Rafael Caro Quintero and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2022 U.S. officials are celebrating the capture of Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican drug lord wanted for the kidnapping, torture, and execution in 1985 of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who had been assigned to operate in Mexico as part of the U.S. war on drugs. Caro Quintero had already served 28 years in jail in Mexico ...
No Need to Meet With Dictators by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2022 By now, most everyone knows about President Biden’s famous “fist bump” with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi dictator who has been accused of orchestrating the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi when he visited a Saudi consulate in Turkey. The fist bump took place during Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with bin ...
DeSantis’s Socialist Measures to Condemn Communism by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2022 Republicans sometimes introduce a bit of humor into public life, even if they have no intention of being funny. A recent example is Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Undoubtedly catering to Cuban-Americans in the hope of garnering their votes, DeSantis recently signed a bill establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day” to honor the millions ...
Sanctions, Immigration Controls, and Death in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger July 14, 2022 Horrific economic and political conditions in Venezuela have caused more than six million people to flee the country in a desperate attempt to save their lives. Hundreds of thousands of them have come to the United States, where ordinarily they would be subject to forced deportation back to Venezuela under America’s socialist system of immigration controls. In ...
Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2022 As longtime FFF supporters know, we have long called for a lifting of the U.S. embargo on Cuba, primarily on moral grounds. First, the embargo targets the Cuban people with economic privation and even death in the hope that the Cuban people will revolt against Cuba’s communist regime and replace it with a pro-U.S. rightwing dictatorship, much ...
Is Brittney Griner Really Guilty? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2022 Yesterday, I wrote about U.S. drug-war hypocrisy in Russia, specifically referring to the case of Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star who was arrested in Russia for possession of a trace amount of hashish oil found in two vaping cartridges in her luggage. As I pointed out in yesterday’s article, U.S. officials and the mainstream press ...
U.S. Drug-War Hypocrisy in Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2022 The drug-war hypocrisy of President Biden and the mainstream press are on full display in Russia, specifically in the case of Brittney Griner, the renowned W.N.B.A. basketball star. Griner was caught with a small amount of hashish oil in her luggage upon arriving in Russia to play for a Russian basketball team during the offseason. She has been ...
Conservatives Are Disasters on Civil Liberties by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2022 The noted conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, who, according to Wikipedia, “was reportedly floated as a potential candidate for the Libertarian nomination in the 2008 presidential election,” provides an excellent example of how conservatives simply cannot be trusted when it comes to civil liberties and, equally important, how different conservatives are from libertarians. Take a look at ...
The Damage of the Libertarian Brand by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2022 In the last two days, critics on Twitter have taken me to task for pointing out in two blog posts (see here and here) that school vouchers are anti-libertarian. They say that there is nothing wrong with libertarians supporting vouchers because (1) vouchers supposedly make things better; (2) vouchers supposedly transition toward the libertarian ideal of ...
More on Anti-Libertarian School Vouchers by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2022 My blog post yesterday, “School Vouchers Are Anti-Libertarian,” stirred up quite a number of critical comments on Twitter. There were three major points that the critics made, which, they maintained, was why libertarians should support them: (1) School vouchers improve the overall educational system; (2) School vouchers move us in the direction of educational liberty; and ...
School Vouchers Are Anti-Libertarian by Jacob G. Hornberger July 5, 2022 It stands to reason that conservatives would support school vouchers. That’s because conservatives, even while using pro-freedom lingo, support reforming, not dismantling, the welfare-warfare state way of life. But what’s with libertarians who support school vouchers? Why do they support what is clearly an anti-libertarian program? The core principle of libertarianism is what is called the non-aggression ...
Open Borders and the Pursuit of Happiness by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2022 In a few days, Americans will be celebrating the Declaration of Independence. Amidst the hot dogs and the fireworks, it’s worth pondering the principles that Jefferson enunciated in that document. The Declaration states that people have been endowed with natural, God-given rights and that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Let’s focus ...
