Our Post-9/11 Tyranny and Oppression by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2023 One of the positive aspects of my work here at The Future of Freedom Foundation has always been reading the correspondence I receive in response to the articles we publish. Yesterday, I received an email from a reader in response to my article “Flying Pre-9/11” that I thought I would share with you all.
Flying Pre-9/11 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2023 This past weekend, I was reminded of how pleasant it was to fly prior to 9/11. I was flying from Memphis, Tennessee, to Hot Springs, Arkansas, on a commuter airline named Southern Airways. The terminal was in a completely different building that was located pretty far from the main airport terminal. When I walked into the building, I ...
Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2023 It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the CIA’s “war on terrorism” would begin fizzling out, especially as the number of foreigners they were killing significantly diminished. When U.S. forces got booted out of Afghanistan and began killing significantly less people in Iraq, the rage that motivates terrorists to strike began going down. That’s undoubtedly why ...
How Can Force Entail Compassion? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2023 One of the things I have long found fascinating about America’s welfare-state way of life is how so many people say that it reflects that Americans are a compassionate people. I just don’t get that. The welfare state is based on forcibly taking money from people and giving it to other people who are purportedly in need of ...
Should the Wall Street Journal Have Pulled Gershkovich Out of Russia? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2023 Ever since Russian authorities arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of having violated Russia’s espionage laws, the Journal has steadfastly maintained his innocence. The Journal claims that Gershkovich is being held as a “political hostage.” That might well be true, but a question naturally arises: Are officials at the Wall Street Journal partially responsible for ...
An Income-Tax Free Century by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2023 As Americans rush to file their income-tax returns by April 18, we should never forget that this horrific tax was not part of our nation’s history for more than 100 years. Neither was the IRS. That’s because our American ancestors understood something that modern-day Americans don’t: that you can’t have a genuinely free society when your government wields ...
Did Russian Officials Sting Evan Gershkovich? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2023 Ever since the arrest by Russian officials of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage, U.S. officials have been vehemently denying that he is a spy. But as I wrote in my article "Evan Gershkovich: U.S. Spy or Simply Naive?” those denials mean nothing because U.S. officials would deny it even if he ...
Friendship with Russia Is Verboten by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2023 Two days ago, I posted an article entitled “Time to Revisit the Maria Butina Case,” which showed that when it comes to playing the game of taking “political hostages," the U.S. government is certainly no piker. Pressuring the 30-year-old Butina to plead guilty to a ridiculous federal offense of “conspiring” to act as an agent of ...
Lyndon Johnson’s Role in the Kennedy Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 12, 2023 The New York Times has published an article today entitled “Lyndon Johnson Was No Friend of Martin Luther King Jr.” which describes how Johnson worked closely with former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to destroy King. While there is a common perception today that Hoover was acting alone in his efforts to destroy King, whom Hoover ...
Time to Revisit the Maria Butina Case by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2023 Yesterday, I wrote about the concocted, made-up, fake crime that U.S. officials used to incarcerate Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for some 14 years of his life, until he secured his freedom from incarceration in the trade with accused drug-law violator Brittney Griner. Unfortunately, however, Bout isn’t the only Russian citizen who U.S. officials have ...
Time to Revisit the Viktor Bout Case by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2023 With Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, U.S. officials are accusing Russia of using Americans as “political hostages.” That may well be true, but while the U.S. government acts like an innocent, the fact is that it plays the political-hostage game as well as Russia. In fact, the U.S. government might well be the one ...
Russia Is Not the Russian Government by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2023 In its coverage on the arrest in Russia on espionage charges of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the Journal published an article entitled, “Evan Gershkovich Loved Russia, the Country That Turned on Him.” The Journal is mistaken. Russia did not turn on Gershkovich. The Russian government turned on Gershkovich. There is a difference, a big ...
