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  1. A (Mostly) Happy 250th American Birthday

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-250th-birthday-declaration-of-independence-1776-thomas-jefferson-ec6de87d?st=oyqtNe

    In which they quote at length Calvin Coolidge from 100 years ago.

    “If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.”

    Just wonderful.

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