If We Are Going to Achieve Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger June 21, 2021 There is no doubt that when it comes to freedom, the situation in America is not good. Ever since I founded FFF some 31 years ago, our lives as welfare-warfare serfs has gotten progressively worse, year after year. One option, of course, is to give up. Just surrender and accept our serfdom as a permanent condition and ...
Hypocrisy 101 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2021 When President Biden predictably began lecturing Russian President Vladimir Putin about human-rights abuses in Russia, Biden was chagrined when Putin turned the tables on him by asking about human-rights abuses at the hands of the U.S. government. I’ve often wondered why foreign dictators don’t do that more often. Biden’s ...
End the Draft Permanently by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2021 Recently the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the all-male draft. The plaintiffs in the case argued that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional. Apparently the Court is simply letting Congress decide the issue. I’ve got an idea — an idea grounded in freedom. How about abolishing the draft — and, of course, ...
Can Employers Require Employees to Get Vaccinated? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2021 The issue of whether any government can force people to get the Covid-19 vaccine is a no-brainer for libertarians. For us, the answer is very simple: Of course not. In a genuinely free society, people have the right to decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated or not. But what if an employer requires his employees to get ...
Old and New Official Enemies by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2021 Doing his best to justify President Biden’s $750 billion military budget, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that China’s military has been building its military capabilities at “a very serious and sustained rate.” Well, of course it has been. How else would the U.S. national-security establishment justify its ever-increasing budgets? I’m ...
Liberal Blindness on Wealth and Poverty by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2021 It would be difficult to find a better example of moral obtuseness than the mindset that leftists/liberals/progressives/socialists have toward wealth and poverty. (I’ll use the term “liberals” for the rest of this essay.) Liberals constantly lament the plight of the poor in American society today. But wait a minute: Wasn’t poverty what the welfare state was supposed to ...
Leftists’ Perverse View of Capitalism by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2021 A recent article at Aljazeera by the noted leftist commentator Belén Fernández exemplifies the perverse mindset that leftists have toward what they call “capitalism.” In her article, which is entitled “Why Does Mexico Have the World’s ‘Most Violent’ Cities?” Fernández attributes the massive violence in Mexico to the U.S. government’s war on drugs.
Kamala Harris and the Same Old Immigration Nonsense by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2021 Vice-President Kamala Harris got jeered in Guatemala, and deservedly so, after telling the Guatemalan people, “Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.” At the same time, the Biden administration is promising $4 billion in foreign aid to the Guatemalan government. ...
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 ...