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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025
If any lessons can be drawn from Prohibition, it may be that the easy call to "pass a law" to bring about a millennium does not always work, that the supposed cure can be worse than the disease, and that the economic law of supply and demand can be a lot more pervasive than the countervailing legislated law of the land.
 
– Mary Bennett Peterson

HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 27, 2025
Don't Shoot the "Invaders"
To justify his plan to deploy at least 20,000 U.S. troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump has declared a “national emergency,” which is the time-honored way that rulers acquire omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers. Trump’s “national emergency” is based on his repeated claim that illegal immigrants are “invading” the United States. It is a claim that was regularly repeated by Trumpsters during the four years of the Biden administration....
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