On the day:
1804
At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1805
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823
Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848
Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851
French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
1859
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
1867
At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1942
Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1956
The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1970
The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1805
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823
Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845
Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848
Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851
French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III).
1859
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
1867
At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1942
Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1956
The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1970
The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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Comparing what we’re looking for misses the point. It’s wanting to know that makes us matter. --Stoppard
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Waltz is a governor of a big state and was last year's Dem VP candidate. Why is he suddenly an idiot?
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The Nativity scene at the Brussels Christmas Festival (now sanitized to "Winter Wonderland") was attacked by a pro-Hamas mob, and the infant Jesus statue was decapitated.
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Stoppard wrote “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Arcadia,” and the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Shakespeare in Love”. He also wrote dialogue for Indiana Jones and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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After a severely restrictive energy production program, California now imports 63% of its energy.
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The Politics of Unlimited Supply
One of the common political insincerities is the promise of unlimited access to limited resources. Not everyone can have a BMW and that is not just because only the evil rich can buy them, it is because there are not enough of them made. Defenestrating all the laws of supply and demand and promising universal access to a limited resource is simply a lie.
So the Left creates an alternative universe. He creates an imaginary world where all things are available and then asks you to congratulate him. If you just had a mental prodding of something distantly familiar, you are right. This is the imaginary world of childhood.
"Abundance is the argument that a lot of what is wrong in our society is that we have manufactured scarcities. We have made it too hard to build and create the things people need more of. The places where we focus in the book are housing, clean energy, and state capacity."
Mamdani's restricted housing is akin to restricted car buying. The story is in the circumstances. There is an abundance of affordable housing, but not in Manhattan. It's virtually against the law to build there.
So there is actually an unlimited supply of everything, and the government is preventing you from having it. What to do?
One of the common political insincerities is the promise of unlimited access to limited resources. Not everyone can have a BMW and that is not just because only the evil rich can buy them, it is because there are not enough of them made. Defenestrating all the laws of supply and demand and promising universal access to a limited resource is simply a lie.
So the Left creates an alternative universe. He creates an imaginary world where all things are available and then asks you to congratulate him. If you just had a mental prodding of something distantly familiar, you are right. This is the imaginary world of childhood.
Everybody can have a pony.
If you think of a petulant, blustering politician lecturing pouting ones, the political world begins to make sense.
With the publishing of Abundance, the Left's new Sacred Book, they have reassessed their approach. They are now offering unlimited access to things of unlimited supply. Clean air. Clean water. Voting rights. A living wage. Equal rights. All of these gifts exist in unlimited supply. These goals have been scored. What to do?
But Klien revealed a secret. The goals have been frustrated by government itself.
If you think of a petulant, blustering politician lecturing pouting ones, the political world begins to make sense.
With the publishing of Abundance, the Left's new Sacred Book, they have reassessed their approach. They are now offering unlimited access to things of unlimited supply. Clean air. Clean water. Voting rights. A living wage. Equal rights. All of these gifts exist in unlimited supply. These goals have been scored. What to do?
But Klien revealed a secret. The goals have been frustrated by government itself.
"Abundance is the argument that a lot of what is wrong in our society is that we have manufactured scarcities. We have made it too hard to build and create the things people need more of. The places where we focus in the book are housing, clean energy, and state capacity."
Mamdani's restricted housing is akin to restricted car buying. The story is in the circumstances. There is an abundance of affordable housing, but not in Manhattan. It's virtually against the law to build there.
So there is actually an unlimited supply of everything, and the government is preventing you from having it. What to do?
The Left offers a government solution.
This laughable nonsense caused a shift in the Left's road to power. They no longer offer a chicken in every pot. They offer 'Hope and Change' (Obama), 'Change' and 'Stronger Together' (Hilary), 'Build Back Better' (Biden--strange, yes, but he was demented), and first, 'Forward', then 'Joy' (Harris).
This laughable nonsense caused a shift in the Left's road to power. They no longer offer a chicken in every pot. They offer 'Hope and Change' (Obama), 'Change' and 'Stronger Together' (Hilary), 'Build Back Better' (Biden--strange, yes, but he was demented), and first, 'Forward', then 'Joy' (Harris).
Joy! Tapping unlimited resources.
"Hey, buddy. Want a little Hope and Change?"
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