Will El Chapo’s Wife’s 3-Year Sentence Win the Drug War? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2021 U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras has just sentenced Emma Coronel Aispuro to three years in jail. She’s the wife of noted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. federal penitentiary. She recently pled guilty to helping her husband run his drug empire. Yippee! The decades-long drug war must be ...
Freethinkers in Texas by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2021 Note: I am giving an online presentation tonight on "Economic Liberty and the Constitution." My talk is part of the Constitution Day Celebration sponsored by the Freedom Library in Yuma, a libertarian organization in Yuma that has long been educating people on the Constitution and economics. Anyone can tune in to my talk online. Admission is free. The ...
Restore the Libertarian Brand by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2021 A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times points out that while undergraduate students “largely reject the Republican Party, they are not supportive of the Democrats either.” The article goes on to state that a “a huge opportunity exists for whichever party is wise enough to pay attention to the growing number of Gen Zers in ...
Biden’s Inflation Malarkey by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2021 Just recently I was thinking that at the very least, libertarians have made progress in causing people to see that inflation is caused by the government — specifically the Federal Reserve — and not by the private sector. And then President Biden comes forward and damages my optimism! According to an article in the Washington Post, Biden ...
November 22, 1963 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2021 On this day 58 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down on the streets of Dallas. Almost immediately, federal officials enunciated what has become known as the lone-nut theory of the assassination. It holds that a supposed communist former U.S. Marine, without any ostensible motive, suddenly decided to kill Kennedy. Over the decades, however, as ...
9/11 Motive Is Still Critically Important by Jacob G. Hornberger November 18, 2021 The controversy over motive with respect to the 9/11 attacks twenty years ago is as relevant today as it was back then. After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials immediately announced that the terrorists were motivated by hatred for America’s “freedom and values.” They supposedly hated our churches, our music (e.g., rock and roll), and our hedonist lifestyle. So, ...
Why Doesn’t the CIA Just Destroy Its Secret JFK Records? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2021 With President Biden’s order granting the CIA’s request for continued secrecy of its 60-year-old records retailing to the JFK assassination — on grounds of protecting “national security” — the question naturally arises: Why doesn’t the the CIA simply sneak into the National Archives and just destroy its records and be done with it? By now, it should ...
Will the CIA’s JFK Assassinated-Related Records Ever Get Released? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 11, 2021 By this time, it should be sinking into everyone’s consciousness that the American people are never going to be permitted to see the rest of the CIA’s 60-year-old secret records relating to the JFK assassination. Yes, I know, President Biden says that the new deadline for disclosure is December 22, 2022, which just happens to fall after ...
A “Deadly Attack” on the Capitol? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2021 Yesterday, I was listening to a classical-music station when NPR came on with the news. Addressing the controversy surrounding former President Trump’s efforts to keep secret his records relating to the January 6 protests at the Capitol, the NPR reporter referred to the “deadly attack” on the Capitol. I immediately thought to myself, “Well, that’s certainly an interesting ...
What If a President Is a Threat to National Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2021 Now that President Biden has granted the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of its 58-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, it’s worth asking some important questions, ones that hardly anyone ever asks: What if a president really does pose a threat to national security? What are the CIA and the Pentagon expected to do about it? What would Americans want ...
Upcoming Events and Appearances by Jacob G. Hornberger November 8, 2021 FFF Civil Liberties Conference We are now on the homestretch of our online Zoom conference “Restoring Civil Liberties.” Last week’s excellent presentation by Judge Andrew Napolitano has set the stage for our penultimate presentation by Ron Paul, who just happens to be one of my real-life heroes. It’s a great honor to have him taking the ...
The LA Times’s Fallacious Article on the Minimum Wage by Jacob G. Hornberger November 4, 2021 Last August, the Los Angeles Times published an article on the minimum wage by a college intern from Duke University named Caroline Petro-Cohen. The article took California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder to task for calling for an abolition of the minimum wage. Petro-Cohen said that if employers aren’t forced to pay a minimum wage, ...
