The Free Market: A Powerful Redistributor of Wealth by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2019 Leftists are notorious for wanting to use the force of government to confiscate money from the rich in order to equalize wealth in society. They lament large “disparities of wealth” — e.g., the fact that there are billionaires and paupers living in the same society. Sometimes leftists call for giving the IRS-confiscated money to people who have less. Sometimes they ...
Honesty About Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2019 Conservatives and some liberals/progressives indignantly exclaim: “I am a capitalist, not a socialist … except for my support of: Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid; Public (i.e., government) schooling; The Federal Reserve; Immigration controls; The national income tax; The military-industrial complex; The welfare state; Foreign aid; Farm subsidies; The government-managed economy; The Postal Service; Amtrak; Public works; The Interstate Highway System; ...
The Immorality and Destructiveness of Wealth Equalization by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2019 One of the hallmarks of the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist philosophy is wealth redistribution through the force of government. Leftists/progressives/liberals/socialists lament the enormous disparities of wealth and income that exist in American society. They believe, therefore, that a legitimate function of government is to take money from the rich and either keep it for governmental expenditures or give it to the poor ...
National-Security Statism and North Korea’s Nukes by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2019 The Pentagon and the CIA and their policy of foreign interventionism are the root cause of the nuclear crisis with North Korea. Keep in mind that we are talking about one country, Korea, which was artificially divided into two halves, North Korea and South Korea. Therefore, the war that ultimately broke out between North Korea and ...
Trump’s Failure Versus North Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2019 Ever since President Trump incited his big crisis with North Korea, only to back off and ultimately fall in love with North Korea’s brutal communist dictator Kim Jung-Un, the entire exercise has had a weird, surreal quality to it. Trump began the crisis by claiming that North Korea’s mere possession of nuclear weapons posed a ...
Cold War Weirdness on Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2019 President Trump is currently having a second meeting with North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-Un. Hoping to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, Trump is hoping to enter into an agreement with the Korean Reds to finally bring a formal end to the Cold War-era Korean War. The meeting is being held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the ...
The Russian Mirror by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2019 A recent article in the New York Times about Russia’s “intelligence state,” authored by John Sipher, a former chief of station for the CIA, provides a valuable mirror for the American people. The problem is that American statists cannot see it as a mirror. While Sipher’s article clearly demonstrates that American statists, especially conservative ones, can see the ...
Trump’s Disrespect for Maduro’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2019 How ironic. President Trump wants to build his wall along the southern border of the United States to keep Latin Americans from illegally entering the United States. He already has constructed a tariff wall to keep foreigners from freely sending their goods into the United States. This past Saturday, we witnessed the spectacle of Trump doing his best to overcome ...
ISIS and Oswald by Jacob G. Hornberger February 22, 2019 How ironic that the U.S. government’s war on ISIS, the group brought into existence by the U.S. national-security establishment’s war of aggression on Iraq, would provide insight into the U.S. national-security’s establishment’s relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy some 55 years ago. As I emphasized in my 29-part video series ...
The Banality of Evil in Immigration Prosecutions by Jacob G. Hornberger February 21, 2019 While President Donald “America First” Trump and his merry band of foreign interventionists try to convince people how concerned they are with the plight of Venezuelans, four American women, Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick, might have doubts about this new-found Republican/conservative love for the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. That’s because the Trump administration has just ...
Body Cavity and Cellphone Searches at the Border by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2019 Among the weirdest aspects of America’s system of immigration controls is what this system permits federal officials to do to American citizens who choose to vacation or conduct business in a foreign country. It permits them to order American travelers, upon reentering the United States, to completely disrobe in order to permit federal agents to closely examine ...
Trump and Maduro, Birds of a Feather by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2019 Even while still keeping U.S. troops mired in America’s forever wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, President Donald “America First” Trump is threatening to order his army to invade Venezuela in order to oust Venezuelan dictator Vincente Maduro from office and install a pro-U.S. puppet in his stead. As Ronald Reagan might have put it, “There he goes again.” In ...
