If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel Adams
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
January 31, 2023
Why Not Defund the Military?
Amidst all the talk about defunding the police, notice something important: No one talks about defunding the military. That’s because the military establishment is too powerful and has come to be accepted as a permanent feature in American life. Except for libertarians, everyone treats the military as their god. But defunding the military, whose taxpayer-funded largess is now around $800 billion per year, ...
Freedom of Conscience
by Laurence M. Vance
Libertarian philosopher and historian George H. Smith (1949–2022), in his collection of essays titled Freethought and Freedom, incisively remarked that “without freedom of conscience ...
What to Do about California's Mass Killings
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What do we do about the latest spate of mass killings in California, which has some the ...
The Historical Foundation of Civil Liberties, Part 3
by Tom G. Palmer
Let’s examine the contemporary use of the term civil liberties. The use of the term in the way that we’re now accustomed to dates to the ...
