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** FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020
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Instead of liberty, the favorite watchword [has become] liberation. Under this banner march the tyrannies of our time, from Soviet Russia with its wars of national liberation to the kaleidoscope of coercive political programs in America which invoke the mirage of liberation. The twentieth century has been a century of liberation -- of a war on freedom fought in the name of freedom. The irony of America's present course is that in the name of freedom from restraints, every source of independent power and morality is being undermined; in the name of freedom from work, want, and scarcity, the constitutional framework of liberty is being dismantled, attacked, and perverted past recognition. Beyond the irony stands the very real tragedy that in the name of freedom we are being led inexorably toward oppression and slavery.
– Bruce D. Porter, The Freeman ([link removed]) [April 1980]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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March 13, 2020
More Dying for Nothing in Iraq ([link removed])
Two more U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Yes, that Iraq — the Iraq that never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so — the Iraq that the U.S. government invaded and has occupied for umpteen years under the rubric of “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” What did those two soldiers die for? They died for the same ...
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