Giving Up on Freedom: School Vouchers by Jacob G. Hornberger December 12, 2023 One of the questions about libertarianism that has long fascinated me is: Why have so many libertarians given up on freedom? Everyone is given just one life to live. It seems to me that if there is anyone who would want to experience that one life as a free person, it is libertarians. And yet, so many ...
Let’s Not Forget FDR’s Anti-Semitism by Jacob G. Hornberger December 11, 2023 In a time in which U.S. officials, especially those in Congress, are tripping over themselves with accusations of anti-Semitism against people who fail to unconditionally support the policies and practices of the Israeli government, this might be a good time to remind ourselves of the anti-Semitism of one of America’s great historical icons, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as ...
Free Speech on Campus on the Israel-Palestinian War by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2023 The issue of free speech on U.S. college campuses has reappeared big time with the Israel-Palestinian war. Ross Stevens, a big donor to the University of Pennsylvania, is asking for the return of his $100 million donation unless the university fires its president Liz Magill. Stevens got angry when Magill answered a question before a congressional committee ...
We Were Soldiers … Who Supposedly Died for Our Country by Jacob G. Hornberger December 6, 2023 I was watching the 2002 war movie We Were Soldiers a couple of nights ago. I’ve seen it before but it’s such a great movie that I periodically re-watch it. It stars Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Keri Russell, and others. The movie is based on a true story. It dramatizes the Battle ...
Abolish the FTC, Antitrust Laws, and Monopolies by Jacob G. Hornberger December 5, 2023 The FTC’s current lawsuit against Amazon is a perfect example of the statist mentality that undergirds antitrust laws. Amazon is an enormously big and hugely successful business enterprise. Therefore, according to statists, it must be an anti-competitive “monopoly.” The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, the argument goes, need to take judicial action against Amazon to “weaken ...
Henry Kissinger and the Assassination of Gen. René Schneider by Jacob G. Hornberger December 4, 2023 The recent death of former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger provides an opportunity to revisit one of Kissinger's most infamous acts -- the role he played in the 1970 kidnapping and murder of Gen. René Schneider, the overall commander of the Chilean Armed Forces. Let me emphasize one thing right off the bat: Schneider was an entirely ...
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2023 If your doctor gets the diagnosis wrong, it is almost certain that he’s going to get the prescription wrong. If he concludes, for example, that your stomach ache is nothing more than indigestion, when the problem actually is cancer, the medicine he prescribes is probably not going to do you much good. The same holds true for diagnoses ...
Only One Solution for Immigration Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 28, 2023 I received an email today from the right-wing Claremont Institute announcing an “exclusive virtual briefing” this evening featuring a sheriff from Fort Worth, Texas, named Bill Waybourne, who is going to “delve into the pressing issues and potential solutions surrounding the Texas border crisis and broader immigration challenges along the southern border.” What a big waste of time. ...
An Excellent JFK Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger November 27, 2023 Two weeks ago, I attended an excellent conference on the Kennedy assassination that was sponsored by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Cyril H. Wecht, who is now in his 90s, is one of the country’s most renowned forensics pathologists. For decades, he has courteously and heroically ...
The Darkly Brilliant and Ingenious Aspects of the Kennedy Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2023 There were two darkly brilliant and ingenious aspects of the national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy sixty years ago today — November 22, 1963. The brilliant part was framing a "communist" or, to be more accurate, a government agent whose job it was to appear as a communist. Why was that brilliant? Because this was ...
The Darkly Brilliant and Ingenious Aspects of the Kennedy Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2023 There were two darkly brilliant and ingenious aspects of the national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy sixty years ago today — November 22, 1963. The brilliant part was framing a "communist" or, to be more accurate, a government agent whose job it was to appear as a communist. Why was that brilliant? Because this was ...
Xi Jinping is Right About the U.S. Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2023 On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s current visit to the United States, the New York Times published an article detailing some of Xi's thoughts about the United States. The article states: In Mr. Xi’s telling, China sought to rise peacefully, but Western powers would not accept the idea that a Communist-led China was catching up ...
