The Pope’s Misguided Attack on Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2017 According to an article on Breibart, Pope Francis recently issued a broadside against libertarianism in a message sent to members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Referring to libertarianism, the Pope stated in part, A common characteristic of this fallacious paradigm is that it minimizes the common good, that is the idea of “living well” or the “good ...
Call the Assassination Records Review Board Back into Existence by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2017 As some of us have been predicting, the CIA appears to be gearing up to continue its cover-up in the JFK assassination, specifically regarding the tens of thousands of long-secret CIA records relating to the Kennedy assassination that the National Archives is set to release this coming October. An article in Politico last week entitled “Will Trump Release ...
Our Second Drug War Conference at a HBCU by Jacob G. Hornberger April 28, 2017 Last month The Future of Freedom Foundation held our second conference on ending the drug war at one of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) -- Florida A&M University. The conference was hosted by the ACLU chapters at the law schools of FAMU, Barry University, and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Our previous drug war conference ...
CIA Director Pompeo Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2017 You would think that by the time a person becomes the Director of the CIA, he would have a correct understanding of the Constitution, which is the founding document of the federal government, which the CIA is part of. This should be especially true when the CIA Director is a former member of Congress, a graduate of West Point, ...
Control is the Purpose of the Dole System by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2017 Let’s give Donald Trump some credit. With his termination of federal money to so-called sanctuary cities, which a federal judge just declared unconstitutional, at least Trump is showing us the real purpose of the dole society. No, it has nothing to do with loving the “poor, needy, and disadvantaged,” as both liberals and conservatives have maintained ever since the advent ...
Venezuela’s Lessons for America by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2017 The dire situation in Venezuela holds valuable lessons for the American people. The first lesson involves Venezuela’s economic system, which is based on socialism and interventionism. It has produced nothing but chaos, crisis, misery, conflict, discord, and poverty. That’s what socialism does. As an economic system, it is a total failure. Why is that a valuable lesson for Americans? Because the ...
South Korea Should Give U.S. Troops the Boot by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2017 The best thing that South Koreans could ever do, both for themselves and for the American people, as well as the Japanese citizenry, is boot all U.S. troops out of their country. Isn’t the reason obvious? If President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA succeed in instigating a war with North Korea, guess who is going to pay the biggest price ...
The Fear Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2017 Ever since the conversion of the U.S. government to a national security state after World War II, the coin of the realm has been crisis and fear. Seize on crises — and sometimes even instigate them — and then when fear strikes the hearts and minds of the citizenry, that’s when it’s time for the national security ...
“Free Speech” Hypocrisy at Berkeley by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2017 A free-speech controversy at Berkeley University provides us with an opportunity to explore differences between statism and libertarianism. The controversy revolves around right-wing commentator Ann Coulter, who has been invited to speak at Berkeley by a campus chapter of the old conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom. Berkeley, as most people know, has long ...
The Drug War: A Deadly and Corrupt Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2017 The decision by President Trump and Attorney General Sessions to ramp up the decades-old war on drugs definitely throws down the gauntlet for those who have long advocated an end to this failed, deadly, destructive, corrupt, and immoral war. I have seen this federal program first hand since I was a teenager back in the 1960s. ...
Why the Founding Fathers Opposed the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2017 If you want to see why our nation’s Founding Fathers opposed a national-security state, including a standing army, just take a look at what is happening in Venezuela. Venezuelan President Vicente Maduro is now the supreme dictator of the country and behaving like one. He has crammed the judiciary with his cronies who, in turn, have shut down the legislature. ...
The National Security State Was One Big Mistake by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2017 The year 1989 brought an unexpected shock to the U.S. national-security establishment. The Soviet Union suddenly and unexpectedly tore down the Berlin Wall, withdrew Soviet troops from East Germany and Eastern Europe, dissolved the Warsaw Pact, dismantled the Soviet Empire, and unilaterally brought an end to the Cold War. The Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA never expected such a ...
