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** WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2021
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For more than six hundred years-that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 -- there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such law.
– Lysander Spooner, "An Essay on Trial by Jury ([link removed]) " [1852]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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October 27, 2021
The Evil Rot at the Center of the Empire ([link removed])
Given President Biden’s decision to succumb to the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of the CIA’s 60-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how President Kennedy felt about this type of secrecy: The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret ...
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CIVIL LIBERTIES
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Yahoo! News
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by Russ Feingold
Nation
THE FREE SOCIETY
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IRAQ
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Jacobin
GUN CONTROL
Supreme Court’s Latest Second Amendment Case Isn’t about Race, It’s about Rights ([link removed])
by Stephen P. Halbrook
Washington Times
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China and the Monroe Doctrine ([link removed])
by Doug Bandow
Antiwar.com
Will Biden Start Nuclear War with China Over Taiwan? ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
JFK
White House Once Again Delays Release of JFK Assassination Documents ([link removed])
by Daniel Politi
Slate
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Senate Panel Approves Extra $29 Billion for Pentagon ([link removed])
by Kenny Stancil
Common Dreams
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