“You can’t make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.”
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time of the Hero, 1963
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Author: Redactor
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Quartering
On March 24, 1765, the Kingdom of Great Britain passed the Quartering Act, which required the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
On the same date in 1855, slavery was abolished in Venezuela.
The Intolerable Acts (among which was the Quartering Act) was the American Patriots’ name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
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Patrick Henry
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
A new report is in: billionaires are still doing well at the federal trough.
I’m not for it. Are you? More interestingly, what do progressives have to say? Can they mount a principled case against such subsidy? No. See the column.
Oh, and read about the report, too. (Click here.)
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Video: The N-Word Bizarrerie
Word politics. Interesting argument. Does it all come down to “ah” instead of “er”?
Ah, no.
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Earl Warren
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our system worthy of preservation.
Earl Warren, as quoted in Lawyers Guild Review, Vol. 13-14 (1953), p. 47.
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Third March from Selma
On March 21, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Earl Warren
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.”
Earl Warren, as speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published.
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John Dickinson
“Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson, The Liberty Song (1768).