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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010...
Class struggle(in Marxist ideology) the conflict of interests between the workers and the ruling class in a capitalist society, regarded as inevitably violent.
"Oh [Muslim] brothers, the nation that excels in the death industry, and knows how to die a noble [death], Allah grants it a precious life in this world and eternal bliss in the Afterlife. The only weakness that shall humiliate us is the love of this world and hating death. Therefore we have prepared your souls for great action, strive for death - and life will be given to you."-- From Palwatch translation of The Muslim Brotherhood handbook.
Most Indiana House Democrats remain sequestered in an Illinois hotel as their boycott of legislative business enters a third week, and daily fine of $250 for their absence will be imposed starting today.(from wfpl.org)
House Republicans voted last week to impose the fine in an effort to persuade Democrats to end their boycott, which has brought most of the chamber’s business to a halt.
But Democratic leader Patrick Bauer says fines or other punishments won’t help resolve their dispute.
His minority party walked out late last month to protest the Republican agenda, including a school voucher bill and a measure that would weaken teachers’ collective bargain power.A right-to-work bill that drew the ire of Democrats and labor unions has since been shelved for the session.
The IRS begins to levy and collect federal income taxes (1913)
The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule (1917)
The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command (1963)
President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire" (1983)
b: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841); d: William Howard Taft (1930)