Catholics, Libertarians, and Foreign Aid by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2014 Here are the links to the first three articles in this series, which is being published in response to a recent conference at the Catholic University of America entitled “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism”: Catholics, Libertarians, and Coerced Charity by Jacob G. Hornberger Catholics, Libertarians, and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger Catholics, Libertarians, and ...
Catholics, Libertarians, and Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2014 This week, I have been focusing on why Catholics who wish to remain true to Christian principles should be libertarians rather than statists. This series of articles is in response to an conference recently held at the Catholic University of America entitled “Erroneous Authority: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism.” In the first two segments of this series, I focused ...
Catholics, Libertarians, and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2014 In my blog post of yesterday, I asked how any Catholic, in good conscience, could choose to embrace statism rather than libertarianism, given statism’s embrace of coerced charity, a concept that denigrates and destroys God’s great gift of free will. This was in response to a conference recently held at the Catholic University of America entitled “Erroneous ...
Catholics, Libertarians, and Coerced Charity by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2014 A few weeks ago, the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America hosted a conference entitled, “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism. Unfortunately, I learned about the conference too late to attend, but for the life of me I cannot understand how a Catholic can be anything but a libertarian. Let’s consider, first ...
Needed: An Enlightened Citizenry That Values Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2014 President Obama has unilaterally decided to deploy U.S. troops to Iraq, where they will be embroiled in Iraq’s civil war by helping the government side kill the anti-government side. But where in the Constitution is such a power delegated to the president? Keep in mind that when the Constitution called the federal government into existence, it was with the understanding that ...
Who Were the Patriots Now? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2014 Prior to the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, longtime supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation will recall that we stood squarely against the operation. We emphasized that the excuse given for the operation — that Saddam Hussein was supposedly about to unleash nuclear weapons and other WMDs against the United States — was entirely bogus and was ...
Nation-Building with a National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2014 Most everyone is talking about the nation-building fiasco in Iraq, but no one is addressing the type of government that U.S. officials brought into existence in Iraq. That type of government is a big part of the problem in Iraq. Keep in mind, first of all, that the State Department, Pentagon, and CIA had carte blanche to bring any type ...
Argentina’s Debt Crisis and the Gold Clause Cases by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2014 Thanks to a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, the government of Argentina is facing a major debt crisis. Like many other governments around the world, including the governments of Greece and the United States, Argentina’s government went on big spending and borrowing sprees. Ultimately, the amount of the debt became so large — some $95 billion — that ...
Another Interventionist Debacle by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2014 What a debacle! With Iraq virtually in full-scale civil war, American interventionists are scrambling like crazy to put a positive spin on their bankrupt foreign-policy philosophy. It’s all Obama’s fault for being weak, Republicans are saying. Others are blaming the Iraqis themselves for squandering the “opportunity” that U.S. troops so selflessly granted to them. Let’s back up a minute. How come ...
The Republican Creed on Free Enterprise by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2014 We, the members of the Republican Party, hereby affirm our deep and abiding commitment to the principles of free enterprise (i.e., economic activity free of government control and regulation), except for: 1. Immigration controls. 2. Public (i.e., government) schooling. 3. Drug laws. 4. Social Security. 5. Medicare and Medicaid. 6. Tariffs, embargoes, sanctions, and import restrictions. 7. Insider-trading laws. 8. Antitrust laws. 9. Agricultural subsidies. 10. SBA loans. 11. The ...
Ground Hog Day in the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2014 A news article this week entitled “South Laredo Trafficking Group Indicted” caught my attention. That’s because Laredo is my hometown. I spent 26 years there, including 8 years practicing law, most of which was in partnership with my father. That newspaper article is about the drug war. It reports that an indictment was returned against 24 Laredoans for violations ...
Libertarianism 101: The Three Keys to Economic Prosperity by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2014 I delivered my second lecture this morning via Skype to the Liberty and Entrepreneurship Camp 2014 in Ghana. (And see here as well.) Just like my first lecture on Monday, it was a fantastic and fun experience given the obvious interest in and passion for libertarianism among the people in the audience. My thanks to Africanus ...