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** SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
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The legal tools and above all pervasive, government‐abetted mindset of fear and constant threat created in the wake of 9/11 are on the verge of becoming permanent realities of American life. If that happens, we may still be able to call this place the United States of America, but we will no longer be able to call it the Republic of the United States of America.
– Patrick G. Eddington, "Twilight of Liberty: 9/11’s Legacy ([link removed]) " [2021]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 2, 2021
Crocodile Tears for Women's Rights in Afghanistan ([link removed])
Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to date exceed 70,000 people.
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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THE FREE SOCIETY
Twilight of Liberty: 9/11’s Legacy ([link removed])
by Patrick G. Eddington
Cato Institute
Non-Compliance Is an American Virtue That Stretches Back to Abolitionism (and Beyond) ([link removed])
by Olivia Rondeau
Foundation for Economic Education
FOREIGN POLICY
Afghanistan: A Poster Child for Foreign-Aid Failure ([link removed])
by Steve H. Hanke
Independent Institute
Biden Exits Afghanistan, Heads in the Wrong Direction ([link removed])
by John V. Walsh
Antiwar.com
FISCAL POLICY
Ten Reasons to Oppose More Spending ([link removed])
by Chris Edwards
Cato Institute
SOCIALISM
Progressives' Desires to Help the Poor Will End Up Hurting Them Instead ([link removed])
by Craig J. Richardson
and Richard B. McKenzie
Library of Economics & Liberty
TAXATION
Taxes? What Taxes? ([link removed])
by Veronique de Rugy
Library of Economics & Liberty
ECONOMICS
Paul Krugman’s Austrian Obsession ([link removed])
by William L. Anderson
Mises Institute
Hurricane Ida: How Government Is Getting in the Way of Relief Efforts ([link removed])
by Walter Block
Foundation for Economic Education
The Terrible Economic Ignorance behind Covid Tradeoffs ([link removed])
by Jeff Deist
Mises Institute
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