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The Attack of the Killer Balloon

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Though all the winds of the doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
– John Milton, Areopagatica [1644]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
February 6, 2023

The Attack of the Killer Balloon
I confess that I did not leave my house last week. I wasn’t about to take a chance that that Chinese Giant Balloon would attack me or, at the very least, monitor my trips to the grocery store. Why take that chance when I could remain safe within the confines of my home? Even Pentagon assurances that China’s Giant Balloon posed no military …
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