THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.”

― Friedrich Hayek

BIRTHDAYS:

1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman and banker who served as the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic for most of his life. He has earned lasting fame as the most substantial patron of the Renaissance in Italy, sponsoring such artists as Botticelli and Michelangelo.

1628 Christoph Bernhard, German baroque composer. Ich sahe an alles Thun (excerpt), and Fürchtet euch nicht

1697 Johann Pfeiffer, German violinist, composer and concert master at court (Bayreuth). Suite in B Major

1729 Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher.

1735 Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, folk hero, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot.

1927 Vernon L. Smith, American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code