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** THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2025
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A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.
– James Madison, Constitutional Convention [June 29, 1787]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 14, 2025 Why the Drug War? ([link removed]) The ostensible purpose of the U.S. war on drugs is to prevent Americans from getting their hands on illicit drugs and ingesting them. Think about that for a moment: The entire drug-war apparatus and the massive militarized drug-war police state exist for the purpose of preventing Americans from possessing and ingesting unapproved substances that they wish to possess and ingest. I consider that ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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WORLD WAR II
Libertarian Angle: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger and
Richard M. Ebeling
Future of Freedom Foundation
THE FREE MARKET
Trump Thinks He Is the C.E.O. of Everything. Awesome. ([link removed])
by Bill Saporito
New York Times
How Markets Made Life-Saving Inhalers Accessible ([link removed])
by Byron Carson
AIER
FREE TRADE
Now Trump Wants an Export Tax ([link removed])
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Should We Expect Trade-War ‘Wins’ to Save U.S. Lives? ([link removed])
by Evelyn Ahdieh
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THE FREE SOCIETY
Trump’s Trial Run at a Police State ([link removed])
by Radley Balko
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CIVIL LIBERTIES
Not a Gift from Government: Our Natural Rights Foundation ([link removed])
by Michael Boldin
Tenth Amendment Center
JFK
Bethesda “Mystery Nurse” on 11/22/63 Now Positively Identified ([link removed])
by Douglas Horne
Inside the ARRB
IMMIGRATION
Trump’s War on Immigrants Is a Trojan Horse to Normalize Domestic Use of the Military ([link removed])
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Economists Hate Waste\ ([link removed])
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