Hornberger's Blog

The Feds Destroyed Laredo’s (and America’s) Heritage of Open Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2025

Every day, millions of Americans cross state borders without encountering border-control stations, where they would otherwise have to show some sort of identification and have their vehicles inspected for contraband or dangerous people. There is total, unrestricted, free movements of goods, services, and people across state borders. Most everyone likes this open-border system. Sure, it means that murderers, ...

Is Trump Risking His Life with Russia and Ukraine?

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2025

If you want to get a sense of what President Kennedy was up against with his Peace Speech at American University a few months before he was taken out, just look at the reaction to President Trump’s friendly overtures toward Russia in the last few days. The mainstream media is up in arms over Trump’s actions. Multiply that ...

Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2025

President Trump is cleaning house at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Upset over some of the center’s performances and possibly miffed over the fact that three honorees in 2017 didn’t want to meet with him, Trump fired Biden-appointed board members and others, criticized the center’s programming, and, amazingly, has appointed himself ...

Trump’s Anti-DEI Policy and Private-Sector Dictatorship

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2025

President Trump has upended the liberal/progressive policy of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by decreeing its immediate end within the federal government. Is that a good thing? Conservatives sure think so. My position? I don’t really care how presidents run their welfare-state, warfare-state departments and agencies. I’m with Murray Rothbard when he was asked about the importance of ferreting ...

Congresswoman Luna’s Statements about the JFK Autopsy Demonstrate the Power of Truth

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2025

Statements made by Rep. Anna Luna regarding the JFK assassination are a testament to the power of truth to ultimately surface, even within a vast sea of official lies and false official narratives. Luna is the head of a new congressional task force charged with exposing “federal secrets.” Among those secrets are those that the U.S. national-security establishment ...

Paper Money and the Fed Have Destroyed the Penny and the Rest of Our Money

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 13, 2025

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason is that it’s too costly to produce them. It costs the Mint nearly four cents to produce one penny. The penny phenomenon is good example of what the federal government — and, specifically, the Federal Reserve — has done to our money. Ever since the ...

Foreign Aid Equals Political Bribery

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2025

To oppose the dismantling of USAID and foreign aid in general, defenders of this statist agency and of foreign-aid programs are engaging in predictable conduct. They are pointing out all the people who will supposedly die or suffer if USAID programs and foreign aid are terminated. It’s a variation of what they say whenever someone objects to welfare-state ...

To Understand the Kennedy Assassination, Read and Watch Doug Horne

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2025

Over the years, as I was reading books on the Kennedy assassination, I gradually became convinced that it was a highly sophisticated regime-change operation orchestrated and carried out by the U.S. national security establishment. One of the best books I read in this process was JFK and Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by ...

Harmonious Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 7, 2025

For the life of me, I just cannot understand why so many people choose crisis, chaos, death, suffering, impoverishment, and the destruction of liberty over liberty, prosperity, stability, and harmony. It just makes no sense to me. Look at the U.S.-Mexico border. Is it not the very exemplar of crisis, chaos, death, suffering, impoverishment, and the destruction of ...

The Secret JFK Records: The CIA and the Zapruder Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 6, 2025

Tomorrow, February 7, is when we are supposed to learn about President Trump’s “plan” for releasing CIA records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy, which the CIA has steadfastly and fiercely kept secret for more than 60 years — on grounds of protecting “national security” of course. I remain doubtful that all of those decades-old records will ...

Abolish USAID (and End All Foreign Aid)

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 3, 2025

UPCOMING EVENT: Next week, Wednesday, February 5, at noon. FFF is hosting a get-together in downtown Boston after the oral arguments in Ian Freeman’s appeal, where we will discuss the oral arguments. I will be there. Trillium Brewing Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston, MA 02210; (857) 449-0083; https://trilliumbrewing.com. Reminder: The Court of Appeals is located in the John ...

Why the Mainstream Media Is in Trouble

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 31, 2025

UPCOMING EVENT: Next week, Wednesday, February 5, at noon. FFF is hosting a get-together in downtown Boston after the oral arguments in Ian Freeman’s appeal, where we will discuss the oral arguments. I will be there. Trillium Brewing Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston, MA 02210; (857) 449-0083; https://trilliumbrewing.com. Reminder: The Court of Appeals is located in the John ...