What If the President Is a Threat to National Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger October 2, 2019 Last January, the Washington Post carried an interesting article by a person named Asha Rangappa, who is a former FBI agent. The article explored what would happen if a U.S. president became a threat to national security. She wrote her article in the context of suspicions that President Trump might be acting as a covert ...
What Exactly Is Trump’s Impeachable Offense? by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2019 I confess that I still don’t get what exactly is going to be the particular offense for which President Trump is going to be impeached. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of impeaching Trump and removing him from office, but only for grave crimes, such as waging war illegally (i.e., without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of ...
Foreign Aid for Dictators by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2019 Notice something important about the hoopla regarding President’s Trump withholding of U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine while he was requesting Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden for possible corruption: Nobody in Washington, D.C., or within the establishment press is questioning the concept of foreign aid itself. Foreign aid has become such an established and ...
America’s Banality of Evil by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2019 Everyone wonders whether President Trump is going to end up embroiling the United States in a war with Iran. He himself has said that he is “locked and loaded” for such a war, meaning that he is ready at a moment’s notice to order his army to begin bombing the country.
From the Anti-Russia Brouhaha to the Ukraine Brouhaha by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2019 Since he became president, Donald Trump has killed thousands of people in Afghanistan and the Middle East in wars that are illegal under our form of government, given that he has never secured the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war to wage such wars. Operating through his military-intelligence forces, he has ...
King Richard and Kings Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger September 25, 2019 The opening to Ridley Scott’s 2010 film Robin Hood inevitably brings to mind President Donald Trump. The prologue to the film states: King Richard the Lion Heart, bankrupt of wealth and glory, is plundering his way back to England after ten years on his crusade. Doesn’t that statement describe what has been occurring in the ...
Our New FFF LibertyView Podcast by Jacob G. Hornberger September 24, 2019 Dear FFF Friends and Supporters, Today, as part of our FFF marketing campaign, we are launching our new FFF LibertyView Podcast series, in which I will be doing a 2-minute audio presentation on burning issues of the day. The title of the first one is “Donald Trump—Great Leader or Dictator?” It explores whether ...
Trump’s Self-Painted Corner on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger September 23, 2019 President Trump may not realize it yet, but it will almost certainly dawn on him at some point that he has painted himself into a corner with his bullying tactics against Iran. Trump’s plan was the following: He first would withdraw from the nuclear accord that the United States entered into ...
Trump, FDR, and War by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2019 President Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran reminds me of President Franklin Roosevelt’s similar campaign against Japan prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After England declared war on Germany, owing to the latter’s invasion of Poland, the American people were overwhelmingly opposed to entry ...
The Safe-Haven Argument for Staying in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2019 Of all the ridiculous and false arguments for keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan, where they continue to kill and die for nothing, the “safe-haven” argument has to rank among the worst. The argument holds that if U.S. troops are withdrawn from the country, the Taliban will end up winning the civil war, take control over the national government, and ...
Congress Shares the Blame for the Kavanaugh Fiasco by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2019 When the Republican members of Congress voted in a 50-48 partisan vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, they obviously believed that a quick vote in favor of confirmation would quell the controversy over Kavanaugh’s nomination. The New York Times’s recent publication of an essay raising new evidence of sex-abuse allegations against Kavanaugh has dashed that ...
A Renowned and Heroic Surgeon Passes Away by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2019 Dr. Robert McClelland has recently passed away. He was one of the treating physicians when President Kennedy was brought into Parkland Hospital after being shot in Dallas. He was about 33 years old at the time. He went on to become one the most renowned surgeons in Texas. At the time he passed away, he was a retired professor ...
