The Ridiculous Cold War against Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2015 Yesterday, Cuban President Raul Castro announced that Cuba is ready to name an ambassador to the United States, signifying that the United States and Cuba continue on the road toward reestablishing formal diplomatic ties. As the governments of the two nations move further toward renewing formal relations, it should become increasingly clear what a horrible fraud the U.S. national-security branch ...
Immigration Checkpoint Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2015 Welcome, New Yorkers, to the world of immigration checkpoint tyranny! You’re now seeing what Americans in the Southwest have had to experience for decades. Starting back in the 1960s, the Border Patrol, along with the DEA, instituted border patrol checkpoints on highways in Texas and the rest of the American Southwest similar to that found in Cuba. Thanks to the ...
The National Security State Has Warped Our Values by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2015 After Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s secret mass surveillance scheme to the American people and the world, there have been those who consider what he did to be treasonous rather than patriotic. That adverse reaction to what Snowden did is a perfect example of how the national-security state apparatus that was grafted onto America’s governmental system after World War ...
Which American System is Exceptional? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2015 Throughout the Iraq War, U.S. officials steadfastly maintained, especially after they failed to find those infamous WMDs, that they were continuing to occupy Iraq out of love for the Iraqi people. Since U.S. troops were there anyway, they said, there was no need to apologize for having invaded a country and killed lots of people based on a wrongful ...
Operation Jade Helm by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2015 The U.S. military’s plans to conduct a massive military exercise called Operation Jade Helm in Texas and other Southwestern states has provoked tremendous controversy. Some people are asserting the exercise is a prelude to martial law. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered Texas State Guard forces to keep an eye on the military. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said that ...
U.S. Paternalism versus Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2015 Most every American is familiar with the decades-long U.S. embargo against Cuba, but I wonder how many of them realize that U.S. businesses played a major role in bringing about the embargo. During the U.S.-supported dictatorships of Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, there were many U.S. businesses operating in Cuba, just like in other parts of Latin America. Many of the ...
Hershey, Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2015 Yesterday the Washington Post carried a fascinating article about a small town in Cuba named Hershey. The history of the town provides valuable lessons about America’s heritage of economic liberty as well the socialist economic system established by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Hershey, Cuba, was founded by Milton Hershey, the American chocolate tycoon who founded Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey invested ...
The Cold War against Cuba Changed Us by Jacob G. Hornberger May 5, 2015 During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA made multiple attempts to assassinate Cuba’s ruler, Fidel Castro. Let’s assume that the CIA had succeeded and that Castro had been shot dead on the streets of Havana. It’s not difficult to imagine what U.S. national-security state officials would be saying today: “If we hadn’t assassinated Castro, the United States would have fallen ...
Gun Control Killed Ana Charle by Jacob G. Hornberger May 4, 2015 Don’t count on the gun controllers to express any guilt over the death of Ana Charle, the director of a homeless shelter in the Bronx. But the fact is that gun control is partly responsible for the death of the 42-year old woman. Last month, a former resident of the shelter stalked and kidnapped Charle. After the man forced her ...
Workers of the World, Unite! by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2015 Today, May 1, is International Workers’ Day. According to Wikipedia, it is “a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement, anarchists, socialists, and communists and occurs every year on May Day, 1 May.” If only workers all over the world were to come to the realization that socialism and communism are their ...
Vietnam Was No Business of the U.S. Government by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2015 This week marks the 40th anniversary of the communist defeat of the U.S. national-security state in Vietnam. Despite the deaths of some 58,000 American soldiers and millions of Vietnamese, the country was united under the rule of the communist regime in North Vietnam. With the possible exception of World War I, it would be difficult to find a better ...
The Welfare State versus Baltimore Blacks by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2015 It’s the welfare state and its attacks on African-Americans that are the root cause of what is happening in Baltimore. Consider the federal government’s mandatory minimum-wage law, the much-vaunted welfare-state measure that purports to help people at the bottom of the economic ladder by supposedly preventing them from being exploited by employers. In actuality, the minimum wage is a ruthless and ...
