Social Security’s Insult of Young People by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2019 Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, there is no Social Security fund into which people have “contributed” their money during their work years. There are also no lock boxes at Fort Knox that contain people’s names and the money they have “contributed” for their retirement. From the very beginning, Social Security has been a ...
Which New War Next: Iran or Venezuela? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2019 Pity President Donald “America First” Trump, Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo, National-Security Advisor (and Cold War fanatic) John Bolton, and Special U.S. Representative to Venezuela (and Cold War fanatic) Eliott Abrams. Knowing that the American people have grown weary with their forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, these four interventionists ...
CIA Intervention in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2019 As far as I know, no evidence has yet surfaced that definitively establishes direct CIA involvement in the U.S. regime-change operation in Venezuela. But it is a virtual certainty that the CIA is directly embroiled in the operation. How do we know that? Because that’s what the CIA does. It’s what it has always done. ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2019 Like other U.S. regime-change operations, the current one against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is rife with hypocrisy. After all, what is the main complaint that President Trump and other U.S. officials have against Maduro? It is that he is a socialist whose socialist programs and policies have brought misery and suffering to the Venezuelan ...
Regime Change Failure (So Far) in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2019 So far, the U.S. national-security establishment’s regime-change operation in Venezuela has met with failure. Having designated Venezuelan public official Juan Guaidó as the new president of the country, U.S. officials have still not been able to deliver him the reins of power. At the very least, Guaidó isn’t collecting taxes from anyone, which is usually a good ...
Democrats Don’t Get It on the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2019 After decades of working with Republicans to destroy people with their much-vaunted war on drugs, some Democrats are now coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana. Their change of position is a testament to the power of the shifting winds of public opinion. When the winds shift, so do the positions of many political types. Unfortunately, ...
Both Conservatives and Liberals Love Monetary Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2019 While conservatives, led by their leader President Trump, are railing against the Democrats for their devotion to socialism, the current controversy over the Federal Reserve shows us, once again, that conservatives are as devoted to socialism as liberals (i.e., progressives) are. As Richard Ebeling explains in his FFF ebook Monetary Central Planning and ...
Trump’s Trade Wars Destroy Our Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2019 Given President Trump’s trade wars against China and other countries, the natural tendency is to focus on Chinese and American producers and consumers as the victims of Trump’s destructive trade folly. Keep in mind that in every trade, both sides benefit by improving their respective standard of living. That’s because in every trade, both traders ...
Healthcare Socialism Versus Healthcare Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2019 American liberals (i.e., progressives or leftists) are hell-bent on achieving their next big socialist objective: Medicare for All, which will expand the federal government’s role into healthcare to an even greater extent. Make no mistake about it: They won’t stop there. If they achieve that objective, they will soon be advocating for a complete federal takeover of ...
Conservative Reform versus Libertarian Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2019 One of the fundamental differences between conservatives and libertarians is with respect to reforming the welfare-warfare state way of life versus striving for a genuinely free society. Conservatives aim for reform. Libertarians strive for freedom. The way that one can usually tell whether a particular book, article, or speech is conservative or libertarian is by ...
The Elephants in the Room in Sri Lanka by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2019 Focusing on the media’s use of the term “Easter worshippers” instead of the more normal term “Christians” to describe the victims of the terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, American Christians, not surprisingly, are failing to see the many big elephants in the room: The U.S. government’s invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan more than 15 years ago, its ...
Gitmo Destroyed Our Constitutional Order by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2019 Sunday’s Washington Post carried an article about the suicide of former Peruvian President Alan García, who Peruvian officials had charged with official corruption while he was in office. The article posited the possibility that García committed suicide because under Peru’s judicial system, he would have faced up to three years in pretrial detention without actually being indicted, which the ...