Four Obstacles Facing Libertarian Proponents of Border Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2024 Libertarian proponents of immigration controls inevitably run into four obstacles in their support of this particular statist program: 1. The non-aggression principle. This is the core principle of the libertarian philosophy. It holds that it is morally wrong to initiate force against another person. Another way of stating the non-aggression principle is this: People have the right to ...
The Principles of Economic Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2024 Why shouldn’t people be free to keep everything they earn and decide what to do with their own money? That is a question that should be asked, discussed, and debated all across the nation. In other words, why not a society in which there is no federal income tax or IRS to enforce it? No more income tax ...
Why Not Abolish All Foreign Aid? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2024 Americans who object to the Israeli government’s military campaign in Gaza rightly object to the massive amounts of money and armaments that the U.S. government has provided — and continues to provide — the Israeli government to wage its campaign. Why should American taxpayers who oppose the Israeli government’s actions be forced to fund a military campaign to ...
Licensure Is a Wrongful Response to the Racial Bigotry of the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2024 Those who claim that there is no structural racial bigotry within the federal governmental structure simply blind themselves to the war on drugs, the Jim Crow of our time. There is no question but that blacks receive disproportionately higher jail sentence and more stops, searches, abuse, and killings than whites. Yet, knowing this, the federal government and many ...
Superman’s Partnership with the Feds by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2024 As we all know, as part of the U.S. government’s much-vaunted war-on-terrorism racket, some big technology firms have chosen to partner with the government in an effort to win the war on terrorism. In the process, they have aided the government, sometimes illegally, in the destruction of people’s privacy. The firms engage in such wrongdoing either because of ...
Defenders of the Israeli Government Encourage Antisemitism by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2024 American universities are besieged by students protesting their schools’ investments in U.S. suppliers of weaponry to the Israeli government, which Israeli officials are using to carry out their military campaign in Gaza. Some universities are now calling in riot police to break up the protests as well as suspending or expelling the protestors. Some university officials and their ...
George Alan Kelly’s Mistrial Is No License to Kill Migrants by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2024 Prior to jury deliberations in the trial of Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, the man charged with killing an illegal Mexican migrant named Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, I wrote about the case in an article entitled, “Don’t Kill Migrant ‘Invaders.’” In my article, I pointed out the free legal advice that I have given over the years to ...
Lyndon Johnson’s Role in the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2024 Ever since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a question has naturally arisen: What role, if any, did Vice-President Lyndon Johnson play in the assassination? With the publication of Douglas P. Horne’s massive 5-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board, the national-security establishment’s role in the assassination has now been established beyond a reasonable ...
Seven Flags Over Laredo by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2024 Most everyone is familiar with the slogan “Six Flags Over Texas,” especially since it is the name of a big theme park in Arlington, Texas. The slogan signifies that the flags of six different nations have flown over Texas: the flags of Spain, Mexico, France, Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States. Less well-known is that seven flags ...
What’s Good About Aid to Ukraine and Israel? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2024 Advocates of foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel are patting themselves on the back after the passage of a $95 billion bill that includes $61 billion to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel. They’re saying that such aid demonstrates how good, caring, and compassionate America is. In the case of Israel, the aid supposedly demonstrates that America is ...
A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2024 A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan twenty years ago. It’s written by Bill Dwyre, a former sports editor for the Times. Dwyre reminds us that Tillman was motivated to ...
Our Drug-War Daddy by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2024 At the heart of the decades-long war on drugs is the notion that the federal government is people’s daddy. One of the purposes of a daddy is to keep his children from doing bad things. One of the most important parts of being a daddy is to prevent children from doing bad things to themselves, such as putting ...
