The Problem Is Foreign Interventionism, Not Muslims by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2016 With Donald Trump’s accession to the presidency, the U.S. anti-Muslim crusade is going into full swing. According to an article in the November 14 issue of the Washington Post, hate crimes against Muslims hit their highest level since 2001. An article in yesterday’s Post stated that four mosques have received letters stating that Trump will do to Muslims what ...
The U.S. War against Castro Comes to an End by Jacob G. Hornberger November 28, 2016 With the passing of former Cuban president Fidel Castro over the weekend, the decades-long U.S. war waged against him finally comes to an end, even if the decades-long embargo against the Cuban people continues. Castro was one of the most tyrannical dictators in the world. After taking power in 1959, he refused to permit democratic elections, suppressed dissent, censored the ...
Donald Trump, Drug Warrior? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 25, 2016 For the millions of people whose lives have been ruined or are going to be ruined by the drug war, so far things are not looking too positive under a Donald Trump administration. That’s because the man who Trump wants to be his attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, is one of the government’s most ardent drug warriors. Sessions opposes ...
Don’t Forget FDR’s Authoritarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2016 As the left continues to decry the authoritarian tendencies of President-elect Trump, they conveniently forget those of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who they continue to extol as one of America’s greatest presidents. Even though FDR’s authoritarian actions took place more than 80 years ago, they have had a lasting impact on the American people and American society. Just think about ...
Anti-Intervention and Pro-Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2016 The biggest and most important issue of our time is what the role of the federal government should be in foreign affairs. With the election of Donald Trump, the debate on this issue is coming out into the open. The issue is interventionism vs. non-interventionism — that is, should the U.S. government continue to intervene and meddle in the ...
A Formula for Libertarian Success by Jacob G. Hornberger November 21, 2016 By garnering around 4 percent of the national vote, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson received more votes than any other LP presidential candidate in history. Nonetheless, 4 percent is still a far cry from winning the presidency, a fact that has caused some libertarians to succumb to feelings of despondency, despair, defeat, and depression, especially since much of the ...
Trump and Allende by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2016 Throughout the presidential campaign, President Obama, the national security establishment, and the mainstream press maintained that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Obama said that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be president. For her part, Hillary Clinton stated, “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes. It’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us ...
FFF’s Drug War Video Project Launches Today by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2016 Today we launch our new Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate an end to the war on drugs, one of the most immoral and destructive government programs in U.S. history. Featuring a broad array of speakers, whose videos will be posted in the coming weeks, the video series presents each presenter’s reasons as to why it’s ...
Trump’s Supporters Don’t Yet Get It by Jacob G. Hornberger November 15, 2016 Trump’s supporters are on the right track, but they still just don’t get it. They know that something is wrong with America. They are characterized by a deep sense of dis-ease about where our country is and where it is going. On a personal level, many of them are barely making ends meet. They have little or no savings. They ...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: Four More Years of Bush-Obama? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 14, 2016 What will President-elect Trump do with respect to foreign policy? Will he follow in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Barack Obama and pursue another four years of death and destruction in the Middle East and Afghanistan? Or will he move America in a different direction by finally bringing U.S. troops home? Unfortunately, he will be coming under tremendous ...
The Moral Bankruptcy of the Left by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2016 All those leftist protestors who are crying and wailing over Donald Trump’s election are only showing how the liberal movement has become as morally bankrupt as the conservative movement. After all, consider what they could be protesting. They could be protesting the 15 years of continuous death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. national security state in Afghanistan ...
Trump: Don’t Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2016 Eight years ago, President Obama had a chance to change the warmongering direction that outgoing President Bush and the U.S. national-security establishment had led America for the previous eight years. Obama could have said, “Enough is enough. America has done enough killing and dying. I’m going to lead our country in a different direction — toward peace, prosperity, and ...
