An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.
–Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Melish [January 13, 1813]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
December 9, 2021 The Way Out of the Statist Morass
Given the seemingly intractable welfare-warfare system that characterizes the United States, it might be tempting for some people to despair and simply give up and surrender to what might appear to be the inevitable -- the permanent continuation of our lives as serfs on the welfare-warfare state plantation. After all, Americans have lived under a welfare state since the 1930s, when President Franklin ...
FDR's Infamy on Pearl Harbor by Jacob G. Hornberger
What were the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Did U.S. policy decisions ...
The Real Lessons of the Afghanistan Disaster
by Jacob G. Hornberger
I will never forget a formal dinner I attended shortly after the 9/11 attacks. It was sponsored by a conservative-oriented libertarian foundation. There were ...
The Constitution and Economic Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger
FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger gave a talk for the Constitution Day Celebration held by The Freedom ...
Trust Funds: Real and Imaginary
by Laurence M. Vance
It is interesting that the basic framework of the U.S. unemployment compensation program was first established in the Social Security Act of 1935. Although ...
