It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
– Justice Felix Frankfurter
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
November 4, 2021 The LA Times's Fallacious Article on the Minimum Wage
Last August, the Los Angeles Times published an article on the minimum wage by a college intern from Duke University named Caroline Petro-Cohen. The article took California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder to task for calling for an abolition of the minimum wage. Petro-Cohen said that if employers aren’t forced to pay a minimum wage, they will end up paying ...
Which Books in Public Schools?
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What is the solution to the controversy raging across the country over books in public school libraries? ...
Do We Still Have the Constitution?
by Andrew P. Napolitano
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano gave the ninth talk in our webinar “Restoring Our Civil Liberties.” Judge Napolitano ...
The Case Against Drug Courts by Laurence M. Vance
A recent article in World magazine profiled Judge Michael Taylor and the Mississippi 14th Circuit’s drug court that he oversees. In “Sober-minded,” Kim ...
FFF Civil Liberties Conference Every Tuesday at 7pm EST through November 16
Online via Zoom
Speakers: Tom Palmer, Stephen Halbrook, Jim Bovard, Michael Glennon, Richard Ebeling, Jonathan Turley, Andrew Napolitano, Ron Paul, and Jacob Hornberger
The Libertarian Angle Thursday, November 11, 2021
World Wide Web
Speaker: Jacob Hornberger
Jacob Hornberger to Speak
at CAPA Conference Saturday and Sunday November 20-21, 2021
World Wide Web
Speakers: Andrew Kreig, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Russ Baker, James Wagenvoord, Jacob Hornberger, Tink Thompson, Gary Aguilar, and others.