Our Second Drug War Conference at a HBCU by Jacob G. Hornberger April 28, 2017 Last month The Future of Freedom Foundation held our second conference on ending the drug war at one of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) -- Florida A&M University. The conference was hosted by the ACLU chapters at the law schools of FAMU, Barry University, and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Our previous drug war conference at a HBCU was at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Before the evening conference at FAMU, we had an informal social featuring free pizza and soft drinks. The program was kicked off by a welcome from FAMU law school student Maryjane Cooper, an ACLU representative on campus, who did a fantastic job organizing and promoting the conference. A student then introduced me and I delivered some introductory remarks about freedom, the drug war, and the racism of the drug war. We had three main speakers: Ken Williams, a former homicide detective with the Boston police department who now works for LEAP, the ...
Conservatives Are Squirming (and Capitulating) on Obamacare by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2017 For the last seven years, conservatives have had a field day complaining about Obamacare and calling for its repeal. The anti-Obamacare pabulum has been great for garnering donations to conservative organizations and Republican candidates. What conservatives never figured on, however, was that Republicans would end up winning both houses of Congress and the presidency. Now that that has happened, conservatives are squirming — even panicking — over what to do now, especially since the news media is hitting them with reality — that repealing Obamacare is going to leave millions of Americans uninsured and faced with ever-increasing healthcare costs. That means, possibly, losing votes at election time. As I have been writing for the past seven years, even if conservatives succeeded in repealing Obamacare, what good would it do? The nation would still be faced with a monumental healthcare crisis — the healthcare crisis that precipitated the enactment of Obamacare. Remember: the enactment of Obamacare did not arise in a vacuum. It ...
There Is Only One Healthcare Solution by Jacob G. Hornberger January 5, 2017 Ever since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, conservatives have had a field day complaining about Obamacare and promising to repeal it whenever they got the chance to do so. That chance has now arrived, with Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency. Now they don’t know what to do. Many people have become dependent on Obamacare. They’re likely to be left out in the cold with respect to insurance coverage if Obamacare is repealed. What do conservatives do about them? Conservatives are now trapped by their own mantras and penchant for reform. More fundamentally, don’t forget that there was a gigantic healthcare crisis that preceded Obamacare. That’s why Obamacare was enacted — to resolve the big crisis in healthcare. That crisis did not suddenly go out of existence. As soon as Obamacare is repealed, that same crisis will resurface. What do conservatives do then? Enact some conservative version of Obamacare? There is just one big problem, however, with ...
A Formula for Libertarian Success by Jacob G. Hornberger November 21, 2016 By garnering around 4 percent of the national vote, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson received more votes than any other LP presidential candidate in history. Nonetheless, 4 percent is still a far cry from winning the presidency, a fact that has caused some libertarians to succumb to feelings of despondency, despair, defeat, and depression, especially since much of the ...
FFF’s Drug War Video Project Launches Today by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2016 Today we launch our new Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate an end to the war on drugs, one of the most immoral and destructive government programs in U.S. history. Featuring a broad array of speakers, whose videos will be posted in the coming weeks, the video series presents each presenter’s reasons as to why it’s ...
Why Gary Johnson Isn’t in the Debates, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2016 During the first Republican debate of the 2008 campaign for president, Ron Paul shocked his fellow candidates and the mainstream media types who were asking the questions when the subject of the 9/11 attacks came up. His opponents dutifully spouted the official line about the attacks — that the terrorists had been motivated by hatred for America’s freedom and ...
Bionic Mosquito Has It Wrong on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2016 Jonathan Goodwin, who writes under the pseudonym Bionic Mosquito, has an article at LewRockwell.com entitled “Open Borders and the Real World,” which is critical of the article I posted on FFF’s website last week entitled “Open Borders Is the Only Libertarian Position.” In my article, I threw down the gauntlet to libertarians who advocate government-controlled borders and who ...
Open Immigration with a Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2016 Although free-market economist Milton Friedman defended the principle of open immigration, he had a caveat: “It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state.” Conservatives and even some libertarians have long used Friedman’s statement to justify their support of government-controlled immigration. But Friedman was wrong. Of course you can have both open immigration and a welfare state. ...
The Drug War Is Teetering (and That’s Good!) by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2016 The drug war is teetering. Support for ending this federal fiasco continues to grow all across the political spectrum. The latest instance is the United Nations — if you can believe that, where officials from all over the world have been discussing the possibility of ending this failed, deadly, destructive, and corrupt government program. Notice that drug-war proponents, including those ...
FFF’s Newest Ebook by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2016 The Future of Freedom Foundation has just launched its newest ebook, entitled The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State. I am the author. The ebook can be purchased at Amazon. It’s price: 99 cents. I discovered libertarianism almost 40 years ago. I took to it like a duck to water. My early ...
Why I Favor Limited Government, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2016 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5| Part 6 Ever since I became a libertarian in the late 1970s, there has been an ongoing debate within the libertarian movement between libertarians who advocate limited government and those who advocate anarchy, meaning a society based on the absence ...
We Are All Socialists (Except for Most Libertarians) by Jacob G. Hornberger February 2, 2016 Socialism is in the news, especially since Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a self-described socialist. That obviously is okay with Iowa voters because he ended up in a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses. A Des Moines Register poll leading up to the Iowa caucuses revealed that 43 percent of Iowa Democrats describe themselves as socialists ...
