I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
-- Judge Learned Hand, Speech to the Board of Regents, University of the State of New York [1952]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
May 24, 2022 Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in a state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post. The article stated that “in a nation plagued by malnutrition,” there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points out that Cuba “careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years” ...
Restore Our Republic
by Jacob G. Hornberger
As predictable as thunder following lightning, former CIA director William Gates recently declared that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasing assertiveness demonstrate the ...
Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage by James Bovard
On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free COVID tests stretched around the block at a Rockville, Maryland, public library. Looking ...
Conservatism, Libertarianism, and John Stuart Mill by Laurence M. Vance
Although most conservatives of today seem to have forgotten him, conservatives of yesteryear honored and revered Russell Kirk (1918–1994). After receiving his bachelor’s degree ...
Additional Adverse Consequences of Inflation
by Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling
Are there adverse consequences to inflation in addition to rising prices? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel ...
