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** WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2022
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The President is to be the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval force, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies,--all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.

— Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 69 ([link removed]) [March 14, 1788]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 21, 2022
January 6 versus Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde ([link removed])
On April 20, 1999, 12th-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado. The weapons they used were a 9mm TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun and double-barreled shotguns. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. He used an AR-15 rifle. On May ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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CBDC in the USA: Not Now, Not Ever ([link removed])
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Bet On It
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Tucker Carlson, the Liberal Media, and JFK ([link removed])
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Spreading the Light of Liberty ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Future of Freedom Foundation
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US Bio-weapons and the CIA’s Attempts to Hide Them ([link removed])
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by Bryan Riley
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by Dominic Pino
National Review
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Why the Middle Class Flees States That Tax the Rich ([link removed])
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