Tom, in his savage attack on Jacob Hornberger, one the most principled libertarians I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, Boaz mentions Clarence Thomas, then chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, giving a speech at Cato. That alone shows us the difference between the Cato Institute and Hornberger’s great Future of Freedom Foundation: Cato has a conference and has statist government employees and fed chairmen as speakers; the FFF has a conference and has real libertarians like Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell as speakers.

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