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To the adherents of the institutional truth there is nothing more inconvenient, nothing that so contributes to discomfort, than open, persistent, articulate assertion of what is real. … There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Today is Friday, November 4th, the 308th day of 2022. There are 57 days left in the year. It is Use Your Common Sense Day, King Tut Day, National Candy Day, and National Easy-Bake Oven Day.
On This Day
In 1791, the Western Confederacy of tribes won a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
In 1864, Confederate troops bombarded a Union supply base, destroying millions of dollars in material, at the Battle of Johnsonville.
In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
In 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first woman elected as governor in the United States.
In 1952, the United States government established the National Security Agency.
In 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall made the first-ever observation of tool use by non-human animals.
In 1970, Salvador Allende took office as president of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
In 1979, a group of Iranian college students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president, defeating the incumbent, Jimmy Carter.
In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, defeating John McCain.
Today's Birthdays
Former actress Loretta Swit is 85. Actor Ralph Macchio is 61. Rapper Sean Combs, also known by the stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Puffy, and Diddy, is 53. Actor Matthew McConaughey is 53.
The Links
The White House denies flagging online “disinformation” for censorship (Reclaim The Net)
“When the reporter insisted, asking, ‘So, you are flagging misinformation [for social media companies]?,’ the reply was, ‘I don’t have anything more to add; this is DHS I am referring you to.’”
Senator Dick Durbin Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment (Reason)
“Unless speech — including speech labeled ‘misinformation’ — meets the precise legal definitions of one of the categorical exceptions to the First Amendment, it’s protected. While commercial fraud and defamation, for example, are unprotected, there’s no general ‘misinformation’ exception to the First Amendment.”
MSNBC Meltdown: “Our Children will be Arrested and Conceivably Killed” if the GOP Wins Midterm Elections (Jonathan Turley)
“So much for gas prices. The choice is now voting Democratic or lining up your children in front of a firing squad. (Strangely, it will only be our children and not adults targeted by the roaming GOP goon squads). However, it will all be ‘off-the-books.’ After all, Beschloss warned Hayes, ‘we both write history, you and I’ and he is not certain that ‘historians [will be] allowed to write in this country’ if Republicans gain a majority in Congress.”
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