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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” — Murray N. Rothbard BIRTHDAYS: 1574 Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Italian organist, maestro di cappella, and composer, born in Milan, Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Spain. Christus resurgens ex mortuis 1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian baroque painter, the…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke, third law BIRTHDAYS: 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. Das Lied von der Erde (1:03), and 4. Sinfonie (1:04) 1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P.J. O’Rourke BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Albert Schop, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire. Herr wie lange 1638 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter. 1702 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, German composer, born in Reichenau, Prince-Bishopric of Constance,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” — Adlai Stevenson BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, baptized in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Libera me Domine (fragment), and Dixit Dominus 1810 P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, and politician remembered…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.” — Montesquieu BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Jakob Handl [Petelin], German-Austrian composer (Opus musicum), and Cistercian monk, born in Reifnitz, Carniola. Pater noster 1643 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Sinfonia in d minor 1738 John…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”Welcome to the USA, where our harshest critics refuse to leave.” — David Burge BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Johann Staden, German baroque organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Toccata, and Intrada, and Pavane III, and Sih in dich selbst,du Seele mein 1636 Daniel Speer, German composer,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as “the right to enslave.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Mauritius Vogt, German composer, geographer, cartographer, musician, historian and a member of the Cistercian Order, born in Königshofen, Electorate…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: ”When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1783 August Alexander Klengel, German pianist and composer, born in Dresden, Electorate of…