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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.” ― Harry Browne BIRTHDAYS: 1853 Elihu Thomson, English-born American engineer who co-founded General Electric Company and inventor with 696 patents. 1873 Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician. 1902 William Walton, British composer. Elegy from Richard III, and Crown Imperial 1918 Sam Walton, American business magnate…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become. The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.” ― Lao Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Joseph Abaco, Italian composer. Capriccio No. 1 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.” ― Hans-Hermann Hoppe BIRTHDAYS: 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician, astronomer and author. 1794 Julius Schnorr…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don’t fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism’s bills, at least for a time. It’s the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it’s just…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.” ― John Taylor…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.” ― Herbert Spencer BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter. 1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, Italian opera composer 1728 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,Because I was not…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A society that begins by banning words will end by banning books, and ideas themselves.” ― Gabriel Nadales BIRTHDAYS: 43 BC Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Roman poet (Metamorphoses) 1741 Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor 1750 Martinus van Marum, Dutch physician and inventor (Homo Diluvii Testus, constructed largest electrostatic machine in the…