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(via soopermexican's YouTube channel)
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
You’re on to something I’ve been advocating for years now.(full story at nationalreview.com)
And that is the repeal of all four of the so-called “Progressive Era” amendments, including the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th, which were passed between 1911 and 1920.
• The income-tax amendment was a self-evident attack on capitalism and led to the explosive growth of the federal government we currently enjoy today. (Without it, there’d be no need for a Balanced Budget Amendment.)
• Direct elections of senators has given us, among other wonders, the elevation of John F. Kerry to, now, secretary of state.
• Prohibition was directly responsible for the rise of organized crime and its unholy alliance with the big-city Democratic machines.
• And women’s suffrage ... well, let’s just observe that without it Barack Obama could never have become president. Time for the ladies to take one for the team.
(via moonbattery.com)“Obama is not the problem. Our criminal media is the problem. Obama is a consequence of the problem. And make no mistake, the media will keep replacing him until we replace them.”
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the U.S. (1933)
The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union (1947)
President Barack Obama signs into law the $787 billion Stimulus Package in Denver, Colorado.
b: André Maginot (1877), Hans Morgenthau (1904), Jim Brown (1936), Huey P. Newton (1942); d: Khalid Abdul Muhammad (2001)