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** FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were made for the few; and that they will not continue as slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
-- George Washington, Draft of First Inaugural [1789]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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July 10, 2020
Blindness on Iraq War "Patriotism" ([link removed])
An op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times by Democrat Tammy Ducksworth demonstrates that when it comes to “patriotism,” liberals are as morally blind as conservatives. Duckworth’s op-ed goes after conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, who recently questioned Duckworth’s patriotism by suggesting that she didn’t love her country. Naturally, Duckworth, who lost her legs while serving as a soldier ...
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Regime Change: November 1963 ([link removed])
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Alternet
WORLD WAR II
How Truman and the Military Subverted the First Atomic Bomb Movie ([link removed])
by Greg Mitchell
Antiwar.com
AFGHANISTAN
The Afghanistan Debacle ([link removed])
by Brian Cloughley
Strategic Culture Foundation
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Strata of the Unseen ([link removed])
by Donald J. Boudreaux
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Decades of Failed Reforms Allow Continued Police Brutality and Racism ([link removed])
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Generocity
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School’s Out. Reactionaries Hate That. ([link removed])
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