Recent Silence from Libertarians Who Favor Immigration Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2019 It’s been a while since I have seen any articles by libertarians who support America’s system of immigration controls. I can’t help but wonder whether the reason for that is the immigration system’s massive death and suffering that has recently been reported by the mainstream media. After all, any system that produces massive death and suffering is obviously not ...
The Declaration of Independence Applies to Immigrants by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2019 Now that the Fourth of July celebrations are over, it’s worth asking whether a particular phrase enunciated in the Declaration of Independence is true or false. The phrase in question? “The pursuit of happiness.” The Declaration states that the pursuit of happiness is a natural, God-given right, one with which all people are endowed. Not just ...
Trump Reminds Us that America Is a Military Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 5, 2019 President Trump is being criticized for surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals and admirals during his Fourth of July celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Critics say that it was unseemly for the president to be showing off the federal government’s military prowess on Independence Day. Some said it conjured up images of the Soviet ...
Celebrating the Fourth, Then and Now by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2019 Americans who celebrated the Fourth of July in 1880 were celebrating a concept of freedom that is opposite to the concept of freedom that Americans today celebrate on the Fourth. The freedom that 1880 Americans celebrated was a society in which there was which there was no income taxation, no mandatory charity, no government management or regulation of economic activity, ...
The Dysfunctional Relationship between Trump and Kim by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2019 The relationship between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has got to rank among the most dysfunctional relationships in history. Recall the big crisis with North Korea that Trump ignited soon after coming into office, a crisis that threw his supporters, his opponents, and the mainstream press into a classic tizzy. Trump’s thesis was that North Korea posed ...
Trump’s Socialist Mindset on Trade by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2019 In announcing that the U.S. and China are resuming trade talks, President Trump demonstrated the socialist mindset that afflicts him and his fellow Republicans and, for that matter, the Democrats as well. Trump said that during the negotiations, the United States would keep a 25 percent duty on $250 billion of Chinese goods and that he would give China ...
What America Needs Is a Paradigm Shift by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2019 From the Democratic Party debates, it’s not difficult to see that there really isn’t any difference in principle between any of the Democratic presidential candidates and, for that matter, between Republicans and Democrats. Oh, yes, I know how the mainstream media is portraying the “big” differences between the Democrats and President Trump but that’s just ...
Trump Is Right about the Democratic Debate: Boring! by Jacob G. Hornberger June 27, 2019 President Trump is wrong about a lot of things, but he is right about last night’s Democratic Party debate. Despite the excitement and accolades being expressed by the mainstream press, the reality is that last night’s debate between 10 of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates was, as Trump put, boring. But that shouldn’t surprise anyone given that all of ...
Impeachment Dirt by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2019 One of the most amusing aspects of the entire anti-Russia brouhaha has been whether President Trump should be impeached for supposedly having violated U.S. campaign-finance laws. The idea is that since Trump received some political dirt from Russians on his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, he violated U.S. law in two ways: One, by accepting a campaign contribution ...
Republicans Love Socialism Too by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2019 Today’s New York Times is carrying a video op-ed entitled “I’m Republican. I Never Thought I’d Fight for Medicaid.” The op-ed calls for an expansion of Medicaid in North Carolina and other states to cover people who are uninsured and do not qualify for Medicaid because they make too much money. First things first. ...
The Solution to Trump’s Iran Mayhem by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2019 Undoubtedly, President Trump is fantasizing about the possibility of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for deciding at the last minute to not bomb Iran in retaliation for Iran’s shoot-down of a Pentagon drone. Apparently experiencing a crisis of conscience, Trump called off the strike when he learned that it would kill an estimated 150 people, which ...
End All State Support to Colleges and Universities by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2019 While Democratic Party presidential candidates are stumbling over themselves in offering people free college tuition and other political candy in the hope of buying their votes, I’ve got a better idea. Let’s end all state support of colleges and universities entirely. State support of colleges and universities is part of the mandatory-charity system that we call ...