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** FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2019
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
– Thomas Paine, “The Crisis ([link removed]) ” [1776]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 20, 2019
Social Security is Socialism ([link removed])
Many seniors today have convinced themselves that Social Security, the program that President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration foisted on the United States in the 1930s, is a retirement program, one in which they have “contributed” their money during their work lives. They have this quaint notion that for some 40 years U.S. officials have been dutifully depositing their “contributions” into an interest-bearing savings ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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THE FREE SOCIETY
How Would Jesus Fare in the American Police State? ([link removed])
by John W. Whitehead
The Future of Freedom Foundation
AFGHANISTAN
I Helped Write the Official Lies to Sell the Afghanistan War ([link removed])
by Lauren Kay Johnson
Washington Post
The Afghanistan Papers Give Trump What He Needs to Bring the Troops Home ([link removed])
by Zachary Yost
Washington Times
THE FREE MARKET
In Praise of Home Delivery Culture ([link removed])
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
JFK
Review of Peter Janney’s “Mary’s Mosaic” ([link removed])
by Dennis Riches
Lit by Imagination
FFF
Help Us Spread Pure Principles of Liberty ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
FOREIGN POLICY
The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work ([link removed])
by Medea Benjamin
and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Antiwar.com
ECONOMICS
Economies Are Not Intelligently Designed ([link removed])
by Max Gulker
AIER
SOCIALISM
What if Santa Were a Socialist? ([link removed])
by Scott Walker
Washington Times
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
How a Government Censored an NSA Whistleblower ([link removed])
by Thomas Drake
Common Dreams


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** EVENTS
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