Biden’s Drug-War Hypocrisy by Jacob G. Hornberger September 7, 2022 On the day that U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner received her 9-year jail sentence from a Russian court for illegally possessing cannabis oil, President Biden issued the following statement: American citizen Brittney Griner received a prison sentence that is one more reminder of what the world already knew: Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney. It’s unacceptable, and ...
Pity the Socialists in Minnesota by Jacob G. Hornberger September 6, 2022 One can’t help but feel sorry for socialists who live in Minnesota. The reason? They are getting terribly embarrassed by the wage situation in that state. Socialists have long claimed that a minimum wage is necessary to protect workers from greedy, profit-seeking employers. Without a state-managed minimum wage, the argument goes, exploitive employers would pay workers only subsistence ...
Mysterious Falls from High Buildings by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2022 NOTE: I will be speaking today and tomorrow at the Ron Paul Institute's annual conference on America's warfare state, which this year is being held at the The Westin Washington Dulles Airport. The theme of the conference is "Anatomy of a Police State." For details, see this blog post. If you can make it, I am sure you'll ...
Fake Concern for the Taiwanese by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2022 President Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the Pentagon, and the CIA assure us that their machinations regarding Taiwan are motivated by their deep concern for the welfare of the Taiwanese people. How ridiculous is that? What amazes me is that they honestly believe that people are going to believe such nonsense. What amazes me even more is that there are ...
Why Not Just Abolish the IRS? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2022 While some conservatives are criticizing President Biden for hiring 87,000 new well-armed IRS agents under the guise of fighting inflation, I’ve got a better idea: Let’s just abolish the IRS and, at the same time, end the federal income tax. The idea is actually not as radical as it sounds. It certainly wouldn’t have sounded radical to ...
87,000 New IRS Agents Will Reduce Inflation? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 30, 2022 REMINDER: I will be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute's annual conference, which this year is being held at the The Westin Washington Dulles Airport. The theme of the conference is "Anatomy of a Police State." See my blog post of yesterday. If you can make it, I am sure you'll be happy you did. If you do ...
Are You Attending the RPI Conference This Saturday? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 29, 2022 The Ron Paul Institute is holding its annual conference at the Westin Washington Dulles Airport this Saturday, September 3. It stands to be another outstanding one. I have the honor and pleasure of again speaking at it. I will also be speaking at the conference’s program for young scholars the day before. The theme of this year’s conference ...
No Protests for Fetty Wap by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2022 NOTE: On Saturday, September 3, the Ron Paul Institute is hosting its annual conference at the Westin Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, Virginia. The theme for this year’s conference is “Anatomy of a Police State.” I will be speaking at a special add-on conference for young scholars the day before the main conference. Moreover, I have just been ...
How Did America Survive Without an Espionage Act? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 23, 2022 For some 140 years, the United States did not have an Espionage Act. It didn’t come into existence until 1917, when U.S. officials used it to punish Americans who had the audacity to question the U.S. intervention into World War I, an intervention that ultimately led to the rise of the Hitler regime in the 1930s. No ...
America’s Perpetual Foreign-Policy Crises by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2022 Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The national-security establishment — i.e. the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — need such crises to justify their continued existence and their ...
Invoking the Fifth by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2022 Driven by their extreme anti-Trump animus — which rivals their extreme anti-Russia and anti-China animuses — the anti-Trump crowd is up in arms over Trump’s decision to take the Fifth Amendment in a deposition that was part of an investigation into his finances by the New York attorney general, Leticia James. They are mocking and ridiculing Trump for ...
The U.S. Murder of Ayman al-Zawahri by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2022 While U.S. officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press have described the U.S. national-security establishment’s recent assassination of Ayman al-Zawahri as a great victory for President Biden and the U.S. “global war on terror,” it is important to keep in mind that the assassination was just plain murder on the part of America’s federal killing machine. Federal ...
