If, in the opinion of the people, distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.
— George Washington, Farewell Address [September 26, 1796]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
October 21, 2022
I Am Not Nostradamus!
On September 8, 2022, I wrote an article entitled “My Prediction on the CIA’s Secret Assassination Files.” In that article, I went out on a limb and predicted that when the upcoming December 15 deadline arrives, the CIA and President Biden will, once again, extend the time for secrecy for the CIA’s 60-year-old records relating to the Kennedy assassination….
Liberalism, True and False
by Richard M. Ebeling
The death of liberalism has been hailed or feared for well over a century now. In the United States, the tribal collectivists of identity …
Ben Bernanke’s Nobel Prize
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Did former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserve the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics? FFF president Jacob …
Ben Bernanke’s Nobel Prize
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Did former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserve the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor …