Hornberger’s Blog, April 2007 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2007 Monday, April 30, 2007 Is Tenet a “True Patriot?” Former CIA Director George Tenet is upsetting the Washington establishment with insider revelations about the Iraq War in his new book . In the book, Tenet discloses that Bush and Cheney were fixated on regime change in Iraq long before 9/11. Duh! Isn’t that what we’ve been saying here at FFF from the get-go — that the war on Iraq had nothing to do with WMDS, mushroom clouds, UN resolutions, democracy-spreading, and liberation? Those were just the cover stories that Bush and Cheney used to market the war to the American people. After all, how would Americans have reacted if Bush and Cheney had simply announced the truth: “Since more than 10 years of sanctions have failed to achieve regime change in Iraq, we have decided to invade to take out Saddam Hussein and replace him with a U.S.-approved dictator”? Critics are taking Tenet to task for not having resigned his position in protest ...
Conservatives and Immigration Control by Bart Frazier July 31, 2006 To most people, the idea of open borders seems like a radical idea. And of the people most vehemently opposed to it these days, conservatives top the list. But if a run-of-the-mill conservative were to take the philosophical underpinnings of his politics into account, he would find that he too should be calling for open borders. For what is our system of border management but the socialistic central plan that all conservatives know is doomed to failure? Conservatives usually have little difficulty grasping the pragmatic and moral superiority of a free market. Under the guidance of the invisible hand, goods and services are distributed to those who value them most. Any inefficient participant in the process is quickly cast aside for lack of profit; to succeed, he must find a niche in the economy where his services are more ...
The Cowardice of the Conservative by Scott McPherson June 2, 2006 Conservatives are an interesting bunch. In a desperate attempt to differentiate themselves from liberals, they like to mock folks on the Left while talking as if they themselves were in agreement with libertarians. “I just vote Republican because they’re the lesser of two evils” is a common excuse for their continued support of that party and its philosophy (for lack of a better word). But when you scratch below the surface of the typical conservative you find someone whose principles are about as far from libertarian as the leftist principles he condemns. As a friend of mine once said, “Conservatives like to talk about ‘limited government’ — they just never say what they want it limited to.” In short, conservatives are typically cowards who don’t have the courage of their alleged convictions. For example, take the issue of immigration, a hot topic this election year for Republicans. ...
Independent Migrants Have Rights Too by Sheldon Richman June 2, 2006 You’d never know it from the recent public discussion, but the people disparaged as “illegal aliens” — in fact they are independent migrants — have the same natural rights to life, liberty, and property that Americans have. As long as they violate no one else’s natural rights, they should be free ...
Hornberger’s Blog, May 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2006 Wednesday, May 31, 2006 In a speech to a friendly audience at West Point, President Bush announced that the “war on terrorism” would ultimately rival the Cold War in its length and difficulty. The corollary, which Bush didn’t mention, is that this will be perpetually increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex, a point that the graduates of West Point ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2006 Friday, April 28, 2006 An article in yesterday’s New York Times about Vietnam holds a valuable lesson about U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. government’s related policy of trying to isolate the American people from the rest of the world. Vietnam, as everyone knows, is ruled by a non-democratic communist/socialist regime. That means that the citizenry of Vietnam ...
A Free Market in Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger March 31, 2006 Once again, the federal government is proposing immigration “reforms” to address the immigration woes that confront our country. The proposals in Congress include extending a fortified “fence” (for some reason, government officials shy away from using the word “wall”) along the Southern border, criminalizing illegal residency, criminalizing assistance given ...
Socialism and Empire, Not Immigration, Are Destroying America by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2005 A friend recently sent me an article written a couple of years ago entitled “How to Destroy America,” which provided an account of a Washington, D.C., “immigration-overpopulation conference filled to capacity by many of America’s finest minds and leaders.” According to the article, Richard D. Lamm, former governor ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2005 Saturday, April 30, 2005 One of the interesting twists of fate in Iraq involves Bush versus Bush with respect to the regime that would rule Iraq. After U.S. military forces under Bush I ousted Saddams forces from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf intervention, Bush I encouraged the Shiites and the Kurds to revolt. However, U.S. officials ultimately decided to stand aside ...
Hornberger’s Blog, February 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2005 Monday, February 28, 2005 U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty, who is representing the government in the Abu Ali case (the case in which U.S. officials kept U.S. citizen Abu Ali in a Saudi jail for 20 months), should be given a special federal medal for audaciousness. Responding to Abu Ali’s claims of torture, McNulty stated in official court ...
In Defense of Open Immigration by Anthony Gregory October 1, 2004 Immigration is one of the most difficult and divisive issues for freedom lovers. Many principled libertarians and champions of a free society believe in government restrictions on immigration, either for their own sake or as an interim measure so long as the United States has welfare programs that are presumed to attract immigrants, who then become net recipients of ...
Hornberger’s Blog, May 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2004 Monday, May 31, 2004 Today — Memorial Day — is a good time to begin reflecting on the future direction of our country, especially given the failure of the most recent foreign war waged by the federal government. I say failure because there is no possibility that the occupation of Iraq will succeed in bringing freedom, democracy, or even the ...
