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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2020
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We do not have to create a conscience for ourselves. We are born with one, and no matter how much we may ignore it, we cannot silence its insistent demand that we do good and avoid evil. No matter how much we may deny our freedom and our moral responsibility, our intellectual soul cries out for a morality and a spiritual freedom without which it knows it cannot be happy. The first duty of every man is to seek the enlightenment and discipline without which his conscience cannot solve the problems of life. And one of the first duties of society to the men who compose it is to enable them to live by the light of a prudent and mature conscience. I say “spiritual” and not merely “religious,” for religious formation is sometimes no more than outward formality, and therefore is not really religious, nor is it a “formation” of the soul.
– Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island ([link removed]) [1955]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 26, 2020
Immunity for Immigration Murder ([link removed])
The American immigration police state continues to grow more tyrannical with each passing day. The latest example involves the U.S. Supreme Court, which has just issued a ruling in a case that effectively gives the Border Patrol a license to kill Mexican citizens. And guess which two magic words the Court used to justify its decision: “national security,” the two buzz words that the ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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THE FREE SOCIETY
Triple Threat ([link removed])
by Laurence M. Vance
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Chaos Abounds! (audio) ([link removed])
by Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams
Ron Paul Liberty Report
FOREIGN POLICY
Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo (audio) ([link removed])
by Trita Parsi with Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
The Paradox of America’s Endless Wars ([link removed])
by William J. Astore
TomDispatch.com
CONSERVATISM
A Socialist Is Likely to Win the 2020 Election. No, Not Bernie Sanders. ([link removed])
by Catherine Rampell
Washington Post
IMMIGRATION
The Case for Open Borders ([link removed])
by Zoey Poll
The New Yorker
There’s a Ukrainian Immigrant in My Crawlspace, and I See Him for What He Is: An American ([link removed])
by Jaime O’Neill
Los Angeles Times
SOCIALISM
Are We Seriously Debating Capitalism vs. Socialism Again? ([link removed])
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
AIER
Sweden Ain’t Socialist ([link removed])
by Mark J. Perry
American Enterprise Institute
Bernie Sanders Stumbles on ‘Authoritarian’ Socialism ([link removed])
by Cheryl K. Chumley
Washington Times


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