Killing Non-Violent Drug Offenders by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2020 It is bad enough that federal and state officials have been punishing people for decades for possessing and distributing drugs. In a genuinely free society, people have the right to possess, ingest, and distribute anything they want. It’s not a coincidence that North Korea, China, Egypt, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Cuba have criminalized the possession and distribution of ...
No One Has a Right to an Education by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2020 In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times is celebrating a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a good education is a constitutional right and, therefore, that states have a legal duty to provide it to children. The court’s decision and the Times’ celebration of it only goes to show how America’s ...
Healthcare Soul-Searching in a Time of Coronavirus by Jacob G. Hornberger April 28, 2020 Suppose that in 1990, you purchased a perpetual motion machine for $1,000. When it arrived, it didn’t work. Ever since then, you have been trying to make it work. You have taken it to countless repair shops, spending a small fortune trying to get the thing fixed. Year after year, decade after decade, you have spent countless ...
The Evil of Drafting Women (and Men) by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2020 In March, a federal agency named the Commission on Military, National, and Public Service issued an official report on whether America’s system of conscription should continue and, if so, whether women (along with men) should be subject to being drafted should circumstances warrant it. After months of study and deliberation, the commission answered yes ...
Price-Gouging Idiocy by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2020 It’s an emergency and, therefore, it’s once again time for price-gouging idiocy and the further destruction of liberty in America. The New York Times reports that two brothers, Matt Colvin and Noah Colvin, who stockpiled 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer have entered into a settlement with state officials in Tennessee that enable them to ...
Making America Poor Again by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2020 The New York Times points out that many of America’s largest department stores might disappear forever as a result of the massive lockdown of America’s economy during the coronavirus crisis. Recently the entire executive staff at Lord & Taylor was laid off. The venerable Neiman Marcus is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. According to the Times, ...
Debt is No Big Deal? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2020 If you want to see how leftist economic thinking has contributed to the financial and economic morass into which our nation has plunged, read an essay entitled “The Washington Post’s Debt Cult” by a man named Dean Baker, who is founder and president of a leftist think tank named the “Center for Economic and Policy ...
Where Are the Feds Getting All That Money? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2020 $2 trillion! That is the amount of free money that the feds are distributing to the American people to help them get through the coronavirus crisis. Most everyone is receiving a part of this free money. And the feds are just getting a good start! When the gift-giving is all over, it is expected to add ...
The Leftist Life of Healthcare Delusion by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2020 Amidst the difficult times in which we are living, there are moments that provide comedic relief. One of these is when leftists point out all the faults, failures, and foibles of America’s healthcare system and then conclude, “Capitalism has really failed us and so we need to turn to socialism.” That’s rich! It would be difficult ...
Just Keep Drinking the Arsenic by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2020 A person comes into a doctor’s office not feeling well. The doctor diagnoses an upset stomach. He prescribes a daily dose of arsenic to his patient, telling him that he will start feeling well soon. That’s what U.S. officials have done with their shutdown of businesses and industries across America. Faced with the massive adverse consequences ...
Functional Healthcare and Judicial Systems by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2020 lAs I continue to emphasize, there is only one way out of the deadly coronavirus morass — a free-market healthcare system. A genuine free-market healthcare system — one in which healthcare and the state are totally separated — one in which the government plays no role whatsoever in healthcare — one in which the healthcare industry, not ...
Why Do We Need a “Safety Net”? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2020 One of the core principles of statists (i.e., people who look to government to take care of people) is the concept of the “safety net.” It entails using the government to provide assistance to people to ensure that no one falls off the “high wire” of life and hits the ground and dies of starvation, illness, or ...
