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** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023
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This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you or I want to hand on to future generations.
– Milton Friedman, "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett ([link removed]) " [1989]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 24, 2023
The Pentagon's Balloon Madness Recalls Major Rudolf Anderson ([link removed])
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon recently spent at least $1.5 million to down high-altitude objects, including the infamous Chinese balloon that supposedly was spying on the United States. Oh well, what’s another $1.5 million added onto a national debt of almost $31.6 trillion dollars? The entire panicked brouhaha over the Chinese balloon caused me to think about Major Rudolf Anderson, ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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DRUG WAR
The Vicious, Malicious, Racist Drug War ([link removed])
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FISCAL POLICY
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by Mike Maharrey
Tenth Amendment Center
PRIVACY
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by Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams
CORPORATISM
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by Veronique de Rugy
National Review
WAR ON TERRORISM
TSA Still Molesting at Warp Speed ([link removed])
by James Bovard
Libertarian Institute
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Unions Should Not Be Protected Against Suits for Deliberate Property Damage ([link removed])
by George Leef
AIER
FOREIGN POLICY
What They Didn’t Talk About in Munich ([link removed])
by Doug Bandow
American Conservative
A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare ([link removed])
by Bill Buppert with Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline ([link removed])
by Seymour Hersh
Democracy Now!
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