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** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2025
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
** 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
A Warning from a Friend ([link removed])
by Radley Balko
The Watch
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Trump’s ‘Law and Order’ Push in D.C. Looks a Lot Like an Immigration Raid ([link removed])
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Wall Street Journal
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Tthe CIA’s Covert War to Remake the Middle East ([link removed])
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Scott Horton
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Mimicking China Isn’t How the US Should Race Against China ([link removed])
by James Pethokoukis
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Rural America Is in Crisis ([link removed])
by Eva Roytburg
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Russia and China Are Not Threats to the US ([link removed])
by David Stockman
Antiwar.com
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Why Americans Should Fear Washington in Intel’s Boardroom ([link removed])
by Vance Ginn
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Still Standing ([link removed])
by Neal McCluskey
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FREE SPEECH
Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom ([link removed])
by Thomas L. Knapp
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Will Washington’s Debt Addiction Spark the Next Global Crisis? ([link removed])
by Kenneth S. Rogoff
Foreign Affairs
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