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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Like when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, we now know what happens when a candidate so weak anybody can beat him meets a candidate so weak he cannot beat anybody. Americans vote for the status quo. $6 billion later, Americans voted for the status quo.(full story 'Status Quo Ante' by Erik Erickson at redstate.com)
The New Republic magazine is published (1914)
In Petrograd, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (1917)
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing PBS (1967)
President Barack Obama signs an executive order establishing the Council on Veterans Employment (2009)
b: Leon Trotsky (1879), Albert Camus (1913); d: A.C. Townley (1959), Alexander Dubček (1992), Ann Dunham (1995)