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 ...
A Woke CIA … or a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Society? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2021 There is a battle currently going on over whether the CIA should be woke or not. The battle was apparently incited by a recent segment of a social media series issued by the CIA entitled “Humans of CIA.” According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Susan Gordon, deputy director of national intelligence from 2017-2019, ...
Conservatives and Liberals: Immigration Socialists by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2021 Republicans love to accuse Democrats of favoring open borders. That’s partly because Democrats favor granting “amnesty” to immigrants who have been here illegally for a long period of time. Legalizing illegal immigrants, however, is a far cry from open borders. Open borders entails a complete dismantling of American’s immigration-control system, including an abolition of the Border Patrol. ...
JFK Conference Update by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2021 This Wednesday, May 12, at 7pm Eastern Time, we have the concluding presentation in our online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” I will be making that presentation, which will be entitled “Regime Change: The JFK Assassination.” I invite everyone to attend. If you haven’t registered for the conference, you can do so ...
Ban the FDA Rather than Menthol Cigarettes by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2021 While many states are finally re-legalizing marijuana, the Food and Drug Administration is planning to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The reason? Because cigarette smoking is harmful. It causes cancer. Thus, the nanny state deems it necessary to protect us from menthol cigarettes. But wait a minute! If the concern is cigarette smoking and cancer, why ...