FFF Daily - February 19, 2025

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2025

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia [1782]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

February 19, 2025
Trump's Takeover of the Kennedy Center
President Trump is cleaning house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. Upset over some of the center’s performances and possibly miffed over the fact that three honorees in 2017 didn’t want to meet with him, Trump fired Biden-appointed board members and others, criticized the center’s programming, and, amazingly, has appointed himself as the new chairman of ...

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FOREIGN POLICY

Trump Watch: Trump's Interventionism in Ukraine
by Jacob G. Hornberger
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WORLD WAR I

This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction
by Paul Fussell
New York Times

IMMIGRATION

The Case for Open Borders
by John Washington with
Simon McCormack
NYCLU

ICE Raids Send Chill Through Migrant Workforces
by Arian Campo-Flores and
Chao Deng
New York Times

SOCIALISM

Trump, Musk and Congressional Republicans Should Invoke the Crockett Principle to Deal with Government Spending.
by Murray Sabrin
Murray's Newsletter

THE FREE SOCIETY

Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy
by James Bovard with James Dore
The Jimmy Dore Show

TGIF: Emergency! Emergency?
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association

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Talking about Trade and Commerce
by Douglas Irwin with
Juliette Sellgren
The Great Antidote

How the Trade War Could Expand Beyond Tariffs
by Peter R. Orszag
Washington Post

The Truth About Trump’s Steel Tariffs
by Editorial
Wall Street Journal

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