Unlimited Debt Leads to National Bankruptcy by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2023 During the current debt-ceiling crisis, one thing should be painfully clear to everyone: For those people who are advocating an increase in the debt ceiling, there is no maximum amount of debt that is too much for them. As far as they are concerned, the federal government should continue adding to its debt burden indefinitely into the future, ...
Confronting the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2023 The ground seems to be shifting with respect to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Displaying little or no fear of either the national-security establishment or of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” an increasing number of people are now openly and publicly acknowledging what has increasingly become obvious: that the U.S. national-security establishment orchestrated and carried out ...
Khrushchev Exposed the Hypocrisy of U.S. Interventionists by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2023 For American interventionists living today, all that one needs to know is that Russia invaded Ukraine. End of story. Black and white. Russia bad. Ukraine good. Support Ukraine with U.S. taxpayer-funded cash and armaments. America good. If we go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, we find that things are not so simple, especially for American interventionists, even ...
Involuntary Servitude in Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2023 One of the interesting aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that the regimes in both countries have resorted to conscription to get soldiers to “serve their country.” One would think that if a war is just, citizens would not have to be forced to fight in it. With conscription, the state commands a citizen to report to ...
Immigration-Reform Nonsense and Delusion by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2023 With the expiration of Title 42, the pandemic-era policy of preventing foreigners from entering the United States to claim refugee status, America’s perpetual immigration crisis along the border is back in the news. Along with the crisis comes the popular refrain that we have heard for at least seven decades: “We need comprehensive immigration reform to bring an ...
Yellen Is Wrong: The Debt Ceiling Presents No Constitutional Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2023 A few days ago, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that adhering to the debt ceiling would produce a “constitutional crisis.” Her statement, however, reflects her lack of understanding of both fiscal and constitutional principles. The debt ceiling is a law that has been duly enacted by Congress. No one, including Yellen, has ever suggested that the debt-ceiling ...
Confronting and Dismantling the Federal Killing Machine by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2023 In my blog post yesterday, I wrote that a necessary prerequisite to ending the massive violence that afflicts American society is dismantling the federal killing machine. By wreaking death, injury, suffering, and destruction on millions of people in foreign lands for the past several decades, the Pentagon and the CIA have triggered something inside off-kilter people ...
The Solution to Violence in America by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2023 Given the recent spate of killings in different parts of the United States, the response of the gun-control crowd has been predictable. Same old, same old. “These shootings show, once again, why we need gun control in America,” they cry. Never mind that Switzerland is awash in the private ownership of guns and there aren’t regular mass ...
The War on Poverty Impoverishes the Poor by Jacob G. Hornberger May 5, 2023 Among the worst things that has ever happened to the poor is the federal government’s war on poverty. As a socialist program, it actually impoverishes the poor rather than improving their overall economic condition. That’s because it destroys or impedes the forces that raise the standard of living of everyone in society, especially the poor. Let’s begin with ...
The FDIC: Another Dark Legacy of FDR by Jacob G. Hornberger May 4, 2023 In 1933, the Franklin Roosevelt Administration brought into existence the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Along with FDR’s nationalization of gold, his adoption of a paper-money system, his enactment of Social Security, and his conversion of America to a welfare state and a regulated economy, the FDIC stands as another dark legacy of the socialist and interventionist program that ...
A Malignant, Dysfunctional Monetary System by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2023 When a monetary policy measures its success by how much economic devastation it is producing, that’s a good sign that that is one malignant, dysfunctional system. But that is precisely what the Federal Reserve is doing with its policy of rapid, dramatic interest-rate increases. It measures the success of its program by how many people and businesses, ...
The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis Is a Positive Sign by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2023 A recent article in the Wall Street Journal demonstrates what a huge disaster conservatives are for our nation and for the rights and liberties of the American people. The article is entitled “The Military Recruitment Crisis Is a Symptom of Cultural Rot.” Co-written by a conservative veteran named David McCormick, the article laments the fact that ...
