The Statists Hate Our Criminal Justice System Too by Jacob G. Hornberger November 19, 2010 The statists are upset over the jury’s verdict in the federal court trial of former Guantanamo prisoner Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. After hearing and considering all the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal on 276 counts of murder and a verdict of guilty on one single count of conspiracy. It’s not enough for the statists that Ghailani faces a ...
How About Income-Tax Repeal, Not Reform? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 18, 2010 In the midst of the perpetual statist debate over whether President Bush’s tax cuts for the rich should be extended or not, we libertarians should refrain from getting mired in that debate and instead continue raising people’s vision to the libertarian principle, which is: There shouldn’t be an income tax at all and everyone should be free to keep ...
Make Your Choice: Empire or TSA Gropers and Porn Scanners by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2010 Americans are getting upset over the TSA gropers and porn scanners. But are they now ready to support the libertarian call to dismantle the U.S. government’s overseas military empire, which is the root cause of the TSA groping and porn scanning? After the 9/11 attacks, the immediate cry from U.S. officials was, “We’re innocent! The terrorists have attacked us because ...
Statism, Inflation, and the Fed by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2010 As the statists debate the future impact of the Fed’s latest inflationary binge, it’s important that we keep the big picture in mind. This is what the Fed has done since it was established in 1913. Decade after decade, it has inflated the money supply in order to enable big-spending federal officials to spend money to their heart’s content. Most federal ...
The Statist Box by Jacob G. Hornberger November 15, 2010 To get a good picture of the plight that afflicts the American people, imagine a great big box in which the American people are living. The box is a statist box, one in which there is a jungle of socialist, interventionist, and imperialist programs. Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. Subsidies. Public (i.e., government) schooling. Public housing. Food stamps. Farm subsidies. Bank ...
Where Does the Tea Party Stand on Declaring War? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 12, 2010 Given their commitment to the Constitution, members of the Tea Party must confront the legality of the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. I’m referring to the declaration of war provision in the Constitution. It delegates the power to declare war to the Congress and the power to wage war to the president. Pursuant to this provision, the president ...
The Root of TSA Tyranny Is U.S. Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 11, 2010 LewRockwell.com has recently been linking to a spate of articles condemning TSA’s airport security operations, including the agency’s enthusiastic embrace of body scanners: TSA Porno-Scanners: What They’re Really Looking by Claire Wolfe TSA Resistance Taking Off: Are the Elitist Airlines Worried, Yet? by Robert Wenzel Knee-Jerk Alert: TSA Bans Printer Cartridges … World Is Now Safer by ...
The CIA Is the Law by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2010 Whenever people raise evidence of CIA wrongdoing, deception, and cover-ups, mainstream statists immediately respond with, “Conspiracy theory! Conspiracy theory”! The statist mindset is one that is best reflected by the word “Inconceivable!” To mainstream statists, it is simply inconceivable that the CIA would engage in wrongdoing, lying, and cover-ups. In their minds, the agency is “exceptional” in that it ...
No Right to Health Care, Education, or a Job by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2010 Statists love to say that people have a right to such things as health care, education, or a job. That’s just plain statist nonsense. People do not have a right to health care, education, or a job. People have a right to seek health care, education, or a job but they don’t have a right to them. What’s the difference? Let’s ...
Balancing the Budget Isn’t Enough by Jacob G. Hornberger November 8, 2010 One of the things that distinguish libertarians from conservatives is with respect to moral principles, a phenomenon that is reflected in the current debate over federal spending. Notice that conservatives focus exclusively on the fact that the federal government is spending more than what it’s bringing in. They rail against the deficit spending, the borrowing, and the ever-growing national debt, ...
Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians: What’s the Difference? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 5, 2010 People sometimes ask what the differences are between liberals, conservatives, and libertarians. The primary differences are moral and philosophical. Libertarians believe that people should be free to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. Liberals and conservatives believe that people should be free to live their lives any way they choose, so long as ...
Don’t Save Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger November 4, 2010 There’s a website entitled Save Our Social Security. It issues the following scary, sinister, and ominous warning: “Powerful forces are gathering. They have prestige and wealth but they want more, and they want to take it from you. Their plan is to trick you into believing that Social Security is going broke. They say that the only cure is ...
