Praise the Price-Gouger by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2008 It must be hurricane season because we’re once again being subjecting to complaints about price-gouging. In the finest communist and socialist tradition, some Americans are turning in businesses to the state that significantly raise prices of essential items, such as gasoline, water, or ice, in the midst of a hurricane. As always, state officials ...
Freedom, Socialism, and the Truman Show by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2008 In my September 10, 2008, blog post, I explained that one of the great benefits of public (i.e., government) schooling and government-approved schooling is the political indoctrination to which most children in society are subjected. The indoctrination is so effective that it sometimes lasts throughout a person’s life. The indoctrination, however, is not ...
The Drug War’s Attack on Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger September 15, 2008 Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of the founder of the Mamas and Papas pop group and a former star in the television sitcom “One Day at a Time,” was arrested last week and charged with possession of narcotics. The arrest took place while Phillips was going through the security screening at Los Angeles International Airport. There are ...
Debating Lipstick and Pigs by Jacob G. Hornberger September 12, 2008 While people in the McCain camp are on the attack over Obama’s comment about lipstick and pigs, some of the mainstream pundits are asking why so much time is being spent on what seems to be a rather silly issue. Why not spend time focusing on the important, burning issues of our time, they’re asking? The ...
A Better Way to Have Handled 9/11 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2008 Seven years after 9/11, shouldn’t Americans ask if there was a better way to respond to those attacks? After all, look at where we are today as a result of how President Bush chose to respond to 9/11: 1. A perpetual “war on terrorism” being waged by U.S. personnel all over the world. 2. A military invasion ...
Government Bailouts and Government Schooling by Jacob G. Hornberger September 10, 2008 One of the great benefits of public schooling, from the standpoint of government officials, is the power to indoctrinate people with myths and false beliefs. Oftentimes, these myths and false realities retain control over a person’s mind all the way through adulthood. With the government’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we have ...
God Is Not Responsible for Sins in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger September 9, 2008 A reader advised me that in my blog yesterday, I had misinterpreted Sarah Palin’s statement to the Assembly of God Church in Alaska. The reader said that Palin wasn’t actually saying that the Iraq invasion and occupation were part of God’s plan but instead was simply requesting people to pray that the operation is part of God’s plan. The ...
Palin’s Wrongheaded View of God’s Plans by Jacob G. Hornberger September 8, 2008 In an address to an Assembly of God Church in Alaska, Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested that church members pray “that our national leaders are sending on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and ...
The Reform Game by Jacob G. Hornberger September 5, 2008 The campaign season is abuzz with all four of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates exclaiming how they’re going to “reform” Washington. Not surprisingly, the establishment media is excited about the theme, calling on the candidates to come up with the “specifics” of their respective “reform” plans. There are two implicit assumptions in this reform ...
Nominate Palin for President by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2008 As I’ve watched the storm of controversy surrounding Sarah Palin, a thought ocurred to me. What the Republicans ought to do is reverse their candidates, making Palin their presidential candidate and McCain their vice-presidential candidate. After all, the biggest concern about Palin is her lack of foreign-policy experience. Yet, when we consider the best ...
Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic by Jacob G. Hornberger September 3, 2008 We just returned from Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic at the Target Center in Minneapolis, where FFF’s program director, Bart Frazier, and I manned a booth for FFF. What an exciting event! Great speeches interspersed with great music! And best of all, a fantastic audience of 10,000 freedom-loving people! There was ...
Fearing Obama by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2008 Conservatives and the neo-cons seem to be growing increasingly agitated over the possibility that Barack Obama is going to win the November election. Part of this agitation is, of course, over the likelihood that federal spending (and, therefore, taxation or inflation), along with domestic socialism and regulation, are going to soar even more than ...
