An Unseen Consequence of the Minimum Wage by Jacob G. Hornberger March 26, 2021 It is easy to see a direct consequence of minimum-wage laws — the unemployment they produce by pricing people out of the labor market. If a person’s labor has a market value of less than the state-mandated minimum wage, he will be laid off or simply not employed. Businesses are not in the business of losing money. ...
Just Leave the Commies Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger March 25, 2021 I’m not sure what good it did for the Cold War to end, given that the U.S. government has done everything it could since then to gin up hostilities, tension, and conflict with the communist and former communist world. When Russia expressed a desire to have friendly relations at the start of the Trump administration, the Pentagon and the CIA ...
Another Predictable Call for Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger March 24, 2021 Another mass killing in America. The immediate reaction from the left? Gun control! By now, everyone can predict how the left is going to respond to one of America’s periodic mass killings. One leftist asks, “Is It Time to End the Second Amendment?" His question only goes to show how woefully ignorant leftists are ...
The Banality of Evil on Sanctions by Jacob G. Hornberger March 23, 2021 The banality of evil within the mainstream press when it comes to actions carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment never ceases to amaze me. The latest example appears in the New York Times in an investigative piece that absolutely stunned me. The piece consists of a video that details an extensive investigation into a ...
JFK Conference Update by Jacob G. Hornberger March 22, 2021 Our current ongoing conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination” continues this week with part 1 of a two-part presentation by Jefferson Morley entitled “Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation.” Wednesday evening at 7 pm. Eastern Time via zoom. Register at our conference website. Morley is a former investigative reporter for ...
Terminate NATO by Jacob G. Hornberger March 19, 2021 The Washington Post has published a long piece calling for NATO to take on a new official enemy — China. The piece is written by Sara Bjerg Moller, an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. She argues that after 30 years since losing the Soviet Union as ...
Biden’s Immigration Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger March 18, 2021 The immigration crisis taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border confirms three points that I have been making for many years. The first point is that no matter who is elected president and no matter what new policies are adopted to resolve America’s decades-old immigration crisis, it won’t do any good. That’s because America’s system of ...
Oswald or the Pentagon/CIA? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2021 This evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time, we continue with our online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination.” We currently have 693 registrations. Our speaker is Dr. John Newman, adjunct professor of political science at James Madison University. Newman is the author of the seminal book JFK and Vietnam and ...
The Cold War Was a Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2021 If you are not attending our online conference “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination,” you are missing out on one of the best conferences we have ever held at The Future of Freedom Foundation. Our conference is oriented toward people who have an interest in the assassination but who have never ...
The Washington Post’s Perverse View of Drug Legalization by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2021 Sometimes an editorial in the mainstream press can be both amusing and revealing. An excellent example appeared in an editorial entitled “If Virginia Is Going to Legalize Weed, It Should Do It Right,” which appeared in the March 12 issue of the Washington Post. The editorial pointed out that the state of Virginia is on ...
The Destructive Futility of the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2021 The U.S. government’s drug warriors have recently made another drug bust, adding to the countless number of drug busts it has made since the drug war was launched decades ago. Their latest target is Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the famous Mexican drug lord El Chapo, who the feds convicted and incarcerated for life for drug-war ...
What Next? Spear Control? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2021 For people who still have fears about the threat of a violent takeover of the federal government, a ruling by Washington, D.C., federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth has gone a long way to relieve such fears. In a decision denying bail to one of the January 6 protestors, Jacob Anthony Chansley, who is often referred to as ...
