The Security Clearance Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger August 21, 2018 According to the Washington Post, almost 250 former members of the U.S. national-security establishment have come out on side of former CIA Director John Brennan in his war against President Trump. The issue? Brennan has severely criticized Trump for his desire to establish friendly relations with Russia. In response, Trump has cancelled Brennan’s “security clearance,” which has caused Brennan’s cohorts in ...
Why Do Some Libertarians Support Social Security? Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 20, 2018 After the publication of my article “Why Do Some Libertarians Support Social Security?” I received several emails from older libertarians criticizing me for calling for the immediate repeal of this socialist program. Their critiques can be summarized in the following three ways: “For the last several decades, I put into the system and, therefore, I have the right ...
Trump Should Take the Fifth by Jacob G. Hornberger August 17, 2018 Obviously frustrated by President Trump’s refusal to comply with Special Counsel (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller’s conditions for an interrogation of Trump, Mueller is now threatening to subpoena Trump to testify before a federal grand jury. A subpoena is a formal judicial order requiring a person to appear before the grand jury, without his lawyer present, to answer ...
Why Do Some Libertarians Support Social Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 16, 2018 NOTE: I will be giving a talk at a breakfast meeting of the Tidewater (Virginia) Libertarian Party this Saturday, August 18, at 8:15 a.m. The event is open to the public. Place: Providence Square Grill, 941 Providence Square Shopping Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Title: "Advancing Liberty by Adhering to Principle." *** For the life of me, I cannot understand why some ...
Trump Would Be Stupid to Talk to Mueller by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2018 The U.S. mainstream press is obviously becoming increasingly anxious about Special Counsel (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller’s efforts to bring an early end to Donald Trump’s presidency. After all, it has now been 15 months (and millions of taxpayer dollars) since Mueller received his special appointment, and he still has not charged Trump with any wrongdoing whatsoever. What Mueller ...
The Common Roots of the Wars on Immigrants and Drugs by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2018 I just read a very insightful article about the history of the war on drugs, entitled “How America Convinced the World to Demonize Drugs” by J.S. Rafaeli. The central theme of the article is that while nations around the world have their own particular drug laws and drug war, the overall originator and instigator of the global war ...
Trump’s War on Turkey for Pastor Brunson by Jacob G. Hornberger August 13, 2018 Every year, thousands of American citizens are incarcerated in foreign countries. Yet, President Trump has decided to go to war to secure the release of only one of them. What gives with that? The citizen who is receiving the privileged treatment is Andrew Brunson, an American pastor incarcerated in Turkey. He is charged with participating in an attempted coup in ...
Medicare for All Would Further Harm the Body Politic by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2018 Progressives are an audacious group. Faced with the failure and destructiveness of their socialist programs, their solution is to double down and call for even more socialism. It never occurs to them that if their original socialist program has led to failure and destructiveness, an expansion of that original socialist program is going to lead to even more failure ...
Abolish Campaign Contribution Limits by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2018 In my article, “The First Amendment Protects Dirt,” I pointed out how ridiculous it is to think that Trump campaign officials and maybe even President Trump himself are in legal jeopardy because a group of Russians supposedly provided the officials with some political dirt about Hillary Clinton. The First Amendment, which expressly prohibits Congress from enacting any law ...
The First Amendment Protects Dirt by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2018 One of the most ludicrous aspects of the Trump-Russia brouhaha is the infamous meeting in Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and Russian lobbyists. The Russians had promised to reveal campaign “dirt” about Hillary Clinton. That meeting has caused Trump critics to go ballistic. Why is that? Because, they are saying, the “dirt” constituted an illegal contribution to the Trump ...
Robert Mueller and Floyd Ferris by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2018 When they couldn’t get Al Capone on booze charges, they resorted to the income tax to get him. That’s what all too many people fail to realize — that the income tax not only funds the gigantic welfare-warfare state that the federal government has become, it, along with the regulated economy, also provides an excellent means for going after ...
Presidential Treason on Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger August 6, 2018 The U.S. national-security establishment and the U.S. mainstream press are now flinging the much-dreaded label “traitor” at President Trump. Commenting on one of Trump’s press conferences, former CIA Director John Brennan declared: “It was nothing short of treasonous.” The New York Times published an op-ed by its columnist Charles Blow entitled “Trump, Treasonous Traitor.” The Boston Globe weighed in ...
