Tag Archive: Hornberger’s Blog

Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist watching it.

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The Knudsen Mystery in the Military’s Fraudulent JFK Autopsy

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

After I saw Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the JFK assassination was a highly sophisticated regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, I read a multitude of books along those lines.

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Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference.  The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group.

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Why Shouldn’t Foreign Regimes Try to Influence U.S. Elections?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues this Monday evening, November 4, with Don Boudreaux,  former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and current professor economics at George Mason University.  7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time.  Register here.

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Reflections on Nuclear War and Immigration

2024-10-03

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2024-10-03

Those who scoff at the notion that nuclear war between the United States and Russia is an increasing possibility have an advantage in the argument. If they prove to be correct, they will be able to crow, “See, I told you worrywarts that there was nothing to be concerned about.

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We Need a New System, Not a New President

2024-09-18

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2024-09-18

Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders kicks off on Monday, September 30, at 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time.  Register here. Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, which is being held on November 22-24 at the Dallas Marriott Downtown. I hope to see you there!

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Does Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Justify Border Controls?

2024-09-17

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2024-09-17

Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, is an American citizen. Presumably he was born in the United States. He obviously traveled across state lines to get to Florida. That raises an important question: Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to enable each state to establish border controls around the state to protect the citizenry from violent people from other states?

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We Are All Central Planners Now

2024-09-16

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2024-09-16

No matter how one comes out on who won the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, one thing is crystal clear: Hardly anyone questions whether the president and the federal government should be managing the economy.

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Hunter Biden Would Not Be Prosecuted in a Free Society

2024-06-07

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2024-06-07

How ironic that the son of a Democrat president of the United States is having to pay the price for living in a paternalistic state that his own father ardently supports. Hunter Biden is currently on trial in a U.S. District Court for federal gun-control violations. Waiting in the wings is another federal prosecution for income-tax violations.

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End the Drug War in Oregon, Both State and Federal

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

Three years ago, in a citizen’s initiation approved by 3/4 of voters, Oregon decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Last month, the Oregon governor signed into law a measure that undid what the people of Oregon had decided.

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Has the U.S. Seizure of Russian Assets Boomeranged?

2024-03-19

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2024-03-19

After the Pentagon, operating through NATO, succeeded in provoking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. official and their allies seized $300 billion in Russian assets. The seizers are now talking about giving the loot to Ukrainian officials, who would then use it to buy armaments and ammunition from U.S. “defense” contractors.

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Self-Deception on Social Security

2024-03-05

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2024-03-05

The leftist website Counterpunch has published an article today entitled “Millionaires Stopped Contributing to Social Security on March 2, 2024.” The thrust of the article is that once someone reaches an income of $168,600, “they stop paying in.”

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The Stronger the Government, the Weaker the Nation

2024-02-13

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2024-02-13

For all of our lives, it has been the aim of most Americans to make the federal government stronger, especially with respect to the warfare state. The principal justification for an ever more powerful government is that it keeps the American people safe from the likes of terrorists, drug dealers, communists, illegal immigrants, Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans, and Muslims.

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Why Did Biden Let In Those Nicaraguan Refugees?

2023-02-15

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2023-02-15

The Biden administration and its acolytes in the U.S. mainstream press are celebrating the fact that Nicaraguan socialist dictator Daniel Ortega just released 222 political prisoners and sent them packing to the United States. In the process, however, they are only demonstrating the arbitrary, capricious, and hypocritical nature of America’s socialist system of immigration controls.

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The Alien Invasion of America

2023-02-14

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2023-02-14

The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!  No, I’m not talking about illegal aliens — that is, those immigrants who are trying to enter the United States without official permission. I’m talking about real aliens — the scary types from outer space. You know, the ones that look like ET.

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Outrage on Refugees and Silence on Sanctions

2023-02-02

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2023-02-02

I have seen immigration-control advocates exclaim against illegal immigration my entire life. They say that U.S. officials just need to “crack down” in the war on illegal immigration in order to bring an end to America’s decades-long, never-ending, ongoing, perpetual immigration crisis and immigration chaos along the border.

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End the Welfare-Warfare State

2023-01-27

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2023-01-27

By any measure, the conversion of America to a welfare-warfare state has been a disaster. It is time to end this deadly and destructive political and economic experiment. Consider some examples: 1. After embroiling America in forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and other parts of the world, the Pentagon has succeeded in getting us closer to nuclear war since 1962, when it did the same in the run-up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

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The Pentagon’s Perpetual Crisis Machine

2023-01-27

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2023-01-27

Given President Biden’s decision to send 31 of its top-ranked M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, it is clear that the Pentagon has decided to escalate its war against Russia. Biden’s decision was followed by Germany’s decision to deliver 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine.

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Was Martin Luther King a Russian Red?

2023-01-26

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2023-01-26

Today, federal officials stumble over themselves to show how much they revere Martin Luther King. They’ve even created a federal holiday to honor him. Not so back when King was alive, however. During that time, U.S. officials were convinced that King was a Red, and they were also convinced that the Reds, especially the Russian Reds, were coming to get us. 

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How the Constitution Constrained Federal Spending and Debt

2023-01-25

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2023-01-25

Given that the debt-ceiling debate is likely to continue for a few months, examining the Constitution provides us with the reasons our nation has been plunged into this monetary morass. Federal officials have now run up the federal government’s debt to more than $31.5 trillion. That’s a lot of money. And it’s also a lot of interest payments. 

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