Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Hillary Clinton and the Income Tax by Future of Freedom Foundation January 14, 2016
The Drug War Has Destroyed Tourism to Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2016 There are lots of good reasons to oppose the drug war and to continue pressing for drug legalization. The drug war has caused a massive number of deaths, including tens of thousands of innocent people in Mexico. It has engendered robberies, thefts, muggings, and burglaries by addicts and drug users struggling to pay the exorbitant black-market prices resulting from ...
Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Bernie Sanders and Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2016
Cold War Fearmongering on Cuba and Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger January 12, 2016 It is standard strategy in North Korea for officials to keep the citizenry constantly on edge about the possibility of a U.S. attack. The idea is that if people are kept afraid, they will inevitably rally to the government, ignore their desperate economic plight, and accept any loss of liberty necessary to keep them safe. To keep the citizenry afraid, ...
Does El Chapo’s Arrest Mean the Drug War Is Over? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 11, 2016 Given all the hoopla in the mainstream press over the arrest of famous Mexican drug lord “El Chapo,” some Americans are undoubtedly wondering whether this means that the decades-long U.S. drug war is finally over. The answer is no. Notwithstanding the arrest of El Chapo, the drug war will, like the Energizer Bunny, will keep going and going and going. It’s ...
I Failed to Convert Ted Cruz to Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2016 Back in the 1980s, I had an opportunity to convert Ted Cruz to libertarianism. It’s a sad confession to make but, yes, I failed to do so. My opportunity to convert Cruz arose back in the 1980s when he was a high-school student in Houston. At that time I was a lawyer practicing law in Dallas. By this time, I ...
Gun Control? What About U.S. Arms Sales? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 7, 2016 While President Obama was tearing up to support his call for gun control, the U.S. military-industrial complex was celebrating its continued leadership in the sale of weaponry to foreign regimes. According to the New York Times, U.S. foreign arms deals increased nearly $10 billion in 2014. Total sales went from $26.7 billion in 2013 to $36.2 billion in ...
Federal Socialism in the West by Jacob G. Hornberger January 6, 2016 Whatever one might think about the takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by a group of Western ranchers, the controversy does raise an important question: Why does a government of a nation that was founded on principles of private property and that purportedly opposes socialism own so much land in the Western United States? A good rendition of the ...