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** TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025
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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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HL Mencken Knew Politicians: ‘Merchants of Delusion’ ([link removed])
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The Nationalization of Intel? ([link removed])
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Why Collectivism Is Surging ([link removed])
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Another Reason to Ban Tik-Tok? ([link removed])
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Something Is Rotten in the States of America ([link removed])
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Paul House Has Died — A Wrongly Convicted Man Whom John Roberts Gave the Okay to Execute ([link removed])
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Tariffs on China Shrink the U.S. Economy, and Vice Versa ([link removed])
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