Above all, it behooves us Americans ... to repress, and to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
–Edmund Burke
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
June 14, 2021 Liberal Blindness on Wealth and Poverty
It would be difficult to find a better example of moral obtuseness than the mindset that leftists/liberals/progressives/socialists have toward wealth and poverty. (I’ll use the term “liberals” for the rest of this essay.) Liberals constantly lament the plight of the poor in American society today. But wait a minute: Wasn’t poverty what the welfare state was supposed to address? The federal income ...
Bob Dylan and John Kennedy
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Why is that Bob Dylan, now 80 years old, is singing about the JFK assassination in his ...
Would the Republicans Have Saved Us?
by Laurence M. Vance
If Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) had not gotten sick and resigned his Senate seat, then the title of this article would have been “Will ...
Advancing Liberty in the Pandemic by Jacob G. Hornberger
What has happened to freedom in the last year in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? Join ...
The Conservative Hypocrisy on Menthol Cigarette Ban
by Laurence M. Vance
Many Americans perhaps don’t realize that Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco in 2009. Nor do they know ...