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** WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2019
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Our country has stumbled into socialism during the past half century; by now -- 1958 -- we have adopted nearly all the things socialists stand for. Those of us who are aware of socialism's built-in destructiveness have watched this process with apprehension and are forever predicting, or warning against, the impending catastrophe which we think we see hanging over our society. Under socialism, some men are put at the disposal of other men, deliberately, legally, and on principle. Socialism, in other words, is premised in an immoral extension of political power.
– Leonard E. Read, Anything That's Peaceful ([link removed]) [1964]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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October 23, 2019
The Futility of the Drug War ([link removed])
Thirteen Mexican police officers were recently killed in an ambush in the western state of Michoacan. The ambush was carried out by at least 30 individuals firing high-powered weapons. The killers were members of a drug cartel called the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. In a strict legal sense, the killers are the murderers. But in a ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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SOCIALISM
Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty ([link removed])
by Richard M. Ebeling
The Future of Freedom Foundation
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
The FBI Has a Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism ([link removed])
by Alice Speri
The Intercept
Assange in Court: What I Saw ([link removed])
by Craig Murray
Antiwar.com
Only Cowards And Sadists Support The Persecution Of Assange ([link removed])
by Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
IMMIGRATION
Border Patrol Agents Followed Her to the Emergency Room ([link removed])
by Teo Armus
Washington Post
FOREIGN POLICY
Wake-Up Call On The Syrian Border ([link removed])
by David Stockman
The Future of Freedom Foundation
THE FREE MARKET
Let the Free Market Fight Chinese Censorship ([link removed])
by Zachary Yost
American Conservative
FREE TRADE
Five Wrong Claims about Trade ([link removed])
by Veronique de Rugy
AIER
FOREIGN POLICY
Fuel to the Fire: Embracing Restraint ([link removed])
by Daniel Larison
American Conservative
DRUG WAR
Review: “On the President’s Orders” Zeroes in on the Philippines’ Deadly War on Drugs ([link removed])
by Carlos Aguilar
Los Angeles Times


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** EVENTS
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
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Speakers: Jacob Hornberger
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Speakers: Jacob Hornberger
and Richard Ebeling


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