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Don’t Blame Legalized Weed for Society’s Woes

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2024

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn Rand, Francisco D’Anconia in Atlas Shrugged

HORNBERGER’S BLOG

March 13, 2024
The Importance of Capital
I was recently walking through a construction site near my house, where a new townhouse project is being built. The townhouses are four stories high. The basic construction of all four levels has been finished. A man was using a gigantic piece of equipment that lifted an entire bedroom section, which must have weighed around 1000 pounds. He then elongated the equipment to …
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PRESIDENCY
Thumping Biden’s Speech and Other Outrages
by James Bovard with Gardner Goldsmith
David Knight Show
DRUG WAR
Don’t Blame Legalized Weed for Society’s Woes
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
Free Press
THE FREE SOCIETY
Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
FISCAL POLICY
Biden’s Deficit Attention Disorder
by J.T. Young
Washington Examiner
Biden Offers a Budget Fantasy
by Editorial
Wall Street Journal
FOREIGN POLICY
How Washington Killed the Nuclear Arms Control System
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Antiwar.com
REGULATION
“Stabilization” Is Just Bad Old Rent Control
by Jason Sorens
AIER
Biden’s DOJ Blocking JetBlue-Spirit Merger Will Mean Higher Fares, Fewer Choices
by E.J. Antoni
Washington Times
ECONOMICS
Why Consumers Should Welcome Wendy’s Dynamic Pricing and Reject Political Posturing
by Kimberlee Johnson
Discourse
The Failure of Mainstream Economicsby
Murray Sabrin with Joseph Cotto
News Sight

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