Ruler of the World by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2019 Recently released secret documents from Chinese company Huawei provide insights into how the U.S. Empire rules the world. According to the Washington Post, the documents reveal that Huawei secretly helped North Korea “build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network.” What’s wrong with that? you ask. It violates U.S. sanctions against North Korea! ...
Immigration Hypocrisy, Left and Right by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2019 You couldn’t find a better example of hypocrisy among both conservatives and liberals (i.e., progressives, leftists) than in the area on immigration. Conservatives love to wrap themselves in free-market, capitalist lingo. They tell us that they are fierce opponents of socialism. Their favorite mantra is “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.” You might even ...
Hating America After 9/11 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2019 Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks. At the time of those attacks, some of us libertarians understood that this was a watershed event in U.S. history, one that would inevitably adversely affect ...
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 ...
