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** WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
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The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.
– Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days [1934]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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April 29, 2020
No One Has a Right to an Education ([link removed])
In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times is celebrating a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a good education is a constitutional right and, therefore, that states have a legal duty to provide it to children. The court’s decision and the Times’ celebration of it only goes to show how America’s welfare-state way of life has ...
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