On the Road Again by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2013 I’m on the road again this week doing our Southwest speaking tour — Yuma, Phoenix, and Dallas, so blogging is likely to be periodic rather than daily. Details on the events are posted below. Admission is open to the public. The Yuma event costs five dollars. The Phoenix and Dallas events are free. If you’re in any of these ...
Boston Involves a Choice by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2013 Ever since 9/11, U.S. officials have emphasized that their so-called war on terrorism should now be considered a permanent part of American life. They say that the United States will now be under the threat of terrorism for the next several decades. This will necessitate not just the continued existence of the national-security state but also ever-increasing budgets for ...
Avoiding Reality on Terrorist Motivation by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2013 Before 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev was interrogated, President Obama asked, “Why did these young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?” Yesterday, the Washington Post provided the answer to the president in a news article entitled, “Boston Bombing Suspect Cites U.S. Wars as Motivation, Officials Say.” According to ...
Upcoming FFF Speaking Events by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2013 We’ve all become so accustomed to communicating on the Internet via such things as email, websites, webinars, live-streaming, Facebook, and the like that it’s easy to forget the enjoyment and value of person-to-person speeches. In the last few weeks, I’ve given speeches at three college campuses--the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Albany, New York, and ...
Are the Boston Deaths and Injuries Worth It? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2013 Whether we call them criminals or terrorists, the issue of motive in the Boston bombings is becoming increasingly clear. The bombers were motivated to kill people at the Boston Marathon by the death and destruction wreaked by the U.S. national-security state in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and neighboring areas. That’s not to say, of course, that statists aren’t doing their best ...
Foreign Policy and Gun Control in Boston by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2013 I wish to make two observations about the bombings in Boston, one relating to U.S. foreign policy and one relating to gun control. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, many Americans simply have been unable to fathom that foreigners can get so angry over the U.S. government’s actions in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and elsewhere that they end up retaliating with ...
Open Borders Are the Solution by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2013 I am pleased to announce that the e-book format for FFF’s book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob Hornberger, is now available. The purchase price is $2.99. The book provides the libertarian case for open borders, a way of life in which people can freely cross international borders to ...
Immigration Chaos by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2013 All my life I have watched immigration controllers go through their periodic paroxysms of anxiety over the latest immigration “crisis” and then fight over what reforms to adopt to address the crisis. Of course, no reform has ever worked to resolve the latest immigration crisis. After reforms have been enacted, I have become accustomed to simply waiting for the ...
Blowback at Boston? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2013 In my article last February entitled “Coming to a City Near You? Assassination and Sanction Blowback,” I wrote: But there is another point that Americans need to ponder. That point is that the U.S. government’s assassination program in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere and its sanctions program against Iran might well lead to “blowback” in the form of ...
Freedom versus Mandatory Charity by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2013 Imagine if Congress enacted a law requiring everyone to attend church on Sunday. The idea would be that mandatory church attendance would be good for American society. With everyone being inculcated with moral and religious principles once a week, our society would be less drug-ridden, violent, and dysfunctional. The law would also be justified as being in everyone’s long-term ...
Reject Congressman Ros-Lehtinen’s Statism and Lift the Cuban Embargo by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2013 Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen woke up this morning with a bit of egg on her face, after she attempted to rat on Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z for what Ros-Lehtinen thought might have been an illegal trip the couple took to Cuba. Learning that the couple had celebrated their wedding anniversary in Cuba, Ros-Lehtinen wrote a letter to ...
Korea Brings to Mind the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2013 The crisis over North Korea brings to mind a similar crisis with another communist country, Cuba, back in 1962. That was the Cuban Missile Crisis. U.S. officials have long maintained that Cuba and the Soviet Union were the ones responsible for bringing the Soviet Union and the United States to the brink of nuclear war. The U.S. government is portrayed ...
