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Today in History
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On this date:
In 1792, France declared war on
Today is Wednesday, April 20, the
111th day of 2016. There are 255 days
left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 20, 1916, the Chicago
Cubs played their first game at Wrigley
of Mexico’s Gulf cartel leader in
Houston warranted locked doors.
ed, of attempting to root out the power-
ful cartels by removing the kingpins.
Officials must constantly learn from
the past and adjust.
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efforts in Congress, so far unsuccessful,
JAH'-fah-ree) agreed to abandon his
claim to another term.
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OPINIONS
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In 1863, President Abraham
Lincoln signed a proclamation admit-
ting West Virginia to the Union, effec-
The stakes are too high, for both
governments and their people, to sur-
He also provided more intelligence render to these murderous drug organi-
agreement to plead guilty in U.S. court to the Americans on Cardenas’ behalf, zations.
to drug dealing, money laundering and allegedly while continuing his involve-
attempted murder of U.S. agents.
This included a promise to surrender
tections for air travelers when airlines
lose their bags, bump them off flights
or hold them on the runway for hours.
One year ago: The Post and Courier
of Charleston, South Carolina, won the
took place in Pulitzer Prize for public service for an
examination of the deadly toll of
domestic violence, while The New
York Times collected three awards and
the Los Angeles Times two. Lelisa
Desisa of Ethiopia won the 119th
Boston Marathon, finishing in 2:09:17;
Caroline Rotich of Kenya won the
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Today's Birthdays: Retired Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 96.
Actor Leslie Phillips is 92. Sen. Pat
Roberts, R-Kan., is 80. Actor George
Takei is 79. Singer Johnny Tillotson is
78. Actor Ryan O'Neal is 75. Bluegrass
singer-musician Doyle Lawson
(Quicksilver) is 72.
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wishes.
As such, I would agree with most Americans — because
I, too, wish that everyone had good medical care, decent
housing and a good job.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Stadium) opened in Detroit. (The Red
Mason University. Sox defeated the New York
Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings; the
Tigers beat the Cleveland Naps 6-5 in
11 innings.)
In 1914, the Ludlow Massacre took
place when the Colorado National
Guard opened fire on a tent colony of
Here is what presidential aspirant Sen. Bernie Sanders
said: "I believe that health care is a right of all people."
President Barack Obama declared that health care "should
be a right for every American."
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:
"Every person has a right to adequate health care." President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his January 1944 message to
Congress, called for "the right to adequate medical care and
the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health." And it is
not just a health care right that people claim.
There are rights to decent housing, good food and a
decent job, and for senior citizens, there's a right to prescrip-
tion drugs.
In a free and moral society, do people have these rights?
Let's look at it.
In the standard historical usage of the term, a "right" is
something that exists simultaneously among people.
As such, a right imposes no obligation on another.
For example, the right to free speech is something we all
possess.
My right to free speech imposes no obligation upon
another except that of noninterference. Similarly, I have a
right to travel freely.
Again, that right imposes no obligation upon another
except that of noninterference.
Cardenas led the Gulf cartel but also
created the Zetas from former members that their approach heightened blood-
The surrender of Osiel Cardenas of an elite Mexican military unit for shed, blaming instead Mexico’s corrup-
Guillen and his cooperation with U.S. muscle. tion and weak rule of law.
We see that by recognizing that there is no Santa Claus or authorities played out in tens of thou- When the Zetas discovered he had The plea deals, asset forfeitures and
tooth fairy.
If one does not have money to pay for a medical service
or decent housing and the government provides it, where do
you think the government gets the money?
If you agree that there is no Santa Claus or tooth fairy and of confidential
that Congress does not have any resources of its very own, records; interviewed former and current
the only way for Congress to give one American something
is to first take it from some other American.
In other words, if one person has a right to something he zetas5 including two high-level
did not earn, it requires another person's not having a right to Cardenas associates,
something he did earn.
Let's apply this bogus concept of rights to my right to
speak and travel freely.
Doing so, in the case of my right to free speech, it might
It was no reach to say the danger prison, considered relatively light for Square, near the $1.2 million home he
Contrast those rights to free speech and travel with the posed by the 2010 sentencing hearing such crimes. bought with cash.
supposed rights to medical care and decent housing. of Mexico’s Gulf cartel leader in Cardenas led the Gulf cartel but also Some U.S. officials reject assertions
Those supposed rights do impose obligations upon oth-
ers.
When the Zetas discovered he had
sands of deaths across Mexico and even been informing U.S. officials, they use of informants are a necessary evil,
would touch an upscale town in North declared war against the cartel over the they argue.
Texas.
This newspaper’s Alfredo Corchado
Only by better understanding them
ment in the drug trade. — and the battle — can we hope to
In 2013, Guerrero Chapa was shot to defeat them.
death in Dallas’ back yard — by a Reprinted from the Dallas Morning
He was sentenced to 25 years in masked gunman at Southlake Town News
betrayal. Yet even in regions where violence
The violence would dwarf anything has ebbed, new threats have emerged,
and Kevin Krause reviewed hundreds before it, with innocents regularly The drugs still flow north, the money
law enforcement caught in the chaos. south, as the cartels have diversified
In August 2010, 72 people, mostly into extortion, kidnappings, migrant
U.S. and Mexican officials; and spoke Central American immigrants, were smuggling and piracy,
with confidential informants and for- abducted and massacred in Tamaulipas
mer members of the Gulf cartel and state.
Zetas, including two high-level More than 300 Coahuila state resi-
dents disappeared in early 2011.
A casino fire set by the Zetas killed to designate seven cartels as “foreign
deadly consequences, many unintend- 52 in Monterrey in August 2011. terrorist organizations” to give law
Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa, a long- enforcement tools to expand beyond
time attorney and confidant of the kingpin strategy.
It’s a rare and essential view of the Cardenas, oversaw the collection of
impose obligations on others to supply me with an auditori- drug war’s strategy and tactics. assets he surrendered to the U.S.
um, microphone and audience. My right to travel freely
might require that others provide me with resources to pur-
chase airplane tickets and hotel accommodations.
If I were to demand that others make sacrifices so that I
can exercise my free speech and travel rights, I suspect that $50 million or more,
most Americans would say, "Williams, yes, you have rights
to free speech and traveling freely, but I'm not obligated to
pay for them!"
As human beings, we all have certain natural rights.
Of the rights we possess, we have a right to delegate them
to government.
For example, we all have a natural right to defend our-
selves against predators. Because we possess that right, we
can delegate it to government.
By contrast, I do not have a right to take one person's Field (then known as Weeghman
earnings to give to another. Because I have no such right, I
cannot delegate it to government.
If I did take your earnings to provide medical services for
another, it would rightfully be described and condemned as Austria, marking the start of the French
an act of theft. When government does the same, it's still Revolutionary Wars.
theft, albeit legalized theft.
If you're a Christian or a Jew, you should be against these
so-called rights. When God gave Moses the eighth com-
mandment — "Thou shalt not steal" — lam sure that he did eventually became general-in-chief of
not mean "thou shalt not steal unless there is a majority vote the Confederate forces.)
in Congress." In 1863’
The bottom line is medical care, housing and decent jobs
are not rights at all, at least not in a free society; they are ^ve in 59 jayS (on june 20, 1863).
In 1889, Adolf Hitler was bom in
Braunau am Inn, Austria.
In 1912, Boston's Fenway Park
hosted its first professional baseball
game while Navin Field (Tiger
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striking miners; about 20 (accounts by a protester who shouted to Bush to
vary) strikers, women and children stop the Chinese leader from "persecut-
died. ing the Falun Gong." Bowing to
In 1945, during World War II, allied intense pressure, Iraqi Prime Minister
forces took control of the German Ibrahim al-Jaafari (EE'-brah-heem ahi
cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
In 1968, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was
sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
In 1972, Apollo 16's lunar module, journalists, including Oscar-nominated
carrying astronauts John W. Young and film director Tim Hetherington, were
Charles M. Duke Jr., landed on the killed in the besieged Libyan city of
moon. Misrata while covering battles between
In 1986, following an absence of six rebels and government forces. The
decades, Russian-born pianist Vladimir U.S. government announced new pro-
Horowitz performed in the Soviet
Union to a packed audience at the
Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in Moscow.
In 1999, the Columbine High
School massacre
Colorado as two students, Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12
classmates and one teacher before tak-
ing their own lives.
In 2010, an explosion on the
Deepwater Horizon oil platform,
leased by BP, killed 11 workers and
caused a blow-out that began spewing women's race in 2:24:55.
an estimated 200 million gallons of
crude into the Gulf of Mexico. (The
well was finally capped nearly three
months later, on July 15.)
Ten years ago: President George W.
Bush welcomed Chinese President Hu
Jintao (hoo jin-tow) to the White
House; the ceremony was interrupted
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