FFF Daily - December 18, 2024

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024

He that resolves upon any great good and good end has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

– Tryon Edwards

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

December 16, 2024
Soldiers Will Obey Trump's Unconstitutional Orders
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed entitled “What Will the Military Do If Trump Gives Unconstitutional Orders?” The article was written by a West Point graduate named ML Cavanaugh, who recently retired from the military. He is the co-founder of an organization named the War Institute at West Point....

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EXPLORE FREEDOM

NATIONAL SECURITY STATE

The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You're On It
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The Future of Freedom Foundation

CONSTITUTION

Bill of Rights: Forgotten Role of the 10th Amendment in Its Creation
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Tenth Amendment Center

FISCAL POLICY

Facing the Realities of Our Financial Future
by Josh Raush and Jack Salmon with Veronique de Rugy
AIER

IMMIGRATION

Trump Wants Mass Deportations. He Will Need Jails and Sanctuary Cities to Help.
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We Need Your End of Year Support!
by Jacob G. Hornberger
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A Glorious, and Shackled, ‘Troublemaker’
by Jay Nordlinger
National Review

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Goldfinger and Growth
by David Henderson
I Blog to Differ

Longshoremen and Trump Are in the Same Anti-Automation Boat
by George F. Will
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FOREIGN POLICY

How Washington Engineered the Ukraine Crisis
by John Mac Ghlionn
Blaze

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