Bionic Mosquito Is Back on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2020 The Bionic Mosquito, a libertarian who favors America’s system of immigration controls, is back on the subject of immigration. In a new article, he refers to an article of his back in 2015 entitled “Compared to What?” in which he references a point that I have often made about America’s system of immigration controls. As I have long pointed ...
Why Did Japan Bomb Pearl Harbor? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2020 We all know that Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, gave rise to U.S. involvement in World War II. But how many people ask an important question: Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor in the first place? After all, Japanese officials obviously knew that bombing Pearl Harbor would mean war with the United States, a country that had been instrumental ...
Get Rid of the Safety Net by Jacob G. Hornberger March 9, 2020 Central to the idea of a welfare state is the notion of the “safety net.” The idea is that a free society is much like walking the high wire. Highwire walkers sometimes fall, hit the ground, and die, but not if they have a safety net. If they fall, they fall into the safety net and live another day. The ...
Economic Liberty and Consumer Sovereignty by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2020 In a genuinely free society, people have the right to engage in any occupation, profession, or vocation without having to seek a permit, license, or other government permission. The idea is that economic liberty is a fundamental, God-given right, one that government is prohibited from controlling or interfering with. As the Declaration of Independence points out, it is the ...
End the Fed by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2020 In response to the potential economic downturn in the economy arising from the spread of the Coronavirus, the Federal Reserve dropped the federal funds rate by half a point — to a range of 1% to 1.25%. Ironically, after the Fed’s announcement, the stock market dropped 786 points or 2.9%. The Fed’s aim is to stimulate economic activity. By lowering ...
The Right of Trial by Jury by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2020 One of the best things that our American ancestors did was to include the right of trial by jury in the Bill of Rights. The Fifth Amendment states in part: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have ...
Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger March 3, 2020 The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been in effect for 60 years. It’s time to end it. The embargo makes it a criminal offense for any American to spend money in Cuba or to do business in Cuba. If an American travels to Cuba and spends money there or does business there, he is subject ...
Repealing America’s Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger March 2, 2020 Ever since The Future of Freedom Foundation was founded in 1989, FFF has been advocating the immediate repeal of America’s welfare-state way of life. Thirty years ago, there were those who were arguing that immediate repeal would bring economic and social chaos within American society. Today — 30 years later — there are people who are making the same ...
A Virtue of the 14th Amendment by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2020 When the Constitution called the federal government into existence, it set forth its limited, enumerated powers. It was different, however, with respect to state governments. Except for a few express restrictions on their powers enumerated in the Constitution, the states could continue exercising whatever powers they wished against people within the state. That concept of ...
Immunity for Immigration Murder by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2020 The American immigration police state continues to grow more tyrannical with each passing day. The latest example involves the U.S. Supreme Court, which has just issued a ruling in a case that effectively gives the Border Patrol a license to kill Mexican citizens. And guess which two magic words the Court used to justify its decision: “national security,” the ...
TSA Searches and Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2020 Every time you go to the airport and are forced to undergo the TSA screening process, including the possibility of pat-down searches, keep in mind that this is for one reason alone: to ensure that the CIA and the Pentagon continue to have the “right” to intervene and meddle in the affairs of other nations. That’s what the destruction ...
The War on Drugs Meets the War on Immigrants by Jacob G. Hornberger February 24, 2020 Both conservatives and leftists (also known as “liberals”) have long lamented the flow of immigrants illegally entering the United States from Mexico or seeking refugee status within the United States. To combat this, statists have erected a police state in the American Southwest that consists of a broad array of totalitarian-like measures that have contributed to the destruction of ...
