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** SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2022
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Even after the fall of the Cold War, the end of the War on Terror, and the last troop’s departure from Afghanistan, the Pentagon budget continues to explode to all new and obscene heights, with the U.S. rapidly approaching the first ever trillion-dollar annual weapons budget.

– Glenn Greenwald, "Washington Expands the War State ([link removed]) " [2022]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 29, 2022
My Favorite Period in History ([link removed])
My favorite period of history is the United States in the years 1870-1915. Why? Because it is the freest period in the history of man. Was it a libertarian panacea? Nope. There were, in fact, infringements on liberty, such as the violation of women’s rights, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1870, compulsory school-attendance laws in Massachusetts, and others. But in ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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Washington Expands the War State ([link removed])
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by Ted Galen Carpenter
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THE FREE SOCIETY
Charity and Capitalism Are Better Than Government ([link removed])
by John Stossel
Reason
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Why 'Economics in One Lesson' Is as Readable Today as It Was in 1946 ([link removed])
by Cruz Marquis
Foundation for Economic Education
DRUG WAR
Cops Practicing Medicine ([link removed])
by Jeffrey A. Singer and Trevor Burrus
Cato Institute
REGULATION
How To Empower Millions of Independent Workers ([link removed])
by Scott Lincicome and Ilana Blumsack
Reason
THE FREE MARKET
The Twitter Files and FDR’s Blue Eagle ([link removed])
by Robert E. Wright
AIER
MONETARY POLICY
Inflating Away the National Debt ([link removed])
by Randall G. Holcombe
Independent Institute
The Origins of the Federal Reserve ([link removed])
by Murray N. Rothbard
Mises Institute
Does the Fed Control Interest Rates? ([link removed])
by Alexander William Salter
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