Our Ancestors Were Different, Especially on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger January 5, 2016 Whatever else might be said about our American ancestors, one thing is beyond dispute: Their position on immigration was diametrically opposite from that of Americans living today. Just think: Open immigration, a concept that, with the exception of libertarians, no American alive today would even come close to endorsing. Except for a cursory health inspection at Ellis Island to ensure ...
Let Puerto Go by Jacob G. Hornberger January 4, 2016 Isn’t it amazing how America’s turn toward empire in 1898 is a gift that keeps on giving? Today, Puerto Rico, one of the colonies the United States acquired in the Spanish-American War, is defaulting on part of its massive debt. Having failed so far to convince its overseers in Congress to permit the colony to declare bankruptcy, the Puerto ...
Entering a Presidential Election Year by Jacob G. Hornberger December 31, 2015 Immediately after January 1, the American people will be filled with hope, anticipation, and excitement over the upcoming presidential race. Led by the mainstream media, they’re about to embark on a 10-month journey of fervent political discussion and debate over which presidential candidate should be “running our country.” They will pour millions of dollars of their hard-earned money into ...
Two Illegitimate Functions of Government by Jacob G. Hornberger December 30, 2015 The question every American needs to ponder and discuss is one that our American ancestors were debating at the inception of our nation: What should be the role of the federal government in American society? That was how we ended up with the Constitution. The Framers didn’t want to bring into existence a government with the general power to do ...
Liberty, Peace, and Prosperity in 2016 by Jacob G. Hornberger December 29, 2015 For libertarians, things are obviously moving in a very bad direction. The welfare state continues to expand. Government spending is out of control, with the federal government incurring ever-increasing amounts of debt. The Federal Reserve is inflating a new bubble. The feds continue to wage their decades-long war on drugs. The Cold War-era national security state, which continues to ...
Donald Trump Really Is Like FDR by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2015 Undoubtedly Donald Trump ruffled a lot of liberal-progressive feathers when he declared that he is more like President Franklin Roosevelt than any other leader has been. The truth oftentimes hurts, but actually Trump is right. One can easily imagine a President Trump ordering the Pentagon to round up Muslim-Americans and foreign Muslims living here in the United States and put ...
Muslims, Islam, and the Koran Are Not the Problem by Jacob G. Hornberger December 17, 2015 One of the most fascinating aspects to the post-9/11 “war on terrorism” is the fixation of American statists on Muslims, Islam, and the Koran. “The Muslims are coming to get us,” they cry. "The Muslims have been trying to conquer the world for centuries. They’re determined to establish a worldwide caliphate, one in which everyone will be forced to ...
What Is a Democratic Socialist? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 16, 2015 Someone posted an interesting question on Facebook in response to my article “Would the Pentagon and the CIA Permit Sanders to Be President?” He asked, “Isn’t the term ‘democratic socialist’ a contradiction?” He was questioning whether a person could believe in democracy and socialism at the same time. The answer is yes. That’s because democracy is a political system ...
Noninterventionism Is the Only Cure for America’s Foreign Policy Woes by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2015 One thing is for sure: If you want a solution to America’s foreign-policies woes, you’re not going to find it with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, or any of the other presidential candidates. That’s because they are all, in varying degrees, interventionists. It is interventionism that is the root cause of America’s foreign-policy woes, including the ...
Venezuela, Like Chile, Is None of the U.S. Government’s Business by Jacob G. Hornberger December 14, 2015 Ever since the U.S. government orchestrated the military coup in Chile in 1973 that ousted the democratically elected president of the country from office and installed the brutal military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, interventionists have maintained that (1) the coup was necessary to save Chile from socialism and communism and (2) that the murders, rapes, torture, and incarceration ...
Do You Want Your Children to Die for Montenegro? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 11, 2015 Get used to the possibility that your son or daughter might end up dying for Montenegro because that country has just been invited to become the latest member of NATO, the Cold War organization that was brought into existence to defend Europe from America’s World War II partner and ally, the Soviet Union. Just in case you’ve never heard of ...
Would the Pentagon and CIA Permit Sanders to Be President? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 10, 2015 Most people consider Bernie Sanders’ race for the presidency to be an exercise in futility. That’s because, they say, he doesn’t have any realistic chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination. But there is another reason why Sanders’ quest for the presidency might be futile. It’s unlikely that the U.S. national-security establishment would ever permit Sanders to ...
