Why Should States Be Funding Movies? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2010 A good example of what passes for debate in this country occurred this week in a New York Times article entitled “State Backing Films Says Cannibal Is Deal-Breaker” by a reporter named Michael Cieply. The article is about state government subsidies for movies produced in the state. Controversy recently erupted in Michigan because the state denied a subsidy for a ...
Different Perspectives on Child Labor at the State and Federal Level by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2010 Two stories in the news this week point to the difference in philosophy regarding child labor between state and federal officials. In Iowa, a jury returned a verdict of acquittal in favor of Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of Agriprocessors, a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa. The state had indicted him for knowingly hiring people under 18 years of age to ...
The Napolitano Revolution Hits Television by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2010 Two stories in the news this week point to the difference in philosophy regarding child labor between state and federal officials. In Iowa, a jury returned a verdict of acquittal in favor of Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of Agriprocessors, a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa. The state had indicted him for knowingly hiring people under 18 years of age to ...
What Bigger Slave than the One Who Thinks He’s Free? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2010 Yesterday’s New York Times had an interesting article about North Korea that described how desperate life is in that socialist country. The question, of course, is: Why are economic conditions so bad in North Korea? The answer is: Because North Korea is a socialist country. That’s what socialism does to a country. It guarantees that people will be mired in poverty and destitution. As ...
American Statism and the Holocaust by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2010 Weighing in on the Helen Thomas controversy, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen made an interesting observation as to one of the reasons that post-World War II Jews looked to the establishment of Israel as a safe haven for Jews. Cohen stated, “For most of the DPs , America was also out of the question. The United States, in the grip ...
The War on Terrorism Is Crooked, Corrupt, and Hypocritical by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2010 The so-called war on terrorism will surely go down in U.S. history as one of the most ridiculous, inane, hypocritical, crooked, corrupt, and destructive federal programs ever. This week, federal officials have been proudly proclaiming the arrest of two New Jersey men as they were preparing to board a plane to Somalia. The federal complaint charges them with conspiracy to ...
Why Don’t American Statists Move to North Korea? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2010 Except for the fact that the North Korean regime doesn’t kowtow to U.S. officials, my hunch is that American statists really don’t really object in principle to the North Korean way of life. After all, the North Koreans have simply taken liberal and conservative principles to their logical conclusion. In North Korea, people believe that ...
A Grand FFF Event in Pennsylvania by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2010 Last Friday, we participated in one of the nicest and classiest affairs in FFF’s 21-year history. It was hosted by longtime FFF supporter Bob Bowers, who also serves on FFF’s board of trustees. The event took place at the Heidelberg Country Club, a beautiful place in the foothills near Bernville, Pennsylvania. About 85 people attended. The ...
A Statist Attack on John Stossel by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2010 If you want to understand why America is in deep crisis on the domestic front, consider an op-ed entitled “Tell Fox to Lay Off Our Civil Rights” by a liberal named James Rucker. The op-ed perfectly encapsulates the statist mindset that has mired our nation in paternalism, welfarism, socialism, and interventionism, along ...
Hornberger’s Blog, June 2010 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2010 Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The Silence of the Gun-Control Crowd While the gun-control crowd is going bananas over the fact that state and local governments are not constitutionally permitted to ban private ownership of handguns, they are remaining mute over a killing that took place in an apartment in Forestville, Maryland, on the same day that the Supreme Court issued its ...
The Government Is Not the Country by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2010 One of the bromides we hear every Memorial Day is how countless American soldiers have died for their country. That’s nothing but sheer nonsense. Many of them died not for their country but rather for their government. There’s a difference. Unfortunately, many Americans conflate the government and the country. In their minds, they are one ...
Libertarians, Open Borders, and the Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2010 Nobel Prize winning libertarian economist Milton Friedman once suggested that libertarians could rightfully oppose the concept of open borders as long as the United States had a welfare state. Friedman’s point was that with open borders and a welfare state, the United States would attract foreign citizens who would come here in order to ...
