Articles by Jacob Hornberger

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She Knew Too Much About JFK’s Murder

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4/12/2012

Against the Police State

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6/8/2011

You’re Not Defending Our Freedom

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6/1/2011

Jail Break

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5/20/2011

The Banality of Killing

Whose actions might have triggered something in a deranged mind?

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1/13/2011

The JFK Casket Conspiracy

Jacob G. Hornberger on yet another astounding hole in the official story.

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11/23/2010

Government ‘Fire Fighters’ Let a House Burn Down

So liberals attack libertarians.

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10/8/2010

The Assassination of JFK

Was the CIA involved?

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8/4/2010

Liberals Love the Poor, Right?

Actually, they hate them. Article by Jacob G. Hornberger.

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5/7/2010

Progressives Hate the Poor

Jacob G. Hornberger on the minimum wage.

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4/29/2010

Economic Ignorance and Liberal Hypocrisy

Jacob Hornberger on the Daily Kos.

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4/20/2010

Fascist Franklin

Jacob G. Hornberger on liberal delusions about freedom.

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3/5/2010

Gold and Freedom vs. the Fed

Jacob Hornberger on our bitter enemy, the central bank.

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11/26/2009

Hitler, Bush, Obama

Jacob Hornberger on their tribunals.

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11/20/2009

The US Invasion of the Vatican

Jacob Hornberger on democratic imperialism.

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11/12/2009

Blowback at Ft. Hood

Jacob Hornberger on yet another consequence of the US conquests of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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11/11/2009

Gold and Freedom

They're inseparable.

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11/2/2009

Is the NY Times Coming Clean?

Jacob Hornberger on the JFK-CIA-Joannides assassination scandal.

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10/21/2009

It Was an Inside Job

Jacob Hornberger on the Kennedy assassination.

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10/16/2009

Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Federal Agent?

Jacob G. Hornberger examines a fascinating question.

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10/14/2009

Operation Northwoods and the 9-11 Truthers

Jacob Hornberger refutes neocon Charles Krauthammer.

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9/18/2009

CIA Assassinations

It's shades of Operation Condor, says Jacob Hornberger.

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7/30/2009

Mr. President, Tear Down That Embargo

Jacob Hornberger on real change for Cuba.

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7/3/2009

Socialist Wall Street

Jacob Hornberger on the bailout.

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6/2/2009

Bill of Rights? What Bill of Rights?

Jacob Hornberger on the regime.

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5/14/2009

The Conquering Taliban

Courtesy of the US empire.

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5/12/2009

Why Is There a Totalitarian Drug War?

Jacob Hornberger on the anti-drug police state.

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4/22/2009

A Terrorist-Producing Machine

Jacob Hornberger on the US war on Afghanistan.

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3/31/2009

Drug-War Idiocy

Jacob Hornberger on federal judge-tyrants.

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3/27/2009

Two Checks on Tyranny

Jacob Hornberger on trial by jury and bearing arms.

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3/5/2009

Darkness, Tyranny, and Oppression

Jacob Hornberger on recent US history.

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1/24/2009

Still Protecting Us From the Federal Government

Somewhat. Jacob G. Hornberger on the Bill of Rights.

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12/11/2008

Let’s Not Make the Pilgrims’ Mistake

Jacob G. Hornberger on Thanksgiving, socialism, and the free market.

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11/29/2008

No American Soldier Has the Right To Kill Iraqis

Jacob G. Hornberger on the demise of conscience.

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8/22/2008

The Founders Were Traitors

At least, that was the way their government saw it.

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7/7/2008

The ‘Enemy Combatant’ Nonsense

Jacob G. Hornberger on yet another presidential power incompatible with freedom.

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6/5/2008

No Income Tax

Jacob G. Hornberger on a real tax cut.

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4/8/2008

Government-Made Crises

Such as price controls.

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3/18/2008

The Trouble With America

Jacob G. Hornberger on big government at home and abroad.

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3/13/2008

Another Beltway Libertarian for Big Government

Jacob G. Hornberger on warmonger Randy Barnett.

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2/9/2008

Abolish the Fed

Ron Paul is right, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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2/5/2008

Brace Yourself

Jacob G. Hornberger on what the feds plan to do to us.

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1/30/2008

The Conservative Life of the Lie

Jacob G. Hornberger on Ron Paul and FOX.

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1/8/2008

Are Conservatives Aliens?

Jacob G. Hornberger on the anti-Ron Paul variety.

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12/21/2007

Losing the Republic

And restoring it.

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12/4/2007

Go, Ron, Go

Jacob G. Hornberger on The Man.

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11/12/2007

The Despicable State

Jacob G. Hornberger on the war on telephone privacy.

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11/1/2007

Bush’s First War Crime

Jacob G. Hornberger on the war on Afghanistan.

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10/20/2007

The Failed Legacy 0f Interventionism

Jacob G. Hornberger explains the facts of foreign-policy life to an anti-Ron Paul newspaper.

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10/12/2007

‘Libertarian Paternalism’

Like school vouchers, it's another name for socialism.

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9/27/2007

Empire or Freedom?

Jacob G. Hornberger on the libertarian centrality of war and foreign policy.

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8/28/2007

Hitler’s War on Terror

Jacob G. Hornberger on why so many Germans supported "The Leader."

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7/19/2007

The Establishment of Tyranny

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Military Commissions Act.

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6/20/2007

Ron Paul’s Answer Terrifies Them

Jacob G. Hornberger explains why.

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5/24/2007

The Man Who Roiled Republican Politics

And knocked out Giuliani.

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5/17/2007

Empire or Republic

Jacob G. Hornberger on the choice before us.

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5/15/2007

Ron Paul and the MSNBC Debates

No wonder the establishment wants him out.

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5/10/2007

Star Chamber

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Padilla trial.

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5/1/2007

Khaki Kangaroo Courts

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Pentagon's crooked "judicial" process.

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4/3/2007

Our Budding Military Dictatorship

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Pentagon's power to jail Americans indefinitely.

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3/27/2007

Shhh

Don't tell Americans about how the feds treat "enemy combatants."

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3/22/2007

Abandoning Liberty

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Islamo-Fascist rationale.

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3/17/2007

‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Oh yeah?

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3/8/2007

Talking to Syria

But only for torture.

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3/5/2007

The Five-Sided Police State

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Pentagon.

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3/1/2007

The ‘Value’ of Public School

To the indoctrinators.

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2/22/2007

Hey, Pro-War Libertarians

Time to fess up.

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2/15/2007

The Long War on Gold

Jacob G. Hornberger on the federal assault on sound money, and what to do about it.

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1/20/2007

The President as a Substitute Conscience

Jacob G. Hornberger on the troops and their supporters.

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12/28/2006

Pro-Life Killers

Jacob G. Hornberger on George Weigel et al.

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12/16/2006

The Love of Omnipotent Government

Jacob G. Hornberger on why the choir is the answer.

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12/12/2006

Why Not Invade Vietnam Again?

And murder millions more for democracy and freedom?

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12/2/2006

Trapped in Iraq

Or, rather, in lies and delusions.

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11/21/2006

They Deserved To Lose

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Republicans.

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11/8/2006

Our Libertarian Future

Jacob G. Hornberger on morality, freedom, and pragmatism.

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11/7/2006

They Lied Us into War

Jacob G. Hornberger on the anatomy of a murderous trick.

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10/24/2006

Indefinite Jail Without Trial

Jacob G. Hornberger on the latest act of compassionate conservatism.

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10/19/2006

Criminal Justice or the Police State?

Jacob G. Hornberger on al-Qaeda in federal court.

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10/17/2006

The Linchpin of Freedom

Jacob G. Hornberger on Habeas Corpus.

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10/12/2006

TV Propagandist for the Omnipotent State

Jacob G. Hornberger on the O'Reilly fear factor.

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10/3/2006

Star Chambers and Kangaroo Courts

Jacob G. Hornberger on military tribunals.

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9/28/2006

How Hitler Became a Dictator

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Enabling Act et al.

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9/1/2006

The Dictator-in-Chief

Jacob G. Hornberger: Archives So Mary Pinchot Meyer had to be terminated with extreme prejudice. Against the Police State Anthony Wile interviews Jacob G. Hornberger on libertarian law and religion. You’re Not Defending Our Freedom Forget the propaganda, troops. Read the truth from Jacob G. Hornberger. Jail Break Jacob G. Hornberger on getting out of the statist cage. The Banality of Killing Whose actions might have triggered something in a deranged mind? The JFK Casket Conspiracy Jacob G. Hornberger on yet another astounding hole in the official story. Government 'Fire Fighters' Let a House Burn Down So liberals attack libertarians. The Assassination of JFK Was the CIA involved? Liberals Love the Poor, Right? Actually, they hate them. Article by Jacob G. Hornberger. Progressives Hate the Poor Jacob G. Hornberger on the minimum wage. Economic Ignorance and Liberal Hypocrisy Jacob Hornberger on the Daily Kos. Fascist Franklin Jacob G. Hornberger on liberal delusions about freedom.

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8/31/2006

Drug War Snake Oil

Jacob G. Hornberger on the stupidity and evil of the feds.

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8/21/2006

Why Do They Hate Us?

Hint: it's not the first amendment or gambling casinos.

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8/10/2006

The Birth Pangs of Rosemary’s Baby

Jacob G. Hornberger on sicko metaphors (and policies).

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8/3/2006

Moral Degeneracy

Jacob G. Hornberger on US intervention.

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7/29/2006

The Trouble With Liberals

Jacob G. Hornberger on their fatal moral flaw.

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7/20/2006

The Trouble With Conservatives

Jacob G. Hornberger on where the ruling party goes wrong.

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7/6/2006

Say Thank You to the Grocer

For a free-market transaction, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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7/1/2006

Collateral Murder

Jacob G. Hornberger on killing Iraqi children.

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6/20/2006

Zarqawi and the Drug War

Jacob G. Hornberger on the connection between two federal crusades.

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6/13/2006

Do Hadithans Hate Us for Our Freedom?

Jacob G. Hornberger on the real war.

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6/3/2006

US Hypocrisy in Cuba

Jacob G. Hornberger on banning travel and trade.

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5/27/2006

Is Moussaoui as Crazy as US Foreign Policy?

Jacob G. Hornberger on DC's flight from reality.

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5/23/2006

Separate Education and State

If you want freedom and academic standards, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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5/20/2006

The Regime Loves Fear

And seeks to stoke it at every turn.

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5/16/2006

Our Democratic Dictatorship

Jacob G. Hornberger on the land of the free.

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4/27/2006

Shifting Realities

And shifting warmongers.

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4/25/2006

The Separation of Charity and State

Jacob G. Hornberger on actually helping the poor.

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4/18/2006

A Deadly Sham

Jacob G. Hornberger on the war on terror.

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3/25/2006

Who’s Hitler?

Jacob G. Hornberger on Bush, Chavez, Fidel, and Morales.

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3/7/2006

Conservative Claptrap

Jacob G. Hornberger on more mush from the wimps.

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2/21/2006

Conservative Fascism in the War on Drugs

Jacob G. Hornbergers on the limited-government types.

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2/18/2006

Why They Hate Us

Jacob G. Hornberger on US mayhem in the Middle East.

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2/14/2006

The Imperial Scam

Jacob G. Hornberger on democracy, hypocrisy, and US foreign policy.

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2/2/2006

Osama’s Back

And George has got him.

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1/28/2006

Our Real Enemy

Jacob G. Hornberger on the feds.

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1/24/2006

The Methodology of Hope

Jacob G. Hornberger on freedom and peace.

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12/22/2005

What I Didn’t Learn at VMI

About war and government.

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11/24/2005

Is Bush a War Criminal?

Jacob G. Hornberger on W's aggression against Iraq.

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11/22/2005

A Conflict of Paradigms

Jacob G. Hornberger on the founders' vision and the current regime.

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11/19/2005

Who’s Your Daddy?

The central government, according to the dear leader.

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11/8/2005

What Did Cheney Know?

And when did he know it?

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11/1/2005

Troops Do Not Defend Our Freedoms

Jacob G. Hornberger on a militarist myth.

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10/22/2005

Congressional Dems Support Bush’s War

They love the state.

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10/18/2005

Meet the Political Fockers

Southwest Airlines was within its rights to ban an obscene (if funny) t-shirt on its private property, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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10/15/2005

Soldiers: Refuse To Invade Other Countries

Put your oath to the Constitution first, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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10/11/2005

All Hail Captain Fishback

But where are you other West Pointers?

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10/4/2005

Military Rule in America

It's coming through the backdoor.

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9/22/2005

States Rights

Jacob G. Hornberger on reserved powers.

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9/13/2005

The Welfare State Kills

Jacob G. Hornberger on New Orleans.

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9/8/2005

Why Is Pat Robertson in Trouble?

He correctly described US foreign policy, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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8/27/2005

Has the Pentagon No Shame?

It dishonors Confederate cadets because they stopped the invading feds.

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8/25/2005

What I Learned as a VMI Cadet

Jacob G. Hornberger on the answer to Cindy Sheehan's question.

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8/20/2005

Democracy in America

It's all about looting, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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8/18/2005

Unenumerated Rights

The Bill of Rights is only the beginning, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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8/11/2005

Bail, Fines, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Jacob G. Hornberger on the 6th amendment.

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7/30/2005

Islam’s Newest Department of Defense

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Pentagon.

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7/16/2005

Get Used to It, Folks

Empire begets terrorism, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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7/9/2005

Gitmo USA

Jacob G. Hornberger on why an illegal prison camp threatens all of us.

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7/7/2005

There Is a Link Between Iraq and 9/11

If not quite in the way Bush means, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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6/30/2005

The Rights of the Accused

Even in the Age of Bush.

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6/23/2005

Foreign Legions for the Empire?

Hey, Max Boot, join up like Pat Tillman, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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6/18/2005

From Communism to Terrorism

Government always wants an external enemy.

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6/14/2005

Protect Your Children From the Military

Jacob G. Hornberger on parental rights and duties.

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6/7/2005

A Threat to Life, Limb, and Liberty

Jacob G. Hornberger on US foreign policy.

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5/26/2005

Trial by Jury

A palladium of liberty or a tool of tyranny. Jacob G. Hornberger on what makes the difference.

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5/17/2005

Terrorist Motives

And US government activities.

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5/3/2005

Don’t Forget Roosevelt’s Attack on the Judiciary

It reminds Jacob G. Hornberger of the Republican right.

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4/26/2005

Connect the Dots

Among all the failed and evil DC programs, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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4/21/2005

Stockholm Syndrome

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Iraqi reaction to Rumsfeld.

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4/14/2005

Regime Change

Jacob G. Hornberger on another immoral excuse for war.

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4/11/2005

Is It Judicial Murder?

No, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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3/29/2005

What’s the Matter With Bill Gates?

We need a free market in education, too, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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3/26/2005

Hard Cases Make Bad Law

Jacob G. Hornberger on Terri Schiavo.

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3/24/2005

Charge Him or Release Him

Jacob G. Hornberger on Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.

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3/17/2005

Gulaging Ragnor Danksjold

The feds are very upset with Walter Anderson.

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3/15/2005

Why Save Social Security?

Let's call socialism by its name, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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3/11/2005

Due Process of Law

Jacob G. Hornberger on an ancient legal right hated by all the fascisti.

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3/10/2005

Hands Off Venezuela

Jacob G. Hornberger on US designs on Latin America oil.

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3/8/2005

A Victory for Freedom

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Padilla ruling.

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3/3/2005

Democracy Does Not Equal Freedom

And we are not the government.

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3/1/2005

Liberating Guatemala

From democracy and freedom.

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2/12/2005

The ‘Oil for Food’ Smokescreen

To disguise US corruption, and US mass killing of Iraqi children.

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2/5/2005

Rand and Read

Jacob G. Hornberger on what made him a libertarian.

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2/3/2005

The American Assault on Iran

In 1953.

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2/1/2005

Searches and Seizures

Jacob G. Hornberger on the 4th amendment.

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1/27/2005

Searching for WMDs?

Look here, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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1/18/2005

The Conservative Threat to Freedom

Jacob G. Hornberger on Augusto Bushochet.

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1/13/2005

Why Trust in Social Security?

Jacob G. Hornberger on one of the fallacies of "privatization."

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1/4/2005

‘We’ Are So Generous

And just so all-around good.

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12/30/2004

Spending the Empire Down

Jacob G. Hornberger on the federal attack on the dollar.

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12/28/2004

The Lawyer Protection Racket

Jacob G. Hornberger on licensure.

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12/9/2004

Antipathy to Militarism

That is our heritage, says Jacob G. Hornberger.

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12/6/2004

US Regime Change, Murder, and Torture in Chile

Jacob G. Hornberger on why Chileans are still furious.

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11/25/2004

The Right To Keep and Bear Arms

Jacob G. Hornberger on a key human right.

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11/20/2004

Submit or Die

Jacob G. Hornberger on the conquest of Fallujah.

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11/13/2004

I’m Free Because I Voted

Right?

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11/10/2004

The Real Meaning of Free Speech

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Bill of Rights.

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11/2/2004

Mock Justice

Jacob G. Hornberger on the Hamdi case.

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10/15/2004

No WMDs

But plenty of death and destruction. Article by Jacob G. Hornberger.

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10/13/2004

Answers to Ron Paul’s Questions

On Iraq, from Jacob G. Hornberger.

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9/14/2002

When the King Died

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8/17/2002

Is This the Wrong Time To Question Foreign Policy?

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9/27/2001

The Meaning of Rights

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6/28/2001

Neither Safer Nor Freer

Thanks to the Iraq war.

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The White Rose

Jacob G. Hornberger on a lesson in dissent.

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