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 ...
The Deadly and Destructive Futility of the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger April 4, 2019 Ever since President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the 1970s, advocates of this government program, both conservative and liberal, have argued that the only reason why the U.S. government has failed to win the drug war is that government officials have failed to fight it sufficiently hard. If U.S. officials would really crack down, the ...
Ending Poverty by Jacob G. Hornberger April 3, 2019 I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which is located on the Rio Grande, the border between the United States and Mexico. On the other side of the river was Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The downtowns of both cities are immediately adjacent to the river and are connected by bridges. The two cities are actually one great big metropolitan ...
Democrats Clueless on Farm Woes by Jacob G. Hornberger April 2, 2019 Yesterday, the Washington Post carried a story about five Democratic presidential candidates who took to a stage in Iowa last Saturday to address an audience that was filled with farmers who are suffering severe economic and financial distress. The title of the article says it all: “No Democratic Candidate Has Been Able to Figure Out ...
The Incorrigible Hypocrisy of Conservatives by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2019 Last week a Wall Street Journal editorial revealed the incorrigible hypocrisy with which conservatives have long suffered. Conservatives, of course, have long suffered this malady with respect to domestic policy given their ardent devotion to Social Security, Medicare, foreign aid, and other welfare-state programs even while decrying the left’s devotion to socialism. But this particular WSJ editorial ...
Gitmo Confirms Our Ancestors’ Concerns by Jacob G. Hornberger March 29, 2019 What the Pentagon and the CIA have done with their prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reflects the concern of our American ancestors who demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights immediately after the Constitution brought into existence the federal government. Recall that when the Constitutional Convention met, it was with the purpose of ...
