The Miracle of … Freedom - The American Spectator

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The Miracle of … Freedom

So much of it predates big government and its false promises.

by William Murchison

October 27, 2020, 12:02 AM

Oil fields, Beaumont, Texas, c. 1911 (DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia Commons)

The phoniness of big-government politics was on conspicuous display during the final presidential debate. Note the adjective “big-government.” Not Democratic politics, not Republican politics. Big-gov...

No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here.

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