The Omnipotent Power to Kill by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2026 The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law. Like all the other amendments to the Constitution, the Fifth Amendment operates as an express higher-law restriction that the people of the United States have placed on federal officials. The idea is that federal officials are expected ...
Republicans and Democrats Are Not the Root Cause of Big Spending and Big Debt by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2026 During the administrations of Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden, how many times did we hear about how Republicans were the answer to those big-spending Democrats who were bankrupting our country with their out-of-control federal spending and debt? Almost continuously! If only American voters would put those fiscally responsible Republicans ...
There Is No Freedom in an Assassination Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2026 To date, President Trump and the U.S. national-security branch of the federal government (i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA) have assassinated around 200 people in small boats on the high seas near South America. Such assassinations are quickly becoming a normalized part of American life, especially within the mainstream press. There is no question but that ...
The U.S. Immigration-Control Death Machine by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2026 The U.S. immigration-control death machine has struck again. A few days ago, six bodies were found inside a railroad container car in my hometown of Laredo, Texas. There was no way to open the door to the container car from inside. The victims died of dehydration and extreme heat. At least one of them was from ...
Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2026 The libertarian movement can be divided into two basic groups: libertarians who call for reforming welfare-warfare state programs and libertarians who call for dismantling welfare-warfare state programs. I fall within the latter group. Why? Because I want to be free. Reform doesn’t get me freedom. At best it gets me a better serfdom. That’s nice, but it’s not ...
The Malignant Hypocrisy of Conservatives Is on Full Display in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2026 I have long pointed out the rank hypocrisy of conservatives and the conservative movement. Some examples: Conservatives have long railed against socialism, even while fiercely defending Social Security, Medicare, and most other welfare-state programs. They have long waxed eloquent about free markets, even while fiercely supporting America’s decades-old deadly and destructive system of immigration controls and ...
Let’s Not Forget What Madison Said About War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2026 Amidst soaring gasoline prices and significant economic damage for the American people arising from President Trump’s war on Iran, we must never forget the most important factor in America’s never-ending foreign wars: the destruction of our liberty here at home. In this regard, it’s helpful to recall the wise and insightful words of James Madison, the father of ...
The Viciousness of the Twin Evils on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2026 The common assumption is because the Iranian regime is engaged in evil, that makes the U.S. government’s war on Iran something good. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here we have a classic case of evil versus evil. That’s what all too many Americans still can’t come to grips with — that their very own government is ...
Celebrating Opposite Freedoms on the Fourth of July by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2026 In the run-up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this coming Fourth of July, the Washington Post recently published a long article about how Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Declaration in 1876. What was mostly left out of this long article, however, was the fact that Americans in 1876 were celebrating ...
An Incriminating Omission from Those Long-Secret JFK Records by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2026 With President Trump’s decision to dash the CIA’s hope of keeping its JFK records secret forever, virtually all of the focus has been, naturally enough, on the various small pieces of evidence that further fill out the mosaic of the U.S. national-security regime-change operation that took place on November 22, 1963. But there is something else to consider ...
The Immigration Police-State’s Infliction of Harm by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2026 In the midst of massive death and destruction inflicted by the U.S. government in Iran, Venezuela, the Caribbean, and here economically in the United States — and, before that, in Iraq and Afghanistan — and, before that, in Vietnam and Korea, it is easy to forget that the U.S. government is still inflicting economic destruction here at home ...
Trump’s War on Iran Is Not America’s War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 5, 2026 In a recent editorial exhorting President Trump to stay the course in Iran, the Wall Street Journal wrote, “Democrats in Congress are hoping for Mr. Trump’s failure in Iran, as if that wouldn’t also be America’s.” For the life of me, I don’t see how Trump’s failure in Iran would also be America’s failure in Iran. ...
