THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“DON’T HURT PEOPLE, AND don’t take their stuff. That’s it, in a nutshell. Everyone should be free to live their lives as they think best, free from meddling by politicians and government bureaucrats, as long as they don’t hurt other people, or take other people’s stuff.”
― Matt Kibbe

BIRTHDAYS:

1389 Cosimo de’ Medici, Italian banker and statesman from Florence who expanded the family banking enterprise into one of Europe’s most influential financial institutions and assumed de facto control of the Florentine Republic in 1434 following a brief exile.

1722 Samuel Adams, American statesman, political organizer, and revolutionary agitator who mobilized colonial opposition to British authority in the years preceding the American Revolution, serving as a delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1840 Thomas Nast, German-born American editorial cartoonist whose prolific work in Harper’s Weekly from 1862 to 1886 established him as a pivotal figure in the development of political caricature in the United States.

MISCELLANEOUS:

“FAILURE”. FREE MARKET HEALTHCARE.