Motivation and Justification in the Las Vegas Massacre by Future of Freedom Foundation October 9, 2017 Ever since the Las Vegas massacre, investigators have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what Stephen Paddock’s motive was in killing all those people. So far, they still haven’t come up with an answer, but they are still trying. What I find fascinating about this process is that no one in the mainstream press or, for ...
Before Agreeing to Gun Control, Remember Chile by Jacob G. Hornberger October 6, 2017 Calls for gun control after a mass shooting in America has, of course, become standard fare. But before Americans permit themselves to be stampeded into surrendering their right to own guns, it would be wise to keep Chile in mind. In 1973, the Chilean national-security establishment, after winning a quick military battle against the president of the country, took power. ...
America’s Warfare State and the Las Vegas Massacre by Jacob G. Hornberger October 5, 2017 When it comes to the massacre in Las Vegas, I am on the same page as John Whitehead, the president of the Rutherford Institute, whose articles we regularly publish here at The Future of Freedom Foundation. Consider what he writes in his excellent article “Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly,” which I highly recommend ...
Milton Friedman and Conservatives: Wrong on Education by Jacob G. Hornberger October 4, 2017 Once upon a time, some conservatives used to call for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education. Lamentably, conservatives today celebrate when a “free-market advocate” like multimillionaire Betsy DeVos is appointed U.S. Secretary of Education, and they get terribly excited when she speaks at conservative conferences. Meanwhile, even while conservatives continue to pronounce their allegiance to their favorite mantra ...
U.S. Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home by Jacob G. Hornberger October 3, 2017 Although ISIS is claiming that Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was one of theirs and was acting on its behalf, so far no independent evidence has surfaced to confirm ISIS’s claim. If such evidence does emerge, it will be one more of a long series of deadly “blowback” occurrences arising from U.S. interventionism abroad. But even if Paddock’s mass ...
America: The Dictatress of the World by Jacob G. Hornberger October 2, 2017 On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the world. Adams issued his warning in a speech he delivered to Congress, a speech that has ...
Cuban Doctors Are Teaching Us About U.S. Slavery by Jacob G. Hornberger September 29, 2017 Cuban doctors working in Brazil have just put the American left, including self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, in a very awkward position. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the doctors have filed suit in Brazil complaining of their enslavement by their own government — the Cuban government — as part of Cuba’s single-payer, socialist, one-size-fits-all healthcare ...
North Korea Would Be Stupid to Trust the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2017 To many mainstream pundits, the solution to the crisis in Korea is for U.S. officials to sit down and “talk” to North Korea in the hopes of negotiating a mutually beneficial agreement. While it won’t guarantee that a deal will be worked out, they say, "talking" is the only chance there is to resolve the crisis. They ignore an important ...
The CIA and the Assassination of Orlando Letelier by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2017 On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded on the streets of Washington, D.C., killing former Chilean official Orlando Letelier and his young assistant Ronni Moffitt. Since it was clearly a case of premeditated, cold-blooded murder of two innocent people, the killers were subject to being sentenced to death or life in prison. Yet, consider what actually happened to some ...
Forced Healthcare Goodness by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2017 David Lazarus, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says that there is nothing wrong with Obamacare, which enables him to have his preexisting condition, Type 1 diabetes, paid for by other people. In his article in today’s Times, entitled “Republicans Should Gladly Pay for My Preexisting Healthcare Condition,” he compares Obamacare to a giant insurance program in ...
The Omnipotent Power to Kill Us by Jacob G. Hornberger September 25, 2017 In response to my article “The Worst Mistake in U.S. History,” a reader wrote to tell me that, in his opinion, there have been worse mistakes in U.S. history than the conversion of the federal government to what is called a “a national security state.” He cited as examples the adoption of the federal income tax, the Federal ...
Did the CIA Assassinate Letelier and Moffitt? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2017 Ever since the assassination of former Chilean official Orlando Letelier in 1976, the official position, promoted by both the mainstream press and the Washington establishment, was that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who the U.S. helped install into power, ordered the hit on Letelier. Yet, as I pointed out in my 3-part article “The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and ...