Trump’s Trade War Destroys Liberty and Prosperity by Jacob G. Hornberger July 17, 2019 President Trump announced this week that America is "winning" the trade war that he initiated against China. The truth is that Trump is not only destroying businesses in both China and the United States, he is accelerating the destruction of American liberty. Trump crowed, “We’ve taken in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from China.” ...
America, Love It or Leave It! by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2019 President Trump’s rant against four members of Congress, all of whom are American citizens, in which he told them to return to their “crime-infested” countries, brings to mind the rant that conservatives have long used against anyone who disagrees with the policies or programs of the U.S. government: “America, love it or leave it!” Anyone who lived during the Vietnam ...
Pompeo’s Big Lie on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2019 In a tiff over whether Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation would be permitted to enter the United States as part of a meeting of the United Nations and over whether they would be free to travel freely around New York City, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a whopper, one that might have even ...
Another Statist Immigration “Solution” by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2019 In a New York Times op-ed today, Mexican businessman Ricardo B. Salinas is endorsing what he calls a "humane" alternative to President Trump’s cruel and brutal enforcement of America’s system of immigration controls: a “Marshall Plan” for Latin America! He says that it is the “right way” to solve America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis. ...
Americans Should Adopt Unilateral Free Trade by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2019 Given the ongoing destruction of liberty and prosperity from President Trump’s trade wars, tariffs, sanctions, and embargoes, it’s time to think at a higher level, one that goes beyond mere criticism of Trump’s trade antics. It’s time to think in terms of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government, all of which translate to the idea of unilateral free ...
FDR Didn’t Save Free Enterprise. He Destroyed It. by Jacob G. Hornberger July 10, 2019 An article about Cuban leader Fidel Castro in today’s New York Times highlights the perverse view of freedom held by the America left and, well, for that matter, by American conservatives as well. The article is entitled “There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eye” by Jonathan M. Hansen, a historian at Harvard and the author of the ...
Recent Silence from Libertarians Who Favor Immigration Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2019 It’s been a while since I have seen any articles by libertarians who support America’s system of immigration controls. I can’t help but wonder whether the reason for that is the immigration system’s massive death and suffering that has recently been reported by the mainstream media. After all, any system that produces massive death and suffering is obviously not ...
The Declaration of Independence Applies to Immigrants by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2019 Now that the Fourth of July celebrations are over, it’s worth asking whether a particular phrase enunciated in the Declaration of Independence is true or false. The phrase in question? “The pursuit of happiness.” The Declaration states that the pursuit of happiness is a natural, God-given right, one with which all people are endowed. Not just ...
Trump Reminds Us that America Is a Military Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 5, 2019 President Trump is being criticized for surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals and admirals during his Fourth of July celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Critics say that it was unseemly for the president to be showing off the federal government’s military prowess on Independence Day. Some said it conjured up images of the Soviet ...
Celebrating the Fourth, Then and Now by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2019 Americans who celebrated the Fourth of July in 1880 were celebrating a concept of freedom that is opposite to the concept of freedom that Americans today celebrate on the Fourth. The freedom that 1880 Americans celebrated was a society in which there was which there was no income taxation, no mandatory charity, no government management or regulation of economic activity, ...
The Dysfunctional Relationship between Trump and Kim by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2019 The relationship between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has got to rank among the most dysfunctional relationships in history. Recall the big crisis with North Korea that Trump ignited soon after coming into office, a crisis that threw his supporters, his opponents, and the mainstream press into a classic tizzy. Trump’s thesis was that North Korea posed ...
Trump’s Socialist Mindset on Trade by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2019 In announcing that the U.S. and China are resuming trade talks, President Trump demonstrated the socialist mindset that afflicts him and his fellow Republicans and, for that matter, the Democrats as well. Trump said that during the negotiations, the United States would keep a 25 percent duty on $250 billion of Chinese goods and that he would give China ...
