If any lessons can be drawn from Prohibition, it may be that the easy call to "pass a law" to bring about a millennium does not always work, that the supposed cure can be worse than the disease, and that the economic law of supply and demand can be a lot more pervasive than the countervailing legislated law of the land.
– Mary Bennett Peterson
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
November 14, 2019 Coercion and Charity Are Opposites
The entire welfare-state way of life is based on the concept of force. Through the threat of arrest, prosecution, incarceration, and fine, the American people are forced to be good, caring, and compassionate to others. Here is how the process works. People are forced to deliver a percentage of their income to the federal government, which in turn delivers the ...
Casualties of War
by John W Whitehead
War drives the American police state. The military-industrial complex is the world’s largest employer. War sustains...
The Case for Globalism, So-Called
by Richard M. Ebeling
The global economy seems to be coming under attack from a variety of directions. On one side, there are the reborn “democratic socialists” and ...
Inessential Government Workers
by Laurence M. Vance
Government “shutdowns” in the United States occur when Congress and the president cannot agree on appropriations bills to fund the federal government before the ...
The "Officer Friendly" Police Fantasy
by James Bovard
Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a “positive ticketing” campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A ...
The Case for Open Immigration
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Every American living today has lived his entire life under an immigration crisis. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. America’s system of immigration controls is based ...
