If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
–Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Cooper [1802]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 21, 2022 Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs
By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, suffering, mass incarceration, infringements on civil liberties, asset forfeiture, and racial bigotry that have come with the ...
Abolish the FBI. Now. by Scott McPherson
In late December, pollster Scott Rasmussen released an interesting report. A poll conducted earlier in the month of 1,000 likely voters ...
Hayek's Contribution to Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What were Friedrich Hayek's major contributions to the principles of the free market and the free society? ...
Cancel Culture's War on Free Speech
by John W. Whitehead
Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, ...
Boosting American Standing on the World Stage
by Laurence M. Vance
What do a member of the left-leaning New York Times editorial board and a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI) have ...
A Great Opportunity to Restore the Republic by Jacob G. Hornberger
With the debacle in Afghanistan, the American people have been presented with one of the greatest opportunities in our lifetime — an opportunity to ...
