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Sunday Wild Card — 7.11.09

Today is Sunday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2009. There are 172 days left in the year. In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in February 1913.) Comedian Bill Cosby is 72. Thought for Today: "Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual." — Margaret Fuller, American social reformer (1810-1850). In the news this morning: Impatience is building over the slow-moving stimulus package here. And the Sunday Wild Card is in play ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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