Finally Calls Fort Hood a Terrorist Attack

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Tully

Post author By Redactor
Post date January 3, 2016
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The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties, 44 BC.

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Rep. Craig

On January 3, 1933, Minnie D. Craig became the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

On the same date in 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated.

January 3rd birthdays include that of Cicero (106 BC), Roman philosopher and theorist of republicanism, and J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 AD), English philologist and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Both were deeply concerned about the problem of absolute power.

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Video: Sports Stadia

The political economy of a popular obsession….

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Fourth to Ratify

On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

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John C. Calhoun

“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”

John Caldwell Calhoun, in a speech (January 1848) delivered on the Senate floor.

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William Leggett

“The people of the United States will discover when too late that they may be enslaved by laws as well as by the arbitrary will of a despot; that unnecessary restraints are the essence of tyranny; and that there is no more effectual instrument of depriving them of their liberties, than a legislative body, which is permitted to do anything it pleases under the broad mantle of THE PUBLIC GOOD — a mantle which, like charity, covers a multitude of sins, and like charity is too often practised at the expense of other people.”

William Leggett, in an editorial in the Evening Post, March 11, 1835 (republished in A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett (1840), and titled “The Legislation of Congress”).

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Bricked Windows

On December 31, 1695, Englanders received a new tax, a window tax. One of the main responses to this was the bricking up of many British windows.

This last day of the year in 1991 marked the complete cessation of all institutions of the Soviet Union.

New Year’s Eve 1992 saw the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This has been dubbed the “Velvet Divorce.”

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Sarah M. Grimké

“The system of slavery is necessarily cruel. The lust of dominion inevitably produces hardness of heart, because the state of mind which craves unlimited power, such as slavery confers, involves a desire to use that power, and although I know there are exceptions to the exercise of barbarity on the bodies of slaves, I maintain that there can be no exceptions to the exercise of the most soul-withering cruelty on the minds of the enslaved. All around is the mighty ruin of intellect, the appalling spectacle of the down-trodden image of God.”

Sarah M. Grimké, from An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States, New-York, 12^th Mo. 1836.

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A law student

On December 30, 1919, Lincoln’s Inn in London, England, admitted its first female bar student.