Tomorrow: A Great Talk on Civil Liberties! by Jacob G. Hornberger October 4, 2021 Tomorrow at 7 p.m. Eastern Time is the fourth speaker in our ongoing weekly conference “Restoring Our Civil Liberties.” Our speaker is Michael Glennon. We are in store for one of the best and most insightful talks on the critical importance of civil liberties that has ever been presented at The Future of Freedom Foundation. Glennon ...
The Ultimate Drug-War Crackdown by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2021 Throughout the long sordid history of America’s war on drugs, drug-war proponents have claimed that if only government officials would really crack down on drug use and drug distribution, the decades-old war on drugs could finally — finally! — be won. But one big problem is that throughout the decades of drug warfare, there have been crackdowns ...
Restore the Republic by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2021 With the auspicious exit of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the American people have a grand opportunity — one that should be seized and not squandered. That opportunity is to restore America’s founding governmental system of a limited-government republic, which necessarily would mean the dismantling of America’s post-World War II governmental system of a national-security state. The Constitution ...
U.S. Officials Free Meng Wanzhou by Jacob G. Hornberger September 29, 2021 After three years seeking the extradition from Canada of Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou, the Justice Department has thrown in the towel by agreeing to a deal that enabled Meng to return freely to China. Meng had been under three years of house arrest in Canada, as the Justice Department ferociously sought her extradition. Upon her return to ...
The Inanity of Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2021 FFF CONFERENCE NOTE: Jim Bovard, who has long served as a policy advisor to FFF and a monthly contributor to our journal Future of Freedom, will be our online speaker this evening, Tuesday, September 28, at 7 pm as part of our ongoing weekly conference "Restoring Our Civil Liberties." Jim is the author of the award-winning Lost Rights ...
Ronn Neff RIP by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2021 After several months in the hospital battling complications from COVID-19, The Future of Freedom Foundation’s longtime copy editor and friend Ronn Neff passed away last evening. Ronn was 72. The news came in the form of an email from Ronn’s longtime good friend Tom McPherren. Ronn has been FFFs copy ...
Biden Will Continue the JFK Cover-Up by Jacob G. Hornberger September 24, 2021 On October 26, the deadline for the public disclosure of the CIA’s still-secret records relating to the Kennedy assassination comes due. At that point, the issue will be: Will President Biden order the National Archives to release the CIA's long-secret records or will he continue the U.S. national-security establishment’s almost 60-year-old cover up of its regime-change operation in ...
The Kennedy Autopsy Selected for Amazon’s Prime Reading Program by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2021 Last month, Amazon sent us an email asking if we would consider permitting FFF’s book The Kennedy Autopsy, which I authored, to be considered for Amazon’s Prime Reading program. According to the email, “Prime Reading promotes authors and their books to Amazon’s most engaged customers. We have a limited number of spots available in the program ...
Our Civil Liberties Conference Continues Tonight by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2021 Last week, Tom Palmer kicked off our conference “Restoring Our Civil Liberties” with an excellent discussion of the historical origins of civil liberties. There is no one better than Tom to give this type of introductory talk. His deep knowledge of history came through loud and clear in his presentation. For those who are not familiar with ...
Liberventionists Were Wrong 20 Years Ago. They’re Still Wrong. by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2021 Twenty years ago, liberventionists (i.e., libertarians who favor foreign interventionism) were jumping on the Republican-Democrat bandwagon that was calling for invading Afghanistan. The few of us who were opposing the invasion were holding lonely ground. Those were difficult days for FFF. We were losing donors, subscribers, and even a member of our board of trustees — those who ...
The Afghanistan Debacle: A Huge Opportunity for Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2021 Opportunities to make a big advances toward liberty don’t come very often. The Afghanistan debacle provides a huge opportunity to do that. One option, of course, is to make the case that the Afghanistan invasion and occupation were mismanaged. In other words, the case for reforming America’s system of foreign interventionism. That’s the wrong approach. That’s not ...
Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder? Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2021 One August 9, I wrote a blog post entitled “Is Ashli Babbit’s Killer Guilty of Murder?” in which I pointed out, Just because a police officer might be scared of retaliation for killing a citizen is no reason to keep his identity and his version of events secret.The criminal justice system doesn’t operate like that. ...