Hornberger's Blog

Protecting the Secrets of the Dark Side

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 21, 2023

Given that the United States is a national-security state, it stands to reason that most, if not all, of its secrets relate to its dark-side activities, including the planning and carrying out of state-sponsored assassinations of political leaders. Woe to the person who discloses any of these dark-side activities, for he or she will be branded a spy, ...

What Is Evan Gershkovich’s Side of the Story?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2023

Last March 29, Russian officials arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and charged him with espionage. Prior to his arrest, Gershkovich had been writing a series of critical articles regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that the Journal had been publishing. He has been incarcerated ever since and is awaiting trial.  From the very start, the Wall ...

The Anti-Communist Crusade

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2023

A central feature of the Cold War racket was the anti-communist crusade. At the behest of the U.S. national-security establishment, the entire nation became obsessed with the commies, both foreign and domestic. The Reds were coming to get us. They were everywhere. They were in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Russia, China, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia, Brazil, and most everywhere else. ...

The Socialism and Fascism of Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2023

Everyone is familiar with President Franklin Roosevelt’s embrace of socialism with his adoption of Social Security, a program that originated among socialists in Germany. With Social Security, the government, operating through the IRS, seizes a portion of income from young people and gives it to seniors. Like with all socialist programs, statists claim that Social Security reflects the ...

Were Madison, Eisenhower, Truman, and King Right or Not?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2023

What did James Madison, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King have in common? They all pointed out the dangers and adverse consequences of America’s national-security state governmental structure. Yet, oddly, the critiques and admonitions of all four of them have been disregarded by modern-day Americans. James Madison was the person who crafted the Constitution. He was ...

Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2023

Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such ...

The Goose and the Gander in Cuba

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2023

Hand it to the Chinese and Cubans for exposing the utter hypocrisy of the U.S. national-security state, its empire of foreign military bases, and its foreign policy of interventionism.  Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that China is paying Cuba billions of dollars in return for permitting China to construct a major facility in Cuba to ...

What Debt Ceiling?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2023

Statists all across the United States, especially those within the mainstream press, are uncorking their champagne bottles today and celebrating the newest deal that lifts the debt ceiling. Predictably, the political strategy of crying “Default! Default! Default!” succeeded spectacularly, just as it does every time. In fact, it worked so well that this time Congress decided to not ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Roving Border Patrol Checkpoints

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 31, 2023

America’s socialist system of immigration controls does not simply come with a “Do Not Enter Sign.” It comes with fierce enforcement measures. In fact, it comes with so much enforcement that people living in the borderlands have, over the decades of increasing immigration-law enforcement, come to live in what can only be called an immigration police state. To ...

Why I’m Not a Libertarian Reformer

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2023

There have long been two camps in the libertarian movement: the reform camp and the liberty camp.  The libertarian reform camp aims at improving the welfare-warfare state system under which we live. Libertarian reform plans include such things as immigration reform, Social Security “privatization,” health-savings accounts, welfare reform, school vouchers, income-tax reform, legalization of only marijuana, reining ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Warrantless Trespasses, Searches, and Seizures

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2023

In yesterday’s blog post, I addressed one aspect of the immigration police state that is part of the enforcement of America’s socialist system of immigration controls — domestic highway checkpoints. I pointed out that such police-state checkpoints are a central feature of communist and totalitarian regimes. Another part of America’s immigration police state is warrantless trespasses ...

America’s Immigration Police State: Domestic Highway Checkpoints

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2023

Advocates of America’s socialist immigration-control system oftentimes forget or ignore that their system comes with an immigration police state. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, a police state is the opposite of a free society. In other words, there is not simply a sign at the international border that states “Do not enter.” If that’s all there ...