[F]reedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" [April 16, 1963]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
November 2, 2020 Don't Forget LBJ's Election Theft
The mainstream pro-Biden media is poking fun at Donald Trump’s suggestion that there could be fraud involved in the post-election receipt of mail-in ballots. Apparently they’re not familiar with the election-theft case of Lyndon Johnson, who would go on to become president of the United States. The entire matter is detailed in Robert Caro’s second book in his biographical series on ...
COVID-19 and Liberty
by Christine Smith
If there's one thing we've learned about the public's understanding and practice of liberty from the pandemic, it's that some when pushed to the ...
Capitalism vs. Slavery
by Phil Magness, Jacob G. Hornberger, and Richard M. Ebeling
Have you ever thought about the relationship between 19th-century capitalism and 19th-century slavery? Special guest Phil Magness, ...
Unmasking Paul Krugman's Misrepresentation of Ayn Rand
by Richard M. Ebeling
“How Many Americans Will Ayn Rand Kill?” When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s article for October 22, 2020 was first posted on the ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by John W. Whitehead
Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 6
by Danny Sjursen
It was an odd peace, negotiated by a once-trusted, Democratic Party loyalist who, though appointed by Polk himself, soon turned against the war, ...
