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** MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025
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The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another.
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action ([link removed]) [1949]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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January 13, 2025
The Importance of Acknowledging Our Serfdom ([link removed])
My favorite freedom quotation is by Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” That statement perfectly captures the plight of the American people. Owing mostly to the indoctrination they receive in the government schools to which their parents were forced to send them, most Americans honestly believe that they live in a free society. Their ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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Norway's Nonviolent Resistance in WWII: The Power of a Paperclip, Part 1 ([link removed])
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Republicans, Enjoy Ineffectual Control of Congress while You Have It ([link removed])
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2025 New Year’s Resolutions, Part Two ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
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2025 Is the Year to Cut Spending ([link removed])
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Militarizing Drug War a Terrible Idea ([link removed])
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New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
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