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** THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025
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These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
– Thomas Paine, The American Crisis ([link removed]) [1776]
** 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
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Parents: Stop Giving Your Kids (And Everyone Else’s) To The Government ([link removed])
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
IMMIGRATION
Masks Off, Please ([link removed])
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THE FREE MARKET
Trump’s Private Sector Shakedown ([link removed])
by Noah Rothman
National Review
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Nearly a Decade Later, the Unmasking Scandal Comes Full Circle ([link removed])
by Matt Taibbi
Racket News
WORLD WAR II
What Victor Davis Hanson Leaves Out ([link removed])
by David R. Henderson
I Blog to Differ
FREE TRADE
The Founders Would Be Appalled by Trump’s Tariff Policy—Even Hamilton ([link removed])
by Iain Murray
AIER
Why the Trump Tariff Merry-Go-Round Won’t Stop ([link removed])
by Robert B. Zoellick
Wall Street Journal
Evaluating the US-Japan Trade Deal on Mercantilist Terms ([link removed])
by Jon Murphy
Econlib
DRUG WAR
Trump’s Venezuela Drug War Gambit and the Militarization Playbook at Home ([link removed])
by Michelle Ellner
Common Dreams
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