Abolish the FBI by Jacob G. Hornberger January 23, 2024 Among the worst mistakes America has ever made is to bring into existence the Federal Bureau of Investigation — the FBI. A national police force is an essential part of any tyrannical regime. Just look at any tyrannical foreign regime, either right wing and left wing, over the past 100 years. I will guarantee you that you will ...
A Police State Is Not Libertarian by Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2024 For some time now, there have been some libertarians who have tried desperately to convince themselves and others that America’s system of immigration controls, rather than open borders, is the genuine libertarian position. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. That’s because of the libertarian non-aggression principle. It holds that people are free to engage in ...
The Thank You System by Jacob G. Hornberger January 18, 2024 When a person is leaving a restaurant or any other retail establishment, who should be saying “Thank you”—the seller or the buyer? The answer is: Both. That’s because they are both benefiting from the transaction from their own individual, subjective perspectives. That is, they are each giving up something they value less for something they value more. Thus, ...
Unnecessary Death and Suffering in Ukraine by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2024 As I was reading an article about Ukraine in the New York Times a few days ago, I could not help but grimace. It detailed how very elderly people in towns on the front lines in the Russia-Ukraine war are insisting on staying put. At their ages, they would rather face the prospect of death than ...
MLK Was Right by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2024 Martin Luther King called the U.S. government the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can legitimately deny that he was right. At the time he made his statement, King was referring to the untold death, suffering, and destruction that the Pentagon and the CIA were unleashing on the people of Vietnam. But after that war ...
Why Are There So Many Suicides in America? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 11, 2024 Last November, the Wall Street Journal reported that suicides in the United States reached a record high in 2022. Almost 50,000 people in the U.S. committed suicide. The suicide rate was the highest since 1941. According to the article, healthcare professionals blame Covid, illicit drugs, and an oversupply of firearms. I’ve got a different answer. I’m ...
Another Death Notch for Drug Warriors by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2024 I haven’t seen The Iron Claw but it certainly looks like a good movie. It receives 88% and 94% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about the von Erich brothers, who became famous in the world of professional wrestling in the 1980s. As I was reading a review of the movie, I discovered ...
Two More U.S. Murders by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2024 The last thing the Founding Fathers wanted for our country was omnipotent government — that is, a government that wields totalitarian-like powers. Thus, when the U.S. Constitution called the federal government into existence, it expressly restricted its powers to those enumerated in the Constitution. If a power wasn’t enumerated, it could not be legally exercised. The powers enumerated ...
40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense by Jacob G. Hornberger January 5, 2024 When I read an article yesterday by a man named Edwin Rubis, I sat there, shook my head, and asked myself how any government could do such a thing to anyone. The reason that Rubis’s article caught my attention is captured in the title of his article: “I’m Serving 40 Years in Federal Prison. Here’s a ...
Reinforcing the Immigration Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger January 4, 2024 Proponents of America’s system of immigration controls never mention their support of what comes with this system that they support — an immigration police state. That’s because they don’t want to be known as proponents of a police state. They want to be known only as proponents of immigration controls. But an immigration police state comes with a ...
Is Russia Copying the U.S. Espionage Act? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2024 On December 29, the New York Times published an article entitled “How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent,” which details the Russian government’s prosecution of Russian citizens who criticize Russia’s war on Ukraine. According to the article, “In the first 18 months of the war, the law scooped up a vast array of ordinary Russians — ...
The Deep State’s Control of NATO and Congress by Jacob G. Hornberger December 21, 2023 Longtime readers of my blog know that I have long recommended a book entitled National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon, professor of law at Tufts University and former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. Glennon’s thesis, to which I subscribe, is a simple but ominous one: The U.S. national-security branch of ...
