The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and the courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
– Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison [1802]
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 6, 2020 The Failure of Operation Iraqi Freedom
What everyone can agree on with respect to the current crisis in Iraq is that Operation Iraqi Freedom, the slogan that the Pentagon used in the run-up to its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been one great big miserable failure. Despite Pentagon and CIA plans to convert Iraq into a paradise of freedom through massive death and destruction from bombs, missiles, tanks, ...
The Libertarian Angle - Socialism in America, Part 7
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
A majority of millennials approve of socialism, and progressives are gaining more influence with every election. What ...
In Defense of the Quid Pro Quo
by Richard M. Ebeling
For a good part of the second half of 2019, the news has been filled with Donald Trump’s perceived quid pro quo with the ...
Examples of Dedication to Freedom
by Richard M. Ebeling
When Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992) wrote his famous book The Road to Serfdom (1944) in the midst of the Second World War,...
