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** WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2020
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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.
-- Thomnas Paine, The American Crisis ([link removed]) [1777]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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July 29, 2020
Drug War Disappearances and Murders ([link removed])
How anyone can defend drug laws is beyond me. Consider the following: During the past 15 years or so of drug warfare in Mexico, there have been around 200,000 deaths resulting from drug war violence. 200,000 people, dead. Not because of drugs, but because of the drug war. That’s not all. There are also more than 70,000 people, including ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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A Time That Tries Men's Souls ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
DRUG WAR
In Praise of Impure Alliances ([link removed])
by Conor Friedersdorf
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LIBERTARIANISM
How to Care about the Disadvantaged ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association
WORLD WAR II
Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Collateral Damage ([link removed])
by Jack Gilroy
Counterpunch
MONETARY POLICY
US Dollar at Risk of Sudden Collapse? ([link removed])
by Karen Yeung
South China Post
THE FREE SOCIETY
Bashing School Scams, COVID Cons, and Thomas Hobbes ([link removed])
by James Bovard
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A Tyranny of Health? ([link removed])
by Theodore Dalrymple
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Three Ways that Workers Can Be Underpaid ([link removed])
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AIER
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How Our Endless Wars Have Pushed the US Military to Court Young Gamers ([link removed])
by Kate Kohn
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