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  • Fearsome threats

    Fearsome threats0

    At least 129 people have died after coordinated attacks on several venues in Paris. President Hollande has declared a state of emergency, imposed border controls and called out hundreds of troops. ISIS has proudly taken responsibility for the atrocity. In its communiqué it uttered fearsome threats: Let France and those who walk in its path

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  • Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable

    Fearing Your Government’s Military is Reasonable0

    • September 29, 2015

    Occasionally, you’ll see gun-ownership advocates mocked for believing that the Founders both feared a standing army and believed that an armed citizenry would be a deterrent against a military takeover of the country by its own government. Why it seems absurd that the Founders would hold such views is beyond me. The Founders had just

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  • Fear the Coup That Isn’t Coming

    Fear the Coup That Isn’t Coming0

    You say you want a revolution? Or a coup, or an overthrow, les barricades? Apparently so. Journalists, politicians, and academics, none of whom have thrown a punch in anger since fifth grade, are advocating, planning, and warning us the SHTF (look it up, but the last word is “fan.”) Stuff (not exactly the first word)

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  • Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem

    Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem1

    Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivable—a return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Today’s crime is deceptively

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  • Fear Is the Enemy We Must Defeat

    Fear Is the Enemy We Must Defeat12

    In the last six months, five people I’ve approached about bringing the story of who they are and what they do to a wider public have turned down my request for an interview. A farming and homeschooling family out West, for example, would have made a wonderful article about work ethic, education, and values. In

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  • Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail

    Fear and Mass Surveillance: Our Constitutionally Toxic Political Cocktail0

    • January 18, 2018

    At 12:51pm on January 18, 2018–just a day before it was set to expire–the Senate followed the House’s lead and reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FAA) Section 702 mass surveillance program for another six years by a vote of 65-34. Writing for JustSecurity.org in October 2017, I made this prediction about the then-looming

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