Interventionism Is a Rotten Tree with Rotten Fruit by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2016 Fifty-one State Department officials are calling on President Obama to expand U.S. interventionism in Syria by initiating a bombing campaign against the Syrian government. Apparently they’re not satisfied with the great “success” that their philosophy of interventionism has brought to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and the rest of the Middle East. They want the U.S. national-security state’s death ...
Interventionism, Not Islam, Is the Problem by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2016 President Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and others of the mainstream interventionist ilk continue to debate whether the terrorist problem that America is facing is due to radical Muslims or regular Muslims. Depending on where they come out on that question, their solutions inevitably encompass more destruction of American liberty and privacy, such as with gun control, immigration controls, ...
Obama, Clinton, and Trump Are Wrong on Orlando by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2016 Give Donald Trump credit. With his call to ban all Muslims from coming into the United States, he has drawn President Obama into the political fray. Trump’s position is that the anti-American terrorist problem lies with all Muslims, insinuating that deep down they are all enemies of America and the West and, therefore, should be barred from coming into the ...
Orlando, Gun Control, and Thanking the Troops by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2016 There are two aspects of the Orlando massacre that are predictable. One, the massacre has generated the customary calls for gun control. That always happens after every terrorist attack. Note something important about the Orlando attack: It took place in a gun-free zone. Under Florida law, it is illegal to possess guns in places that sell alcohol. The nightclub where the ...
More Blowback in Orlando by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2016 Among the most fascinating aspects of the horror in Orlando is how the mainstream media steadfastly and scrupulously avoids talking about the big elephant in the room: blowback. That is, the natural and foreseeable consequences of U.S. government’s interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East, which includes acts of anti-American terrorism. We hear about the self-radicalization of Omar Mateen, the ...
Free Enterprise Is a Right, Not a Privilege by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2016 In an implicit acknowledgment of the failure of socialism, the communist regime in Cuba has announced that it is legalizing thousands of private businesses, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. The government wants to encourage more entrepreneurship with its legalization plan. According to the article, “The government also underscored that private enterprise has a positive role ...
