Interventionists Ignore 9/11 Motive to Our Detriment by Jacob G. Hornberger November 3, 2021 In the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, some interventionists are ignoring the most important factor in the Afghanistan debacle: what motivated the terrorists to commit the 9/11 attacks. Or, even worse, some interventionists continue to buy into the motive that U.S. officials ascribed immediately after the attacks: that the terrorists struck on 9/11 because they ...
The Statist War Over Public-School Books by Jacob G. Hornberger November 2, 2021 NOTE: Our ongoing conference on civil liberties continues this evening with a presentation by the inimitable Judge Andrew Napolitano, one of the most ardent and eloquent defenders of civil liberties in our time. You don't want to miss this one! Via Zoom at 7 p.m. Eastern time. To receive a Zoom link, register at our conference web page. ...
The Silence of CIA Media Assets on the JFK Cover-Up by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2021 One of the funniest aspects of President Biden’s decision to continue the CIA’s cover-up of the national-security establishment’s regime-change operation on November 22, 1963, has been the silent reaction of the mainstream media. Ordinarily, the CIA’s journalistic assets would have gone into action by now, publishing editorials and op-eds supporting Biden’s decision to grant the CIA’s demand for ...
Update on Our Civil Liberties Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger October 28, 2021 Our online Zoom conference “Restoring Civil Liberties” is turning out to be one of the best conferences in our 32-year history here at The Future of Freedom Foundation. I know I’m biased, but I truly believe that it is the best conference on the subject of civil liberties in the history of the libertarian movement. This ...
The Evil Rot at the Center of the Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2021 Given President Biden’s decision to succumb to the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of the CIA’s 60-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how President Kennedy felt about this type of secrecy: The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently ...
What the CIA Is Hiding in the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger October 26, 2021 With President Biden succumbing to the CIA’s demand to continue keeping the CIA’s records relating to the Kennedy assassination secret, the question naturally arises: What is the CIA still hiding? (See my blog post of yesterday entitled “Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up.”) To understand what they are still hiding and why they are ...
Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up by Jacob G. Hornberger October 25, 2021 Before I address President Biden’s decision last Friday to continue the national-security establishment’s cover-up of its November 22, 1963, regime-change operation in Dallas, I wish to make one thing perfectly clear: I am not Nostradamus. Yes, I fully realize that I repeatedly predicted that Biden would never order the release of those 60-year-old assassination-related records that the ...
Abolish, Don’t Reform, the Income Tax by Jacob G. Hornberger October 21, 2021 As I have repeatedly emphasized, in order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to dismantle or abolish infringements on liberty. If all we do is reform infringements on liberty, we have done nothing to achieve liberty. All that we have done, at best, is improve our lives as serfs. That’s because reform is not freedom. ...
Colin Powell, Iraq, and the “Good War” by Jacob G. Hornberger October 20, 2021 Some commentators are pointing out that former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who recently passed away, played an instrumental role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Attempting to bolster President George W. Bush’s and the Pentagon’s plan to invade Iraq and effect regime change there, Powell went before the United ...
A Twofer Tonight at FFF by Jacob G. Hornberger October 19, 2021 As part of our ongoing conference series “Restoring Our Civil Liberties,” viewers will have the privilege of watching two great presentations tonight: George Leef and Radley Balko. A regular columnist for Forbes.com, George is director of editorial content for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He was book review editor for The Freeman ...
Don’t Reform the IRS. Abolish It Instead. by Jacob G. Hornberger October 18, 2021 A commentary in the New York Times today demonstrates how different libertarians are from conservatives. The article, entitled “How Not to Reform the IRS,” is written by Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union. Founded in 1977 by James Dale Davidson, the NTU is a longtime conservative organization devoted to tax reform. In his article, ...
Major League Baseball: How Regulation Suppresses Free Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger October 14, 2021 With the baseball playoffs upon us, now would be a good time to talk about how economic regulation suppresses free speech. Major league baseball — and, specifically, its exemption from federal antitrust laws — provides a good example of this phenomenon. First, though, let’s do a short history of antitrust laws. Reflecting the beginning of the turn toward ...
