Ron Paul’s Exchange with Santorum Says It All by Jacob G. Hornberger August 19, 2011 The exchange over Iran between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum in the recent Republican presidential debate goes a long way in explaining why the mainstream statists, including those in the Republican Party and the mainstream media, wish that libertarians would just go away. Santorum pointed to 1979, the year of the Iranian revolution, when the Iranian people took U.S. diplomats ...
What Is Unseen about FDR’s New Deal by Jacob G. Hornberger August 18, 2011 It’s funny to see liberals harkening back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a model for how the federal government should deal with the nation’s current economic woes. Liberals just don’t get it: It’s because of the socialist revolution wrought by FDR’s New Deal that America is suffering its current economic distress. A recent example of New Deal nostalgia is ...
Statist Fear over Ron Paul by Jacob G. Hornberger August 17, 2011 What’s amazing is that the mainstream media doesn’t even appear embarrassed at the way they’ve been treating Ron Paul. I suppose they think that since they’ve treated libertarians with such disdain for so long, no one will notice that they’re doing it some more to Ron Paul. Not this time, MSM! As you no doubt know, people are noticing, especially ...
The Gold Window and the Federal Spending Spree by Jacob G. Hornberger August 16, 2011 Given the 40th anniversary of President’s Nixon’s “closing of the gold window,” we shouldn’t forget the role that such action had in enabling the federal spending spree that has been going on for decades. Let’s go back, first of all, to the first 140 years or so of American history, when the official money of the American people consisted of ...
Liberal Solutions for the Economy Are Statist Nonsense by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2011 It is so funny watching liberals coming up with all sorts of weird solutions to America’s economic woes. Every one of the solutions involves more of the same things that have caused the woes, but liberals just won’t let themselves see that. In their minds, the possibility that America’s economic woes are a direct consequence of the welfare state ...
Those 30 American Soldiers Died for Nothing by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2011 After those 30 American soldiers were recently killed in Afghanistan when their Chinook helicopter was downed by Afghan insurgents, the commander of the international mission in Afghanistan, Gen. John R. Allen, stated, “All of those killed in this operation were true heroes who had already given so much in the defense of freedom.” Freedom? Does Allen really believe such nonsense, ...
Seven Reason to Oppose Sanctions on Syria by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2011 Here are seven reasons to oppose President Obama’s imposition of sanctions on Syria: 1. The struggle for freedom and democracy in Syria is none of the U.S. government’s business. U.S. officials, from Obama on down, should just butt out of what’s happening there. Yes, I know that one of the U.S. government’s modern-day dual missions is to police the world and ...
Valuable Lessons from Federal Spending and Debt by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2011 Americans are getting some great lessons in both economics and history in the federal spending-debt crisis. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it definitely intends to keep interest rates low for two more years. Translation: We will inflate (and debase) the currency to whatever extent necessary to get the economy rolling again. This is precisely what has been going on for ...
Why Expand the Drug War? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2011 Here we go again. Amidst all the talk about out-of-control federal spending and debt, what does the U.S. government do? It goes out and spends more money by expanding the drug war in Mexico. Hey, when a federal program has failed to show any success after 40 years, what else would you expect federal officials to do, especially in the ...
China’s Scolding of the U.S. Government by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2011 Did you ever think you’d see the day that communist China would be lecturing the United States on fiscal responsibility? It’s just a sign of how far down American statists have taken our country. Sure, it’s humiliating that Standard & Poors just downgraded the U.S. government’s debt rating for the first time ever. But to have the commies preaching to ...
America’s Socialist and Imperialist Onslaught by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2011 If the debt ceiling had not been lifted and then the stock market had plunged 700 points, administration statists and mainstream commentators would have been screaming, “The stock market has plunged because the debt ceiling wasn’t lifted!” But the debt ceiling was lifted and extended to sometime past the 2012 presidential election. Congress permitted President Obama to add another $2.7 ...
The Problem with the Tea Party by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2011 Okay, so the Tea Party is good at speaking out against out-of-control federal spending and debt, even if its members in Congress are not so good at reining in government spending and borrowing when voting on whether to permit the federal government to pile another $2.7 trillion of debt onto the backs of the American people during the next ...
