The Pentagon’s B-52 Message to North Koreans by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2016 In response to reports that North Korea had exploded a hydrogen bomb, the Pentagon recently flew a B-52 bomber over South Korea. Most Americans would think that that was just some innocuous show of force. In actuality, it was a highly provocative reminder that the Pentagon wanted to send the North Koreans of what the U.S. military had done ...
The State of the Union Speech Obama Should Have Given by Jacob G. Hornberger January 14, 2016 My fellow Americans, the current state of the United States is a disaster. The federal government continues with its out-of-control spending binge, on both the welfare state and the warfare state. The federal government is going deeper and deeper into debt, much as Greece and Puerto Rico did before going broke. An ever-growing number of Americans have become hopelessly dependent on Social ...
Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Hillary Clinton and the Income Tax by Future of Freedom Foundation January 14, 2016
The Drug War Has Destroyed Tourism to Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2016 There are lots of good reasons to oppose the drug war and to continue pressing for drug legalization. The drug war has caused a massive number of deaths, including tens of thousands of innocent people in Mexico. It has engendered robberies, thefts, muggings, and burglaries by addicts and drug users struggling to pay the exorbitant black-market prices resulting from ...
Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Bernie Sanders and Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2016
Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger January 12, 2016 It is standard strategy in North Korea for officials to keep the citizenry constantly on edge about the possibility of a U.S. attack. The idea is that if people are kept afraid, they will inevitably rally to the government, ignore their desperate economic plight, and accept any loss of liberty necessary to keep them safe. To keep the citizenry afraid, ...
Does El Chapo’s Arrest Mean the Drug War Is Over? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 11, 2016 Given all the hoopla in the mainstream press over the arrest of famous Mexican drug lord “El Chapo,” some Americans are undoubtedly wondering whether this means that the decades-long U.S. drug war is finally over. The answer is no. Notwithstanding the arrest of El Chapo, the drug war will, like the Energizer Bunny, will keep going and going and going. It’s ...
I Failed to Convert Ted Cruz to Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2016 Back in the 1980s, I had an opportunity to convert Ted Cruz to libertarianism. It’s a sad confession to make but, yes, I failed to do so. My opportunity to convert Cruz arose back in the 1980s when he was a high-school student in Houston. At that time I was a lawyer practicing law in Dallas. By this time, I ...
