Swiss Voters Reject Economic Stupidity by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2016 Give Swiss voters credit — well, at least 77 percent of them. In a recent national referendum, they overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed each Swiss adult a monthly payment of $2,560 from the Swiss government. Just think: the payment was going to be free, just like Social Security, Medicaid, farm subsidies, food stamps, and education grants ...
Just Come Home and Leave North Korea Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2016 For more than 50 years, U.S. officials have been imposing sanctions on North Korea. Their objective has been twofold: One, to bring about regime change in that country by making the North Korean people suffer so much economically that they either revolt against their communist regime or support a military coup that brings a pro-U.S. regime into power. Two, to induce ...
A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2016 One of the prime characteristics of our age is the tendency of Americans to conflate the federal government and our country. We see this especially in the realm of foreign policy, where people praise the troops for their service to their country when, in fact, the troops are doing nothing more than serving the national-security branch of the federal ...
Muhammad Ali versus the National Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger June 6, 2016 While everyone today is celebrating the life of Muhammad Ali, who passed away last Friday, such was clearly not the case back in the 1960s, when Ali took on the vast and powerful U.S. national-security establishment with his steadfast refusal to be conscripted to “serve” in the U.S. Army, which would have sent him to Vietnam to fight and ...
Open Borders: The Only Moral and Practical Solution by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2016 Ever since FFF was established in 1989, there have been those who have said to me, “Jacob, you’re just asking people to bite off more than they’re able to chew with FFF’s call for open borders. Why don’t you just argue for increased immigration? You’d find a lot more support for that position.” There are two major reasons why we ...
NATO: America’s Other Cold War Dinosaur by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2016 Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the mainstream media has, by and large, chosen to toe the official Washington line: that the Cold War never ended, the Russian (i.e., Soviet) communist threat never went away, Russia is headed by an arrogant former KGB officer who pines for the Soviet Empire, Russia has become assertive again, and Europe is again ...