Monetary Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2010 If you’re an American taxpayer, you should expect to receive a thank-you note from dole recipients in Greece fairly soon. The reason is that Barack Obama, working with his cohorts at the Federal Reserve, is using your money to bail out the Greek welfare state, thereby enabling dole recipients in Greece to continue receiving ...
The Washington Post Gets It Wrong Again by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2010 On May 5, the Washington Post published an editorial questioning whether the Obama administration had considered treating the suspected Times Square attempted bomber as an enemy combatant rather than as a federal criminal defendant. I wrote an article entitled “Hijacking the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” which criticized the Post’s editorial. In its Sunday edition, the Post published ...
The Road to Greece and Rome by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2010 Leave it to the Greeks to expose American liberals and the road to statism they continue to take our nation. Over the past 20 years, how many times have we heard European statists extolling the virtues and benefits of the socialistic welfare state? Europeans have proven that socialism works, the statists have repeatedly claimed over ...
Hijacking the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2010 In an editorial yesterday entitled Obama Administration Owes Answers on How It Handled Times Square Suspect, the Washington Post wants to know whether the Obama administration was too hasty in treating accused Times Square terrorist Faisal Shahzad as a criminal suspect rather than an enemy combatant. The Post stated: The administration rightly came under fire ...
Terrorism and Americas Way of Life by Jacob G. Hornberger May 5, 2010 In a press conference yesterday about Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who allegedly tried to blow up the car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder stated, The reality that there is a constant threat from those who wish to do us harm simply because of our way of life. We havent yet heard any ...
The Minimum Wage Protects the Rich by Jacob G. Hornberger May 4, 2010 In the past week, I have written two articles (here and here) detailing how one of the favorite economic interventions of liberals (i.e., liberals in the corrupted, big-government meaning of the term), falls disproportionately on poor, inner-city black teenagers, people whom liberals purport to be concerned about. As I pointed out in those two articles, the mandated minimum ...
Free Teenagers: Repeal the Minimum Wage by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2010 An editorial in the Saturday New York Times indirectly confirms what I wrote in my recent article Why Do Daily Kos and Alternet Support a Racist Program? In that article, I pointed out that a minimum-wage law locks out of the labor market all those people whose labor is valued by employers in the marketplace at less ...
Hornbergers Blog, May 2010 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2010 Friday, May 28, 2010 Libertarians, Open Borders, and the Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger 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. Friedmans point was that with open borders and a welfare state, the United States would attract foreign citizens ...
Revisiting Freedom in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2010 How often have we heard proponents of the unlawful war of aggression against Iraq say that the real purpose of their invasion (after U.S. troops and the CIA failed to find those infamous and scary WMDs that were about to fired at the United States) was to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq? How many times have they attempted ...
Giving Passes in the War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2010 There is still no trial date set in the federal case of Luis Posada Carriles, the foreigner whom Venezuela accuses of having planned the terrorist downing of a Cuban civilian airliner in 1976 that killed 73 innocent people, including 24 members of Cubas national fencing team. After Carriles entered the United States in 2005, Venezuela ...
Libertarianism and the Tea Party by Jacob G. Hornberger April 28, 2010 An interesting discussion has erupted on FFFs Facebook page in response to two items I posted regarding the Tea Party movement: Irony: Daily Kos and Alternet liberals are attacking me & Tea Party types are attacking Bovard, calling him a liberal: https://ow.ly/1D6Yc A Tea Partier seems to be a disgruntled Republican who's upset that the welfare-warfare ...
Arizonas Immigration Law Is Nothing New for Border Residents by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2010 What lots of Americans dont realize is that the new Arizona immigration law simply extends to the entire state the requirement that darker-skinned, poorer-looking Americans along the border have had to live with for decades carrying their papers, just like people in totalitarian countries have to do. For decades, any darker-skinned, poorer-looking person who travels entirely within the United States ...
