Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2024 In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction. However, given their blind allegiance to the former president, what they are unable to see is that Trump is largely responsible for his own woes in the ...
Will the U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine Lead to Nuclear War? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2024 When U.S. officials began using NATO to move eastward toward Russia’s borders after the ostensible end of the Cold War, their aim was to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. Their hope was to embroil Russia in a forever war with Ukraine that would “degrade” Russia by bringing about the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian troops. By ...
A National Home with a Government-Owned Front Door? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2024 Advocates of immigration controls oftentimes use the concept of a front door of a person’s home to justify their support of immigration controls. They say that since a homeowner has the right to determine who comes into his house, the government should have the authority to decide who comes through the “front door” of our national home. The ...
Remembering Those Who Died for Our Government by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2024 Each Memorial Day, countless Americans recite the standard mantra that has been inculcated within their minds from the first grade of the public (i.e., government) schools to which their parents were forced to send them: American soldiers who died in America’s wars died to protect our freedoms and defend our country. Each Memorial Day, it is worth reminding ...
Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2024 In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which one would be a stronger drug warrior. Both of them vowed to smash the violent drug cartels that dominate Mexican society. It would be difficult to find a better ...
Closer to Nuclear War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2024 I can’t help but wonder what proponents of America’s participation in the old Cold War dinosaur known as NATO are thinking about NATO officials who are contemplating sending NATO military personnel into Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops in their war against Russia. Those who relish the idea of nuclear war between the United States and Russia undoubtedly must ...
Where Is the Compassion in Social Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2024 One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Security, like all other welfare-state programs, uses the coercive apparatus of the federal government — specifically taxation on income — to take money from younger people to give it to ...
The WSJ Misses the Real Point on Chinese Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2024 A couple of days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial decrying the Hong Kong government’s suppression of a song entitled “Glory to Hong Kong.” The editorial points out that the song became popular during pro-democracy protests in 2019 but now the Chinese regime has made it a criminal offense to sing, broadcast, or publish ...
The U.S. Defeat in Vietnam Changed Nothing by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2024 April 30 was the anniversary date when North Vietnamese forces forced U.S. officials to exit Vietnam, much to their chagrin. That was after some 58,000 American men had died for nothing, not to mention the tens of thousands of injured American soldiers and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed or injured as a result of U.S. intervention ...
The Antisemitism Controversy Shows the Wisdom of the First Amendment by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2024 When proponents of the Constitution were trying to persuade the American people to adopt it, they said that the only powers that the federal government could exercise were the powers that were expressly enumerated in the document itself. Since there was no power to infringe freedom of speech, for example, the federal government could not suppress speech. However, ...
Four Obstacles Facing Libertarian Proponents of Border Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2024 Libertarian proponents of immigration controls inevitably run into four obstacles in their support of this particular statist program: 1. The non-aggression principle. This is the core principle of the libertarian philosophy. It holds that it is morally wrong to initiate force against another person. Another way of stating the non-aggression principle is this: People have the right to ...
The Principles of Economic Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2024 Why shouldn’t people be free to keep everything they earn and decide what to do with their own money? That is a question that should be asked, discussed, and debated all across the nation. In other words, why not a society in which there is no federal income tax or IRS to enforce it? No more income tax ...
