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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.” ― Robert Boyers BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer. Tre Versetti in Fa, and Sonata per l’elevazione 1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish court painter. 1821 Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.” ― Alan Dershowitz BIRTHDAYS: 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet. 1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher. 1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella. Cantate Domino 1844 Nikolai…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People who can’t imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.” ― Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter. 1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer. “Sur une Mer” from cantata “Le Sommeil d’Ulysse”, and Sonata in g minor, and Prelude en…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” ― James Madison BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Nicolas Siret, French baroque composer and organist. Pièces de Clavecin, Livre I, Passacaille 1751 James Madison, American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States. 1789 Georg Simon…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.” ― Gustave de Molinari BIRTHDAYS: 1733 Johan Zoffany, German painter 1754 Silvestro Palma, Italian composer. Ave Maria 1813 John Snow, English physician best known as the father of modern epidemiology. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ― Stanley Milgram BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar) 1726 Joseph Anton Steffan [Josef Antonín Štěpán], Bohemian harpsichordist and composer. Piano Concerto in E-fat major (24:11) 1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.” ―…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The West is better. Our societies are better. Not superior, just better at producing the kinds of things that human beings seem to want.” ― Konstantin Kisin BIRTHDAYS: 1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He has been called the “Father of Silicones” and is credited with the launch of…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” ― Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1844 Pablo de…