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** FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2021
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Self-interest is that indomitable individualistic force within us that urges us on to progress and discovery, but at the same time disposes us to monopolize our discoveries. Competition is that no less indomitable humanitarian force that wrests progress, as fast as it is made, from the hands of the individual and places it at the disposal of all mankind.
– Frederic Bastiat, Economic Harmonies ([link removed]) [1850]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 6, 2021
Debt, Debt, and More Debt ([link removed])
The Los Angeles Times is concerned about the possibility that Republicans might not agree to raise the debt ceiling when it is set to go back into effect this month after a two-year suspension. In an editorial entitled, “The Federal Debt Limit Drama Isn’t a Fight Over Spending,” the Times says that since Joe Biden is now president, the Republicans will ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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SOCIALISM
[link removed] A Senseless Test ([link removed])
by Laurence M. Vance
The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Answering the Armies of the Cheated ([link removed])
by Andrew Bacevich
Tom Dispatch
Biden Shouldn’t Let Right-Wing Cuban Americans Drown Out Cuban Voices ([link removed])
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Los Angeles Times
WORLD WAR II
Hiroshima Is A Lie ([link removed])
by David Swanson
World Beyond War
Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ([link removed])
by Jacques R. Pauwels
CounterPunch
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Pseudo-Omniscience Versus Freedom ([link removed])
by James Bovard
AIER
Vaccine-Mandating Our Way Merrily Toward Communism ([link removed])
by Cheryl K. Chumley
Washington Times
Americans Must Ignore the New CDC Eviction Moratorium ([link removed])
by Charles C. W. Cooke
National Review
GUN CONTROL
Will We Be Allowed To Carry Our Freedom Where We Need It Most? ([link removed])
by Stephen Halbrook
America's 1st Freedom
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The Atrocity of Torture ([link removed])
by Helen Schietinger
Washington Post
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