We make ourselves real by telling the truth. Man can hardly forget that he needs to know the truth, for the instinct to know is too strong in us to be destroyed. But he can forget how badly he also needs to tell the truth. We cannot know truth unless we ourselves are conformed to it. We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true by manifesting the truth as we see it. – Thomas Merton, From No Man Is an Island [1955]
HORNBERGER’S BLOG
June 17, 2025The Mainstream Media’s Fear of Investigating the JFK Assassination In my blog post yesterday, I showed how the mainstream media failed to investigate the early, secret introduction of President Kennedy’s body into the Bethesda Navy morgue. When the deep state was sneaking JFK’s body into the morgue almost an hour and a half before the official time that the body was brought into the morgue, It goes without saying that …
Trump Watch: Troops in LA and D.C.
by Jacob G. Hornberger
In this week’s Trump Watch, Jacob discusses President Trump’s deployment of troops in Los Angeles and the …
Conservatives Still Don’t Get It on Discrimination
by Laurence M. Vance
Conservatives and libertarians are “uneasy cousins,” said conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913–1996). In an interview with Reason magazine before he ran for president, Ronald …
Was the Constitution a Failure?
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The U.S. Constitution brought into existence the most unusual, the most radical, and the freest society in history. Yes, there were exceptions to liberty, …
How Not to Cut Medicaid Spending
by Laurence M. Vance
Medicaid is government-funded health care for eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with certain disabilities. It is the third-largest federal …