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GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Today is Monday, September 25th, the 268th day of 2023. There are 97 days left in the year. It is National Cooking Day, National Food Service Employees Day, National Lobster Day, National One-Hit Wonder Day, National Psychotherapy Day, World Dream Day, and World Pharmacists Day.
On This Day
In 1775, Ethan Allen surrendered to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
In 1789, Congress passed the first 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1890, Congress established Sequoia National Park.
In 1912, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was founded.
In 1956, TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, was inaugurated.
In 1964, the Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal began.
In 1977, thousands of people took part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
In 1980, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died at age 32 of asphyxiation from vomiting after a night of heavy drinking.
In 1992, NASA launched its ill-fated Mars Observer.
In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
Today’s Birthdays
Actor Michael Douglas is 79. Former model Cheryl Tiegs is 76. Former actress Heather Locklear is 62. Actress Aida Turturro is 61. Actor Tate Donovan is 60. Actor Will Smith is 55. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 54.
The Links
Stuck to Our Own Metaphors (Brownstone Institute)
“Rather than entertaining the often enormous fruits of intelligently pondering the multivalent realities around us, and inviting us to do the same, they beat us over the head with false binaries and basically threaten us into accepting the supposedly unassailable ‘truths’ they would have us believe they discovered whole cloth in their long years of schooling. And if we deign to question them, or resist their bullying in the name of simple human dignity, they dismiss us by calling us insulting names.”
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