Hornberger's Blog

The Drug War: A Deadly and Corrupt Racket

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2017

The decision by President Trump and Attorney General Sessions to ramp up the decades-old war on drugs definitely throws down the gauntlet for those who have long advocated an end to this failed, deadly, destructive, corrupt, and immoral war. I have seen this federal program first hand since I was a teenager back in the 1960s. ...

Why the Founding Fathers Opposed the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2017

If you want to see why our nation’s Founding Fathers opposed a national-security state, including a standing army, just take a look at what is happening in Venezuela. Venezuelan President Vicente Maduro is now the supreme dictator of the country and behaving like one. He has crammed the judiciary with his cronies who, in turn, have shut down the legislature. ...

The National Security State Was One Big Mistake

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2017

The year 1989 brought an unexpected shock to the U.S. national-security establishment. The Soviet Union suddenly and unexpectedly tore down the Berlin Wall, withdrew Soviet troops from East Germany and Eastern Europe, dissolved the Warsaw Pact, dismantled the Soviet Empire, and unilaterally brought an end to the Cold War. The Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA never expected such a ...

Our Ancestors Were Right About the Bill of Rights

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2017

A few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a woman came up to me before I was to give a speech and said, “Thank goodness we have the Bill of Rights to protect us from the terrorists.” She was serious. As I engaged her in conversation, I realized that she really believed that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was ...

Hitler and the NEA

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2017

A recent op-ed in the New York Times provides a perfect demonstration of why this country is in a world of hurt, fiscally speaking, and why the situation is almost certain to get worse, at the least in the short term. The op-ed is entitled “Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts” and was written by a person who is obviously ...

Why Should the NSA Spy on Foreigners?

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 12, 2017

Throughout the controversy over whether the U.S. national-security state wire-tapped President Trump, no one, as far as I know, has challenged the legitimacy of the NSA’s spying on citizens of foreign countries, including Russia. The phenomenon is a classic example of how the conversion of the federal government into a national security state has warped and perverted the principles ...

The Pentagon and CIA Are the Cause of the Korean Crisis

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2017

Given that we all have been born and raised under the type of governmental structure known as a “national security state,” naturally many Americans are unable to imagine life under a different structure, such as a limited-government republic. Moreover, they are convinced that a vast, powerful, and permanent military establishment, the CIA, and the NSA are absolutely essential to ...

The Deep State’s Defeat of Donald Trump

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2017

While I assumed that the national-security state would ultimately win its war against President Trump, I never figured that Trump would capitulate so soon and so completely. But capitulate he has, and victory for the national security state, or what the mainstream is now calling the Deep State, is complete. Recall that we are talking about the man, who as candidate ...

Trump’s New War for America

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2017

With President Trump’s undeclared attack on Syria, a sovereign and independent nation, he has confirmed, once and for all, that he is just another foreign interventionist, no different from his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush. That means, of course, another four years of war, bombings, assassinations, shootings, terrorism, war on terrorism, travel restrictions, walls, surveillance, incarceration, POW ...

The Biggest Open-Border Zone in History

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 6, 2017

All of us take it for granted, but the domestic open-border system that the Framers bequeathed to us is one remarkable achievement. Thanks to the Constitution, people are free to travel all across the country, crossing a multitude of state borders in the process, without having to encounter state border officials demanding to see identification papers. Moreover, people are ...

Drug War Lessons from Communists

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 5, 2017

Like the Trump administration, the communist regime in China has announced its intention to crack down in the war on drugs. The fact that the crackdown is coming from one of the most brutal totalitarian regimes in the world should serve as a lesson to the American people about the real nature and purpose of drug laws. According to

Nazi Germany’s (and America’s) Drug War

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 4, 2017

In reading an interesting review of a book entitled “Hitler’s Little Helper” in last Sunday’s New York Times, I was struck by the following sentence, “Ohler documents the persistent intertwining of anti-Semitic rhetoric with the Nazis’ war on drugs, the laws passed in 1933 that threatened addicts with imprisonment and sterilization, and the encouragement to neighbors and co-workers ...