Mueller’s Indictment Isn’t Worth Squat by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2018 I sure wish the mainstream media and all those critics of Donald Trump had had better civics teachers in high school. If they had, they would understand that special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against those Russian officials for supposedly illegally meddling in America’s presidential election doesn’t mean squat. Instead, the media and the Trump critics have accepted the indictment ...
NATO Is the Model Entangling Alliance by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2018 Suppose I had an unlimited power of attorney to sign your name as a co-signer on any loan I made with the bank. Every time I went to the bank and borrowed money, I could legally obligate you to pay my loan if I defaulted. How would you like that? My hunch is that you wouldn’t be too excited about ...
The Deep State’s Absorption of Donald Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2018 The dust-up over NATO confirms, once again, that President Trump, unfortunately, has been absorbed by the same deep state whose existence he sometimes laments. After questioning here in the United States the usefulness of NATO, Trump traveled to a NATO meeting in Europe, where he flipped and declared his firm commitment to this Cold War anachronism, declaring publicly, “I ...
U.S. Dictatorial Fangs at the World Cup by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2018 In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, entitled “In Search of Monsters to Destroy,” John Quincy Adams warned the American people that if the U.S. government ever became an imperial, interventionist government, it would inevitably become like a dictatorial regime. A good example of how right Adams has proven to be has occurred during the World Cup ...
A Critique of My Fundraising Letter … From a Libertarian by Jacob G. Hornberger July 10, 2018 Every time I think I have seen it all, I discover that I haven’t. Yesterday, for the first time in the 28-year history of The Future of Freedom Foundation, I was critiqued for what I wrote in a fundraising letter that we just sent out to our supporters. In the letter, we are asking our supporters to help ...
North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2018 With North Korea accusing Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo of engaging in a “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” it should be increasingly obvious to most everyone that North Korea is not going to destroy its nuclear bombs. This should not surprise anyone. The dumbest thing that North Korea could ever do is to destroy its ...
The Mystery of Robert Knudsen by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2018 On January 29, 1989, the Washington Post published an obituary of Robert Knudsen, which stated in part: Robert LeRoy Knudsen, 61, a retired photographer with the White House staff, where he served for 28 years, died Jan. 27 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Annandale. Mr. Knudsen had provided photographic coverage of every ...
Waging Minimum-Wage War Against Black Teenagers by Jacob G. Hornberger July 5, 2018 Yesterday morning at my neighborhood Starbucks, a white woman around 20 years old who has worked there for quite some time told me that she would be leaving Starbucks within a few days. She told me the reason is that she has secured another job, a retail job that is totally unrelated to the coffee trade. She said that ...
The Revolutions of Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2018 One of the most fascinating aspects of Independence Day is that the year the Declaration of Independence was signed — 1776 — was the same year that saw the publication of Adam Smith’s famous treatise on economics, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. That is quite a coincidence, one that had ...
Immigration and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2018 Immigration and the drug war provide a classic example of how two government interventions can intersect, reinforce each other, inflict ever-increasing misery on people, and destroy freedom, security, and prosperity in the process. Why do so many people from Mexico and Central America wish to come to the United States? Why are they so willing to risk their lives to ...
The Supreme Court’s Deference to the Pentagon by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2018 Imagine a county sheriff that took a suspected drug-law violator into custody more than 10 years ago. Since then, the man has been held in jail without being accorded a trial. The district attorney and the sheriff promise to give the man a trial sometime in the future but they’re just not sure when. Meanwhile the man sits in ...
Lee Harvey Oswald and Spenser Rapone by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2018 The U.S. military’s treatment of Army Lt. Spenser Rapone provides additional circumstantial evidence that the official story about accused lone-nut presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is pure bunk. Rapone is a West Point graduate who was admitted to West Point after serving as an enlisted man in Afghanistan. Recently, the army brass gave him a less-than-honorable discharge. The reason? Rapone ...
