Libertarian Reform Measures Do Not Advance Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2021 Ever since I discovered libertarianism, there has been a faction within the libertarian movement that has favored and promoted reform of the welfare-warfare state way of life under which we live. Over the decades, those who advocate reform have come to dominate the libertarian movement. Unfortunately, however, libertarian reform measures do not advance liberty. Instead, they advance reform, ...
What’s Decent About Torture, Assassination, and Secret Surveillance? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 28, 2021 In a Los Angeles Times editorial predictably hyping up the extreme danger to “national security” arising from the January 6 Capitol protests, the Times quotes Capitol police officer Harry Dunn as saying, “We represent the good side of America, the people who believe in decency.” Really? So tell us, Officer Dunn, what is decent about the following ...
Wrong Lessons from the Afghanistan Debacle and Defeat by Jacob G. Hornberger July 27, 2021 Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan. Instead, they are coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why their Afghanistan intervention turned out to be such a big debacle. They say that they’ve learned how to do better with future interventions. One of the favorite lessons they ...
Public-School Zoombies by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2021 Jeremy Adams teaches civic classes at Bakersfield High School in California. In a July 24 commentary in the Los Angeles Times entitled “The Rise of the Zoombies: Lifeless, Detached Students Have Returned to My Classroom,” Adams laments the fact that after the Covid-19 layoff, his students have returned to the classroom as lifeless, detached zoombies. He ...
JFK’s Peace Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger July 23, 2021 Pat Buchanan has just published an article on President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University on June 10, 1963, just a few months before he was assassinated on November 22. It’s an article worth reading, as it shows the relevance of Kennedy’s vision for America even today.
The Chimera of Immigration Reform by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2021 A commentary in the New York Times today provides a perfect demonstration of the problem facing the American people regarding immigration. The title of the commentary is “Why Rural America Needs Immigrants” by Ruben Leonard and Matt Russell. Leonard is the author of a book entitled Deep Midwest: Midwestern Explorations. Russell is the owner of ...
The LA Times Gets It Wrong on Gun Rights by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2021 The Los Angeles Times had an editorial yesterday whose title pretty much says it all: “18-Year-Olds Shouldn’t Have the Right to Buy Guns.” So, let me see if I correctly understand the Times’s position. An 18-year-old woman is walking down a dark street at night. She is accosted by a much bigger, stronger man who violently grabs ...
The Danger of Drug-War Raids by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2021 We are all familiar with drug-war raids, especially in the middle of the night, in which cops and DEA agents sometimes shoot and kill people and their pets during the course of the raid. One reason for this phenomenon is that the people who are being raided don’t know who is doing the raiding. Even if the cops ...
Cuban-Americans Love Socialism Too by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2021 Cuban-Americans are ecstatic over the protests erupting in Cuba against socialism. What nonsense! With the notable exception of Cuban-American libertarians, many Cuban-Americans are no more against socialism than the average Cuban citizen is. They just want a pro-Pentagon, pro-CIA regime in Cuba managing their socialist system. Ask any Cuban-American if ...
The CIA, Kennedy, and the Haiti Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2021 The legal authorities have been rounding up suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Criminal prosecutions will follow. If those accused are found guilty, they were be punished with long terms in jail. Ironically, however, if the CIA or the Pentagon had been the ones that assassinated Moïse, the situation would be completely different. There ...
The Critical Race Theory Controversy by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2021 Conservatives and progressives are at it again. They are attacking each other big time over whether Critical Race Theory should be taught in secondary schools and colleges and universities. The fundraising appeals are flying, as each side exhorts people to send in their donations to support whichever side is sending out the fundraising appeal. Yawn! The controversy ...
Lift the Embargo and Leave Cuba Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger July 14, 2021 In the wake of protests by thousands of Cuban citizens, the U.S. government and its rightwing supporters are pointing to Cuba’s socialist economic system as the root cause of suffering by the Cuban people. The Cuban government, on the other hand, and its leftwing supporters here in the United States are pointing to the U.S. embargo as the ...
