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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
After decades of expanding political clout, organized labor is finding voters increasingly unreceptive to its high-tax message.(by Steve Malanga @ online.wsj.com)The backlash against public unions has gone beyond heavily unionized states like California and New Jersey. One illustration is the finding of a July 7 national Rasmussen poll: Only 19% of Americans said that they would be willing to pay higher taxes to keep government workers from being laid off.
Even in public safety, where Americans are sometimes reluctant to see cutbacks, the poll found only 34% endorsed higher taxes to preserve police and fire jobs.
Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship (1935)
Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S. (1959)
The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
b: Viktor Zubkov (1941), Oliver Stone (1946), Henry Louis Gates (1950); d: Willy Messerschmitt (1978)