The schism organism: The Life of the Party, part three, by Thomas L. Knapp, Rational Review, 19 Feb 2003
Related Topics: Libertarian Party of Virginia, James W. Lark, III
"Jacob G. 'Bumper' Hornberger has had a well-deserved reputation as one of the LP's most fiery and charismatic activists ... former LP chair Jim Lark, ... has done yeoman's work in building student libertarian activism ... It was only the absolute dedication of these two to liberty that prevented complete schism in the LPVA."

Writings

A Democratic Dictatorship, Freedom Daily, May 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, George W. Bush, Terrorism
"What many Americans fail to understand is that it is entirely possible to have democracy and dictatorship at the same time. Democracy entails the use of elections to place people into positions of power. Dictatorship entails the extent of the powers that the ruler is able to exercise after he assumes office."

A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 1, Freedom Daily, May 1999
Related Topic: Cuba

A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Jul 1999
Related Topic: Cuba

A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 3, Freedom Daily, Aug 1999
Related Topic: Cuba

A Libertarian Visits Mexico, Freedom Daily, Nov 1998
Related Topic: Mexico

A Libertarian Visits South America, Freedom Daily, Mar 1999
Related Topics: Argentina, Brazil, Fundación Atlas para una Sociedad Libre, Instituto de Estudos Empresariais

An Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy: Guatemala, 11 Feb 2005
Related Topic: Guatemala
"... in 1954 the CIA secretly organized and engineered a military coup in Guatemala that ousted the democratically elected Arbenz from power. ... the four decades of brutal, torturous, U.S.-government-supported military rule ... precipitated a civil war in Guatemala that would ... take the lives of more than 200,000 Guatemalan people."

An Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy: Iran, 31 Jan 2005
Related Topic: Iran
"The 1953 CIA coup in Iran was named 'Operation Ajax' ... For years, the U.S. government, including the CIA, kept what it had done in Iran secret from the American people and the world ... in March 2000 ... the U.S. government finally acknowledged what it had done to the Iranian people ..."

Anti-Life Ethics in Iraq, 15 Dec 2006
Related Topic: Ethics
"One wonders whether ... [Weigel's] opinion on the war would be different if the number of American deaths matched the number of Iraqi deaths. ... Under what moral or ethical authority does one nation impose involuntary regime change on another nation, especially when it will entail innocent people's deaths in the process?"

But Foreign Aid Is Bribery! And Blackmail, Extortion, and Theft Too!, 26 Sep 2003
Related Topic: Foreign Entanglements

Classical Liberalism in Argentina: A Lesson for the World, Freedom Daily, Jul 1994
Related Topics: Argentina, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Adam Smith
"... Argentina from 1850 to 1930 serves as a real beacon to all who wish to crack the never-ending cycle of poverty and misery: 'To all who wish wealth and prosperity, remove the heavy hand of the state from your pockets and your economic activities.'"

Decimating the Constitution with Military Tribunals, 27 Sep 2006
Related Topic: Rule of Law
"Contrary to popular opinion, it does not mean that people should obey the law. What it means is that people should have to answer only to a well-defined, previously enacted criminal law for their conduct, not to the discretion or arbitrary judgments of government officials."

Do Hadithans Hate Us for Our Freedoms?, 2 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Haditha Massacre, September 11, 2001
"... defenders of the president's war ... are suggesting that the killing of 24 defenseless civilians in Haditha ... were committed by only a few U.S. soldiers ... Who honestly believes that the friends and family members ... of those who were killed and maimed in Haditha ... are likely to say, 'We hate America ... because of America's First Amendment and rock and roll'?"

Do Our Rights Come from the Constitution?, Freedom Daily, Jun 1999
Related Topic: Bill of Rights

Do Our Rights Come from the Constitution?, Freedom Daily, Jun 1999
Related Topic: Reserved Powers
"The Constitution made it clear that this government, unlike others in history, would not be one of unlimited powers. Instead, ... the federal government would be one of limited, enumerated powers. For example, the powers of Congress are limited to those enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution."

Does John Ashcroft Understand the Constitution?, 22 Oct 2004
Related Topic: Constitution of the United States
"By according suspected terrorists the rights of habeas corpus, right to counsel, and due process of law, the [Supreme] Court ... was ... enforcing centuries-old procedural guarantees in the administration of justice that our ancestors had the wisdom and foresight to enumerate in the Constitution."

Eisenhower Was Right, 16 Feb 2004
Related Topic: Standing Armies

Fourth Circuit Moussaoui Ruling Is a Loss for the Constitution, 30 Apr 2004
Related Topic: Right to Trial by Jury

Freedom of Education, Mar 1993
Related Topic: Educational Freedom

Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 1, Apr 1994
Related Topic: Personal Responsibility

Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 2, May 1994
Related Topic: Personal Responsibility

Freedom, Virtue, and Responsibility, Part 3, Jun 1994
Related Topic: Personal Responsibility

Habeas Corpus: The Lynchpin of Freedom, 11 Oct 2006
Related Topic: Writ of Habeas Corpus
"The writ of habeas corpus is actually the lynchpin of a free society. Take away this great writ and all other rights — such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, gun ownership, due process, trial by jury, and protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and cruel and unusual punishments — become meaningless."

Hard Cases Make Bad Law, 23 Mar 2005
Related Topic: Rule of Law
"... if one of the litigants had filed his suit in federal court ... the federal judge would have dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction ... This is an example of the 'rule of law' — where a judge follows the law rather than deciding on his own to let the case proceed out of sympathy for one of the parties."

Hitler's Mutual Admiration Society, 29 Oct 2003
Related Topic: Germany

Killing Iraqi Children, 19 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Iraq War (2003), War
"... what people often forget is that the United States is no longer at war in Iraq. This is an occupation, not a war. The war ended when Saddam Hussein's government fell. At that point, U.S. forces could have exited the country. (Or they could have exited the country when it became obvious that Saddam's infamous WMDs were nonexistent.)"

Lessons about Our Constitution from Abu Ghraib, 26 May 2004
Related Topic: Bill of Rights
"Given that we now know how U.S. officials rule a country when they have omnipotent powers, without any constitutional restraints or guaranteed rights for the people, we should be thanking our lucky stars for the wisdom, courage, and foresight of the Framers and our ancestors."

Libertarianism Is the Key to Our Future, Freedom Daily, Jul 2006
Related Topic: Libertarianism
"Libertarianism, not socialism or interventionism, is the cornerstone of our nation's heritage of freedom. Libertarianism succeeds in producing rising standards of living, nurtures voluntary charity, and promotes harmonies among people. It is a philosophy grounded in the moral foundations of freedom. Libertarianism is the key to the future of our nation."

Milton Friedman, R.I.P., 17 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Milton Friedman
"... I just happened to bump into Friedman and introduced myself. He spent the next 20 minutes or so talking with me as if he and I were equals. In fact, if I hadn't known differently, I would have never known he was a Nobel Prize winning economist or even that he was a major intellectual force in the world of economics. He displayed absolutely no pretentiousness whatsoever ..."

Monopoly, Competition, and Educational Freedom, Mar 2000
Related Topic: Educational Freedom

Patriotism along the Southern Border, Part 1, Freedom Daily, Dec 1998
Related Topics: Texas, Mexico

Patriotism along the Southern Border, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Jan 1999
Related Topics: Texas, Mexico

Patriotism along the Southern Border, Part 3, Freedom Daily, Feb 1999
Related Topic: Mexico

Pentagon Learns About the Sixth Amendment, 30 Jul 2004
Related Topic: Right to Trial by Jury
"Why did the Framers consider assistance of counsel sufficiently important to include it in the Bill of Rights? The Supreme Court explained in the 1938 case of Johnson v. Zerbst, '[The assistance of counsel] is one of the safeguards of the Sixth Amendment deemed necessary to insure fundamental human rights of life and liberty."

Price Controls Are No Answer to Isabel, 19 Sep 2003
Related Topic: Prices

Reform Social Security ... or Repeal It?, Freedom Daily, Jul 2000
Related Topic: Social Security Tax
"What would happen if Social Security were repealed? Many retired people would get along fine because they don't need the money. ... For the first 150 years ... the American people rejected Social Security ... believing that individuals should be free to make their own choices in life and having faith that most people care about others."

Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War against the Iraqi People, Part 1, Freedom Daily, Jan 2004
Related Topic: Iraq

Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War against the Iraqi People, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Feb 2004
Related Topic: Iraq

Shssh! Don't Tell Americans How We Treat "Enemy Combatants", 21 Mar 2007
Related Topic: Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
"Reality is the power to subject American and foreign 'enemy combatants' to extreme isolation and sensory deprivation over long periods of time. ... power to subject 'enemy combatants' to waterboarding and similar forms of 'alternative-interrogation techniques.' ... power to inject substances into 'enemy combatants.'"

Terrorism Comes with Empire, 8 Jul 2005
Related Topics: Imperialism, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
"For those who want lives of freedom, normality, peace, prosperity, and harmony, there is but one solution: Dismantle the empire; bring the troops home and discharge them into the private sector; stop meddling in the affairs of other nations; stop trying to dominate and control the world ..."

Thank You ... for a Free Market, 30 Jun 2006
Related Topic: The Free Market
"Have you ever noticed how often both sides to an economic transaction say, 'Thank you' to each other? ... Why is this so? ... The reason has to do with what is called the subjective theory of value ... based on the following principle: In every economic exchange, each side gains because each side gives up something he values less for something he values more."

The "Value" of Public Schooling, Freedom Daily, Nov 2006
Related Topics: Compulsory Education, Educational Freedom, Militarism, Socialism
"There are two major values of public schooling, from the perspective of government officials. One, ... the means by which government officials can slowly but surely ... mold the mindsets of children into one of conformity and obedience to authority. Second, public schooling enables government officials to fill children's minds with officially approved political, historical, and economic doctrine."

The Bill of Rights: Antipathy to Militarism, Freedom Daily, Sep 2004
Related Topic: No Quartering of Soldiers
"... what is relevant ... today is the mindset that underlay the passage of that amendment — ... deep antipathy toward militarism and standing armies. ... on the minds of our ancestors was the primary means by which governments had historically subjected their people to tyranny — through the use of the government's military forces."

The Bill of Rights: Due Process of Law, Freedom Daily, Nov 2004
Related Topic: Due Process of Law
"... history and experience had shown that when government ... was vested with the unlimited power to arrest, incarcerate, and punish violent offenders, always and inevitably such power had been misused against the innocent, especially those who dared to criticize or challenge government policies or practices."

The Bill of Rights: Eminent Domain, Freedom Daily, Dec 2004
Related Topic: Eminent Domain Protections
"The original purpose of eminent domain was to enable government officials to acquire property to establish places from which to run the government ... for example, courthouses. ... the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Bill of Rights and thus applies the restrictions of the Fifth Amendment to the states."

The Bill of Rights: Freedom of Speech, Freedom Daily, Jul 2004
Related Topic: Freedom of Speech
"The most important principle involved in free speech is this: The true test of a free society in terms of freedom of speech is not whether popular and 'responsible' speech is protected from government assault but instead whether the most vile and despicable speech receives such protection."

The Bill of Rights: Reserved Powers, Freedom Daily, May 2005
Related Topics: Reserved Powers, Enumerated Powers
"This system of federal and state powers is known as 'federalism.' By dividing power in that way, the idea was to keep the central government weak and keep political power closer to the people. Compare that to a country that has one central, national government, which is responsible for governing the entire nation."

The Bill of Rights: Searches and Seizures, Freedom Daily, Oct 2004
Related Topics: Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, James Otis
"How would U.S. officials operate without a Fourth Amendment and an independent judiciary to enforce it? ... we've seen how they have operated with omnipotent power in occupied Iraq. ... armed U.S. soldiers routinely barge into people's homes and businesses and conduct intrusive searches of the premises and of the persons who are unfortunate to be there at the time."

The Bill of Rights: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Freedom Daily, Aug 2004
Related Topic: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
"The Second Amendment is the American people's ultimate insurance policy against tyranny because government officials know that guns in the hands of the people provide the only practical means by which to resist tyranny ... that a disarmed society almost always becomes an obedient society in the face of omnipotent, tyrannical government."

The Bill of Rights: The Rights of the Accused, Freedom Daily, Feb 2005
Related Topic: Right to Trial by Jury
"... the right to a speedy trial is to ensure that a federal prosecutorial hammer is not held over someone's head for an indefinite period of time and to prevent indefinite detentions of people accused of crimes. ... a public trial is to ensure that government prosecutorial actions are exposed to public view, so as to discourage abuses of prosecutorial power."

The Bill of Rights: Trial by Jury, Freedom Daily, Jan 2005
Related Topic: Right to Trial by Jury
"Trial by jury is one of the essential prerequisites of a free society. ... it is one of the ultimate safeguards against tyranny and oppression. ... Jury tampering to secure a particular result is much more difficult to accomplish, especially since the composition of the jury is unknown until the time of trial."

The Bill of Rights: Unenumerated Rights, Freedom Daily, Apr 2005
Related Topic: Rights Retained by the People
"A common misconception among the American people is that their rights come from the Constitution. Even lawyers and judges are guilty of believing this, oftentimes suggesting that whether a right exists or not depends on whether it is listed in the Constitution. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. ..."

The Constitution and the Rule of Law, Aug 1992
Related Topics: Rule of Law, Constitution of the United States

The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians, 14 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Libertarianism, Braveheart
"Over the years, conservatives have often mocked libertarians over the fact that the general public hasn't embraced the libertarian philosophy, What conservatives could not deny, however, was that at least libertarians hewed to a consistent philosophy — one that did not cause the libertarian to war against himself through a commitment to contradictory principles."

The Endless War on Terrorism, 1 Sep 2004
Related Topic: War
"In declaring that the war on terrorism can never be won, President Bush should have also mentioned that, coincidentally, the big beneficiary of all this is the federal government, because its power continues to grow and grow and grow under perpetual war."

The Federal War on Gold, Part 1, Freedom Daily, Aug 2006
Related Topics: Gold Standard, Inflation, Money
"One, the gold standard eliminated the power of federal officials to do what governments had historically done to their citizenry — plunder and loot the people through the issuance of depreciating paper money. Two, the gold standard had an enormously positive effect on capital markets ..."

The Federal War on Gold, Part 2, Freedom Daily, Sep 2006
Related Topics: Money, Stephen Johnson Field, Abraham Lincoln
"Through the U.S. Constitution, the American people brought into existence one of the soundest monetary systems in history. It wasn't perfect in that it didn't provide for a free market in money, but, by establishing gold and silver coin as the official money for the United States, it did protect the American people from the inflationary ravages of paper money."

The Federal War on Gold, Part 3, Freedom Daily, Oct 2006
Related Topics: Gold Standard, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"... the Framers had implemented a gold standard so that the American people would be forever protected from the destructiveness of inflation. It was the gold standard — that is, the requirement that the federal government redeem all its paper notes and bills in gold — that had operated as a restraint on government's ability to print ever-increasing amounts of paper money."

The Legacy of Leonard E. Read, Freedom Daily, Sep 1991
Related Topic: Leonard E. Read

The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans, 28 Feb 2007
Related Topics: Militarism, Writ of Habeas Corpus, Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
"The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an 'enemy combatant.' It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. ... Historically, the U.S. military has lacked the power to arrest, incarcerate, or inflict harm on American civilians."

The Repeal of Social Security, Freedom Daily, Nov 1995
Related Topic: Social Security Tax
"... the proponents of control, central planning, and socialism ... can never overcome one basic moral principle: Stealing is stealing, regardless of the label placed upon it. ... the advocate of liberty must not assist the advocate of socialism with "free-market proposals" to save socialism."

The Sanctity of Private Property, Part 1, Aug 1990
Related Topic: Private Property

The Sanctity of Private Property, Part 2, Jan 1991
Related Topic: Private Property

The Soviet-Style Attack on NORFED, 21 Nov 2007
Related Topic: Due Process of Law
Discusses the federal raid on NORFED (National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code) and the differences between a criminal search warrant and temporary injuctions used in civil proceedings
"In a civilized country based on the rule of law, people cannot have their lives, liberty, and property taken away from them without notice, hearing, opportunity to be heard, and other fundamental aspects of procedural due process. Unfortunately, in the post-9/11 world in which we now live, anything goes as far as federal power is concerned."

The Troops Don't Defend Our Freedoms, 21 Oct 2005
Related Topic: Standing Armies
"... as a practical matter the troops serve ... simply as a loyal and obedient personal army of the president, ready and prepared to serve him and obey his commands. ... ready to obey the president's orders to deploy to any country in the world ... to take into custody any American whom the commander in chief deems a 'terrorist' ..."

The Ultimate Tax Cut, Freedom Daily, Dec 2007
Related Topics: Taxation, Government, Inflation
Explains how tax cuts promised by political candidates are fraudulent, since the government expenditures still have to be paid somehow, either by taxation or monetary inflation
"I had envisioned the government as just being part of a huge collection of enterprises, producing its own wealth and deciding what to do with it. ... then I discovered that the federal government acquired its money differently than everyone else. Its money comes from taxes, which are forcible exactions imposed on people. That is obviously very different from how people in the private sector get their money."

They Deserved to Lose, 8 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Republican Party, Democratic Party
"... the Republicans ... should be ashamed of themselves because they have greatly shamed and damaged our country. ... while they love to preach the concept of individual responsibility to others, never ever do they apply the concept to themselves. ... Republicans continue to wrap themselves in libertarian limited-government rhetoric. It is hypocrisy like that makes the Republican loss a deserving one."

They Lied About the Reasons for Going to War, 23 Oct 2006
Related Topic: Iraq War (2003)
"Now ask yourself: If a foreign nation was really about to attack the United States, especially with WMDs, would any president spend any time whatever going to the UN to seek permission to attack that nation first or spend time to round up a group of countries to participate in a 'coalition of the willing'?"

Trapped in Lies and Delusions, 20 Nov 2006
Related Topic: Iraq War (2003)
"Let's not forget that this is Bush's and Cheney's war and occupation. It was they who chose not to go to Congress for the constitutionally required declaration of war, no doubt convinced that some sharp members of Congress would challenge their WMD justification for attacking Iraq."

U.S. Hypocrisy in Cuba, 26 May 2006
Related Topics: Cuba, Socialism
"The U.S. Special Interest Section in Havana recently built a propaganda billboard for the Cuban people to read. One of its posted messages read, 'In a free country you don't need permission to leave the country. Is Cuba a free country?' Now, what better example of hypocrisy than that? ... But the hypocrisy is even worse than that. ..."

U.S. Regime Change, Torture, and Murder in Chile, 24 Nov 2004
Related Topic: Chile
"Chileans still remember that in the 1973 'regime change' in their country, the U.S. government played an active role in ousting their democratically elected president because he was a communist and replacing him with a brutal military dictator, Augustin Pinochet, who ended up ruling Chile for almost two decades, until 1990."

Warfare-Welfare in Yugoslavia, Freedom Daily, Jun 1999
Related Topic: Serbia

Why No Indictment for Bernard Kerik?, 15 Dec 2004
Related Topic: Rule of Law
"... the 'rule of law' ... means ... that a free society entails everyone's having to answer only to a law that has been duly enacted and is clearly on the books, as compared with a society based on the 'rule of men,' where people are expected to respond to the arbitrary and capricious dictates of government officials."

Why Not a Free Market in Education?, 25 Mar 2005
Related Topic: Educational Freedom
"At a local level, public schooling consists of a government board of successful politicians. That should make anyone suspicious. The board plans the educational decisions of thousands of children in a top-down, command-and-control process. ... I challenge anyone to come up with a better example of socialism than that."

Would You "Support the Troops" in Bolivia?, 27 Dec 2006
Related Topics: War, Standing Armies
"Where is the morality of killing people who have never attacked the United States and who have done nothing worse than try to defend their country from a wrongful invader? Where is the morality in killing in 'self-defense' when you don't have a right to be there killing people in the first place?"

Yahoo! We Have Free Speech, 1 Mar 2001
Related Topic: Freedom of Speech

Interviews

Jacob Hornberger Interview, by Scott Horton, The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton
Three audio interviews: 13 Nov 2004, 12 Mar 2005 and 6 Aug 2005

Libertarian Outlaw: An Interview With Jacob Hornberger, by Karen De Coster, 16 Nov 2000

Books Authored

The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1995
Related Topic: Free Trade

ISBN 0964044749: Hardcover, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1995
ISBN 0964044730: Paperback, Hillsdale College Press, 1995

The Dangers of Socialized Medicine
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994
Related Topic: Health Care

ISBN 0964044706: Paperback, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994

The Failure of America's Foreign Wars
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1996
Related Topic: War

ISBN 0964044757: Hardcover, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1996
ISBN 0964044765: Paperback, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1996

The Tyranny of Gun Control
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor, contributor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor, contributor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1997
Related Topic: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Shows why gun control poses a threat to liberty.

ISBN 1890687006: Hardcover, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1998
ISBN 0964044773: Paperback, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1997