The welfare state, the warfare state, and the Financially Responsible State are mutually exclusive propositions—yet we continue to act otherwise...
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January 31, 2023 • Weekly Newsletter
Debt Ceiling Kabuki: Republicans Will Cave and U.S. Government Finances Will Get Even Worse ([link removed])
Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Washington Times)
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The welfare state, the warfare state, and the Financially Responsible State are mutually exclusive propositions—yet we continue to act otherwise. But for how long? READ MORE » ([link removed])
The Terrible 10 ([link removed])
A Century of Economic Folly ([link removed])
By Burton A. Abrams
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The Cost of San Francisco’s Reparations Proposal: Nearly $600,000 Per Household ([link removed])
Lee E. Ohanian (California on Your Mind)
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True, too many African Americans living in San Francisco face economic hardship. But reparations would depopulate and bankrupt the city, making things worse, not better, for the very persons the progressive left wants to help. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Recommended Readings on Race and Civil Rights ([link removed])
By Williamson M. Evers
A Dispatch from the Corporatized Dystopia: Bring on the Chains! ([link removed])
Art Carden (AIER)
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Don’t like chain stores? Think a Walmart in every town makes the world bland? End corporate welfare. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Living Economics ([link removed])
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ([link removed])
By Peter J. Boettke
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Senior Fellow Stephen Halbrook Interviewed on The Dana Loesch Show on Alec Baldwin’s Shooting Charges ([link removed])
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Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms, talks with Dana Loesch about the charges against actor Alec Baldwin resulting from the 2021 shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” And, as usual, Halbrook gets it right. LISTEN » ([link removed])
The Right to Bear Arms ([link removed])
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? ([link removed])
By Stephen P. Halbrook
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