The Fed’s Destructive Guessing Game by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2022 As expected, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a point yesterday. It was a drop from the .75 point rate increases that the Fed has been implementing for the past several months. A big reason the Fed is going slower is the longstanding fear among Fed officials of bringing about another Great Depression by raising ...
The Humorous Side of China’s Crackdown by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2022 NOTE: If you haven’t yet made an end-of-year (tax-deductible) donation to FFF, I hope you will consider doing so. A $250 donation makes you a member of our FFF Freedom Club. Your generous support enables us to do what we do — and have done for 33 years — present the principled case for liberty, with the aim ...
Junior ROTC Fits Perfectly within Public Schools by Jacob G. Hornberger December 12, 2022 The U.S. military is having a tough time meeting recruiting targets, possibly because young people are figuring out that they don’t want to come back from some stupid foreign war without legs or arms or with some brain injury or, even worse, dead. To encourage young people to join up and be all that they can be, public-school ...
What a Bunch of Hooey about Viktor Bout by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2022 It would be difficult to find a bigger pile of hooey in the mainstream press than what they are saying about Viktor Bout. It’s almost as bad as their monumental hooey about Russian citizen Maria Butina. The hooey surrounding Bout and Butina only goes to show what happens to people’s minds when the government inculcates them with an ...
We Must Not Forget the U.S. War on Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2022 When the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that it would enrich U.S. weapons manufacturers, who, of course, are an important, integral, and loyal part of America’s national-security state form of governmental structure. And sure enough, those ...
Roosevelt’s Infamy by Jacob G. Hornberger December 7, 2022 Eighty-one years ago today, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack killed 2,335 military personnel and 68 civilians. It also damaged or destroyed 19 U.S. Navy ships, including 8 battleships. December 7, 1941, was, President Franklin Roosevelt stated, a “date that would live in infamy.” What will also live in infamy is that Roosevelt wanted the ...
Discrimination Is Not a Free-Speech Issue by Jacob G. Hornberger December 6, 2022 NOTE: FFF's good friend Murray Sabrin, who was one of the speakers at our recent "End Inflation and the Fed" online conference, is offering the Kindle version of his new autobiography, From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story, for free on December 7, 9, 12, 14, and 16 at Amazon. ***** Both left-wingers and right-wingers ...
Biden’s Newfound Love of the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger December 5, 2022 President Biden and other leftwing statists are up in arms over a comment made by former President Trump calling for "the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution" in order to declare him the winner of the 2020 presidential election, which he claims was stolen from him. As they condemn Trump for ...
George Orwell, Call Your Venezuelan Office by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2022 It appears that the American people are being prepared for a change of mindsets. After many years of treating Venezuela as an enemy, opponent, adversary, competitor, and rival, it seems that U.S. officials are now changing course and paving the way toward converting Venezuela to a friend, partner, and ally. George Orwell, please call your office in ...
January 6 Was Not a Seditious Conspiracy by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2022 It’s a shame that a course in logic is not offered in law school. If it was, maybe, just maybe, attorney Harry Litman would not have written an op-ed entitled “A Jury Delivers the Truth about Jan. 6. It Was Seditious Conspiracy,” which appeared in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. In his article, Litman, a former ...
The Statist Victory on Trump’s Tax Returns by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2022 The mainstream media is celebrating big time over a recent ruling by the Supreme Court that forces the Treasury Department to deliver President Trump’s income-tax returns to Congress. A good example is the Washington Post, which published an editorial last week praising the ruling. Since there is still the possibility that Congress will fail to disclose ...
Another Immigration-Control Horror Story by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2022 If you’re in the mood for another immigration-control horror story, an article in yesterday’s New York Times provides it. The title of the article tells what it’s about: “Antiwar Activists Who Flee Russia Find Detention, Not Freedom, in the U.S.” The article details how Russian citizens who have fled Russia in opposition to Vladimir Putin’s war ...
