Imagine a county sheriff that took a suspected drug-law violator into custody more than 10 years ago. Since then, the man has been held in jail without being accorded a trial. The district attorney and the sheriff promise to give the man a trial sometime in the future...
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The Emergency Destruction of American Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Emergencies are the time-honored method by which people lose their freedom. That’s because public officials use emergencies as a way to acquire totalitarian powers, under the rationale that they need such powers to keep people “safe.” Of course, officials usually make...
Memorial Day is Based on a Lie
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Today, Memorial Day, Americans across the land will hear the same message: that US soldiers who have died in America’s foreign wars and foreign interventions have done so in the defense of our rights and freedoms. It is a message that will be heard in sporting events,...
Political Gamesmanship at the Olympics
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
So, why is Vice-president Mike Pence attending the Winter Olympics in South Korea? Is it because he’s a sports fan who just wants to enjoy the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympic games?Unfortunately, no.Pence is going to the games for political purposes. He intends...
America: A Military Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment...
The Biggest Threat to our Country
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The New York Times recently profiled three military veterans who are running for Congress. All three are women and all three graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Times highlighted the military experience of the women, which they plan to rely on to...
The First Amendment Does Not Give Us Freedom of Speech
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
A special insert in Sunday’s New York Times reflects that it’s not just people in countries run by totalitarian regimes that are indoctrinated by the state. It also happens in representative democracies like the United States, especially owing to the government’s...
The British Empire in Yemen
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Over the holidays, I began watching a Netflix/BBC series entitled The Last Post, which revolves around a contingent of British troops in the early 1960s stationed in Aden, a port city in Yemen, the Arabian country today that Saudi Arabia and the United States are...
What Good Are Domestic Military Bases?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
In an excellent 2016 article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “For U.S. Foreign Policy, It’s Time to Look Again at the Founding Fathers’ Great Rule’” (which I highly recommend reading), Texas A&M Professor Elizabeth Cobbs wrote: In 2013, for the first time since...
A Basic Principle About Drug Laws
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
Drug laws bring into existence drug gangs. it’s just a basic principle of economics. If you like drug gangs and the violence that comes with them, then you should support drug laws. if you oppose drug gangs and their violence, you should oppose drug laws.When...
JFK, the CIA, and Secrecy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Today marks the 54th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who famously said, The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and...
South Korea Should ‘Brexit’ the United States
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
With President Trump being accompanied by three U.S. carrier groups during his trip to Korea, South Koreans should pull a “Brexit” on the United States. As I counseled last April and August in two separate articles, South Korea should dissolve their alliance with the...
Oliver Stone Was Right About the CIA
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
I can’t decide which is more amusing: the CIA’s use of “national security” to justify keeping secret its 50-year-old records in the JFK assassination or the mainstream media’s response to the continued secrecy.On the one hand, the CIA’s use of “national security” to...
US Violence Abroad Begets Violence at Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
Although ISIS is claiming that Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was one of theirs and was acting on its behalf, so far no independent evidence has surfaced to confirm ISIS’s claim. If such evidence does emerge, it will be one more of a long series of deadly...
America: The Dictatress of the World
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured Articles
On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the...
North Korea Would Be Stupid to Trust the US
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
To many mainstream pundits, the solution to the crisis in Korea is for US officials to sit down and “talk” to North Korea in the hopes of negotiating a mutually beneficial agreement. While it won’t guarantee that a deal will be worked out, they say, “talking” is the...
The Worst Mistake in US History
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
The worst mistake in US history was the conversion after World War II of the US government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American...
Interventionism and the Korean Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
If war ends up breaking out in Korea, President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA will be announcing that it was all North Korea's fault. They’ll say that North Korea was “begging for war,” and that the United States was “forced” to act to protect “national security.”...
One Way to End Drug War Violence
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Two police officers in Kissimmee, Florida, were recently shot and killed while investigating illegal drug activity in a dangerous part of town. According to the New York Times, government officials praised the officers for their service and asked Floridians to pray...
Unlike Trump, JFK Didn’t Bend the Knee
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
NOTE: I’ll be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity 2017 Conference. Saturday, September 9, from 9:30 am to 3:00 p.m., Washington Dulles Airport Marriott. Last year’s conference was a sell-out and this year’s conference promises to be even better....
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