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The Drug War’s Dark Origins

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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1840]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
May 5, 2023

The War on Poverty Impoverishes the Poor
Among the worst things that has ever happened to the poor is the federal government’s war on poverty. As a socialist program, it actually impoverishes the poor rather than improve their overall economic condition. That’s because it destroys or impedes the forces that raise the standard of living of everyone in society, especially the poor. Let’s begin with an imaginary nation, one in …
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Future of Freedom Foundation
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Other Words
GUN CONTROL
A Tragedy in Waiting
by Jason Sorens
AIER
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style
by William D. Hartung and
Ben Freeman
TomDispatch
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Government Shouldn’t Profit from Seized Property
by Editorial
Washington Examiner
THE FREE SOCIETY
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Free Association
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by Matt Taibbi
Racket News
Legal Safeguards Against Omnipotent Lawmakers
by Pierre Lemieux
Econlib
IMMIGRATION
Anti-Immigrationists Dance in Texas Blood to Deliver False Lesson
by Thomas L. Knapp
Garrison Center
CORPORATISM
Trump Picked an EV Loser in Lordstown Motors
by Editorial
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