Hornberger's Blog

Prigozhin, Navalny, and Gershkovich

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 29, 2024

The top of the Wall Street Journal’s website states: “Evan Gershkovich: 11 Months Detained.” The statement refers to the Journal’s reporter who has been incarcerated by Russian authorities on accusations that he engaged in illegal spying on Russia. In March 2023, Gershkovich was living in Russia and writing articles for the Journal that were critical of Russia’s war ...

Irwin Schiff and the “Compassion” of Social Security

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2024

Supporters of Social Security pat themselves on the back for the “compassion” they supposedly demonstrate through their support of this socialist program. They claim that anyone who supports the repeal of this program (such as me!) lacks compassion for the elderly. But the truth is that there is no genuine compassion whatsoever behind this socialist program or, for ...

An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 22, 2024

I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, this new book is the best book on the issue of immigration I have ever read. It is entitled The Case for Open Borders. The author is ...

How to Get a Strong Nation

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 21, 2024

One of the worst results of America’s welfare-warfare state way of life is that it has brought into existence one of the weakest, most frightened nations in the world. Think about that: Americans live under the most powerful government in history and yet we have one of the weakest, most frightened citizenries in the world. That’s not a ...

Warped Terminology on Open Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2024

Seeing the large number of immigrants illegally entering the United States, proponents of immigration controls decry what they label the “open border” between the United States and Mexico. I live in Virginia. I sometimes enter Maryland by crossing the bridge that spans the Potomac River, which forms part of the border between the two states. There is no ...

How Can We Bring Down the National Security State?

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2024

Upon reading my article of yesterday about master worrywart Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the retired head of the NSA, a longtime supporter of The Future of Freedom Foundation asked how it would ever be possible to bring down an omnipotent governmental structure like a national-security state and replace it with our founding governmental system of a ...

The Worries of a Retiring NSA Chief

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2024

Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, who recently retired as director of the National Security Agency, is worried. He’s worried about terrorism, drug cartels, Russia, China, hackers, spies, and other scary things. His many worries are detailed in an op-ed he has in the Washington Post today entitled, “What Worries Me Most After Five Years as Leader of ...

The Stronger the Government, the Weaker the Nation

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 13, 2024

For all of our lives, it has been the aim of most Americans to make the federal government stronger, especially with respect to the warfare state. The principal justification for an ever more powerful government is that it keeps the American people safe from the likes of terrorists, drug dealers, communists, illegal immigrants, Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans, ...

Another Normal Day of Killing and Mayhem in the U.S. Empire

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2024

Pentagon officials are celebrating the fact that American warplanes recently destroyed more than 80 “targets” in Syria and Iraq. Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, could not say how many people were killed in the strikes but acknowledged that there were likely “casualties.” According to the New York Times, “Syria and Iraq have said that ...

Push the Button

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 9, 2024

Ever since I founded The Future of Freedom Foundation 34 years ago, I have argued that what we need to do to restore freedom in America is immediately end all infringements on freedom. In other words, if there was a button that could be pushed that would bring a sudden and immediate end to all welfare-state, regulatory, and ...

Separate Healthcare and the State

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 6, 2024

During the entire Covid crisis, there were those who decried Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for recommending or mandating that people use masks and take the Covid vaccine. At the state level, the same people condemned state officials for ordering lockdowns of businesses to prevent the spread of the Covid ...

U.S. Sanctions Bring Russian Air Travelers Closer to Death

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 5, 2024

U.S. officials were undoubtedly disappointed over the recent emergency landing of a Russian civilian airliner on a farm in southern Russia. Experiencing a hydraulics problem that was causing the plane to rapidly lose fuel, the pilots were not able to make it to the nearest airport. So, why did this emergency landing undoubtedly disappoint U.S. officials? Because the ...