Our Veterans Never Protected Our Freedoms by Jacob G. Hornberger November 15, 2022 One of the trite lines that is repeated over and over again on Veteran’s Day is that veterans should be honored, praised, glorified, and thanked for protecting our freedoms. The big problem is that it’s simply not true. It’s one thing to honor people who work or have worked for the federal government, including those in the ...
The GOP Had It Coming by Jacob G. Hornberger November 14, 2022 REMINDER: Join us this evening (Monday, November 14) for the penultimate (i.e., second to the last) presentation in our online Zoom conference "End Inflation and the Fed." Our speaker this evening will be the great Ron Paul, who electrified people on the right, left, and libertarian in his presidential races with his call to "End the Fed." This is one ...
Kudos to the Los Angeles Times by Jacob G. Hornberger November 11, 2022 Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for its editorial today about Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star who is serving a 9-year jail sentence in Russia for possessing a small quantity of marijuana. Griner was recently transferred to a Russian penal colony to serve out her sentence. According to people who have been in such colonies, ...
Good Riddance on the Tiny Red Ripple by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2022 While we still don’t know how things are going to shake out with respect to control over Congress, conservatives and even some conservative-oriented libertarians are licking their wounds over the fact that their much-anticipated Great Red Wave turned out to be the Tiny Red Ripple. I know that conservatives and conservative-oriented libertarians don’t like hearing this, but ...
The Inanity of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2022 Last week, Thomas Barrack, an old friend of former President Donald Trump, was acquitted by a jury in a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The charge? The feds were accusing Barrack of having failed to register as a foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates. I don’t know if the jury’s verdict was based on insufficient evidence ...
The Anti-Russia Paranoia by Jacob G. Hornberger November 8, 2022 Given the mid-term elections, the anti-Russia paranoia of U.S. officials has been at a peak. The feds have been scouring the Internet to determine whether the Russians are improperly influencing American voters into supporting candidates who refuse to adopt the Pentagon’s and the CIA’s extreme anti-Russia animus. The idea is that American voters, given that they are mostly ...
Immigration Hypocrisy on the Border by Jacob G. Hornberger November 7, 2022 REMINDER! Our online conference "End Inflation and the Fed" resumes this evening with another great presentation. Tonight's speaker will be Robert Wright, senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. The title of his talk is "The Federal Constitution and the Constitution of the Fed." Monday, November 7, at 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Eastern Time, via Zoom FREE!
Not Yours to Give by Jacob G. Hornberger November 4, 2022 When I first discovered libertarianism in the late 1970s, I came across an essay entitled “Not Yours to Give.” The essay was published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, where I would go to work as program director in 1987. The essay had a big impact on me because it explained in ...
America’s Immigration Surveillance State by Jacob G. Hornberger November 3, 2022 As longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation know, ever since our inception in 1989 we have called for open borders — genuine open borders — as the only way to resolve America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis. (See our 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration.) The primary reason is moral: ...
Expanding IRS Tyranny to Reduce Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger November 2, 2022 One of the interesting aspects of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was the allocation of $80 billion in increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service, one of the most powerful and tyrannical agencies in U.S. history. The money is intended to be used for enhanced tax enforcement, especially through the potential hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents who, ...
Dissolve the Pentagon for Its Nuclear Antics by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2022 If the Pentagon’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine somehow turns nuclear and both Russia and the United States hit each other with their entire nuclear arsenals, I wonder how Americans who supported the Pentagon in the crisis would react. I’m referring, of course, to those Americans who would survive the nuclear onslaught. Most, if not all, of them, ...
No U.S. Negotiations with Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger October 31, 2022 Amidst the increasingly degrading situation in Ukraine, a number of American commentators are calling on President Biden to enter into negotiations with Russia in an attempt to resolve the crisis. I’ve got a better idea: the U.S. government should instead butt out of the crisis entirely. It should immediately stop furnishing military and financial aid to Ukraine, withdraw ...
