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.” ...
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Jacob G. Hornberger December 5, 2019 There are those among the gun-control crowd who advocate repealing the Second Amendment. They think that by doing so, they would be prohibiting people from owning guns. Unfortunately, they have a woeful lack of understanding of rights and the Constitution. People’s rights do not come from either the original Constitution or ...
Immigration Death and Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger December 4, 2019 Whenever there is a government program or system that is producing deaths of innocent people as well as tyranny, that is a persuasive sign that that is a bad government program, one that needs to be eliminated. Yet, that is precisely what we have with America’s decades-long system of immigration controls — death and tyranny.
The Pentagon’s Destruction of the Bill of Rights by Jacob G. Hornberger December 3, 2019 It is supremely ironic that Pentagon officials take an oath to support and defend the Constitution because they intentionally destroyed the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution when they set up their “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In fact, the very reason the Pentagon established its system in Cuba, rather than the United States, was to circumvent ...
Asset Forfeiture and the Destruction of American Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2019 For centuries, it has been an established tenet of Western jurisprudence that a person cannot be punished for a crime unless the government first convicts him of the crime in a court of law. After the Constitution called the federal government into existence, our American ancestors demanded that this principle be enshrined in the Bill of Rights ...
Empire, Intervention, and the Intentional Sacrifice of U.S. Soldiers by Jacob G. Hornberger November 29, 2019 On April 9, 1942, 12,000 U.S. troops paid the price of U.S. empire and intervention when they surrendered to Japanese forces at Bataan, Philippines. During the resulting “Bataan death march,” 600 of them died, and then another 1,000 died after they were transported to Japanese POW camps.
Jury Nullification Thwarts Immigration Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger November 27, 2019 The U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Border Patrol are not happy campers. That’s because a federal jury, in a clear case of jury nullification, has just put the quietus to federal attempts to incarcerate 37-year-old Arizonian Scott Warren for a large portion of his life. The federal charge against Warren? ...
Guns and Violence by Jacob G. Hornberger November 26, 2019 The gun-control crowd continues to believe that violence in America is due to the fact that so many people own guns. If guns could just be made to disappear, the argument goes, the violence in American society would finally disappear. What about Switzerland? In that country, most ...
