America’s Culture of Immigration Death by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2022 Last week, I delivered a talk entitled “Open Minds on Open Borders” at PorcFest, the annual libertarian festival held in Lancaster, New Hampshire, by the New Hampshire Free State Project. In my talk, I pointed out that America’s system of immigration controls necessarily comes with an immigration police state. Since I grew up in South Texas and ...
Advancing Liberty at Porcfest Today! by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2022 Today, I will be at PorcFest, the annual summer festival held at Roger’s Campground in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Licensed under Creative Commons. I’ve been speaking at this great event for many years. This is the first time I will be giving two ...
You Can’t Count on the Police by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2022 At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the police inaction during the mass killing of children in a public school in Uvalde, Texas, provides one more argument against gun control: You just can’t count on the police to keep you safe from a mass killer. Sometimes you have to rely on yourself or on other armed private individuals ...
Musical Chairs in Washington, D.C. by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2022 Republicans are licking their chops over the Federal Reserve’s ostensible plans to raise interest rates aggressively in the months ahead to combat soaring prices. They view a coming big recession as a grand opportunity to win control over Congress in the upcoming November elections. Of course, we have gone through this political musical-chairs nonsense for decades. If ...
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.
