American Decline

The American Empire Is Crumbling Under Its Debt

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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2024
No historical basis exists to disarm a person permanently merely for conviction of “a[ny] crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year,” based solely on that label.

– Stephen P. Halbrook,
“Second Amendment: Just in Time for the Supreme Court to Consider in Rahimi” [2024]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
May 23, 2024
Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico
In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xochitl Galvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which one would be a stronger drug warrior. Both of them vowed to smash the violent drug cartels that dominate Mexican society. It would be difficult to find a better example of obtuseness than that. …
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EXPLORE FREEDOM
GUN CONTROL
Second Amendment: Just in Time for the Supreme Court to Consider in Rahimi
by Stephen P. Halbrook
Independent Institute
FREE TRADE
The Continuing Farce of the U.S. Tariff War
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
Libertarian Institute
Biden Was Right on the Economic Harm of Tariffs—in 2019
by Jon Miltimore
Foundation for Economic Education
Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
by Johan Norberg
Cato Institute
PROTECTIONISM
New Protectionist Bill Places Corporate Interests above Welfare of US Soldiers
by Colin Grabow
Cato Institute
FOREIGN POLICY
The American Empire Is Crumbling Under Its Debt
by David Stockman
Antiwar.com
Logic of a Forgotten American Atrocity Is Alive Today
by Daniel Larison
Antiwar.com
THE FREE SOCIETY
TikTok’s Got Trouble
by Thomas W. Hazlett
Reason
A Neurosurgeon’s View on Harrison Butker and Those Trying to Cancel Him
by Richard Menger
Foundation for Economic Education
PRIVACY
Overview of State Digital Privacy Regulations
by Jen Sidorova and
Nicole Shekhovtsova
Reason

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