November 22, 1963 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2021 On this day 58 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down on the streets of Dallas. Almost immediately, federal officials enunciated what has become known as the lone-nut theory of the assassination. It holds that a supposed communist former U.S. Marine, without any ostensible motive, suddenly decided to kill Kennedy. Over the decades, however, as more and more official information began leaking out, it became increasingly clear that the assassination was actually a highly sophisticated regime-change operation in which the U.S. national-security establishment determined that Kennedy’s domestic and foreign policies posed a grave threat to U.S. “national security” and that the only way to save the nation was by terminating Kennedy and elevating Vice-President Lyndon Johnson to the presidency. The watershed period was the 1990s — some 30 years after the assassination. That was when the Assassination Records Review Board was enforcing the JFK Records Collection ...
Don’t Give Up on the Blessings of Freedom by John W. Whitehead November 24, 2021 “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”—John Lennon How do you give thanks for freedoms that are constantly being eroded? How do you express gratitude for one’s safety when the perils posed by the American police state grow more treacherous by the day? How do you come together as a nation in thanksgiving when the powers-that-be continue to polarize and divide us into warring factions? Every year finds us struggling to reconcile our hope for a better, freer, more just world with the soul-sucking reality of a world in which greed, meanness and war continue to triumph. Fifty years ago, John Lennon released “Imagine” and exhorted us to “Imagine all the people livin’ life in peace.” That same year, Lennon released “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” as part of a major anti-war campaign. Lennon—a musical genius, anti-war activist, and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to persecute those who ...
Trust Funds: Real and Imaginary by Laurence M. Vance December 3, 2021 It is interesting that the basic framework of the U.S. unemployment compensation program was first established in the Social Security Act of 1935. Although both programs have trust funds, one is real, and one is imaginary. Due to the COVID-19 “pandemic,” state unemployment programs were stretched to the limit in 2020 and into 2021. Let me briefly explain how these programs work. The U.S. Department of Labor oversees the unemployment compensation program and sets broad guidelines for coverage and eligibility, but it is administered and mostly funded by the states, which vary considerably not only in the manner and degree in which taxes are levied and collected from employers to fund the system but also in eligibility requirements, benefit levels, and duration of benefits. Unlike Social Security taxes, which are borne equally by employer and employee, unemployment taxes are paid solely by employers (except in the few states that tax employees as well). A federal unemployment tax of 6 percent is imposed ...
The Way Out of the Statist Morass by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2021 Given the seemingly intractable welfare-warfare system that characterizes the United States, it might be tempting for some people to despair and simply give up and surrender to what might appear to be the inevitable -- the permanent continuation of our lives as serfs on the welfare-warfare state plantation. After all, Americans have lived under a welfare state since ...
Civil Liberties, Economic Freedom, and Property Rights by Richard M. Ebeling December 1, 2021 We are living at a time when civil liberties are severely under attack from a number of directions. Two of the most obvious ones at the moment are the response by many governments to the coronavirus crisis and the rise of “critical race theory,” with its accompanying “cancel culture.” We are seeing imposed or threatened suppression of freedom of speech, ...
January 6 and the Enabling Act by Jacob G. Hornberger January 6, 2022 Ever since the January 6 protests got out of control, the mainstream press and the Democrat Party establishment have done everything they can to milk it for all its worth. The one-year anniversary today of that event continues that trend. Just look at the front pages of the mainstream press and you’ll see what I mean. Make no ...
Dear Conservatives: It’s Time to Separate School and State by Scott McPherson January 6, 2022 For decades, so-called “progressives” and other leftists have claimed that elected local school boards give parents control over education. Everyone knows it's a lie, but few have had the courage to speak up. Still, the delusion persists. On the day after Christmas, Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times' fact-deficient 1619 Project, let the mask drop completely. “I don't really ...
Despotism Is the New Normal by John W. Whitehead January 10, 2022 Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences ...
Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech by John W. Whitehead January 19, 2022 “Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” — George Carlin Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media bullies, and government watchdogs. Everything is now fair game for censorship if ...
How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 1 by George Leef February 1, 2022 Part 1 | Part 2 There is no need whatsoever for government to provide, subsidize, or control education. As with all other services, people can voluntarily offer to provide teaching or training, and those who are interested in such services can choose among the individuals and institutions offering them in the market. That is true for primary and secondary ...
The Militia Is More Important Than Ever by Scott McPherson February 22, 2022 “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” These wise words from Thomas Jefferson seem particularly insightful after nearly two years of COVID hysteria. Across the country, and around the world, governments are in full steam, grasping power and lashing out at anyone who questions authority. What we're seeing is the “natural ...
Dystopia Disguised as Democracy by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2022 “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the ...
