Let’s Think at a Higher Level by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2019 One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarians and non-libertarians is with respect to the welfare-warfare state way of life. Libertarians are committed to dismantling, repealing, abolishing, or ending it, while conservatives and progressives are committed to maintaining its existence and simply reforming it. One of the most remarkable achievements in freedom occurred when the First Amendment was adopted. Since it ...
Immigration Tyranny and Cruelty Come Home by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2019 I can’t help but wonder if what has happened to Theresa Todd will cause conservative-leaning libertarians to abandon their support of immigration controls, the system of immigration central planning, cruelty, and tyranny that both conservatives and progressives have unfortunately foisted upon our land. Todd lives in West Texas. One night she was driving down a highway when she was flagged ...
Iraq Déjà Vu with Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2019 Given U.S. National-Security Advisor John Bolton’s war-provoking antics with Iran, I’m getting that déjà vu feeling with how President George W. Bush and his team of interventionists took the U.S. to war with Iraq. Of course, the first question that naturally arises is: Who’s the real acting president, Donald Trump or John Bolton? The Washington ...
The World’s Dictatress by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2019 In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, she would inevitably become the world’s “dictatress” and begin behaving accordingly. No can can deny that Adams’ prediction has come true. America has ...
Why School Compulsory-Attendance Laws? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2019 Imagine if Congress were to enact a law that required everyone to attend church on Sundays. The overwhelming majority of Americans would go up in arms. The concept of religious liberty is so deeply ingrained in our American heritage that there is no way that people, including devout Christians, would accept such a law. That heritage was enshrined in ...
Social Security’s Insult of Young People by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2019 Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, there is no Social Security fund into which people have “contributed” their money during their work years. There are also no lock boxes at Fort Knox that contain people’s names and the money they have “contributed” for their retirement. From the very beginning, Social Security has been a ...
Which New War Next: Iran or Venezuela? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2019 Pity President Donald “America First” Trump, Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo, National-Security Advisor (and Cold War fanatic) John Bolton, and Special U.S. Representative to Venezuela (and Cold War fanatic) Eliott Abrams. Knowing that the American people have grown weary with their forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, these four interventionists ...
CIA Intervention in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2019 As far as I know, no evidence has yet surfaced that definitively establishes direct CIA involvement in the U.S. regime-change operation in Venezuela. But it is a virtual certainty that the CIA is directly embroiled in the operation. How do we know that? Because that’s what the CIA does. It’s what it has always done. ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2019 Like other U.S. regime-change operations, the current one against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is rife with hypocrisy. After all, what is the main complaint that President Trump and other U.S. officials have against Maduro? It is that he is a socialist whose socialist programs and policies have brought misery and suffering to the Venezuelan ...
Regime Change Failure (So Far) in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2019 So far, the U.S. national-security establishment’s regime-change operation in Venezuela has met with failure. Having designated Venezuelan public official Juan Guaidó as the new president of the country, U.S. officials have still not been able to deliver him the reins of power. At the very least, Guaidó isn’t collecting taxes from anyone, which is usually a good ...
Democrats Don’t Get It on the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2019 After decades of working with Republicans to destroy people with their much-vaunted war on drugs, some Democrats are now coming out in favor of legalizing marijuana. Their change of position is a testament to the power of the shifting winds of public opinion. When the winds shift, so do the positions of many political types. Unfortunately, ...
Both Conservatives and Liberals Love Monetary Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2019 While conservatives, led by their leader President Trump, are railing against the Democrats for their devotion to socialism, the current controversy over the Federal Reserve shows us, once again, that conservatives are as devoted to socialism as liberals (i.e., progressives) are. As Richard Ebeling explains in his FFF ebook Monetary Central Planning and ...
