Wednesday, January 22, 2025

ARTICLES BY JACOB HORNBERGER

OPINION: Swiss voters reject economic stupidity

Give Swiss voters credit — well, at least 77 percent of them. In a recent national referendum, they overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed each Swiss adult a monthly payment of $2,560 from the Swiss government. Just think: the payment was going to be free, just like Social …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

The inherent defectiveness of public schooling

The Feb. 15 Washington Post reported that an outgoing superintendent of public schools in Montgomery County, Md., Joshua P. Starr, is lamenting the short tenure of school superintendents. Starr took the job of school superintendent in 2011 and is now leaving because he failed to garner the support of the …
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

The inherent defectiveness of public schooling

The Feb. 15 Washington Post reported that an outgoing superintendent of public schools in Montgomery County, Md., Joshua P. Starr, is lamenting the short tenure of school superintendents. Starr took the job of school superintendent in 2011 and is now leaving because he failed to garner the support of the …
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Why should the government deliver mail?

In a country where people extol the virtues of free enterprise, why is the U.S. government involved in the delivery of mail? After all, it would be difficult to find a better example of a violation of the principles of free enterprise than the U.S. Postal Service.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Why should the government deliver mail?

In a country where people extol the virtues of free enterprise, why is the U.S. government involved in the delivery of mail? After all, it would be difficult to find a better example of a violation of the principles of free enterprise than the U.S. Postal Service.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Separate economy and the state

For centuries, governments established, controlled, regulated and subsidized religious activity. Then some people began asking a revolutionary question: Why not separate religious activity and the state in such a way that the state would be barred from involving itself in any religious activity whatsoever?
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Separate economy and the state

For centuries, governments established, controlled, regulated and subsidized religious activity. Then some people began asking a revolutionary question: Why not separate religious activity and the state in such a way that the state would be barred from involving itself in any religious activity whatsoever?
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Why not just abolish the NSA?

Notice that all the public discussion about the National Security Administration’s supersecret, massive surveillance scheme assumes that the NSA has become a permanent part of American life. The debate revolves around what restrictions, if any, should be placed on the NSA’s authority to spy on people.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Why not just abolish the NSA?

Notice that all the public discussion about the National Security Administration’s supersecret, massive surveillance scheme assumes that the NSA has become a permanent part of American life. The debate revolves around what restrictions, if any, should be placed on the NSA’s authority to spy on people.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Why not just abolish the NSA?

Notice that all the public discussion about the National Security Administration’s supersecret, massive surveillance scheme assumes that the NSA has become a permanent part of American life. The debate revolves around what restrictions, if any, should be placed on the NSA’s authority to spy on people.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

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