Hornberger's Blog

The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Are Standing for “Freedom” and “Free Markets”?

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2025

In an editorial this week, the conservative Wall Street Journal chided Jeff Bezos, the owner of the liberal Washington Post, for Bezos’s announcement that henceforth the Post would be standing for “personal liberties and free markets.” The Journal pointed out that Bezos’s phraseology is remarkably similar to that employed by the Journal, which is “free markets ...

NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2025

During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole because the war is still going on. Trump and people in his ...

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill and the Fraudulent JFK Autopsy

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2025

Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill recently passed away. He was the Secret Service agent who jumped on the back of the JFK limousine after Kennedy had been shot in Dallas in November 1963. He pushed Kennedy’s wife Jacqueline, who had crawled out on the back of the limo, into the back seat. As the limo then proceeded ...

The Feds Destroyed Laredo’s (and America’s) Heritage of Open Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2025

Every day, millions of Americans cross state borders without encountering border-control stations, where they would otherwise have to show some sort of identification and have their vehicles inspected for contraband or dangerous people. There is total, unrestricted, free movements of goods, services, and people across state borders. Most everyone likes this open-border system. Sure, it means that murderers, ...

Is Trump Risking His Life with Russia and Ukraine?

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2025

If you want to get a sense of what President Kennedy was up against with his Peace Speech at American University a few months before he was taken out, just look at the reaction to President Trump’s friendly overtures toward Russia in the last few days. The mainstream media is up in arms over Trump’s actions. Multiply that ...

Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2025

President Trump is cleaning house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Upset over some of the center’s performances and possibly miffed over the fact that three honorees in 2017 didn’t want to meet with him, Trump fired Biden-appointed board members and others, criticized the center’s programming, and, amazingly, has appointed himself ...

Trump’s Anti-DEI Policy and Private-Sector Dictatorship

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2025

President Trump has upended the liberal/progressive policy of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by decreeing its immediate end within the federal government. Is that a good thing? Conservatives sure think so. My position? I don’t really care how presidents run their welfare-state, warfare-state departments and agencies. I’m with Murray Rothbard when he was asked about the importance of ferreting ...

Congresswoman Luna’s Statements about the JFK Autopsy Demonstrate the Power of Truth

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2025

Statements made by Rep. Anna Luna regarding the JFK assassination are a testament to the power of truth to ultimately surface, even within a vast sea of official lies and false official narratives. Luna is the head of a new congressional task force charged with exposing “federal secrets.” Among those secrets are those that the U.S. national-security establishment ...

Paper Money and the Fed Have Destroyed the Penny and the Rest of Our Money

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 13, 2025

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason is that it’s too costly to produce them. It costs the Mint nearly four cents to produce one penny. The penny phenomenon is good example of what the federal government — and, specifically, the Federal Reserve — has done to our money. Ever since the ...

Foreign Aid Equals Political Bribery

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2025

To oppose the dismantling of USAID and foreign aid in general, defenders of this statist agency and of foreign-aid programs are engaging in predictable conduct. They are pointing out all the people who will supposedly die or suffer if USAID programs and foreign aid are terminated. It’s a variation of what they say whenever someone objects to welfare-state ...

To Understand the Kennedy Assassination, Read and Watch Doug Horne

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2025

Over the years, as I was reading books on the Kennedy assassination, I gradually became convinced that it was a highly sophisticated regime-change operation orchestrated and carried out by the U.S. national security establishment. One of the best books I read in this process was JFK and Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by ...

Harmonious Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 7, 2025

For the life of me, I just cannot understand why so many people choose crisis, chaos, death, suffering, impoverishment, and the destruction of liberty over liberty, prosperity, stability, and harmony. It just makes no sense to me. Look at the U.S.-Mexico border. Is it not the very exemplar of crisis, chaos, death, suffering, impoverishment, and the destruction of ...