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Denmark versus United States of America in childhood hospitalizations.
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. -George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (31 Dec 1880-1959)
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

James Madison
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1776 (ed. 1950)
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

Miyamoto Musashi
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Miyamoto Musashi
D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.40.
December 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.

-Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (26 Dec 1872-1967)
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 15

1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Weak economic growth has slowed upward mobility.
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

James Madison
December 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

James Madison
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 14

1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 13

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
December 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Follower of Hieronymus Bosch
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
University of Michigan latest report on consumer sentiment graphic:

www.sca.isr.umich.edu/files/chicch...
December 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Russell Vought in 2024:

“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
December 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 11

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
December 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977)
December 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM