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** TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2019
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Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Henry Stephens Randall [1857]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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October 29, 2019
The Never-Ending Wars on Terrorism and Drugs ([link removed])
Not long after President George W. Bush declared a “war on terrorism,” I wrote that this war would end up being as perpetual as the federal government’s war on drugs. Some 18 years later, the U.S. government’s killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria confirms how right I was. After all, given all the media hype ...
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Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst ([link removed])
by John W. Whitehead
The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Questions for Immigration Skeptics ([link removed])
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AIER
WAR ON TERRORISM
Baghdadi’s Death Is Not a Triumph ([link removed])
by Joel Mathis
The Week
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The FBI’s Unconstitutional Investigative Powers (audio) ([link removed])
by Trevor Aaronson
with Scott Horton
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MONETARY POLICY
Why Nobody Chants “End the Fed” Anymore ([link removed])
by Clint Siegner
Money Metals Exchange
FOREIGN POLICY
Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again. ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Sanctions Harm the Poor and Middle Class the Most ([link removed])
by M. Gordon Jones
Washington Post
Absurdity of the Neocons’ Syrian Oil Narrative ([link removed])
by Ronald Enzweiler
Antiwar.com
Saudi Bases and the Bin Ladens: A Love Story ([link removed])
by Danny Sjursen
Antiwar.com
FIRST AMENDMENT
Those College Students Who Used the N-Word Shouldn’t Have Been Arrested ([link removed])
by Steve Sanders
New York Times
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