Eugene Robinson’s Gilded-Age Misconceptions by Jacob G. Hornberger January 21, 2025 Note 1: Watch my take on Trump’ inauguration on this week’s Trump Watch. Note 2: We are putting together a luncheon get-together in downtown Boston after the oral arguments in Ian Freeman’s appeal. Wednesday, Feb. 5. Details forthcoming. ***** Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson’s new article about a “second Gilded Age” in America gets ...
Biden’s Commutations Remind Us of the Horror of the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2025 Just before he leaves office, President Biden is commuting the prison sentences of 2,500 people who have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Biden stated, “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time ...
The Impact of Pete Hegseth’s Big War Crime by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2025 NOTE: If you haven't already done so, check out my new show "Trump Watch." ****** During the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, many points have been brought up to oppose his appointment, including his supposed defense of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes in Iraq. Unfortunately, however, no one, including ...
Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 14, 2025 Last August, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was freed by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange with the United States. Russian national-security state officials had arrested Gershkovich on March 29, 2023, on charges of espionage on behalf of the CIA. In a secret trial, he was found guilty and later sentenced to 16 years in prison. During ...
The Importance of Acknowledging Our Serfdom by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2025 My favorite freedom quotation is by Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” That statement perfectly captures the plight of the American people. Owing mostly to the indoctrination they receive in the government schools to which their parents were forced to send them, most Americans honestly believe that they live ...
The Failure and Fallacy of Central Planning by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2025 Ironically, two seemingly unrelated articles in today’s New York Times reflect much of what is wrong with the United States, at least in an economic sense. One op-ed, titled “The Tragedy of Joe Biden,” is by Peter Coy, a regular columnist for the Times. The other one, titled “A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess” is a ...
The Moral Depravity of U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2025 In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela. Quoting a State Department statement issued in January 2021, she points out that the Cuban communist regime is a murderous ...
Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2025 According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100. It was Carter ...
Gitmo Reminds Us of Our Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger January 7, 2025 If there is any beneficial aspect to the Pentagon-CIA torture center, prison camp, and kangaroo “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is that it stands as an ongoing, constant reminder to the American people as to the tyrannical governmental system under which we live. This is especially important for those Americans who love thanking God for being ...
Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead. by Jacob G. Hornberger January 6, 2025 The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by federal judges, Trump’s pardons will be upending not only the entire prosecution-and-conviction scheme but also the ...
The New Orleans Killer Was from Texas, Not Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2025 According to the New York Times, “On Wednesday morning, hours after a man drove a pickup truck into New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans, killing 10 people, President-elect Donald J. Trump falsely suggested on social media that his condemnations of undocumented immigrants had been validated.” There was one big problem, however: The killer was a U.S. born-citizen ...
Attend Ian Freeman’s Appellate Court Hearing by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2025 The First Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments in the Ian Freeman case: Wednesday, February 5th, 9:30am John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse 1 Courthouse Way Panel Courtroom, 7th Floor Boston, Massachusetts This is a good sign, as it signifies that the three-judge panel that is deciding the case considers ...
