The Pledge of Allegiance and Government Schools by Jacob G. Hornberger March 20, 2023 The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article today by Nicholas Goldberg about the Pledge of Allegiance. Goldberg praises those independent-minded students and parents who have challenged its enforcement in public (i.e., government) schools. The Pledge of Allegiance has been used as a symbol of patriotism for more than 100 years. Today, it is recited ...
Separate Money and the State by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2023 The United States once had the finest monetary system in history. It was a system that the U.S. Constitution established. It was a system in which the official money of the United States consisted of gold coins and silver coins. We often hear that the “gold standard” was a system in which paper money was “backed by gold.” ...
The U.S. War of Aggression Against Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2023 The U.S. invasion of Iraq, whose 20th anniversary occurs this month, provides a perfect demonstration of why so many people around the world believe that the U.S. government suffers from a very grave case of hypocrisy. While U.S. officials decry Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with great vehemence, they somehow block out of their minds their own deadly and ...
The Federal Reserve Is the Root Cause of the Banking Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2023 The Justice Department has announced it is investigating the banking crisis. It will undoubtedly charge that banking officials are responsible for the crisis. One thing is for sure: It will not indict the Federal Reserve System, which is the root cause of the crisis. In fact, in its search for scapegoats, it will not even acknowledge the Fed’s ...
Why Not Let Banks Fail? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2023 Imagine that for the last 100 years, the federal government’s policy was to bail out every business that was in danger of going under. The policy would consist of shoveling large amounts of subsidies into the business in order to help it remain in business. If, however, the business failed anyway, the federal government would pay a large ...
A Cruddy and Dangerous Monetary System by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2023 For a long time now, I have been maintaining that America’s cruddy monetary system was headed toward a crack-up. Of course, it’s always impossible to predict the exact timing of such a crack-up but it’s not difficult to predict that at some point in time, the crack-up will occur. For a long time now, we have seen out-of-control ...
Killing Communists with Impunity by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2023 The New York Times recently carried an interesting article about the death in 1973 of Pablo Neruda, one of the most renowned poets in the world. Neruda was a Chilean citizen. He was also a strong supporter of Chilean president Salvador Allende, who the Chilean national-security establishment, with the encouragement of the U.S. national-security state, ousted ...
Drug-War Blindness Among Drug-War Proponents by Jacob G. Hornberger March 9, 2023 Yesterday, I wrote about two American tourists who were kidnapped and killed by a drug cartel in Matamoros, Mexico. I pointed out that if it hadn’t been for the drug war, those two people would be alive today. That’s because drug prohibition gives rise to violent drug cartels. No drug war would mean no drug cartels, ...
Three More Drug-War Deaths in Matamoros by Jacob G. Hornberger March 8, 2023 Proponents of the war on drugs have three more deaths to add to their drug-war ledger. A few days ago, two Americans, Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, were killed by members of a drug cartel while visiting Matamoros, Mexico. According to CNN.com, “Investigators believe the Americans were targeted by a Mexican cartel that likely mistook them for Haitian ...
The Cold War Racket Is Back by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2023 Chinese leader Xi Jinping has issued a direct critique against the U.S. government’s policy of containment when it comes to China. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the critique is unusual in that it comes directly from China’s leader rather than indirectly through governmental spokespersons. The Journal article quotes Shirley Martey Hargis, ...
Economic Liberty: A Right or a Privilege? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2023 Ever since China began liberalizing its economy, it has become fashionable in some circles to suggest that China went “capitalist.” This was especially true as economic prosperity in the country began rising. Not only were Chinese business people becoming millionaires and even billionaires, the standard of living of the Chinese people generally was soaring. The Chinese experience ...
An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story by Jacob G. Hornberger March 3, 2023 Almost a year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation published my book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, which I consider to be the best work I have done in the 33-year history of FFF. For decades, the official story had been that the famous Zapruder film, which captured the assassination of President Kennedy, ...
