Good for Sanders! And Shame on Him! by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2016 At a town hall forum in South Carolina a couple of days ago, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked by CNN whether he stood by recently surfaced comments he made about the CIA back in 1974, which I wrote about in my blog post yesterday. Back then, Sanders pointed out that the CIA was a dangerous institution ...
Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: The Sanders-Clinton War on Poverty by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2016
Sanders, Clinton, the CIA, and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger February 24, 2016 An article this week in Politico reveals that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for the abolition of the CIA during the 1970s. Apparently it is a position that Sanders is now running away from because he certainly hasn’t repeated it during the presidential race, and when the Politico reporter who uncovered the story asked the Sanders campaign ...
The FBI vs. Apple and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger February 23, 2016 There is one indisputable fact in the fight that the FBI is waging against Apple: In the criminal investigation of the San Bernardino shootings, U.S. officials are pulling out all the stops. In a desperate attempt to secure the information on the alleged shooters’ iphone, the feds have even secured a court order commanding Apple to effectively work for ...
The Pope Was Right about Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger February 22, 2016 Referring to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Southern border to keep out illegal immigrants, Pope Francis declared, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.” Trump responded indignantly that the Pope had no right to be ...
Thank You, Tim Cook, for Your Service to America by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2016 Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is a courageous man. He’s got to know full well what he is risking by saying no to the federal government’s demand that he sell out the interests of Apple’s customers by effectively becoming an agent of the U.S. national-security establishment. He deserves the thanks of every American who still places ...
Talkin’ Cold War Blues by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2016 Pity Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal. Last month, the Journal published an article by the well-known conservative columnist in which she was absolutely hyper about a U.S. Hellfire missile that had somehow ended up in Cuba, the island 90 miles away from American shores whose communist regime, according to conservatives, has long constituted a dagger ...