The Editor’s Notes

Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

This week L. Neil Smith wonders whether there is anything left to celebrate on July 4thIndependence Day. Mike Blessing takes on Lindsey Graham’s 30 Pieces of Silver and those who would like to confiscate our guns. Dennis Wilson on Smith fulfilling Jefferson’s promise in the Declration.

Speaking of Mr. Graham, you can be sure that Liz Cheney’s (R, Deep State) constituency will have some things to say about her vote on Biden’s Bipartisan Victim Disarmament Bill come August 16th.

The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Links:

The Dobbs Decision Unleashes Rage and Revisionism, from Johnathan Turley
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/06/25/designed-to-stoke-unfounded-fear-the-dobbs-decision-unleashes-rage-and-revisionism/

They’re lucky someone didn’t run them down. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ve5o4m/italian_car_owners_dealing_with_global_warming/ (Tip o’ the hat to Jeff Fullerton.)

An interview with occasional TLE contributor Sean Gabb. https://www.the-libertarian.co.uk/sean-gabb-interview/

Bari Weiss: there are signs of sanity returning
The writer tells Freddie Sayers why she is optimistic about the future
https://unherd.com/thepost/bari-weiss-covid-has-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-the-elites/

No, the Supreme Court did not abolish gun control The Left overreacts to a sensible rulinghttps://unherd.com/thepost/no-the-supreme-court-did-not-abolish-gun-control/

The New York Times bemoans the success of Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary ‘2000 Mules’, and other things. Poor New York Times! https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-times-worries-big-tech-wont-censor-hard-enough-during-midterm-elections

Is a faction of the Republican Party out to lose the mid-term elections? (As the Texas Republican Party convention lustily boos John “Compromisin’ Cornyn”) https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-gop-wants-to-lose-the-mid-terms