The Korean War’s Forgotten Lessons on the Evil of Intervention by James Bovard November 16, 2020 This year is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a conflict from which Washington policymakers learned nothing. Almost 40,000 American ...
End the Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans by John W. Whitehead November 12, 2020 “For soldiers … coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University ...
Why Politics Breeds Divisive Fears and Angers by Richard M. Ebeling November 11, 2020 The recent presidential election confirms and reinforces what many political observers and common citizens have increasingly known and noted: Americans are seriously divided over ...
Free Trade, Liberalism, and Peace by Richard M. Ebeling November 10, 2020 The classical liberals of the nineteenth century were certain that the end of the older mercantilist system — with its government control of trade ...
Gridlock Is Good—Except In The Jaws Of Massive Public Debts by David Stockman November 9, 2020 James Madison is surely smiling from his grave. Pursuant to his constitutional design, last night a badly divided electorate got an utterly gridlocked government—with the ...
Of Course They Are Unconstitutional by Laurence M. Vance November 6, 2020 Amy Coney Barrett, a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, became the ...
Where Are Lockdowns in the Constitution? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2020 With some people advising Joe Biden to adopt a nationwide lockdown when he assumes the presidency, this would be a good time to ask an important question: Where in the Constitution does it authorize the federal government to impose a nationwide lockdown? For that matter, where does the Constitution authorize the federal government to combat pandemics? Indeed, where in the Constitution is ...
Why Regime Change Became Necessary in November 1963 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2020 Practically from the start of his administration, President Trump was suspected of serving as an agent of the Russian government. The U.S. national-security branch of the federal government — specifically the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI — were convinced that Trump had been compromised. An enormous investigation was launched into Trump’s relationship with the Russians. For the first two years ...
The Pentagon and CIA Might Decide Who Is President by Jacob G. Hornberger November 13, 2020 WIth President Trump’s ouster of several key Pentagon and Homeland Security officials, including Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and replacing them with people who are loyal to him, an increasing number of mainstream types are expressing concern about the possibility of a Trump coup, one in which he refuses to relinquish the presidency to Joe Biden. Mind you, I’m not talking ...
President Trump, Release the JFK Files by Jacob G. Hornberger November 12, 2020 With President Trump’s critics decrying his lack of respect for America’s democratic system by his refusal to concede to Joe Biden, now would be a good time to remind such critics of one dark-side aspect of America’s much-vaunted democratic system—the national-security’s state’s violent regime-change operation in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Oh, yes, I know the standard response of the Pentagon, ...
A Biden Foreign Policy November 13, 2020 What can we expect in foreign policy with Joe Biden as President? Join FFF president Jacob Hornberger, ...
Where Do We Go from Here? November 5, 2020 Regardless of whether it is Donald Trump or Joe Biden who is ultimately elected President, the question ...
Capitalism vs. Slavery October 29, 2020 Have you ever thought about the relationship between 19th-century capitalism and 19th-century slavery? Special guest Phil Magness, ...
Court Packing in the Supreme Court October 23, 2020 If President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, receives Senate confirmation, will this cause ...