The U.S. National-Security State’s Murder of Victor Jara by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2016 Prescript: (1) George Leef has a great article on gun control and the Second Amendment, which cites my recent blog post How They Could Confiscate Your AR-15. His article, which is entitled “Law Professor Demands Repeal of ‘Outdated’ Second Amendment, Makes Very Weak Case,” is really worth reading. (2) At LewRockwell.com, in an interesting blog post entitled “Hollywoodism,” ...
America Should Exit From NATO and the National Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger June 27, 2016 In its reporting on Brexit, the New York Times asks an interesting question: “Is the post-1945 order imposed on the world by the United States and its allies unraveling, too?” Hopefully, it will mean the unraveling of two of the most powerful and destructive governmental apparatuses that came out of the postwar era: NATO and the U.S. national-security state. ...
Freedom Is Dangerous by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2016 In the ideal world of those Americans who oppose the libertarian concept of open borders, there would be a 50-foot wall all around America, manned and patrolled by an enormous army of well-armed military troops prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent any foreigner from getting through. Additionally, in their minds they envision a federal planning agency that ...
How They Could Confiscate Your AR-15 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2016 Anyone who thinks it would be difficult for U.S. officials to confiscate people’s AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons forgets how they confiscated everyone’s gold coins in the 1930s. It would be as easy to confiscate guns as it was to confiscate gold coins. To get people’s gold coins, they didn’t send swarms of federal agents across the land to conduct ...
They Can’t Keep You Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2016 Prescript: Four FFF ebooks are now available in audio format: The Kennedy Autopsy by Jacob Hornberger (currently #11 on Amazon’s list of best-selling books on 20th-century U.S. history) Regime Change: The Kennedy Assassination by Jacob Hornberger (currently #308) JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne (currently #172) The CIA, Terrorism, and ...
The Humorous Hypocrisy of Conservatives by Jacob G. Hornberger June 21, 2016 Peter Wehner, who works at a conservative organization called the Ethics and Public Policy Center and who worked in the last three Republican administrations, recently had an op-ed entitled “The Indelible Stain of Donald Trump” in the New York Times, a piece that would cause any libertarian to bust a gut in laughter. That’s not to say that ...
Orlando: Islam or Blowback? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2016 Prescript: (1) Last Thursday I appeared on a great television show on a local access station in Arlington, Virginia. It’s entitled “The Square Circle” and features a host and 3 panelists. The topic this week was “The Orlando Massacre.” It was a lively discussion that covered various aspects of the massacre. After the show, the director said that it was ...
