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** FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
– Thomas Paine
** 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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THE FREE SOCIETY
Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent ([link removed])
by John W. Whitehead
Future of Freedom Foundation
How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power ([link removed])
by Steven Simon and
Jonathan Stevenson
New York Times
President Is “Inventing Emergencies” in Order to Take Over Local Law Enforcement ([link removed])
by Domenico Maceri et al
Los Angeles Times
Trump’s Takeover of the Police in D.C. ([link removed])
by Jeffrey Hamburger et al
New York Times
JFK
Congress Must Hold the CIA Accountable in the Wake of Recent JFK Assassination Revelations ([link removed])
by Eric Burlison
Daily Signal
IMMIGRATION
TGIF: Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association
FREE TRADE
Trump’s Trade Deals Are Pay-to-Play Capitalism ([link removed])
by Bruce Yandle
Washington Examiner
SOCIALISM
Why Mamdani’s Socialism-on-the-Hudson Would Be Useful for America ([link removed])
by George F. Will
Washington Post
CONSERVATISM
How the Right Gave Up on Small Government ([link removed])
by Stefan Bartl
AIER
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Breaking down the White House lies about D.C. ([link removed])
by Radley Balko
The Watch
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