More on Washington Post Hypocrisy on Khashoggi and Kennedy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 27, 2018 In my blog post yesterday, I pointed out the Washington Post’s hypocrisy in pressing for an investigation to determine whether the assassination of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian state-sponsored assassination, as compared to the blind eye that the Post has long shown toward the convincing evidence pointing toward a U.S. state-sponsored assassination in the case ...
Washington Post Hypocrisy on Khashoggi and Kennedy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 26, 2018 Ever since Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey, the Post has pressed hard to show that the murder was a state-sponsored assassination orchestrated by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. If only the Post had shown the same diligence, determination, and perseverance in the assassination of President Kennedy that it is displaying ...
Narcos Mexico and El Chapo by Jacob G. Hornberger November 21, 2018 One of the ironies of life is playing out in New York City and on Netflix. In a New York federal courtroom, federal prosecutors are detailing gruesome murders purportedly committed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, the alleged leader of a Mexican drug cartel. At the same time, Netflix is showing Narcos: Mexico, which is detailing gruesome ...
Are We Being Invaded Yet? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 20, 2018 If President Trump’s and the Pentagon’s military defense against the impending refugee invasion of America shows how they defend our country from an invasion, maybe it’s a good thing that the commies didn’t invade the United States by coming up through Latin America during the Cold War. Otherwise, there is a good chance that we all would ...
The Reason for Killing Iranians by Jacob G. Hornberger November 19, 2018 While U.S. sanctions technically permit Iran to import medicines, it is actually just a ruse to make it look like U.S. officials are kind, compassionate, and benevolent. In actuality, the way the sanctions work will mean that the Iranian people will inevitably be deprived of much-needed medicines. That’s because the U.S. extends its sanctions system to banks ...
Why Do Leftists Settle for a $15 Minimum Wage? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2018 If economic ignorance among leftists (i.e., liberals and progressives) had no adverse impacts, we could consign it to the ranks of the humorous. Unfortunately, however, such ignorance has very serious adverse consequences, especially on poor people. The classic example of this phenomenon is the minimum wage. This week a liberal website named In These Times published ...
Conservative Attacks on Ocasio-Cortez Are Hypocritical by Jacob G. Hornberger November 15, 2018 Conservatives are having fun attacking 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected member of Congress from New York. They’re poking fun at her devotion to socialism. But the real joke is on conservatives because their attacks on Ocasio-Cortez only expose the malady with which conservatives have long been afflicted. That malady, of course, is hypocrisy.
Drug-War and Immigrant-War Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger November 14, 2018 Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention inevitably leads to more government interventions. The reason is that the first intervention inevitably causes a crisis. Rather than repeal the original intervention, public officials double down by enacting a new intervention to fix the crisis caused by the first intervention. The second intervention, however, doesn’t ...
The Korean War: The Moral Bankruptcy of Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 13, 2018 An article in Sunday’s New York Times entitled “Remembering the Forgotten War” demonstrates perfectly the moral bankruptcy of the philosophy of foreign interventionism. Calling for the Korean War to become more highly remembered, the author, Hampton Sides, extols some of the popular justifications for subjecting U.S. troops to death, injury, and maiming in the Korean War. Hampton tells the ...
U.S. Soldiers Died for Nothing in WW I by Jacob G. Hornberger November 12, 2018 Let’s be blunt: the 117,466 U.S. soldiers who died in World War I died for nothing. No one can deny that. In fact, that might well be the reason why interventionists changed the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day. They wanted Americans to stop thinking about the fact that all those American soldiers in World War I died ...
The Conservative Life of the Lie by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2018 Attempting to bolster the spirits of conservatives in the wake of the Democrat takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kay Coles James, the president of the Heritage Foundation, the premier conservative think tank in the country, sent out an email to her fellow conservatives that states in part: Now is not the time to falter ...
Pity Latin Americans (and Us Too) by Jacob G. Hornberger November 8, 2018 You can’t help but feel sorry for Latin Americans. They inevitably end up with either a right-wing “capitalist” dictator or a left-wing socialist dictator. The right-wing dictator tends to favor conservative economic policies while, at the same time, using his military and intelligence goons to round up and incarcerate unpatriotic critics and socialists, torture them, and even execute or disappear ...
