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** MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.
– Leonard E. Read, Notes from FEE [1954]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 20, 2021
Liberventionists Were Wrong 20 Years Ago. They're Still Wrong. ([link removed])
Twenty years ago, liberventionists (i.e., libertarians who favor foreign interventionism) were jumping on the Republican-Democrat bandwagon that was calling for invading Afghanistan. The few of us who were opposing the invasion were holding lonely ground. Those were difficult days for FFF. We were losing donors, subscribers, and even a member of our board of trustees — those who disagreed with our principled libertarian ...
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With America Out of a Major Foreign War, Time to End One at Home ([link removed])
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Born Unequal: Pondering the Natural Lottery ([link removed])
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AIER
Are You Ready and Willing to Be Free Again? ([link removed])
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Fusionism No More ([link removed])
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Tanner on Policy
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The Recent US Drone Strike in Kabul and Life in Afghanistan Post-Withdrawal ([link removed])
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