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** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025
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A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America ([link removed]) [1835]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 13, 2025 Judicial Deference to Unconstitutional Actions ([link removed]) When the U.S. Constitution called the federal government into existence, it was on the condition that federal officials could exercise only those powers that the Constitution delegated to the federal government. If a power wasn’t delegated, it could not be exercised. After ratification of the Constitution, the first ten amendments were added, which provided for express restrictions on the powers of the federal ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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IMMIGRATION
Inmigración y Libertad: Tropas en la Capital ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Future of Freedom Foundation
Spain Is an Example to the World ([link removed])
by Omar G. Encarnación
New York Times
Migrants Vanish Into Opaque ICE Detention System ([link removed])
by Ruth Simon et al
Wall Street Journal
GUN CONTROL
Gun-Grabbers Should Consult the Second Amendment ([link removed])
by Editorial
Daily News
PRESIDENCY
Trump Wants Troops in D.C. But Don’t Expect Him to Stop there ([link removed])
by Anita Chabria
Los Angeles Times
THE FREE MARKET
Why Even Progressive Economists Are Finally Warming to Free Markets ([link removed])
by Jason Sorens
AIER
THE FREE SOCIETY
How the United States Has Changed in My Lifetime ([link removed])
by David R. Henderson
I Blog to Differ
The Damning New Details about Russiagate ([link removed])
by Matt Taibbi with Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
FREE TRADE
Why Government Should Not Intervene in Business ([link removed])
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Washington Post
You Better Hope The Tariffs Are Transitory ([link removed])
by Veronique de Rugy
National Review
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