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** SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2020
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All those who support liberty must be prepared to fight any attempt to reinstate the military draft or to mandate any other type of national service.
– Ron Paul, "Is the Draft Coming Back? ([link removed]) " [2020]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 6, 2020
Social Security Insults the Young ([link removed])
Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, Social Security is not a retirement program. There is no fund into which people have been contributing their money. Instead, from the very beginning Social Security has been nothing more than a welfare program, one in which the federal government taxes younger people and gives the money to seniors. The question, of course, is: Why? Why do we ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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U.S. MILITARY
Is the Draft Coming Back? ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
FREE TRADE
Poll: Americans Love Foreign Trade ([link removed])
by Peter C. Earle
AIER
THE FREE MARKET
How Entrepreneurs Learn from the Marketplace ([link removed])
by Raushan Gross
Mises Institute [link removed]
LIBERTARIANISM
And Rightly So ([link removed])
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
LewRockwell.com
FOREIGN POLICY
The Media’s Coverage of the Syria April 2018 Chemical Weapons Attack Is a Disgrace ([link removed])
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Cato Institute
REGULATION
Bad Laws Worsen the Homeless Crisis ([link removed])
by John Stossel
Reason
San Fran’s Plan to Smother Innovation With Permission Slips ([link removed])
by Adam Thierer
AIER
Florida’s Occupational Licenses Encourage Poverty ([link removed])
by Michael D. Tanner and Sal Nuzzo
Cato Institute
SOCIALISM
Financially Troubled Amtrak Is Taking Taxpayers for a Ride ([link removed])
by Craig Eyermann
Independent Institute
Why Socialism Often Leads to Tyranny ([link removed])
by Thomas Gordon
Foundation for Economic Education


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** EVENTS
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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Speakers: Jacob Hornberger
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