God’s Way or Caesar’s Way? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 24, 2019 When God vested man with free will, He knew that when it came to charity, some people would choose to not help others in need. But that is the essence of freedom and free will — the right to say either yes or no when it comes to helping others. If God had forced people to make ...
Another U.S. Soldier Dies for Nothing in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger December 23, 2019 If the latest U.S. soldier just killed in Afghanistan, as yet unidentified, was married, I can’t help but wonder what U.S. officials are going to say to his (or her) spouse and possibly children when they offer her the flag that draped his casket at his funeral. “He died protecting our freedom.” Or “He died for enduring ...
Social Security is Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger December 20, 2019 Many seniors today have convinced themselves that Social Security, the program that President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration foisted on the United States in the 1930s, is a retirement program, one in which they have “contributed” their money during their work lives. They have this quaint notion at retirement that for their working years, U.S. officials were dutifully depositing ...
Pardon Assange and Snowden by Jacob G. Hornberger December 19, 2019 The Washington Post has just released a trove of previously secret records documenting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been based on a multitude of lies and deception. It is beyond dispute that the Pentagon and other elements of America’s deep state were determined to keep those records secret from the American people.That’s because it took ...
The Pentagon’s and CIA’s Destruction of the Bill of Rights by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2019 Our American ancestors did not trust the federal government. That lack of trust is reflected first in the Constitution and then in the Bill of Rights. While the Constitution called the federal government into existence, it strictly limited its powers to those enumerated in the document itself.
A Powerful Government Equals a Weak Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger December 17, 2019 It is supremely ironic that the United States has the most powerful government in history and, at the same time, the most frightened people in the world. Many Americans are scared of everything. Russia. Iran. China. North Korea. Muslims. Saddam Hussein. Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda. The terrorists. The drug dealers. The illegal immigrants. The communists. ISIS. Syria. Such Americans ...
Socialist Fantasies in Education by Jacob G. Hornberger December 16, 2019 One of the interesting characteristics of socialism is that its advocates never lose hope that their system, one of these days, is finally going to succeed. No matter that their system has produced perpetual failure and crisis, year after year, for decades. No matter that such failure and crises afflict a vast array of areas in which socialism has ...
Individual Responsibility in the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2019 Among the fascinating aspects of America’s decades-long drug war is how drug-war proponents never take individual responsibility for the adverse consequences of their program. Instead, they inevitably say, “Judge us by our good intentions rather than by the actual consequences of our program.” Consider robberies, burglaries, thefts, and muggings. It is impossible to know how many ...
Free Trade Equals Liberty, Peace, Prosperity, and Harmony by Jacob G. Hornberger December 11, 2019 The largest free trade zone in history is the United States. Every day, people are free to carry or ship goods and services from one state to another and one city to another. There are no government officials at the border monitoring or controlling what goods and services cross the borders. There are no customs agents at ...
Why Do They Hate Us? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 10, 2019 The recent shootings of three U.S. soldiers in Florida at the hands of a Saudi citizen raises a standard question in the U.S. government’s perpetual “war on terrorism”: “Why do they hate us?” Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the official mantra began being issued: The terrorists just hate us for our “freedom and values.” No other ...
A Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2019 The Pentagon cannot be pleased with the Washington Post today. That’s because the Post has just disclosed a mountain of previously secret documentary evidence within the military showing that the Pentagon has been intentionally lying for years about the “progress” that it was making with its forever war in Afghanistan. While the Pentagon has been publicly assuring ...
Medicare and Medicaid Destroyed Healthcare by Jacob G. Hornberger December 6, 2019 In a December 1 Washington Post article entitled “Yes, Americans are Feeling the Squeeze. It’s Coming from Health Care,” Post columnist Robert Samuelson points out, “In the early 1960s, before Medicare and Medicaid, which were enacted in 1965, health spending was about 2 percent of federal outlays. Now it is nearly one-third, at $1.3 trillion.” ...
