What’s So Great About Democracy? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 21, 2022 At the recent Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, President Biden refused to permit Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to attend because they aren’t democracies. As everyone knows, for the past several decades, the U.S. government has made democracy its shibboleth. It’s as if democracy is something sacred. Yet, what’s so great about democracy? It’s really nothing more ...
Assange Should Put the Pentagon and the CIA on Trial by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2022 NOTE: I’m am once again speaking at PorcFest in New Hampshire next week. If you’re attending, I would like to invite you to attend my two talks on Friday, June 24: “Why the JFK Assassination Should Matter to You” at 12 noon and “Open Minds on Open Borders” at 3 p.m. See the PorcFest schedule for the rooms ...
Day of Reckoning for Federal Spending, Debt, and Inflation? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2022 Do you recall all those “debates” over the federal debt ceiling that have taken place over the past 30 years? Every time the debt ceiling came up, here at FFF we said, “Don’t raise the debt ceiling. Force the feds to live within their means. No more debt.” Every time, we have been drowned out by statist ...
An Endless Stream of Scary Official Enemies by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2022 Any government that is a national-security state needs big official enemies — scary ones, ones that will cause the citizenry to continue supporting not only the continued existence of a national-security state form of government but also ever-growing budgets for it and its army of voracious “defense” contractors. That’s, of course, what the current brouhaha about Russia is ...
Bribe Money for Ukrainian Officials? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2022 In my blog post of May 18, 2022, I raised the possibility that the $40 billion aid package that Congress quickly approved for Ukraine was going to be used, at least in part, to pay multimillion dollar bribes to Ukrainian officials. After all, why else would the members of Congress, as well as the Pentagon’s assets ...
Pentagon-NATO Blowback in Nicaragua? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2022 In what is obviously a tit-for-tat response to the Pentagon’s role in ginning up the Russia- Ukraine war, Nicaraguan officials have announced that they have invited Russian troops to visit the country for “humanitarian”and “training” purposes. They are saying that the visit will be “routine,” but there is actually nothing routine about it. It will be fascinating to ...
The Summit of the Americas: What a Joke! by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2022 I can’t decide which part of the Summit of the Americas is funnier — the dust-up over which Latin American countries President Biden would permit to attend or Biden's dramatic plan for economic improvement in Latin America. The brouhaha over which countries would be allowed to attend involved Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Biden decided that he didn’t want ...
What If the U.S. Had Invaded Ukraine? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2022 Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change — i.e., ousting the pro-Russia regime from power and replacing it with a pro-U.S. regime.
A Weird Society by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2022 By now, even the most diehard welfare-warfare statist has to acknowledge that we are living in a weird, dysfunctional, drug-addled, poverty-producing, and violence-prone society. What better proof of the failure of the welfare-warfare state way of life than that? Just look around. Thirty trillion dollars in federal debt, and climbing. Prices of gasoline, food, and other things soaring, ...
The Fed, and No One Else, Is Responsible for Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger June 6, 2022 According to commentators in the mainstream press and various federal officials, inflation is like the coronavirus. It spreads around the world, hitting different countries in different ways. Sometimes a country will experience only mild symptoms and sometimes more severe symptoms, like what happens with Covid. Now that the inflation virus has hit America, the mainstream media, along ...
Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger May 31, 2022 Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed entitled, “Why Does the Pentagon Give a Helping Hand to Films Like ‘Top Gun’?” by Roger Stahl, a communication studies professor at the University of Georgia and director of the documentary film “Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood.” The op-ed pointed ...
Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2022 American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in a state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post. The article stated that “in a nation plagued by malnutrition,” there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points out that Cuba “careens through ...