Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust. Whether our Constitution has hit on the exact degree of control necessary, is yet under experiment.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to M. van der Kemp [1812]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
September 30, 2019 Foreign Aid for Dictators
Notice something important about the hoopla regarding President’s Trump withholding of U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine while he was requesting Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden for possible corruption: Nobody in Washington, D.C., or within the establishment press is questioning the concept of foreign aid itself. Foreign aid has become such an established and accepted way of inducing foreign ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Trump-Biden Ukraine Scandal
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss the unfolding scandal involving foreign ...
The Sham of Government Transparency
by James Bovard
The Supreme Court in June ruled that the federal government can keep secret the food-stamp sales totals of grocery stores. By a 6 to ...
