Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
– Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack [1738]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
August 29, 2019 Stop the President from Managing the Economy
For the past two years, President Trump and his loyal army of Trumpistas have been trumpeting what they say is Trump’s fantastic management of the economy. The stock market is soaring and unemployment is down, they crow. This shows, they say, that President Trump has been a great manager of the economy. Now that presidential campaign season is kicking into gear, Trump and his Trumpistas ...
The U.S. Revives the Personal State
by Richard M. Ebeling
It was French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) who famously declared, “L'etat c'est moi” (“I am the state”), indicating his insistence that he possessed absolute ...
2002 Landmarks on the Road to "1984" Orwellian Hell
by James Bovard
Next month will be the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Politicians and bureaucrats wasted no time after that carnage to unleash the Surveillance State on ...
Radio Hypocrisy
by Laurence M. Vance
During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe (RFE) broadcast news, information, and U.S. government propaganda to Soviet satellite countries and Radio Liberty (RL) did ...
Minimum Wage Nonsense
by Christine Smith
Once again, the call for raising the federal minimum wage is in the news, with most Democratic Party candidates for president endorsing its doubling ...
American Apocalypse
by John W. Whitehead
The U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation. No, this is not another conspiracy theory....
