“Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people’s money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.”

― Harry Browne

Birthdays:

1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio, painter.

1857 Edward Elgar, composer. Land of hope and glory

1915 Lester del Rey, American sci-fi author.

1929 Norton Juster, American architect and children’s author.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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