Envy, Covetousness, and Political Stealing by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2021 The leftist mindset that brought America our welfare-state way of life never ceases to amaze me. Of course, we have become so accustomed to this way of life that hardly anyone pauses and gives thought to the reasoning on which the welfare state is based. Let’s first imagine a federal government whose functions are limited to what ...
Military Rule in America by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2021 While I was watching a recent video on the New York Times website about an inmate at the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center at Guantanamo Bay, I was struck by the fascinating artistic talent displayed by a prisoner named Moath al-Alwi. The article in which the video was included is entitled “He Is Imprisoned at ...
The Danger that NATO Poses to Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2021 Imagine a massive nuclear exchange between the United States and China. That obviously would not be a pretty sight for the people of either nation. As the mushroom clouds arose over both nations, imagine thinking to yourself: “All this because of a socialist road.” According to an article in the London Daily Mail, the governments of ...
Have You Watched Our JFK Conference Presentations? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2021 Have you watched the presentations from our recent online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination”? I carefully organized this conference as a prosecutor would in a criminal prosecution. Therefore, it’s helpful if you watch the presentations in the order they were delivered in the conference, as shown below. I have no doubt that anyone ...
Confederate Statue Dustup on Twitter by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2021 Liberals (i.e, leftists, progressives, etc.) went on the rampage against me yesterday on Twitter. The reason? I posted a photo I took while hiking at Manassas National Battlefield Park. The photo was of a plaque commemorating Stonewall Jackson’s stand at the Battle of First Manassas, where Confederate troops sent Northern forces and Washington, D.C., socialites scurrying back to ...
Interventionism Gave Us Afghanistan and Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2021 As the Pentagon and the CIA proceed apace with their withdrawal from their forever war in Afghanistan, the temptation would be to justify this forever war by pointing to the 9/11 attacks. For interventionists, including those who are now acknowledging that the forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were “mistakes,” history begins with the 9/11 attacks. Not so! ...
The Tyranny of the Covid-19 Eviction Moratorium by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court recently permitted the eviction moratorium established by the Centers for Disease Control to continue, at least until July 31, when the CDC plans to lift it. The Court wrongly decided the matter. It should have immediately lifted the moratorium. Historically, governments have held “inherent” police powers to protect the health of the citizenry. But ...
Death and Libertarianism by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2021 Whenever a government program or policy produces deaths of innocent people, the way I figure it is that that makes it incumbent on libertarians to take a firm stand against such programs and policies. We all know that there are all sorts of government regulations that deprive people of liberty that we libertarians need to oppose. Recent examples ...
Separate School and State by Jacob G. Hornberger June 30, 2021 For the life of me, I just cannot understand why so many Americans favor public (i.e., government) schooling. Everyone knows that government produces the worst of everything and that the free market produces the best of everything. So, why leave something as important as the education of one’s child in the hands of the government? It’s not ...
Let’s Reject Foreign Interventionism Entirely by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2021 Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are learning the wrong lesson from their ongoing debacle in Afghanistan. They are coming up with all sorts of reasons why this particular intervention has gone bad. Undoubtedly, they will promise to do better in the future. That’s not the lesson Americans should learn from this forever-war disaster. The lesson everyone should be ...
My Talk at Porcfest by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2021 I had another great time at Porcfest, the annual libertarian festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, sponsored by the Free State Project, whose objective it is to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire. I don’t know exactly how many times I’ve been to Porcfest but it’s several. This time, it was sold out, for the first ...
Harris’s Trip to El Paso Won’t Solve the Immigration Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to El Paso, Texas, to study America’s decades-old immigration crisis. Apparently she hopes that she is going to be hit with some sort of brilliant insight while visiting a city on the U.S.-Mexico border that will finally bring an end to the crisis. It’s not going to happen. No matter ...
