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** MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025
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... most attractive to Americans, the possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave, it being the ultimate means by which freedom was to be preserved.

– James Burgh,
Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses ([link removed]) [1774]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 11, 2025 Give Me the Gilded Age Any Day of the Week ([link removed]) I haven’t seen the HBO series “The Gilded Age,” but I do know that the finale of Season 3 has stirred up the statists, big time. The question they are asking in their op-eds and commentaries is, “Do we really want to go back to the Gilded Age?” What they are referring to is the period in U.S. history from around 1870 to ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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Ludwig von Mises on Reducing the Size and Scope of Government ([link removed])
by Richard M. Ebeling
Future of Freedom Foundation
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Tensions Between Immigration Control and the Rule of Law ([link removed])
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Nathan Goodman
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Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities ([link removed])
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Economic Forces
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War in Somalia ([link removed])
by Bill Astore
Bracing Views
SOCIALISM
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics ([link removed])
by Greg Ip
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WORD WAR II
80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki ([link removed])
by Alan MacLeod
Mint Press News
Remembering the Children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ([link removed])
by Tim Wright
Common Dreams
JUDICIARY
This Is No Way to Run a Country ([link removed])
by David French
New York Times
FISCAL POLICY
Think America Owes $37 Trillion? It’s Far Worse Than That ([link removed])
by Brian McGlinchey
Stark Realities


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