The Evil of Statism by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2010 I oftentimes wonder what causes a statist to be a statist. Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: Every generation has its share of statists — people who wish to impose their values on other people, not by persuasion but rather by force. Consider, for example, the issue of helping the poor with a donation. Suppose ...
Fascism and the ADA by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2010 As part of the controversy over Rand Paul’s comments on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which I have addressed today in an article entitled “Rand Paul, Civil Rights, and More Liberal Hypocrisy on Race,” some liberals have been raising the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandated American businesses to modify their operations to accommodate disabled people. The ADA was ...
Free Market Health Care and the Poor by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2010 One of the disastrous consequences of having adopted the welfare-state way of life is what it has done to the concept of voluntary charity. Let’s look at Medicare and Medicaid, socialist programs that go to the heart of the economic problems facing our nation. I grew up in Laredo, Texas, in the 1950s, when the ...
Blumenthal’s Lies on Vietnam by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2010 Richard Blumenthal, who is Connecticut attorney general and candidate for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, has been fibbing about his military background. He’s been telling people that he served in the Vietnam War when, in fact, he did no such thing. What he did do is serve in a Marine Reserve unit ...
Paul Krugman’s Welfare-State Fallacies by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2010 A recent op-ed entitled “We’re Not Greece” by Paul Krugman in the New York Times encapsulates everything that is wrong with liberals when it comes to economics. The good liberal that he is, Krugman suggests that the welfare state is about “taking care of those in need.” What he misses, however, is the issue of ...
Shahzad and U.S. Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2010 Ever since 9/11, Americans have generally fallen into two camps in explaining why our country now faces the constant threat of terrorist attacks. The first group is composed of people who claim that foreigners, particularly Muslims, hate America for its freedom and values. Things like rock-and-roll, beauty pageants, Lady Gaga, and intellectual and religious freedom ...
An Important Rule of the Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2010 It is important that Americans be fully aware of an important rule with respect to U.S. foreign policy that the U.S. government has implemented and is now enforcing. In fact, knowing and understanding the rule is a matter of life and death. As everyone knows, the First Amendment guarantees the fundamental right of freedom of speech ...
Repeating History with Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2010 A French court recently recognized the idiocy of one of the U.S. government’s attempts to enforce its sanctions against Iran by denying the government’s request to extradite an Iranian businessman for allegedly violating the sanctions. U.S. prosecutors were alleging that the businessman, Majid Kakavand, violated the sanctions by exporting goods from the United States that could be used ...
Libertarianism is Practical and Statism Isn’t by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2010 One of the things that amaze me about life is how so many people remain wedded to statism despite the inherent defectiveness and destructiveness of the statist paradigm. Why remain committed to something — why go into emotional hyper-drive over its failures — why spend a lifetime of coming up with reforms — when it’s ...
Monetary Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2010 If you’re an American taxpayer, you should expect to receive a thank-you note from dole recipients in Greece fairly soon. The reason is that Barack Obama, working with his cohorts at the Federal Reserve, is using your money to bail out the Greek welfare state, thereby enabling dole recipients in Greece to continue receiving ...
The Washington Post Gets It Wrong Again by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2010 On May 5, the Washington Post published an editorial questioning whether the Obama administration had considered treating the suspected Times Square attempted bomber as an enemy combatant rather than as a federal criminal defendant. I wrote an article entitled “Hijacking the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” which criticized the Post’s editorial. In its Sunday edition, the Post published ...
The Road to Greece and Rome by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2010 Leave it to the Greeks to expose American liberals and the road to statism they continue to take our nation. Over the past 20 years, how many times have we heard European statists extolling the virtues and benefits of the socialistic welfare state? Europeans have proven that socialism works, the statists have repeatedly claimed over ...
