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** WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
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Diocletian, who, from a servile origin, had raised himself to the throne, passed the nine last years of his life in a private condition....[H]e had preserved, or at least he soon recovered, a taste for the most innocent as well as natural pleasures, and his leisure hours were sufficiently employed in building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old man to reassume the reins of government, and the Imperial purple. He rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, calmly observing, that if he could show Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power.
– Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ([link removed]) [1776]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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October 17, 2023
C-SPAN Interview on An Encounter with Evil ([link removed])
At Freedom Fest last July, I had the honor of being interviewed by C-SPAN’s Book TV about my most recent book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story. It’s about a 20-minute-long interview. The interview is another good sign that interest in the JFK assassination is increasing among the mainstream media, especially as we approach the 60th anniversary of the assassination....
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FREE SPEECH
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by Erwin Chemerinsky
Los Angeles Timeshttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-17/gag-order-donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-jan-6-first-amendment-free-speech
JFK
Why the CIA Lied About Its Knowledge of Oswald ([link removed])
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What is a Pencil? ([link removed])
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The Never-Ending Israel-Hamas Conflict ([link removed])
by Paul B. Weiss
Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/17/never-ending-israel-hamas-conflict/
U.S. Breaks Its Deal with Iran…Again ([link removed])
by Ted Snider
Libertarian Institutehttps://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/u-s-breaks-its-deal-with-iran-again/
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The Problem Isn’t Free Trade ([link removed])
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Cafe Hayekhttps://cafehayek.com/2023/10/free-trade-isnt-the-problem.html
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On “Political Pathologies” and Practicing Medicine in the Borderlands ([link removed])
by Brian Elmore with Melissa del Bosque
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