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** TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2025
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Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

– Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience ([link removed]) ” [1849]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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April 29, 2025
A Flock of Frightened and Dependent Sheep ([link removed])
Isn’t it ironic that Americans have the most powerful government in history and, at the same time, have the most frightened citizenry in the world? That’s not a coincidence. Big government produces little people, and a powerful, omnipotent government produces a weak nation. Americans are scared to death of everything. They are scared of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, communists, terrorists, drug ...
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Can Trump Send U.S. Citizens to Prisons Overseas? Not yet. ([link removed])
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The Road to War in Ukraine ([link removed])
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