Is Freedom Still Enduring in Afghanistan? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 6, 2015 A couple of days ago, the New York Times reported that American personnel in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, must fly in helicopters to get to and from the airport. That’s because the road from the embassy to the airport is not safe. The length of the road is 1 1/2 miles. Imagine that: After 14 years of ...
Gitmo Reflects Disdain for the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger November 5, 2015 Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has an op-ed in today’s New York Times entitled “Let’s Finally Close Guantanamo,” in which she points out what critics of the Guantanamo facility have been saying for years: It is a very effective tool that overseas terrorist organizations use to recruit new members. Feinstein calls for closing down the facility, transferring the remaining ...
Oh No! The Cold War Is Back On? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 4, 2015 On Monday, the New York Times published a fascinating article entitled “Putin’s Forever War” by Masha Gessen. The article provides a deep insight into the type of mindset that converted the U.S. government into a national-security state and that has led our nation to the dark side. Gessen’s article revolves around a critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, ...
Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK, and the National Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger November 3, 2015 In yesterday’s blog post about the movie Bridge of Spies, I pointed out how the circumstantial evidence that has been released over the decades leads to but one conclusion — that Lee Harvey Oswald, who the Warren Commission accused of assassinating President Kennedy, was an intelligence operative or asset of the U.S. national-security state. That is, that when ...
Bridge of Spies and Lee Harvey Oswald by Jacob G. Hornberger November 2, 2015 I recently saw Bridge of Spies, the new movie that revolves around a prisoner exchange that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. The exchange involved two spies — CIA spy Francis Gary Powers and Soviet KGB spy Rudolf Abel, as well as a Yale student named Frederic Pryor, ...
A Short History of U.S. Monetary Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger October 30, 2015 The monetary system that the Framers established with the Constitution was the most unusual and the most radical in history. That unique monetary system, along with such things as the absence of an income tax, a welfare state, and a warfare state, along with open immigration, contributed to the tremendous economic prosperity that pulled countless people out of poverty ...
Last Night’s GOP Presidential Debate Cracked Me Up by Jacob G. Hornberger October 29, 2015 I didn’t watch the entire GOP presidential debate last night but the part I did watch really cracked me up. The candidates were criticizing the Democratic Party presidential candidates, especially Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, for being socialists. One Republican candidate even compared their Democratic Party counterparts to the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, referring to the two factions in the ...
Will America’s New President Continue the JFK Assassination Cover-Up? by Jacob G. Hornberger October 28, 2015 One of the issues the newly elected president of the United States is likely to face is whether to continue the decades-long secrecy and concealment of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. That’s because the new president will have the legal authority to order the continued concealment of thousands of pages of CIA records relating ...
Congress Capitulates Again on the Debt Ceiling by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2015 Just as I have predicted for the past couple of years, Congress has capitulated again on its debt ceiling. The media is reporting that Congress is striking a deal with President Obama to lift the debt ceiling once again. The deal now permits the federal government to add even more debt to the already existing mountain of federal debt ...
The Debt Ceiling: A Primer by Jacob G. Hornberger October 26, 2015 Just as I have predicted several times since the debt ceiling was last lifted in 2013, statists are saying that a catastrophe will ensue if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted again. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is leading the charge, exclaiming in a USA Today piece that “by waiting to the last minute to act on the debt limit, Congress ...
JFK Saved Us from a Nuclear Holocaust by Jacob G. Hornberger October 23, 2015 JFK Saved Us from a Nuclear Holocaust By Jacob G. Hornberger At the end of last night’s segment of Future of Freedom, the new Internet show that I am doing with Scott Horton over at Liberty.me, Scott asked me about the Cuban Missile Crisis. His question was inspired by an article by Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com entitled “Lessons of ...
The Libertarian Angle and Future of Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger October 22, 2015 Tonight is the 8th week of Future of Freedom, the new Internet show that I’m co-hosting with Scott Horton on Thursday nights at 8 pm ET over at Liberty.me. It’s a weekly half-hour show in which Scott asks me to comment on various issues of the day, with him providing his own commentary as part of the interview process. Scott ...
