The Evil Rot at the Center of the Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2021 Given President Biden’s decision to succumb to the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of the CIA’s 60-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how President Kennedy felt about this type of secrecy: The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently ...
What the CIA Is Hiding in the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger October 26, 2021 With President Biden succumbing to the CIA’s demand to continue keeping the CIA’s records relating to the Kennedy assassination secret, the question naturally arises: What is the CIA still hiding? (See my blog post of yesterday entitled “Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up.”) To understand what they are still hiding and why they are ...
Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up by Jacob G. Hornberger October 25, 2021 Before I address President Biden’s decision last Friday to continue the national-security establishment’s cover-up of its November 22, 1963, regime-change operation in Dallas, I wish to make one thing perfectly clear: I am not Nostradamus. Yes, I fully realize that I repeatedly predicted that Biden would never order the release of those 60-year-old assassination-related records that the ...
Abolish, Don’t Reform, the Income Tax by Jacob G. Hornberger October 21, 2021 As I have repeatedly emphasized, in order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to dismantle or abolish infringements on liberty. If all we do is reform infringements on liberty, we have done nothing to achieve liberty. All that we have done, at best, is improve our lives as serfs. That’s because reform is not freedom. ...
Colin Powell, Iraq, and the “Good War” by Jacob G. Hornberger October 20, 2021 Some commentators are pointing out that former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who recently passed away, played an instrumental role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Attempting to bolster President George W. Bush’s and the Pentagon’s plan to invade Iraq and effect regime change there, Powell went before the United ...
A Twofer Tonight at FFF by Jacob G. Hornberger October 19, 2021 As part of our ongoing conference series “Restoring Our Civil Liberties,” viewers will have the privilege of watching two great presentations tonight: George Leef and Radley Balko. A regular columnist for Forbes.com, George is director of editorial content for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He was book review editor for The Freeman ...
Don’t Reform the IRS. Abolish It Instead. by Jacob G. Hornberger October 18, 2021 A commentary in the New York Times today demonstrates how different libertarians are from conservatives. The article, entitled “How Not to Reform the IRS,” is written by Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union. Founded in 1977 by James Dale Davidson, the NTU is a longtime conservative organization devoted to tax reform. In his article, ...
Major League Baseball: How Regulation Suppresses Free Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger October 14, 2021 With the baseball playoffs upon us, now would be a good time to talk about how economic regulation suppresses free speech. Major league baseball — and, specifically, its exemption from federal antitrust laws — provides a good example of this phenomenon. First, though, let’s do a short history of antitrust laws. Reflecting the beginning of the turn toward ...
Why the Mainstream Media Remains Silent on the JFK Records Deadline by Jacob G. Hornberger October 13, 2021 With the October 26 deadline only two weeks away for releasing the 60-year secret records of the CIA relating to the Kennedy assassination, the silence from the mainstream press is deafening. The great mainstream defenders of transparency and openness in government, at least when it comes foreign dictatorships, cannot bring themselves to openly advocate for the release of ...
Our Civil Liberties Conference Continues Tonight by Jacob G. Hornberger October 12, 2021 Our online Zoom conference “Restoring Civil Liberties” continues this evening at 7 p.m. ET with a presentation by Richard Ebeling entitled “Civil Liberties and Economic Liberty.” Richard, who co-hosts The Libertarian Angle with me and is also a contributor to our monthly journal Future of Freedom, is one of the best and most knowledgeable ...
The Washington Post and the JFK Records Deadline by Jacob G. Hornberger October 7, 2021 In my blog post yesterday entitled “Mainstream Press Silence on the JFK Deadline, I took the mainstream media to task for remaining steadfastly silent about the upcoming October 26 deadline for the release of the CIA’s long-secret JFK assassination-related records. Instead, I pointed out, the mainstream media simply continues reveling in labeling people who question ...
Mainstream Press Silence on the JFK Deadline by Jacob G. Hornberger October 6, 2021 Sometimes silence by the mainstream press speaks volumes about where they stand on important issues of the day. A perfect example is the absence of editorials and commentaries on the upcoming October 26 deadline for releasing the CIA’s long-secret records relating to the Kennedy assassination, which have been kept secret now for almost 60 years. Take a look, ...
