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11/21/08
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"Yes,
Virginia, There IS Individual Liberty" In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to the New York Sun: "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.' Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? From time to time, I'm presented with the ever-present "college PoliSci student questionnaire" regarding how libertarians think. These questionnaires seem to me to be a desperate plea for an alternative to the omnipresent left- and right-wing socialism. Or, to put it another way, our college-age friends are asking, "Please tell me the truth, is there individual liberty?" (Read the rest here)
Extra!
Extra! Don't Read About It! Growing up in New York City, it can be assumed that I would have experienced the sight and sound of a newsboy shouting, “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Superman loses his cape!” or something like that. But I never experienced that. I’m not saying such newspaper hawking by young entrepreneurs didn’t occur, just that I’ve never experienced it.
Chances are that younger folks don’t have the foggiest notion of what I’m talking about. For even movies that would depict such scenes where newsboys would shout the headlines to attract buyers for their newspaper for two cents or a nickel a copy are themselves dated and a rarity. So the competition of shouting newsboys hawking their employers’ wares has become yet another fading memory of Americana. (Read the rest here)
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