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** WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025
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It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
– Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions [1798]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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April 9, 2025
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico? ([link removed])
According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S. national-security state officials used to kill people in Iraq, which, like Mexico, never attacked or invaded the United States. More specifically, such a bombing ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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IMMIGRATION
Inmigracion y Libertad: El Juicio en San Antonio ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
LIBERTARIANISM
The Tyranny of Tariffs ([link removed])
by Jacob Hornberger with Gardner Goldsmith
Liberty Conspiracyhttps://rumble.com/v6ru8y5-liberty-conspiracy-live-4-8-25-trump-pentagram-cash-tariffs-w-jacob-hornber.html?start=3597
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid ([link removed])
by Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence H. Tribe
New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-deportations-gulag-prison.html
Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Due Process ([link removed])
by David French
New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-deportations-due-process.html
POLITICS
How Party Politics Destroys Independent Thought and Liberty ([link removed])
by Michael Boldin
Tenth Amendment Centerhttps://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/04/04/how-party-politics-destroys-independent-thought-and-liberty/
FREE TRADE
Liberation or Obliteration? ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institutehttps://ronpaulinstitute.org/liberation-or-obliteration/
How Tariff Damage Spreads, Auto Edition ([link removed])
Editorial
Wall Street Journalhttps://www.wsj.com/opinion/auto-industry-tariffs-china-cars-ford-stellantis-tesla-donald-trump-ef7e235a?mod=opinion_feat1_editorials_pos2
“Totally Silly.” Trump’s Focus on Trade Deficit Bewilders Economists. ([link removed])
by Ana Swanson
New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/business/economy/trump-trade-deficit-tariffs-economist-doubts.html
Here’s the iPhone. Here’s the iPhone With Tariffs. ([link removed])
by Joanna Stern
Wall Street Journalhttps://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/iphone-apple-tariffs-china-bb20c7a3?st=FUdDXM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing ([link removed])
by Jamelle Bouie
New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-tariffs-rationale-power.html
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