FFF Daily - July 2, 2025

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

– Frédéric Bastiat

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

July 2, 2025

Cheering the Destruction of Own Liberty

Yesterday, I wrote about the decades-long obsession that the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — has had with Cuba. Long ago, as part of their Cold War against the Reds, U.S. national-security state officials convinced themselves that Cuba’s communist regime posed a grave threat to U.S. “national security,” whatever definition is placed on that ...

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EXPLORE FREEDOM

IMMIGRATION

Inmigración y Libertad: Mi Nuevo Libro
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation

CONSTITUTION

Supreme Court Gives Trump License to Bulldoze Constitution
by Bruce Fein
Baltimore Sun

Five Constitutional Truths They Don’t Want You to Know
by Michael Boldin
Tenth Amendment Center

PRESIDENCY

Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ Politics Undermine America’s Future
by Vance Ginn
AIER

THE FREE SOCIETY

Star Trek: Just Short of Utopia
by Akiva Malamet
Econlib

INDEPENDENCE DAY

The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence
by James Bovard
Libertarian Institute

NATIONAL SECURITY STATE

Cow Most Sacred (2011)
by Andrew Bacevich
TomDispatch

FOREIGN POLICY

Why Libertarians Should Be Critical of War
by David R. Henderson
I Blog to Differ

FISCAL POLICY

Stop Saying We Need to “Pay for the Tax Cuts.”
by Veronique de Rugy
The Unseen and the Unsaid

SOCIALISM

The World’s Worst Argument Against Austerity
by Bryan Caplan
Bet On It

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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