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• In Search of Freedom
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  Ben Moreell | Tuesday, April 1, 1975
  A businessman’s early warning to other businessmen of the effects of interventions and controls.
• Plants Raided in Search of Workers with Fake Documents
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, December 13, 2006
  “Federal agents targeting illegal immigrants raided meatpacking plants in six states yesterday, arresting hundreds of workers on the uncommon charge of identity theft and shutting down the world's second-largest meat processing company for much of the day. . . . Company and union officials said agents, some dressed in riot gear, locked down six beef- and pork-processing plants early in the morning, segregating workers into groups of citizens and non-citizens after questioning. Some illegal workers were bused to detention facilities hours away, labor officials said.” (Washington Post, Wednesday)
  
  How dare they work here without permission!
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Illegal Aliens” by Hans F. Sennholz
• The Eternal Search for Truth
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  Henry Margenau | Monday, July 1, 1963
  Dr. Margenau is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy at Yale Uni­versity. This is an excerpt from his article, “The New Style of Science” in the Yale Alumni Magazine, February, 1963. One of the oldest legends of our culture dates back to the era before the Libyan dynasties of Egypt, many centuries before […]
• Social Security Has Been Swelled, Not Looted.
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  James D. Agresti | Tuesday, June 26, 2018

  Social Security is not a savings plan but a government social program that provides benefits to the aged and disabled mainly by taxing people who are working. Some upshots of this reality are that certain people get nothing from Social Security after paying taxes for their entire working lives, while others receive far more from the program than they pay in taxes.

• Free Speech Is about the Search for Truth, Not a Benevolence to Others
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  Brenden Labrum | Saturday, November 3, 2018

  “It is made to appear that, whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration. Thus, the defense of freedom of opinion tends to rest not on its substantial, beneficial, and indispensable consequences, but on a somewhat eccentric, a rather vaguely benevolent, attachment to an abstraction.”

• VCs, Techno-optimists and the Search for Exit
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  Max Borders | Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  Laws and norms – our social technology – need upgrades just like our operating systems or HTML standards.

• Judge Halts Search for Cartoonist Who Embarrassed Cops
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  Kevin Bayer | Wednesday, August 10, 2011
  “In April, Renton Police Chief Kevin Milosevich learned of eight videos on YouTube featuring computer-voiced cartoon characters rambling about office politics and internal cop investigations, according to an affidavit for one of the warrants. There’s also some chatter about an officer dating a suspect. The videos mentioned no city, department or full names. But police […]
• Search for Budget Compromise in Trouble
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  Kevin Bayer | Friday, June 24, 2011
  “Congressional Republicans on Thursday abandoned budget talks aimed at clearing the way for a federal debt limit increase, leaving the outcome in doubt as they vowed not to give in to a Democratic push for new tax revenues as part of any compromise.” (New York Times) The last thing government should get is more revenue. […]
• They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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  George C. Leef Harold Evans Gail Buckland | Tuesday, May 18, 2010
  What a stunning book! They Made America is a big glorious coffee-table kind of book that deserves to be picked up and read, not just dusted occasionally. Harold Evans (actually, Sir Harold—this former editor of the London Times was knighted in 2004) has given us a marvelous compendium of short biographies on American inventors and […]
• People Crossing Borders Subject to New Search Powers
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, September 23, 2008
  “The U.S. government has quietly recast policies that affect the way information is gathered from U.S. citizens and others crossing the border and what is done with it, including relaxing a two-decade-old policy that placed a high bar on federal agents copying travelers' personal material, according to newly released documents. The policy changes, civil liberties advocates say, also raise concerns about the guidelines under which border officers may share data copied from laptop computers and cellphones with other agencies and the types of questions they are allowed to ask American citizens.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  Growing the state.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Liberty and Privacy: Connections” by Joseph S. Fulda