Nullifying the First Amendment by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2021 Whenever some foreign regime that is independent of the U.S. Empire goes after dissenters, U.S. officials trot out the First Amendment to show how different the United States is. Here, people are free to criticize government officials without fear of being put in jail or otherwise punished for exercising their free speech rights, they proudly point out.
Will Biden Continue the JFK Assassination Cover-Up? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2021 Immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the official narrative became that a lone-nut communist named Lee Harvey Oswald suddenly decided to kill the president. Immediately after Oswald was himself assassinated, federal officials decreed an end to any further investigation into Kennedy’s assassination. The official narrative never made ...
The Washington Post’s Newest Attack on VMI by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2021 Yesterday, the editorial board of the Washington Post went on the attack again against Virginia Military Institute, claiming, among other things, that VMI “has an obligation to take seriously disturbing revelations in reporting by the Post.” Well, there is nothing like adding a bit of pomposity and arrogance to a controversy. Who died and made the Washington Post ...
Opposing Israel Is Not Necessarily Anti-Semitic by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2021 Defenders of the Israeli government’s policies in the Middle East, especially with respect to the Palestinians, are increasingly going on the attack by pointing out that some critics of the Israeli state are also anti-Semitic. A good example is the May 24 article “Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism? Someone Didn’t Get the Memo” by New York Times columnist ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Display on Belarus by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2021 U.S. officials are shocked and outraged over the forced landing of a passenger airliner in Belarus. The airliner contained a passenger named Roman Protasevich, a 26-year-old man who was traveling from Greece to Lithuania. Protasevich is a Belarusian dissident who is playing a major role in the fight against Belarus’s brutal dictator Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. Fearing imminent arrest, ...
Why Is Paper Money Constitutional? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2021 The official money of the United States today is paper currency. But that’s clearly not what the Constitution says. It says that gold and silver coins shall be the nation’s currency. How is that possible? I thought the Constitution was supposed to be the highest law of the land. I also thought that it was the responsibility ...
How We Got Omnipotent Government by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2021 We have all been born and raised under a government that wields the power of assassination. State-sponsored assassinations at the hands of the U.S. government — and specifically the Pentagon and the CIA — have become a rather ho-hum affair. They have become fully accepted as part and parcel of American life. Yet, when we stop to ...
Libertarianism Has Only One Position on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2021 REMINDER: The final session of our online Zoom conference "The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination" is this evening at 7 pm Eastern time. It will consist of a Q&A session on the following topic: the political context of the assassination. Panelists will be conference presenters Jim DiEugenio, Mike Swanson, Jeff Morley, John Newman, Doug Horne, and ...
Terminate Foreign Aid to Israel (and Everyone Else) by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2021 The latest outbreak of death and destruction between Israel and Palestinians should cause Americans to reflect on an important question: Why should Americans be taxed so that their money can be sent to the Israeli government in the form of weapons or other foreign aid? Indeed, why should the U.S. government be sending aid to any regime ...
JFK Conference Update by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2021 Last week, I delivered the concluding presentation in our conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” It should be posted today or tomorrow on FFF’s website. This week, we wrap up the conference with a Q&A session devoted to the political context of the assassination. When we put this conference together, it was with ...
Ban Paternalistic Government by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2021 What is it about paternalists that prevents them from minding their own business? They are obsessed with minding everyone else’s business and, even worse, using the power of government to force people to live their lives the way paternalists want them to live them. Look at the war on drugs. For our entire lives, paternalists have used the ...
Splinter the CIA into a Thousand Pieces and Scatter It to the Winds by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2021 Last night I delivered the concluding presentation in our conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” We’ll be posting it online within a few days. If you missed it, I would invite you to watch it. It is around 2 1/2 hours long. It is the most complete singular presentation I have ever made ...