Immigration Controls Violate the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2017 Whenever you find a libertarian defending immigration controls, you will see one distinguishing characteristic of his defense: the absence of any discussion about immigration enforcement measures. There is a simple reason for that. Immigration enforcement measures entail the initiation of force against others and, therefore, violate the fundamental principle of libertarianism, commonly known as the non-aggression principle. Since libertarians ...
Korea and Venezuela: Flip Sides of the Same Coin by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2017 By suggesting that he might order a U.S. regime-change invasion of Venezuela, President Trump has inadvertently shown why North Korea has been desperately trying to develop nuclear weapons — to serve as a deterrent or defense against one of the U.S. national-security state storied regime-change operations. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Venezuela and, for that matter, ...
Bring the Troops Home from Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2017 There is one good solution to the Korean crisis, one that the mainstream press commentators simply will not confront. It’s not a solution that is likely to be adopted, especially by a blustery and bellicose president and a national-security establishment that has a Cold War anti-communist mindset. Nonetheless, it bears pointing out. What is the solution to the Korean crisis: ...
The Cold War Roots of a New Korean War by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2017 While President Trump’s impulsiveness and erratic behavior is clearly bringing America closer to war with North Korea, the real root of the Korean crisis lies not with him but rather with the Pentagon and the CIA, whose overwhelming power within the federal governmental structure is what really governs foreign policy, especially with respect to Korea. Who would have ever thought ...
Venezuela’s Lessons for the United States by Future of Freedom Foundation August 9, 2017 Lesson 1: Socialism doesn’t work. Free schooling. Free health care. Free retirement. Free welfare. Free everything. It just doesn’t work. Taking from the rich and giving to the poor ultimately makes everyone poor—i.e., the total equality of wealth that leftists love. Socialism produces economic crises, which then produce calls for more socialism and interventionism, which produce more crises. The ...
Figuring Out the Kennedy Assassination, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2017 Part 1 | Part 2 The official story of the Kennedy assassination is that he was killed by a former U.S. Marine, lone-nut, communist assassin named Lee Harvey Oswald. The big problem, however, is that the official story has never comported with much of the circumstantial evidence in the case nor with common sense, reason, and logic. That’s ...
Figuring Out the Kennedy Assassination, Part 1 by Future of Freedom Foundation August 7, 2017 Part 1 | Part 2 The Washington Post and Politico recently published two articles entitled “President Trump, Give Us the Full Story on the JFK Assassination” and “How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder” by historians Larry J. Sabato and Phillip Shenon. The thrust of the articles was to call on ...
Where Trump Might Be Vulnerable by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2017 It’s still not clear to me the particular crime for which special prosecutor Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump. Was it illegal for Vladimir Putin to support Trump for president instead of Hillary Clinton? Nope. Was it illegal for Trump to receive advice, support, and consultation from Vladimir Putin or any other Russian politico on how best to defeat Clinton? Nope. In fact, imagine ...
Blame the Anti-Russia Brouhaha on the CIA and Pentagon by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2017 Have you noticed that according to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the U.S. mainstream press (whose newspapers oftentimes appear to be wholly owned subsidiaries of the national-security establishment), it’s always Russia that is “assertive” and “aggressive” while the United States, whose regime invades and occupies countries, assassinates people, partners with brutal dictatorial regimes, and initiates coups, is portrayed as ...
Immigration Hypocrisy, Left and Right by Jacob G. Hornberger August 2, 2017 One of the best examples of the deep hypocrisy that pervades the liberal and conservative movements is immigration. It is here that one finds liberal-conservative hypocrisy in its purest form. Consider liberals, who are currently crying crocodile tears over the deportation of immigrants who have been here illegally for many years. Liberals exclaim, “It’s just not fair. It’s so draconian. ...
Will Trump Continue the CIA’s Cover-Up in the JFK Assassination? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2017 Last week, the National Archives suddenly released a batch of long-secret official records relating to the JFK assassination. This was surprising because the official release date for all the JFK-assassination records, as mandated by law, is coming this October. The still-secret records amount to tens of thousands of pages of documents, many of which are records of the CIA, ...
Public Schools or Government Schools? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 31, 2017 A woman named Katherine Stewart is outraged that some people refer to public schools as government schools. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, she says that the term “government schools” is meant to “conjure the specter of pathologically inefficient, power-mad bureaucrats.” Even worse, she suggests that historically anti-government schooling sentiment has been held by racial bigots and ...
