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** WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2023
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Once we start from this idea, accepted by all our political theorists [that] "The motive force of society is the government"; once men consider themselves as sentient, but passive, incapable of improving themselves morally or materially by their own intelligence and energy, and reduced to expecting everything from the law; in a word, when they admit that their relation to the state is that of a flock of sheep to the shepherd, it is clear that the responsibility of the government is immense. Good and evil, virtue and vice, equality and inequality, wealth and poverty, all proceed from it. It is entrusted with everything, it undertakes everything, it does everything; hence, it is responsible for everything.
– Frederic Bastiat, "The Law" [1850]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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June 28, 2023
The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won ([link removed])
I watched The Mule, the drug-war movie on Netflix that was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the second time I’ve seen the movie. Eastwood also stars in the movie. He plays an elderly drug transporter for a drug cartel, which in drug-war parlance is called a “mule.” ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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TAXATION
How Not to Abolish the Income Tax ([link removed]) by Laurence M. Vance
Future of Freedom Foundation
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
The Espionage Act’s Ugly, Un-American History ([link removed])
by Vivek Ramaswamy
Wall Street Journalhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-espionage-acts-ugly-un-american-history-trump-spies-leakers-law-america-dissent-c9ab63f7?mod=opinion_major_pos5
Ellsberg and “The Process of My Awakening” ([link removed])
by Patrick Lawrence
Scheer Posthttps://scheerpost.com/2023/06/27/patrick-lawrence-ellsberg-and-the-process-of-my-awakening/
WAR ON TERRORISM
Released Guantamo Detainees Are Still Being Denied Human Rights, UN Report Warns ([link removed])
by Elise Swain
Intercepthttps://theintercept.com/2023/06/27/guantanamo-bay-kazakhstan-former-detainees/
FREE TRADE
On Evidence of the Economic Consequences of a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade ([link removed])
by Don Boudreaux
Cafe Hayekhttps://cafehayek.com/2023/06/on-evidence-of-the-economic-consequences-of-a-policy-of-unilateral-free-trade.html
FFF
Help FFF Achieve the Free Society ([link removed]) by Jacob G. Hornberger
Future of Freedom Foundation
IMMIGRATION
Two Shipwrecks Reveal the State of the World ([link removed])
by Dan LaBotz
Counterpunchhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/27/two-shipwrecks-reveal-the-state-of-the-world/
Titan Rescue Efforts Raise Questions About Whether Migrants’ Lives Are Also Worth Saving ([link removed])
by Sarah Sherman-Stokes and Rachel Silver
Boston Globehttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/23/opinion/titan-rescue-efforts-raise-questions-about-whether-migrants-lives-are-also-worth-saving/
FOREIGN POLICY
Daniel Ellsberg Wanted Americans to See the Truth about War ([link removed])
by Norman Solomon
Intercepthttps://theintercept.com/2023/06/16/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-dead/
US Intervention Leaves Rifts that Take Years to Heal ([link removed])
by Brian Berletic
Global Timeshttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291292.shtml
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