The Way Out of the Statist Morass by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2021 Given the seemingly intractable welfare-warfare system that characterizes the United States, it might be tempting for some people to despair and simply give up and surrender to what might appear to be the inevitable -- the permanent continuation of our lives as serfs on the welfare-warfare state plantation. After all, Americans have lived under a welfare state since ...
The Omnipotent Power of the Pentagon by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2021 No matter how you feel about the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, you can’t help but be impressed at how they are able to successfully plunder and loot American taxpayers, no matter how much needless death, suffering, and destruction they wreak on people around the world. Think about it: They just exited Afghanistan after their 20-year failed war ...
How We Achieve Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger December 7, 2021 In order for people to achieve a genuinely free society, there has to be a critical mass of people who understand it and who are passionately committed to achieving it. So, how do we arrive at that critical mass? It is rare that a person conceives of an original concept all on his own. In order ...
FDR’s Responsibility for the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor by Jacob G. Hornberger December 6, 2021 There is one thing that is beyond dispute about the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: It would never have happened if President Franklin Roosevelt had not squeezed the Japanese into initiating the attack with his oil embargo on Japan. In his 1940 campaign for an unprecedented fourth term as president, Roosevelt pretended to side with ...
New York City’s Destruction of the Right of Self-Defense by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the constitutionality of New York City’s strict gun-control law. While the city permits the issuance of concealed-carry permits, they are rarely granted. That means that people in the city are prohibited by law from carrying a gun that could be used to defend themselves from murderers, rapists, and robbers. Let’s ...
Will El Chapo’s Wife’s 3-Year Sentence Win the Drug War? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2021 U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras has just sentenced Emma Coronel Aispuro to three years in jail. She’s the wife of noted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. federal penitentiary. She recently pled guilty to helping her husband run his drug empire. Yippee! The decades-long drug war must be ...
Freethinkers in Texas by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2021 Note: I am giving an online presentation tonight on "Economic Liberty and the Constitution." My talk is part of the Constitution Day Celebration sponsored by the Freedom Library in Yuma, a libertarian organization in Yuma that has long been educating people on the Constitution and economics. Anyone can tune in to my talk online. Admission is free. The ...
Restore the Libertarian Brand by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2021 A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times points out that while undergraduate students “largely reject the Republican Party, they are not supportive of the Democrats either.” The article goes on to state that a “a huge opportunity exists for whichever party is wise enough to pay attention to the growing number of Gen Zers in ...
Biden’s Inflation Malarkey by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2021 Just recently I was thinking that at the very least, libertarians have made progress in causing people to see that inflation is caused by the government — specifically the Federal Reserve — and not by the private sector. And then President Biden comes forward and damages my optimism! According to an article in the Washington Post, Biden ...
November 22, 1963 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2021 On this day 58 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down on the streets of Dallas. Almost immediately, federal officials enunciated what has become known as the lone-nut theory of the assassination. It holds that a supposed communist former U.S. Marine, without any ostensible motive, suddenly decided to kill Kennedy. Over the decades, however, as ...
9/11 Motive Is Still Critically Important by Jacob G. Hornberger November 18, 2021 The controversy over motive with respect to the 9/11 attacks twenty years ago is as relevant today as it was back then. After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials immediately announced that the terrorists were motivated by hatred for America’s “freedom and values.” They supposedly hated our churches, our music (e.g., rock and roll), and our hedonist lifestyle. So, ...
Why Doesn’t the CIA Just Destroy Its Secret JFK Records? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2021 With President Biden’s order granting the CIA’s request for continued secrecy of its 60-year-old records retailing to the JFK assassination — on grounds of protecting “national security” — the question naturally arises: Why doesn’t the the CIA simply sneak into the National Archives and just destroy its records and be done with it? By now, it should ...