Jacob G. Hornberger

The same conservatives who act aghast at Mamdani's proposed government grocery stores turn around and support government schools and government healthcare.

With President Trump’s deployment of US troops to Los Angeles, this is a good time to review the deep antipathy that America’s Founding Fathers and our American ancestors had toward “standing armies.”

The biggest mistake America has ever made since the nation’s founding was the conversion of the federal government from a limited-government republic to a national-security state.