Hornberger's Blog

Were Madison, Eisenhower, Truman, and King Right or Not?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2023

What did James Madison, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King have in common? They all pointed out the dangers and adverse consequences of America’s national-security state governmental structure. Yet, oddly, the critiques and admonitions of all four of them have been disregarded by modern-day Americans. James Madison was the person who crafted the Constitution. He was ...

Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2023

Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such ...

The Goose and the Gander in Cuba

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2023

Hand it to the Chinese and Cubans for exposing the utter hypocrisy of the U.S. national-security state, its empire of foreign military bases, and its foreign policy of interventionism.  Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that China is paying Cuba billions of dollars in return for permitting China to construct a major facility in Cuba to ...

What Debt Ceiling?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2023

Statists all across the United States, especially those within the mainstream press, are uncorking their champagne bottles today and celebrating the newest deal that lifts the debt ceiling. Predictably, the political strategy of crying “Default! Default! Default!” succeeded spectacularly, just as it does every time. In fact, it worked so well that this time Congress decided to not ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Roving Border Patrol Checkpoints

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 31, 2023

America’s socialist system of immigration controls does not simply come with a “Do Not Enter Sign.” It comes with fierce enforcement measures. In fact, it comes with so much enforcement that people living in the borderlands have, over the decades of increasing immigration-law enforcement, come to live in what can only be called an immigration police state. To ...

Why I’m Not a Libertarian Reformer

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2023

There have long been two camps in the libertarian movement: the reform camp and the liberty camp.  The libertarian reform camp aims at improving the welfare-warfare state system under which we live. Libertarian reform plans include such things as immigration reform, Social Security “privatization,” health-savings accounts, welfare reform, school vouchers, income-tax reform, legalization of only marijuana, reining ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Warrantless Trespasses, Searches, and Seizures

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2023

In yesterday’s blog post, I addressed one aspect of the immigration police state that is part of the enforcement of America’s socialist system of immigration controls — domestic highway checkpoints. I pointed out that such police-state checkpoints are a central feature of communist and totalitarian regimes. Another part of America’s immigration police state is warrantless trespasses ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Domestic Highway Checkpoints

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2023

Advocates of America’s socialist immigration-control system oftentimes forget or ignore that their system comes with an immigration police state. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, a police state is the opposite of a free society. In other words, there is not simply a sign at the international border that states “Do not enter.” If that’s all there ...

What If Russia Pulls a Hiroshima/Nagasaki on Kiev?

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2023

Today’s Los Angeles Times contains a letter to the editor from a North Hollywood person named Dave Simon, which states in part the following: “To this day, I have no regret that President Harry Truman saved many American lives as well of thousands of others all across the globe by ordering the bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Who Would Ukraine Supporters Support if the U.S. Invaded Cuba?

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2023

American statists cannot understand why the Russian people continue to support their president Vladimir Putin and their government’s invasion of Ukraine. For American statists, the issue is very simple: Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia bad. Russians should oppose Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime. End of story. Fair enough. But let’s engage in a hypothetical. Let’s assume ...

Our Biggest Threat

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2023

Both liberals and conservatives are convinced that the biggest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with Russia and China. And, well, also the terrorists, Muslims, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, North Koreans, Cubans, Syrians, Vietnamese, communists, Reds, and others.  They are wrong. The biggest threat to our freedom and well-being is our very own federal government, especially ...

Immigration Socialism versus Open Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2023

One of the most fascinating parts of the ongoing, never-ending debate over immigration is how statists continue to think that somehow their immigration-control system is finally — finally! — going to be made to work. Their hope is that someone somewhere will finally — finally! — come up with the perfect reform that will finally — finally! — ...