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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for 12 years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2022 Russia's Draft and the US's Draft Registration
The American people would be wise to do some serious soul-searching over the fact that our country has come to resemble that of Russia in so many important ways including conscription.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 27, 2022 No Entangling Alliances
It's time to make this Cold War dinosaur extinct. Our national well-being and perhaps even our very existence turn on returning to sound founding principles especially "no entangling alliances."
(17 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 21, 2020 The Cunning Plot to Kill Kennedy
In the Kennedy assassination, the entire effort immediately became to pin the crime solely on a communist ex-U.S. Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald and to shut down any aggressive investigation into whether others were involved in the crime.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Trump's Dictatorial Tendencies
We live under a type of governmental system in which it is the responsibility of Congress to enact the laws, it is the responsibility of the president to carry out the laws, and it is the responsibility of the courts to interpret the laws.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Drug War Disappearances and Murders
During the past 15 years or so of drug warfare in Mexico, there have been around 200,000 deaths resulting from drug war violence.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2020 "Small Government" is an Empty Republican Mantra
welfare-warfare state reform is not freedom, which is what libertarianism is all about. Freedom entails dismantling, not reforming, the illegitimate functions of government.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2020 Hong Kong Reminds Us of Ike's Warning
In his farewell speech, Eisenhower warned about the grave threat that the U.S. "military-industrial complex" posed to the liberties and democratic processes of the American people.
SHARE Thursday, March 26, 2020 Why Foreign Interventionism, Especially Now?
Questions that deserve pondering are: Why must the U.S. government be engaged in foreign meddling? What good does it do? Are there harmful consequences? Are they worth it?
SHARE Monday, February 3, 2020 Do We Need the First Amendment?
The First Amendment does not give people rights. It prohibits the government from infringing on rights that preexist the government. The only reason for enacting such a prohibition is the concern that in the absence of such a prohibition, Congress would enact laws that abridge freedom of speech and other fundamental rights.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 10, 2020 The Ongoing U.S. War on Iran
The vicious and brutal U.S. economic sanctions on Iran target the Iranian populace with death and economic impoverishment and have been tremendously successful in achieving that end.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 19, 2019 Pardon Assange and Snowden
Assange and Snowden deserve immediate pardons, which would enable them to be released from prison and exile and to begin resuming their normal lives. The fact that they even have to seek pardons only reflects what the deep state has done to our values as Americans.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 3, 2019 The Pentagon's Destruction of the Bill of Rights
The very reason the Pentagon established its system in Cuba, rather than the United States, was to circumvent and avoid the provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
SHARE Thursday, November 28, 2019 Jury Nullification Thwarts Immigration Tyranny
After the jury's acquittal of Scott Warren, it's likely that federal prosecutors and the Border Patrol think twice about prosecuting any other American citizen who offers water, food, or medical help to illegal immigrants.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 25, 2019 Russia: Friend or Foe?
Many Americans are figuring out that anti-American terrorism is rooted in U.S. interventionism, which the Pentagon and the CIA introduced into the Middle East soon after the Soviet Union called an end to the Cold War racket.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Two More U.S. Deaths for Nothing in Afghanistan
The U.S. government should tell the families of those two dead soldiers the truth: they died for nothing, just as 58,000 American soldiers died for nothing in the Vietnam War. The realization that one's loved ones died for nothing would be painful but at least it would be the truth.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 4, 2019 Who Is Responsible for the Deaths of Those Three Children in Syria?
Getting Baghdadi was the prime objective, and no price in terms of foreign life would be considered too high to get him. Even if it had been 20 children or 100 children who would be killed in the operation, the deaths, while difficult, would still have been considered worth it.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 24, 2019 Vicarious Courage on Syria
it's easy to be brave, courageous, compassionate, and loyal to the Kurds when it's someone else who is doing the killing and dying. It's not as easy to display such traits when it's you, the interventionist, who is doing the killing and dying.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 23, 2019 Trump's Self-Painted Corner on Iran
President Trump may not realize it yet, but it will almost certainly dawn on him at some point that he has painted himself into a corner with his bullying tactics against Iran.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 16, 2019 Israeli and U.S. Destruction of Freedom of Travel
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had plans to visit Israel. However, relying on an Israeli law that empowers the Israeli government to bar people who openly support the boycott movement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered that Omar and Tlaib not be permitted to enter the country.
SHARE Friday, August 2, 2019 Donald Trump, Trade Dictator
The truth, no matter how discomforting it might be, is that with his trade wars and his unilateral imposition of taxes on the American people, Trump has accelerated the destruction of American freedom. It is Dictatorship 101, all nicely wrapped up in an American flag and a mantra of "making America great again."