Update on Economic Liberty Lecture Series by Jacob G. Hornberger October 12, 2009 Here’s an update on our Economic Liberty Lecture Series, which is turning out to be a very exciting program. In September our first speaker, Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and head of Lew Rockwell.com, attracted an overflow, standing-room-only crowd of about 125 people. He delivered a captivating talk on the history of economic thought, specifically focusing ...
Army Partially Surrenders in Watada Case by Jacob G. Hornberger October 9, 2009 The U.S. Army has partially surrendered in the case of Lt. Ehren Watada by allowing Watada to resign from the army and avoid further court-martial proceedings. The Army had been prosecuting Watada for refusing orders to deploy to Iraq. The surrender was partial because Watada was given a discharge “under other-than-honorable conditions.” Watada had refused to deploy to ...
Pity the Imperialists by Jacob G. Hornberger October 8, 2009 Pity the imperialists. What do they do? They must realize that the longer they continue occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, the more they weaken the Empire. Hey, they don’t call Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires” for nothing. America’s imperialists are discovering what imperialists throughout history have discovered: empires are costly. This one is no exception. Military ...
The Sanctuary Fallacy by Jacob G. Hornberger October 7, 2009 The principal argument for continuing the 8-year occupation of Afghanistan is that if the Taliban regain power, they will provide a “sanctuary” for al-Qaeda. It is a fallacious rationale for the continued killing of Afghanis and the continued sacrifice of U.S. troops. For one thing, if the U.S. Empire were to exit Afghanistan and Iraq and the rest of the ...
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Libertarian Phenomenon by Jacob G. Hornberger October 6, 2009 Fox News legal commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Internet program Freedom Watch is one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of the libertarian movement. There’s never been anything like it and if it were to break out to the Fox News television channel, it would constitute nothing less than a revolutionary development ...
Lecturing the New York Times on Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger October 5, 2009 Given the surge in interest in libertarianism during the past few years, it is amazing to me that one must still lecture the New York Times on the subject but, alas, such is the case. In an article on the Roman Polanski child-rape case entitled “The Polanski Case: A Gallic Shrug” by the ...
Faith and Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger October 2, 2009 The Harrison, Arkansas, Daily Times reports that FedEx has covered the $11,000 bill for an air ambulance to take 7-year-old Jada Harper from Houston to her home in Arkansas. The girl has terminal cancer and is expected to die within a few months. Since the ailing girl could not have survived ground ...
Hornberger’s Blog, October 2009 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2009 Friday, October 30, 2009 Why Do Liberals Hate the Poor in Cuba? by Jacob G. Hornberger President’s Obama’s much-ballyhooed campaign promise of “change” has received yet another setback. This time it’s respect to the U.S. embargo against Cuba, which has been in existence for some 50 years. Obama, who wowed and wooed the crowds during his presidential campaign with promises of “change,” ...
The Evilness of Sanctions by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2009 Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, President Barack Obama is threatening to impose even stricter sanctions on Iran, in an attempt to bend Iranian leaders to his will. Let’s examine two major cases in which the U.S. government has imposed sanctions, examples that any reasonable person would not consider to be success stories: Iraq and Cuba. For more than 10 ...
Free Speech Loses Out in Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2009 A federal judge has ruled against the ACLU’s motion to quash a subpoena that federal prosecutors had issued against the Las Vegas Review Journal in the Robert Kahre legal-tender/tax resistance case in Las Vegas. During the trial (see my commentaries on the Kahre case here , and here , and here ), the ...
“In China, At Least I Would Have a Trial” by Jacob G. Hornberger September 29, 2009 The U.S. government has just received the ultimate put-down from one of its Guantanamo prisoners. Arkin Mahmud, a Chinese Uighur who has been held at the prison camp for 8 years, stated ruefully, “In China, at least I would have a trial and sentence.” What bigger insult than to be accused of providing ...
My Appearance on Judge Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2009 Last week I had the good fortune of appearing on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Internet program “Freedom Watch.” You can see the video here. The topic was “Auditing the Fed” but most of the discussion revolved around ending the Federal Reserve System. I pointed out how the Fed is an engine of government confiscation of wealth, one that enables ...