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** MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
– Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor [1776]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 26, 2019
Donald Trump, Democratic Dictator ([link removed])
Some people think that the United States is safe from dictatorship because the country is a democracy. It’s only in totalitarian countries, they hold, that people are subject to dictatorship. Nothing could be further from the truth. Such people are confusing how a ruler gets elected with the powers that the ruler has after being elected. A democratically elected ruler can ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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ECONOMICS
Minimum Wage Nonsense ([link removed])
by Christine Smith
The Future of Freedom Foundation
A Broken Economy Is Not Like a Sick Body ([link removed])
by Donald J. Boudreaux
AIER
THE FREE MARKET
Trump Longs to Command the Economy ([link removed])
by David A. Graham
The Atlantic
CONSERVATISM
Note to Conservatives: Burke Believed in Trade Liberalization ([link removed])
by Samuel Gregg
Law & Liberty
AFGHANISTAN
Stop Pretending: Washington and Kabul Never (Really) Controlled Rural Afghanistan ([link removed])
by Danny Sjursen
Antiwar.com
FREE TRADE
Trump’s Trade War Shows the Reality of ‘America First’ in Action ([link removed])
by George F. Will
Washington Post
FOREIGN POLICY
Rothbard and War ([link removed])
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
LewRockwell.com
Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name ([link removed])
by H. Patricia Hynes
Common Dreams
IMMIGRATION
Trump Wants Guatemalans Like Me to Stay Home. Here’s Why So Many Don’t ([link removed])
by William López
Los Angeles Times
FISCAL POLICY
The Perils of Our $1-Trillion Deficit ([link removed])
by Tom Campbell
Los Angeles Times


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