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** WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2020
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, [link removed] Good and Evil ([link removed]) [1885-1886]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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July 22, 2020
A Federal Mask Mandate? ([link removed])
The Democrat governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has come out with an op-ed in the New York Times today calling for a federal nation-wide mandate requiring people to wear masks. She says that that’s the way to save lives from Covid-19. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Whitmer fails to provide any constitutional justification for such a mandate. I know it ...
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"Systemic Racism" Theory is the New Political Tribalism ([link removed])
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Meet Your New Elites: The Woke Cancel Mobs ([link removed])
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Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun ([link removed])
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The New Jane Crow: Women’s Mass Incarceration ([link removed])
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Defund the Pentagon: The Conservative Case ([link removed])
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