The JFK Brain Mystery by Jacob G. Hornberger March 29, 2017 Ever since the Kennedy assassination, a popular parlor game has been: What happened to JFK’s brain? The game has served as a useful distraction from the much more critically important issue, one that is still unexplained to this day by the Pentagon, which, strangely, was the entity that conducted the autopsy on President Kennedy’s body. This unexplained issue is: ...
Did the National Security State Wiretap Trump? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 28, 2017 I confess that I don’t know if the national security state wiretapped Donald Trump or not. But guess what: Neither do all those people in the mainstream press who are indignant — absolutely indignant — that anyone, especially the president of the United States — would suggest such a thing. On what basis do they arrive at absolute certainty that ...
An Unbelievably Great Upcoming Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger March 27, 2017 If you miss our upcoming June 3 conference “The National Security State and JFK,” my hunch is that you’re later going to say, “Jacob, I sure wish I had attended that conference because I heard that it was absolutely fantastic!” For the past three years, I have dreamed of putting together this conference, and it is now about ...
Bemused Over Russian “Meddling” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 24, 2017 I must confess that liberals and the liberal press are amusing me to no end over their heated and exuberant reaction to the Trump-Russia meddling “scandal.” I find the whole controversy to be absolutely hilarious. A question that stands out in all this: What’s wrong with an American politician “colluding” with a Russian politician to win an American election? “Treason!” the ...
Prepare Now for Blowback by Jacob G. Hornberger March 21, 2017 By this time it has become painfully obvious that Donald Trump is going to follow the interventionist road in the Middle East that Republicans and Democrats have been following ever since the Cold War ended in 1989. Like any good conservative, Trump is expanding the size of the military establishment, unleashing the Pentagon to wage its war on ISIS ...
How to Achieve Omnipotent Government by Jacob G. Hornberger March 20, 2017 Ludwig von Mises explained how government interventionism into economic activity ultimately leads to omnipotent government. It’s because the first intervention inevitably creates problems or crises. Rather than repeal the original intervention, which would constitute an acknowledgement that the intervention had failed, government planners double down by introducing a new intervention to fix the problems or crises of the original ...
Why Are Americans Searched at the Border? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2017 Whenever American citizens travel to another country, they are subjected to intrusive searches at the hands of U.S. officials upon returning to the United States. Why? What’s the justification? Since Americans living today have all been born and raised under this type of system, hardly anyone questions it. It’s just accepted, passively and submissively, as part of living in a “free” ...
Should Libertarians Support a Police State? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2017 According to an article at NBCNews.com, when 23-year-old American filmmaker Akram Shibly and his girlfriend Kelly McCormick recently returned from a trip to Toronto, U.S. border officials took possession of their cell phones and demanded that they disclose their passwords so that the officials could peruse, study, search through, or copy the contents of the phones. They complied. A ...
Conservatives Are Squirming (and Capitulating) on Obamacare by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2017 For the last seven years, conservatives have had a field day complaining about Obamacare and calling for its repeal. The anti-Obamacare pabulum has been great for garnering donations to conservative organizations and Republican candidates. What conservatives never figured on, however, was that Republicans would end up winning both houses of Congress and the presidency. Now that that has happened, conservatives ...
Moral Bankruptcy, Left and Right by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2017 When it comes to foreign policy and the U.S. government’s imperial and interventionist role in the world, it is sometimes difficult to determine which faction of statists — liberal or conservative — is the more hypocritical and morally blind. Consider the following editorial in today’s New York Times entitled “The U.S. Should Not Be Egypt’s Accomplice.” When I read ...
Trump, the CIA, and Those Still Secret JFK Records by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2017 This Thursday, March 16, at 1 p.m., the Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA), an organization whose mission is to secure release of all JFK-assassination-related records, is hosting a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that will feature U.S. District Judge John Tunheim and other speakers. The purpose of the conference is to draw attention ...
Bionic Mosquito’s Immigration Strawman by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2017 The Bionic Mosquito has an article today that takes libertarian Sheldon Richman to task for what Bionic says is a strawman, one that, he says, Richman has constructed with respect to the concept of culture. In the process, Bionic defends the concept of private property by implying that the libertarian position favoring open borders violates the principle of private ...
