Foreign Interventionism, 9/11, and the Perpetual War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2020 With today being another anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it’s important to recall why it was that that deadly event came about. No, the terrorists didn’t attack us because they hated our “freedom and values,” as U.S. officials and American interventionists claimed after the attacks. Instead, the ...
The Evil Persecution of Julian Assange by Jacob G. Hornberger September 10, 2020 The Julian Assange extradition farce is now proceeding apace in Great Britain, where the English poodles are going through the motions before they comply with U.S. dictates to transfer Assange to trial in the United States. The charge? Some supposed violation of some ridiculous espionage statute dating back to World War I, the foreign war ...
Regime Change in Chile by Jacob G. Hornberger September 9, 2020 This week marks the 50th anniversary of the democratic election in Chile of Salvador Allende, a self-proclaimed socialist who was, three years later, ousted from power in a CIA-inspired coup and replaced with a violent and brutal rightwing military general named Augusto Pinochet. Not surprisingly, leftwing publications ...
Social Security, Freedom, and the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger September 8, 2020 Conservatives love preaching about their supposed devotion to the Constitution. They also love proclaiming their opposition to socialism. Fine. Fair enough. But conservatives also love and are unswervingly committed to America’s premier socialist program, Social Security, which is the crown jewel of our country’s welfare state. The question arises: How do conservatives reconcile ...
Are the Welfare-Warfare Chickens Coming Home to Roost? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2020 Do you remember that big multi-trillion-dollar “stimulus" package that Congress enacted last spring and that President Trump signed into law? Do you remember how mainstream statists were proudly proclaiming how good and beneficent the federal government is? Do you remember they were saying that the stimulus checks were “free” money being sent to people by the federal ...
Libertarians Who Abandon Integrity by Jacob G. Hornberger September 3, 2020 In his interview with Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, President Trump declared “I’m somewhat libertarian; I have to be honest with you; Rand Paul will tell you that….” Why was Trump claiming to be “somewhat libertarian”? Because he wants libertarians to vote for him. Rejecting Trump’s entreaty, Bonnie Kristian has written ...
Remocrats versus Depublicans by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2020 While conservatives and progressives are all hyped up over the presidential election, this political farce is pretty pathetic from the standpoint of a libertarian. After all, the real issue for libertarians when it comes to Donald Trump or Joe Biden is: Which one will be worse from the standpoint of tyranny and oppression? That’s pretty pathetic. Consider the ...
The Politicization of Education by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2020 A controversy in California involving a public-school English teacher who wore a T-shirt to class with “I can’t breathe” on it demonstrates one of the reasons that the politicization of education has been such a disastrous experiment. The T-shirt threw some people into a rage. One parent says he wants his child to learn English and nothing else. ...
U.S. Meddling in Chile’s 1964 Presidential Election by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2020 Given the U.S. government’s meddling in Chile’s 1964 presidential election, I can’t help but wonder whether that has contributed to the major obsession that U.S. officials have with supposed Russian meddling in U.S. presidential elections. When one does bad things to others, oftentimes this causes the malefactor to think that others are doing the same thing to him.
Judicial Tyranny in the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger August 28, 2020 If you still have any doubts about the tyranny of the federal government’s beloved “war on drugs,” perhaps the case of Juan Carlos Seresi, Vahe Andonian, and Nazareth Andonian will remove them. Back in 1991, a federal judge named William D. Keller sentenced these three men to 500 years in jail for a non-violent drug offense—i.e., laundering drug ...
Big Business versus Monopoly by Jacob G. Hornberger August 26, 2020 CNN Business reports that Exxon, which was the world’s largest company in 2013, is today being kicked out of the Dow. As CNN Business puts it, “Exxon is now a shell of its former self.” The company is losing money and its “market value has crumbled by a staggering $267 billion from the peak.”
FDR’s Two Biggest Lies by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2020 Given all the hoopla by the mainstream press about lies purportedly issued by President Trump, one cannot help but recall two big lies issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One lie dealt with foreign affairs and the other lie dealt with domestic policy. In the 1940 presidential race, Roosevelt, the incumbent who was running for an unprecedented third ...
