Russia’s Hostile Outreach of Friendship by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2019 The mainstream media never ceases to remind us that Russia is an adversary of the United States … or an opponent … an enemy … a rival … an adversary … or, my favorite, a “regional hegemon.” The best proof of this phenomenon, of course, is Russia’s attempt to establish peaceful and friendly relations with the United States. What ...
America’s Life of the Lie by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2019 In 1978, an old high-school friend of mine gave me a book to read entitled A Time for Truth by William Simon, who had served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1974 to 1977. After reading the book, I told my friend that I had found it to be interesting but also that I had found Simon’s ...
Abolish Foreign Aid, All of It by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2019 As most everyone knows, the federal government is now in debt to the tune of more than $22 trillion. Since federal officials are now spending, on an annual basis, around a trillion dollars more than what they are bringing in with taxes, that is going to raise the federal debt by a trillion dollars every year. We ...
No Comprehensive Immigration Plan Will Work by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2019 David Brooks of the New York Times has a plan that will finally—finally!!—end America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis. Hallelujah! Someone has finally come up with a “comprehensive immigration plan” that will resolve America’s immigration woes. If only Brooks had come up with it sooner. In his Times column last week entitled “Our Disgrace at the Border,” Brooks pointed ...
Republicans’ Love of Healthcare Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2019 While Republicans continue to profess their opposition to socialism, their love of socialism is being demonstrated in the healthcare arena. Do you remember when they were campaigning for control over Congress and the presidency with full-throated calls to repeal Obamacare? Not anymore. According to an article in the Washington Post, Republicans have come to love and adore President ...
Assange, Manning, and America’s Pact with the Devil by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2019 The U.S. government’s ongoing persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning reminds of us the pact that the American people made with the devil at the end of World War II. Here was the pact: U.S. officials said to the American people: We need to keep you safe from the threat of godless ...
Freedom Requires Restoring Our Republic by Jacob G. Hornberger April 12, 2019 The United States was founded as a limited-government republic. That meant a federal government with very few and limited powers. That’s what the Constitution was for — not only to bring the federal government into existence but also, at the same time, to set forth its few, limited powers. If a power wasn’t enumerated, then the ...
Liberty Means Repealing, not Reforming, Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2019 Liberty necessary entails the absence of infringements on liberty. Therefore, the attainment of a free society necessarily entails a lifting, dismantling, or repeal of infringements on liberty. If all that we libertarians accomplish is a reform of the welfare-warfare state way of life, all that we will have done, at best, is improve our lives as serfs ...
Targeting Trump with Income-Tax Regime Change by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2019 Having failed to remove President Trump from office by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the anti-Russia brouhaha, the leftist establishment is now returning to Trump’s federal income-tax returns in the hopes of accomplishing the same thing. Even though Trump has steadfastly refused to disclose his income-tax returns, which he has every right to do, ...
Denying Reality on Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2019 23-year-old Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin committed suicide last month. Apparently her despair stemmed from a concussion she suffered as well as from an obsessive drive for perfection that she had had since childhood. As I read about her short life, however, I couldn’t help but think about the soaring suicide rate in America, especially among young people. According to the ...
School-Vouchers Proponents Love Socialism Too by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2019 As the debate over socialism between President Trump and his Democratic presidential opponents heats up, we shouldn’t forget a socialist program that Trump and other conservatives have come to love — the school-voucher program. Like other welfare-state programs, vouchers are based on the socialist concept of using the force of government to take money from one group of people and ...
Drug Laws versus Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 5, 2019 People who live in a society in which there are drug laws are living in an unfree society, no matter how much they believe otherwise. That’s because in a genuinely free society people have the right to ingest whatever they want without being punished for it by the state. It never ceases to amaze me how ...
