Why Americans Choose Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2018 There is no question but that the 20th and, so far, the 21st centuries have been the centuries of socialism for the American people. Yes, I know, many Americans don’t like to consider themselves socialists and prefer to think of the United States as “free enterprise.” But the fact is that Americans have chosen to live under the variation ...
Why No Libertarian Supreme Court Justice? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 25, 2018 Regardless of the extreme brouhaha surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, it’s difficult for libertarians to get excited over his nomination to the Supreme Court. For that matter, it was also difficult for libertarians to get excited over Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. There is a simple reason for that. While conservatives and liberals like to think that there ...
We Are (Mostly) All Socialists Now by Jacob G. Hornberger September 24, 2018 There is a popular conception among some libertarians that the reason that we live under a massive welfare-warfare state is because government has a natural propensity to grow. The notion is a popular one among libertarians who promote anarchism, i.e., the total absence of government. The argument goes like this: The Constitution, which was supposed to keep government reined ...
Our Drug-War Conference Tonight at Spelman College by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2018 If you are in the Atlanta area this evening, I hope you’ll join us at FFF’s conference at Spelman College. The theme of the conference is “Mass Incarceration and the Drug War.” The speakers are Neill Franklin of LEAP, an organization of former law-enforcement officers who call for and to the war on drugs, Seema ...
U.S. Perversity on Peace in Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2018 Just when you think that the U.S. national-security state’s policy toward Korea can’t get more perverse, it does. The latest perversion? Opposing a peace agreement between North Korea and South Korea! Imagine that. And why would U.S. officials oppose such an agreement? Because it would inevitably lead to calls for U.S. troops in Korea to be sent packing home ...
Paul Manafort and LBJ, Influence Peddlers by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2018 The mainstream press and the progressive movement are shocked — shocked! — over Paul Manafort’s influence peddling and political corruption schemes. Their reaction to Manafort’s conviction and guilty plea remind me of the scene in the movie Casablanca, where the police chief is “shocked” to learn that there is gambling in Rick’s establishment, followed by someone bringing the police ...
It’s Hurricane Season, Which Means Anti-Gouging Laws by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2018 With the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, the anti-gouging snitchers and enforcers are surfacing, just as they do every hurricane season. According to a news story on Fox5ny.com, the North Carolina attorney general’s office has received 500 reports of price-gouging. The article even features a telephone number that people who wish to report price gougers can call: 1-877-5-NO-SCAM. North Carolina Attorney ...
Military Fraud in the JFK Autopsy by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2018 A popular lament about the JFK assassination is, “Golly, I guess we’ll never know what really happened.” The reason people express that lament is that they are thinking of what the law calls “direct evidence,” like a videotaped confession or a written memorandum detailing plans to conduct the assassination. What such lamenters fail to consider, however, is the important role ...
Interventionists Are Addicted to Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 13, 2018 In an editorial opposing a U.S.-supported coup in Venezuela, the New York Times gets it right, mostly. Unfortunately, the Times’s editorial board, like so many advocates of foreign interventionism, just cannot let go entirely of its interventionist mindset. But let’s first give credit where credit is due. In its September 11 editorial “Stay Out of Venezuela, Mr. Trump,” the ...
Join FFF in Atlanta at Spelman College! by Jacob G. Hornberger September 12, 2018 Next Thursday, September 20, The Future of Freedom Foundation is holding a conference entitled “Mass Incarceration and the Drug War” at Spelman College in Atlanta. The conference is being co-sponsored by students at Spelman, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and the Spelhouse National Action Network. The students who are hosting us are as enthusiastic about this conference as we are! This ...
The Bizarre Prosecution of Maria Butina by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2018 Of all the countless criminal prosecutions brought by the U.S. Justice Department since the founding of the United States as a nation, the case of 29-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina has to rank among the top five most bizarre criminal prosecutions. There are several points of weirdness in Butina’s prosecution. Butina is not charged with spying for Russia, as some ...
Abolish the National Anthem by Jacob G. Hornberger September 10, 2018 It’s football season again, which means that the kneeling controversy is back. Two years ago, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited a national controversy by kneeling during the singing of the national anthem before the start of a football game. He was protesting racial injustice in the United States, including the killing of African-Americans by white police officers. The ...
