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Federal Drug-War Weirdness

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2011

The drug war just keeps getting weirder and weirder. First it was the feds selling assault rifles to the drug cartels. Now, it turns out that the feds have also been laundering large amounts of cash for the drug cartels. Its harder to get weirder than that. Before long, well learn that the feds have been operating one of those ...

The U.S. Government Loved the Iraqi People to Death

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2011

Now that the 9-year military occupation of Iraq is presumably coming to an end, it would be appropriate to reflect on the Iraqi people who died as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of the country. How many Iraqis have died in the process? We don’t know. The reason we don’t know is that the U.S. government did ...

Pearl Harbor Was FDR’s Back Door to War

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 7, 2011

Given that today is the anniversary date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we’ll no doubt be treated to standard interventionist articles stating what a great thing World War II was. The American people were overwhelmingly opposed to entry into World War II. That’s not surprising given the consequences of World War I. There was absolutely no reason for ...

Freedom in Iraq

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 6, 2011

According to the New York Times, “The American Embassy in Baghdad has placed sharp new restrictions on how government workers can travel inside the walled-off International Zone, citing serious threats of kidnapping and terrorist attacks across Iraq and near the embassy’s own doorstep.” Wait a minute! Isn’t Iraq supposed to be the country that is now a paradise ...

Why Iranians Hate Us and Love Us

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 5, 2011

Stephen Kinzer’s excellent op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times provides another side of the story with respect to Iran. The title of the article is, “Iran’s First Great Satan Was England.” The article is an excellent starting point for understanding the background of the relationship between Iran and the United States. Kinzer carefully documents why Iranians have long ...

About Those Chicken-hawks

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2011

I find chicken-hawks to be an interesting group of people. They’re calling on the U.S. government to wage war on Iran, just as they did with Iraq. Yet, at the same time, they steadfastly refuse to join the U.S. Armed Forces to go fight against Iran, just as they were steadfastly unwilling to do so in the war on ...

Hornberger’s Blog, December 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011 Dorothy Rabinowitzs Attack on Ron Paul, Part 4 Dorothy Rabinowitzs Attack on Ron Paul, Part 1 Dorothy Rabinowitzs Attack on Ron Paul, Part 2 Dorothy Rabinowitzs Attack on Ron Paul, Part 3 The most disgraceful but, at the same time, the most revealing and, also, the most ominous aspect of Wall Street Journal editorial board ...

Loving Egypt’s Military Dictatorship

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2011

The disingenuousness of the U.S. government clearly has no bounds. What better example than its recent, somewhat lackadaisical call on the Egyptian military to relinquish power to the civilian sector? After all, guess who’s been propping up and supporting Egypt’s military dictatorship for decades. Yes, the democracy-loving U.S. government. Billions and billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money have been ...

Dictatorship Codified

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2011

A Washington Post op-ed by Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republic Senator John McCain shows, once again, that the threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people comes from both liberals and conservatives, especially those within the government. The op-ed was written in support of the 2012 defense authorization bill, which effectively authorizes the president ...

Heading Toward Greece

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2011

American statists just don't get it. They see whats happening with Greece, and yet steadfastly continue down the same road here in the United States. With Americans unable to let go of warfare-state programs and welfare-state programs, federal spending and borrowing continue to soar, hurtling the nation toward the same financial bankruptcy that now confronts Greece. The situation in Greece ...

Statism from the Right and Left

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 28, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, a conservative, and New York Times columnist Gail Collins, a liberal, recently provided excellent insights into how the statist mind operates, both from a conservative and a liberal perspective. During a recent presidential debate, Gingrich praised the Patriot Act, claiming that “all of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives.” He’s ...

College Civil Liberties Tour

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2011

FFF is embarking on one of the most exciting programs in our 22-year history. We are partnering with the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) to go on a one-week college tour next February featuring a panel entitled “The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution.” The panel will consist of three lawyers, a conservative, a liberal, and a ...