The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
– Steve Biko
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
August 14, 2025Why the Drug War?
The ostensible purpose of the U.S. war on drugs is to prevent Americans from getting their hands on illicit drugs and ingesting them. Think about that for a moment: The entire drug-war apparatus and the massive militarized drug-war police state exist for the purpose of preventing Americans from possessing and ingesting unapproved substances that they wish to possess and ingest. I consider that ...
Another Federal War on Free Speech by James Bovard
“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 ...