The Inanity of Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2021 FFF CONFERENCE NOTE: Jim Bovard, who has long served as a policy advisor to FFF and a monthly contributor to our journal Future of Freedom, will be our online speaker this evening, Tuesday, September 28, at 7 pm as part of our ongoing weekly conference "Restoring Our Civil Liberties." Jim is the author of the award-winning Lost Rights ...
Ronn Neff RIP by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2021 After several months in the hospital battling complications from COVID-19, The Future of Freedom Foundation’s longtime copy editor and friend Ronn Neff passed away last evening. Ronn was 72. The news came in the form of an email from Ronn’s longtime good friend Tom McPherren. Ronn has been FFFs copy ...
Biden Will Continue the JFK Cover-Up by Jacob G. Hornberger September 24, 2021 On October 26, the deadline for the public disclosure of the CIA’s still-secret records relating to the Kennedy assassination comes due. At that point, the issue will be: Will President Biden order the National Archives to release the CIA's long-secret records or will he continue the U.S. national-security establishment’s almost 60-year-old cover up of its regime-change operation in ...
The Kennedy Autopsy Selected for Amazon’s Prime Reading Program by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2021 Last month, Amazon sent us an email asking if we would consider permitting FFF’s book The Kennedy Autopsy, which I authored, to be considered for Amazon’s Prime Reading program. According to the email, “Prime Reading promotes authors and their books to Amazon’s most engaged customers. We have a limited number of spots available in the program ...
Our Civil Liberties Conference Continues Tonight by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2021 Last week, Tom Palmer kicked off our conference “Restoring Our Civil Liberties” with an excellent discussion of the historical origins of civil liberties. There is no one better than Tom to give this type of introductory talk. His deep knowledge of history came through loud and clear in his presentation. For those who are not familiar with ...
Liberventionists Were Wrong 20 Years Ago. They’re Still Wrong. by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2021 Twenty years ago, liberventionists (i.e., libertarians who favor foreign interventionism) were jumping on the Republican-Democrat bandwagon that was calling for invading Afghanistan. The few of us who were opposing the invasion were holding lonely ground. Those were difficult days for FFF. We were losing donors, subscribers, and even a member of our board of trustees — those who ...
The Afghanistan Debacle: A Huge Opportunity for Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2021 Opportunities to make a big advances toward liberty don’t come very often. The Afghanistan debacle provides a huge opportunity to do that. One option, of course, is to make the case that the Afghanistan invasion and occupation were mismanaged. In other words, the case for reforming America’s system of foreign interventionism. That’s the wrong approach. That’s not ...
Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder? Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2021 One August 9, I wrote a blog post entitled “Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder?” in which I pointed out, Just because a police officer might be scared of retaliation for killing a citizen is no reason to keep his identity and his version of events secret.The criminal justice system doesn’t operate like that. ...
An Evil Rationalization on Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger September 15, 2021 One of the arguments that interventionists, including many U.S. military veterans, use to rationalize the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan is that U.S. forces were fighting to bring “freedom, democracy, and women’s rights” to the country. In fact, the Pentagon even coined the term “Operation Enduring Freedom” as one of the ways to justify the invasion and occupation of ...
Crocodile Tears for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2021 Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to ...
Public-School Reform Follies by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2021 I couldn’t help but smile and shake my head this morning as I read two articles about public-schooling reform in California. Both appeared in the Los Angeles Times. One is an editorial taking the California recall election candidates to task for not coming up with a reform plan that will finally — finally! — fix California’s ...
The Blame Game is On by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2021 The blame game in the Afghanistan debacle is now in full swing. Most of the critics are blaming President Biden for the debacle. For them, he has become the Scapegoat in Chief. Others are blaming Trump and Obama, the former for cutting a deal with the Taliban to end the 20-year U.S. occupation and the latter for his ...
