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** FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020
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Good Lord! What a lot of trouble to prove in political economy that two and two make four; and if you succeed in doing so, people cry, "It is so clear that it is boring." Then they vote as if you had never proved anything at all.
- Frederic Bastiat, "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen ([link removed]) " [1850]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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June 19, 2020
Seven Days in May ([link removed])
Like many of his counterparts in the mainstream press, Los Angeles Times senior editorial writer Michael McGough is aglow over the apology issued by Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for having participated in President Trump’s photo-op in which military troops used tear gas on peaceful protestors in the nation’s capital in order to clear ...
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A Friendship That Shaped America ([link removed])
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