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Monday May 20, 2013
Today in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, taking 250 million acres of land in the West and selling to any citizen or intended citizen, 160 acres - one quarter square mile - of surveyed government land.

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary: That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseased; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream! — Everett Ruess, Wilderness Song


Topic: ‘Milton Friedman’

1. Free To Choose

Human and political freedom has never existed and cannot exist without a large measure of economic freedom. Those of us who have been so fortunate as to of been born in a free society, tend to take freedom for granted. To regard it as a natural state of mankind, it is not. It is a rare and precious thing. Most people throughout history, most people today, have lived in conditions of tyranny and misery, not of freedom and prosperity. The clearest demonstration of how much people value freedom, is the way they vote with their feet, when they have no other way to vote. – Milton Friedman... - [More]

Posted: August 5, 2011 in Documentary