To expect government to draw from within itself the strength to resist its natural expansion is to expect from a falling stone the energy to halt its fall.
— Frédéric Bastiat, “To the Electors of the District of Saint-Sever” [1846]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 26, 2022
The U.S. Destroyed Iranian Democracy
Given the protests by Iranian women that are roiling Iran, the response of the U.S. mainstream press is predictable — that the U.S. government should support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people. A good example of this phenomenon appeared in an op-ed in last Saturday’s Washington Post, entitled “What the West Should Learn from the Protests in Iran” by Karim Sadjadpour. The article states in…
DeSantis’s Immigration Antics
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What effect will Governor Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard immigration antics have on resolving America’s decades-long, never-ending immigration …
Fed Up with the Fed
by Robert E. Wright
The Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) began operations in 1914. Thus, many find it difficult to fathom an America without it. Yet as …
America’s Culture of Death
by Jacob G. Hornberger
In the wake of another mass shooting, this one in Uvalde, Texas, there have been the standard, predictable calls for gun control. The idea …