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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019

A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

P.J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World [1994]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

August 7, 2019
Welfare-Warfare State "Freedom" and "Patriotism"
A 13-year-old boy has just received a lesson in “patriotism” at a Montana county fair. He suffered a fractured skull and several hours of bleeding from his ears for refusing to remove his hat during the singing of the National Anthem. That’s because 39-year-old Curt James Brockwell picked the kid up by his throat and slammed him into the ground. Brockwell declared that the ...
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