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** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2026
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Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational.
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ([link removed]) [1957]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 6, 2026 On Cuba, JFK Was Different from Trump ([link removed])
When President Kennedy approved the CIA’s plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, his mindset was pretty much like that of President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment today. Kennedy, like Trump, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA today, was convinced that a communist regime 90 miles away from American shores constituted a grave threat to U.S. “national security,” the ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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FREE TRADE
The Impossible in Your Pocket: How Civilization Learns Through Trade ([link removed])
by James Vermillion
The Future of Freedom Foundation
FOREIGN POLICY
Petty Trump Spikes Football Over Nearly 200-Year-old Mexican-American War ([link removed])
by Gustavo Arellano
Los Angeles Times
Pursuing Empire Will Destroy America ([link removed])
by Andrew Napolitano with
Matte Kibbe
Free the People
FREE SPEECH
Censorship and the Ratchet Effect ([link removed])
by Julian Adorney
AIER
Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level ([link removed])
by Editorial
New York Times
THE FREE SOCIETY
The Evil Within, Part 1: Introduction ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Talking Federal Killings ([link removed])
by James Bovard with
Andrew Napolitano
Freedom Files
IMMIGRATION
Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point ([link removed])
by Melissa del Bosque and
Todd Miller
Border Chronicle
How Immigration Enforcement Became So Violent ([link removed])
by Radley Balko
Slate
THE FREE MARKET
TGIF: Damn Those Innovators! ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association
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