JFK’s War by Jacob G. Hornberger March 25, 2022 People sometimes ask me whether there is any relevance of the Kennedy assassination to where we are today as a country. My answer is direct and unequivocal: Understanding the Kennedy assassination is essential to understanding many of the crises into which our nation has been plunged, especially in foreign affairs but also with respect to out-of-control federal spending and debt. It also provides us with what we need to do to get our nation back on the right track. Ever since the assassination, the official lie has been that Lyndon Johnson simply continued Kennedy’s policies. That may have been true with respect to welfare-state programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and civil rights, but it has always been a lie with respect to foreign policy. In fact, it was Kennedy’s foreign policy that ended up getting him killed. In my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham ...
Your Social Security Increase Just Might Be Taxed Away by Laurence M. Vance March 23, 2022 Social Security recipients got a nice benefit increase this year, but according to a report by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), “Almost half of all households that receive Social Security benefits might pay taxes this year on a portion of their benefits.” This raise and the possible reduction in benefits reveals the true nature of Social Security. The Social Security program provides monthly benefits to retired workers, families of retired workers, survivors of deceased workers, disabled workers, and families of disabled workers. It is funded by a 12.4 percent payroll tax (split equally between employers and employees) on the first $147,000 of an employee’s annual income. Self-employed individuals pay the full 12.4 percent but receive both a reduction in their net earnings from self-employment and a tax deduction equal to 50 percent of the amount of the Social Security tax they paid. One must pay Social Security taxes for a minimum of 40 quarters, or 10 years, ...
The Libertarian Brand by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2022 While U.S. presidential elections are held every four years, U.S. senators serve a six-year term, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected every two years. A midterm election is an election where the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for election, but the president is not. These elections always occur two years after a presidential election. As they gear up for the midterm elections in November, Democrats have three problems: a historical problem, a retirement problem, and an image problem. The Democratic brand Historically, the political party of the president does poorly in the midterm elections. Since 1946, the average midterm loss for the president’s party is 25 seats. Democratic presidents Harry Truman and Bill Clinton both began their first term with Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, only to see Republicans take control after the midterm elections. Republican president Dwight Eisenhower likewise began his first term with Republican majorities in both ...
Republicans Fail to See the Real Issue with Head Start by Laurence M. Vance February 14, 2022 President Biden’s “Path out of the Pandemic” mandated that four groups of people be vaccinated against COVID-19: all federal executive branch workers, contractors that do business with the federal government, health care workers at Medicaid- and Medicare-participating hospitals, and employees of private-sector businesses with 100 or more employees. Federal courts have struck down three of these mandates. ...
The Healthcare Road to Serfdom by Scott McPherson January 26, 2022 COVID-19 hysteria has done more to embolden the power-mad than a massive terrorist attack. Once content to whisper among themselves about the danger of “too much freedom” (any amount, in the final analysis, being too much for them), they slither out of the shadows now to champion every new idea or policy that treats people like bees in a ...
Crisis-Filled Lives by Jacob G. Hornberger January 19, 2022 No one can deny that we Americans live crisis-filled lives. Right now, there is a major crisis in Ukraine with Russia. There is also an ongoing crisis with China. Other foreign-policy crises, such as with Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, and North Korea. There is a terrorism crisis. Healthcare crisis. Social Security crisis. Drug-war crisis. Immigration crisis. Debt ...
Healthcare Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2022 As the Omicron variation of COVID-19 continues to spread, the American people need to be asking themselves an important question: Do they want healthcare freedom or not? If not, then healthcare will remain under the control of government — the federal government and the state and local governments. That will mean continued and growing healthcare tyranny in ...
The Debt Ceiling and Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger December 16, 2021 Not surprisingly, both houses of Congress approved another increase in the debt ceiling and have sent the bill to President Biden, who will most assuredly sign it. The bill raises the debt ceiling to $31.5 trillion. This debt ceiling is expected to last through the upcoming mid-term elections so that incumbent elected officials don't have to deal with ...
The Sham of Biden’s Democracy Summit by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2021 With his two-day “Democracy Summit” last week, President Biden continues renewed efforts by the U.S. national-security establishment to revive its old Cold War racket against China and Russia. The purpose of the summit, of course, was to highlight the fact that the United States has a democratic political system while China and Russia, who were not invited to ...
The Way Out of the Statist Morass by Jacob G. Hornberger December 9, 2021 Given the seemingly intractable welfare-warfare system that characterizes the United States, it might be tempting for some people to despair and simply give up and surrender to what might appear to be the inevitable -- the permanent continuation of our lives as serfs on the welfare-warfare state plantation. After all, Americans have lived under a welfare state since ...
The Omnipotent Power of the Pentagon by Jacob G. Hornberger December 8, 2021 No matter how you feel about the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, you can’t help but be impressed at how they are able to successfully plunder and loot American taxpayers, no matter how much needless death, suffering, and destruction they wreak on people around the world. Think about it: They just exited Afghanistan after their 20-year failed war ...
How We Achieve Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger December 7, 2021 In order for people to achieve a genuinely free society, there has to be a critical mass of people who understand it and who are passionately committed to achieving it. So, how do we arrive at that critical mass? It is rare that a person conceives of an original concept all on his own. In order ...
