They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin, Motto of the Historical Review of Pennsylvania [1759]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
October 28, 2019 The Evil of the Drug War
With the exception of the U.S. national-security state and its foreign policy of empire and intervention and its torture, state-sponsored assassinations, coups, alliances with dictatorial regimes, invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, illegal and unconstitutional wars, mass secret surveillance, indefinite detention, secret prison camps, drug experimentation on unsuspecting people, denial of due process, denial of trial by jury, kangaroo military tribunals, and other ...
The Pathocracy of the Deep State
by John W. Whitehead
Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”...
Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty
by Richard M. Ebeling
America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological ...
Wake-Up Call On The Syrian Border
by David Stockman
Syria has been turned into the most wretched of neighborhoods on the planet by Washington’s neocons and liberal interventionists. From its pre-2011 population of ...