FFF Ebooks Update by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2016 Our newest ebook, Austrian Economics and Public Policy: Restoring Freedom and Prosperity by Richard M. Ebeling, hit #1 on Amazon’s bestselling ebooks on economic theory, #3 on ebooks on political freedom, and #11 in all books on political freedom. Monetary Central Planning and the State by Richard M. Ebeling also hit #1 in ebooks on political ...
Questions for the Presidential Debates by Jacob G. Hornberger September 29, 2016 Idiot questions to ask the presidential candidates at the debates: Why haven’t you disclosed your income tax returns? Where do you think President Obama was born? What are you going to do to create jobs? What are you going to do about a “leppo”? Who is your favorite dictator in the world? What do you think is the ...
Why Trump and Clinton Have Gotten on Top by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2016 One of the most fascinating aspects of the 2016 presidential race is the large number of people who continue to ask, “How is it possible that in a nation of 300 million people, we ended up with two horrendous presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?” There is an explanation for this phenomenon but it’s one that all too ...
My Trip to Phoenix by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2016 Last week I went on a speaking tour in Phoenix and had an absolutely great time sharing ideas on liberty with diverse audiences. The first talk was to the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at Arizona State University. My topic was “The Evil of the National Security State.” I gave the audience a history of how the national-security state ...
The New York Times Is Wrong About Protest Votes by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2016 Last week the New York Times published an op-ed by its columnist Charles M. Blow entitled “The Folly of the Protest Vote,” which took millennials to task for supporting Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson or Green Party candidate Jill Stein or simply choosing not to vote. Exhorting millennials to vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, Blow said ...
The Assassinations of John Kennedy and Orlando Letelier by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2016 This week the Washington Post carried a fascinating front-page article entitled “This Is Not an Accident. This Was a Bomb” about the assassination of Orlando Letelier, the former official in the Allende administration who, along with his 25-year-old assistant Ronni Moffitt, was murdered on the streets of Washington, D.C., in 1976. The article includes several interesting photographs, including of ...
More Terrorist Blowback in NY and NJ by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2016 It’s becoming a familiar story. More U.S. killings in the Middle East, followed by a terrorist attack on American soil, followed by more U.S. killings in the Middle East, which then engenders more terrorist blowback, followed by more U.S. killings in the Middle East. As I have pointed out time and time again, as long as U.S. troops and the ...
Paul Krugman’s Fear of Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2016 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has some advice for millennials: Don’t vote for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson because the Libertarian Party platform calls for the abolition of the federal income tax (and, of course, the IRS too), Social Security and Medicare (and also Medicaid and all other welfare-state programs), public schooling, and environmental regulations.