On this day:
1066
Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322
Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
1586
Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656
Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1867
The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan
1912
While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1943
The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
1947
Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1968
Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1994
The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
2003
Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident.
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In Eric Trump's new book. he documents that he and his family received 112 subpoenas and spent 400 million dollars in their defense during the Biden Regency's legal attack on Trump and his family. The shocking intensity and the volume of these attacks in a free nation make Trump's response look less churlish.
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Has advertising, Hollywood, and TikTok made everything in life a performance?
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ObamaCare
"When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 — known universally as ObamaCare — they largely ignored every basic actuarial principle of insurance. As a result, ObamaCare was always going to collapse in what health insurers refer to as the “death spiral.”
The only reason it hasn’t already collapsed is Democrats passed additional taxpayer subsidies that insulated the insured from rising costs. This, in turn, explains why Democrats are now so determined to keep those subsidies.
In a normal insurance market, when someone applies for coverage, actuaries assess how much risk that applicant brings to the insurance pool. In life insurance, an older person generally brings more risk than a younger person. A home on a Florida beach brings more risk than a home in Nebraska. And a young male driver brings more risk than a middle-aged driver.
In all of these cases, actuaries would normally impose a higher premium or refuse coverage to the risker applicants.
That decision is based on the risk of some unforeseen event happening, not an event that has already occurred. Individuals can’t buy a homeowners’ policy when their house is burning down or auto insurance to cover a recent accident.
Yet Democrats wanted uninsured individuals — note that ObamaCare coverage is for individuals, not those with employer coverage — to obtain health insurance regardless of how sick they were, which is known as “guaranteed issue.” And they also wanted everyone to pay the same premium, again, regardless of their health, which is known as “community rating.”
When everyone is charged the same health insurance premium, older people who tend to have more medical issues pay an artificially lower premium. Younger, healthier people pay a higher premium. The young and healthy subsidize older adults.
The result is that younger, healthier people begin to drop their coverage because they are paying too much, leaving the insurance pool smaller and sicker. Health insurance premiums go higher, driving even more healthy people to drop their coverage. Eventually, the pool gets very small and very expensive. That’s the death spiral."
Ms. Crockett, the representative, says the Left is no threat to people because they are bad shots.
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ObamaCare
"When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 — known universally as ObamaCare — they largely ignored every basic actuarial principle of insurance. As a result, ObamaCare was always going to collapse in what health insurers refer to as the “death spiral.”
The only reason it hasn’t already collapsed is Democrats passed additional taxpayer subsidies that insulated the insured from rising costs. This, in turn, explains why Democrats are now so determined to keep those subsidies.
In a normal insurance market, when someone applies for coverage, actuaries assess how much risk that applicant brings to the insurance pool. In life insurance, an older person generally brings more risk than a younger person. A home on a Florida beach brings more risk than a home in Nebraska. And a young male driver brings more risk than a middle-aged driver.
In all of these cases, actuaries would normally impose a higher premium or refuse coverage to the risker applicants.
That decision is based on the risk of some unforeseen event happening, not an event that has already occurred. Individuals can’t buy a homeowners’ policy when their house is burning down or auto insurance to cover a recent accident.
Yet Democrats wanted uninsured individuals — note that ObamaCare coverage is for individuals, not those with employer coverage — to obtain health insurance regardless of how sick they were, which is known as “guaranteed issue.” And they also wanted everyone to pay the same premium, again, regardless of their health, which is known as “community rating.”
When everyone is charged the same health insurance premium, older people who tend to have more medical issues pay an artificially lower premium. Younger, healthier people pay a higher premium. The young and healthy subsidize older adults.
The result is that younger, healthier people begin to drop their coverage because they are paying too much, leaving the insurance pool smaller and sicker. Health insurance premiums go higher, driving even more healthy people to drop their coverage. Eventually, the pool gets very small and very expensive. That’s the death spiral."
This is from The Hill, a reasonably neutral reporter. And describes something inherent to the social debate in the U.S. and the world: risk.
Freedom carries with it terrific individual responsibility because it includes the freedom to fail as well as succeed. Much of the discussion in the U.S. involves the acceptance of risk. Risk is a part of the amalgam of freedom. Denying risk is more than economically naive; it implies the inability of a man to care for himself, the need for the State to intervene. While a real element in life, that should be an exception, not a condition, of man.
Freedom carries with it terrific individual responsibility because it includes the freedom to fail as well as succeed. Much of the discussion in the U.S. involves the acceptance of risk. Risk is a part of the amalgam of freedom. Denying risk is more than economically naive; it implies the inability of a man to care for himself, the need for the State to intervene. While a real element in life, that should be an exception, not a condition, of man.
In addition to wanting what you have, the tyrant always says he wants to help.
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