Praise The Income Tax, Evil Empire Named, Obamacare Makes Me Sick

On this day: March 8

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)

President B. Hussein Obama lectures on Obamacare, the federal government's socialization of the health insurance industry, at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA (2010)

President B. Hussein Obama ends his failed two-year ban on military trials for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay with Executive Order 13567 (2011)

In Democrats' long-running War on Women, President B. Hussein Obama signs the Violence Against Women Act (2013)

b: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841), Buzz Hargrove (1944); d: William Howard Taft (1930), Joe DiMaggio (1999)

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