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** MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2022
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The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate (bold) that (unbold) illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.
— Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ([link removed]) [1974]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 22, 2022
America's Perpetual Foreign-Policy Crises ([link removed])
Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The national-security establishment — i.e. the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — need such crises to justify their continued existence and their ever-growing taxpayer-funded largess. An ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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Help FFF Restore Sound Money ([link removed])
by Jacob Hornberger
Future of Freedom Foundation
ECONOMICS
On Some Differences Separating Choices in Private Settings from Choices in Political Settings ([link removed])
by Donald J. Boudreaux
AIER
FREE TRADE
Free Markets Are in the National Interest ([link removed])
by Dominic Pino
National Interest
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Californifying the U.S. Labor Market ([link removed])
by Steven Malanga
City Journal
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Americans Want Reform of Government, but Parties Are Not Listening ([link removed])
by Veronique de Rugy
National Review
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Open Borders? ([link removed])
by Bryan Caplan
Helpers Hungary
FOREIGN POLICY
More Billions to Ukraine as America Falls Apart ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
Playing With Fire in Ukraine ([link removed])
by John J. Mearsheimer
Foreign Affairs
We Always Knew the Dangers of NATO Expansion ([link removed])
by Ted Snider
Antiwar.com
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing Have Been Missing in Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to Our Freedom ([link removed])
by Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook blog
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