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** FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023
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There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America ([link removed]) [1840]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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May 5, 2023
The War on Poverty Impoverishes the Poor ([link removed])
Among the worst things that has ever happened to the poor is the federal government’s war on poverty. As a socialist program, it actually impoverishes the poor rather than improve their overall economic condition. That’s because it destroys or impedes the forces that raise the standard of living of everyone in society, especially the poor. Let’s begin with an imaginary nation, one in ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government ([link removed])
by John W. Whitehead
Future of Freedom Foundation
DRUG WAR
The Drug War’s Dark Origins ([link removed])
by Paul Armentano
Other Words
GUN CONTROL
A Tragedy in Waiting ([link removed])
by Jason Sorens
AIER
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style ([link removed])
by William D. Hartung and
Ben Freeman
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PROPERTY RIGHTS
Government Shouldn’t Profit from Seized Property ([link removed])
by Editorial
Washington Examiner
THE FREE SOCIETY
TGIF: Abolish Billionaires? ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association
Who Helped Overturn the “Pentagon Papers Principle”? The Washington Post and New York Times ([link removed])
by Matt Taibbi
Racket News
Legal Safeguards Against Omnipotent Lawmakers ([link removed])
by Pierre Lemieux
Econlib
IMMIGRATION
Anti-Immigrationists Dance in Texas Blood to Deliver False Lesson ([link removed])
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
CORPORATISM
Trump Picked an EV Loser in Lordstown Motors ([link removed])
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