The Immorality and Destructiveness of Wealth Equalization by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2019 One of the hallmarks of the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist philosophy is wealth redistribution through the force of government. Leftists/progressives/liberals/socialists lament the enormous disparities of wealth and income that exist in American society. They believe, therefore, that a legitimate function of government is to take money from the rich and either keep it for governmental expenditures or give it to the poor and middle class, with the ultimate aim of achieving a more equal distribution of wealth in society. One irony in all this, of course, is that redistribution and equalization of wealth has been one of the goals of the welfare-state way of life that statists foisted onto the United States almost 90 years ago and which has been the core principle of domestic political life ever since. Having enacted the progressive income tax in 1913 and then having adopted the welfare-state way of life in the 1930s, you would think that by this time the statists would have achieved their goal ...
Trump’s Failure Versus North Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2019 Ever since President Trump incited his big crisis with North Korea, only to back off and ultimately fall in love with North Korea’s brutal communist dictator Kim Jung-Un, the entire exercise has had a weird, surreal quality to it. Trump began the crisis by claiming that North Korea’s mere possession of nuclear weapons posed a grave threat to U.S. “national security.” Threatening to rain a storm of nuclear bombs on North Korea, Trump demanded that the communist regime “denuclearize” —that it destroy all of its nuclear weapons. During the crisis, Trump repeatedly emphasized that he would not permit anything less than full denuclearization because to do so would place the United States in grave danger of being struck by North Korean nuclear missiles. By the time of the summer Olympics in South Korea in February 2018, Trump’s mindset had still not changed. Recall Vice President Pence’s sour attitude toward both North Korean athletes and ...
Cold War Weirdness on Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2019 President Trump is currently having a second meeting with North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-Un. Hoping to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, Trump is hoping to enter into an agreement with the Korean Reds to finally bring a formal end to the Cold War-era Korean War. The meeting is being held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the capital of the country that the U.S. government also waged war against during the Cold War. Prior to the meeting, people were treated to a publicized spectacle in which Trump and Vietnam’s communist rulers signed a trade agreement, one that included a multimillion-dollar purchase of jets by the communists from U.S corporation Boeing. An obvious question arises: Why is the president of the United States negotiating trade agreements for U.S. businesses? Who elected him to be an agent for American business and industry? The answer is that Trump, like other Republican and Democrat statists, believes that it ...
Donald Trump, America’s Elected Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2019 After losing his battle against Congress to secure funding for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump is declaring that that the congressional rebuff is irrelevant anyway. The reason? Trump is declaring an “emergency” under the “National Emergencies Act,” which, he says, authorizes him to spend U.S. taxpayer money on the wall without congressional authorization. He’s ...
El Chapo Convicted! Yay! Drug War is Over! Right? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2019 After a 3-month-long trial in federal district court in New York City, famous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, more commonly known as El Chapo, has been convicted. Yay! After decades of drug warfare on the part of the feds, the drug war is finally over. Victory! Right? Well, if you believe that, I’ve ...
How the Word Liberalism Came to Mean Its Opposite by Richard M. Ebeling February 14, 2019 Over time, words sometimes change their meanings or connotations. Think of the words naughty and nice. Apparently, naughty originally meant to have or be nothing (naught or zero), but then it took on the extra sense of something being worth nothing, until finally a person who was considered worth nothing became a bad individual, or at least someone who ...
Raining on the Latest Immigration Deal by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2019 Immigration control advocates are undoubtedly hoping that the new immigration deal that is being struck to avert another government “shutdown” will finally, once and for all, end the decades-long immigration crisis. No more having to pace the floor in anxiety and depression. No more fear that the “invaders” are coming to get us and take control over ...
Jackboots in the Morning by John W. Whitehead January 31, 2019 “This is jackboots in the morning. This is an American nightmare that they would arrest somebody like this.”—Judge Andrew Napolitano The American Police State does not discriminate. Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America great again—rest assured, these same practices ...
End All Interventionism, Not Just in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger January 28, 2019 It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to America, “Please, give us one more chance. We ...
A Joint Statement on the Kennedy, King and Malcolm X Assassinations and Ongoing Cover-ups by Future of Freedom Foundation January 21, 2019 As the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979, President John F. Kennedy was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy. In the four decades since this Congressional finding, a massive amount of evidence compiled by journalists, historians and independent researchers confirms this conclusion. This growing body of evidence strongly indicates that the conspiracy to assassinate ...
Adhering to Principle on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2019 Conservatives and liberals favor a system based on immigration controls, which are founded on the socialist principle of central planning. As any person in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union will attest, central planning always produces chaos and crises. That’s why we have had a perpetual, ongoing crisis for decades in the area of ...
JFK, Trump, Russia, and the Deep State by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2019 Ever since I began writing on the JFK assassination, there have been those who have said to me, “What difference does it make whether this was a regime-change operation? Most everyone who engaged in it is dead by now anyway. What relevance does the assassination have for us living today?” The answer: We are still living under the governmental structure ...
