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Most ordinary people can toss a fact out of their mental attics and replace it with another. But an intellectual’s facts are all nicely built into a structure of philosophy. Knock out one pertinent fact, and the whole structure falls like a boy’s house of blocks.
— Raymond Moley
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Today is Thursday, November 10th, the 314th day of 2022. There are 51 days left in the year. It is Area Code Day, National Vanilla Cupcake Day, and International Accounting Day.
On This Day
In 1702, English colonists under the command of James Moore besieged Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne’s War.
In 1766, the colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signed the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
In 1775, the United States Marine Corps was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
In 1865, Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged, becoming one of three War Between the States soldiers executed for war crimes.
In 1871, Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
In 1938, on her radio show, Kate Smith sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” for the first time, introducing it to the nation.
In 1951, direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
In 1954, President Eisenhower dedicated the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, a statue depicting the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, in Arlington Ridge Park.
In 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing its 29 crewmen.
In 2006, the National Museum of the Marine Corps opened.
Today's Birthdays
Horrible director Roland Emmerich is 67. Comedian Tom Papa is 54. Actress Ellen Pompeo is 53. Actor Walton Goggins is 51. Actor Taron Egerton is 33. Actress Kiernan Shipka is 23.
The Links
The Censoring of Science (The Daily Sceptic)
“Participants reported 12 censorship and suppression tactics used by the medical establishment and the media due to their critical or unorthodox positions on COVID-19. Our analysis is that these fall into three broad categories: Silencing and Censorship, Denigration and Discrediting of an individual and Complaints and Intimidation.”
The Red Wave That Wasn’t (Rod Dreher)
“To the MAGA diehards, I say: is this really what you want? A Republican Party that can’t decisively whip the Democrats even in an extremely favorable year? Because this is what you are going to get if you keep sticking with Trump. Like it or not, a lot of independents just hate the guy, and that’s never going to change. Conservatives like me would vote for him in 2024 just to keep the Democrats out of office, but in that case I would vote knowing I was checking the box for a big mouth who won’t get much done, because whereas Ron DeSantis would actually govern, Trump would do nothing but preen and talk about himself.”
Democrats’ second-biggest donor is the biggest billionaire loser on record, shedding 94% of his fortune overnight (Blaze Media)
“Once touted as the ‘next Warren Buffett,’ Friedman managed to lose nearly 94% of his estimated $15.6 billion fortune on Election Day.”
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