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Some Drug Warriors Just Won’t Concede Defeat

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2023
Ultimately, financial journalist Garet Garrett was correct when he called the New Deal a sort of quiet revolution during which ‘the ultimate power of initiative did pass from the hands of private enterprise to government.’
– Robert E. Wright, “What Is the New Deal with the New Deal?” [2023]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 1, 2023
The Cancer Within
Imagine that your doctor finds a huge cancerous tumor on your colon, which has produced a few smaller tumors in the rest of your body. The doctor removes the smaller tumors but leaves the big one alone. A few months later, the doctor finds a few more tumors on other parts of your body, which he then removes. Every few months, the same …
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