Nutrition and the Nanny State by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2011 Even while bombing and killing people overseas, the federal government hasn’t forgotten its important role of being a daddy for the American people. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the Food and Drug Administration is issuing rules directed to food companies that target children in their advertising. Since child obesity is a national problem, the FDA is telling ...
Thanks to the Fed, They Already Are Defaulting by Jacob G. Hornberger April 28, 2011 The doomsday crowd claims that the sky will fall in if the Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. If the ceiling isn’t raised, they say, the federal government will be forced to default on its debt payments, which apparently will then cause the sky to fall in. That’s, of course, ridiculous. For one thing, just because the federal government ...
Syria and Standing Armies by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2011 The brutal military crackdown in Syria confirms the wisdom of our Founding Fathers’ opposition to standing armies. The Syrian military is loyally obeying the orders of their commander in chief to suppress the protests sweeping the country by opening fire and killing peaceful protestors. That is one of the big problems with standing armies, as our American ancestors repeatedly emphasized. ...
The Debt-Ceiling Charade by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2011 With respect to the debt ceiling, let me issue an easy prediction: The Republicans are going to cave. They are going to vote to raise the debt ceiling. Oh sure, there will be plenty of posturing. There will be expressions of anger and outrage over out-of-control federal spending, borrowing, and debt. There will be strategic political posturing, including threats ...
Economic Crimes in China and the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2011 The U.S. government is criticizing the Chinese government for one of the communist regime’s favorite tactics: using “economic crimes” as a legal cover to prosecute, convict, and incarcerate people who are actually guilty of political crimes. The latest instance involves Chinese celebrity artist and social critic Ai Weiwei, who is being held on suspicion of violating “economic crimes.” As Ayn ...
Physician, Heal Thyself by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2011 Outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman Jr. recently issued a broadside against China’s human-rights record, a pointed attack that comes in the wake of a brutal crackdown on dissent by the communist regime. “The United States will never stop supporting human rights because we believe in the fundamental struggle for human dignity wherever it may occur.” What hypocrisy. ...
Cuban and American Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2011 The disastrous failure of Cuba’s socialist economic system provides valuable clues to the American people as to why the United States is mired in economic woes. While total socialism has led Cuba into the depths of economic despair, the partial socialization of the American economy has led America in the same direction. Equally important is what socialism has done ...
Emergency Laws and Public-School Indoctrination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2011 An interesting aspect of the Syrian protests shows, once again, the big success of public (i.e., government) schooling in America. Syria is ruled by a brutal dictatorship. Everyone agrees on that. The world is witnessing the power of that dictatorship today, as it employs overwhelming police and military force to suppress dissent and anti-government demonstrations by the Syrian populace. Syria’s dictator, ...
Nullifying the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2011 No doubt to the chagrin of many judges across the land, a New Hampshire jury has shown, once again, that juries are the final judges of both the law and the facts in criminal cases, contrary to what all too many judges falsely inform juries in their courtroom. The New Hampshire case involved the drug war. A man named Bob ...
Duplicity and Debacle at the Bay of Pigs by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2011 This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a regime-change operation in Cuba planned and initiated by the CIA. The invasion was a disastrous failure, one that the CIA is still trying to rectify half-a-century later. When the CIA was established in 1947, the original idea was that it would simply be an intelligence-gathering agency to ...
Welfare and Warfare Are a Renunciation of Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2011 Perhaps the most damaging effect of public (i.e., government) schooling is the malleable mindset that it produces in American children, a mindset that defers to the authority of the government in important matters. Day after day, year after year, state officials mold the minds of the children into accepting popular, albeit false, doctrines. While some succeed in breaking free ...
No More Statism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2011 Not surprisingly, liberals are calling for tax hikes on the rich as their way to pay for the ever-burgeoning costs of the welfare-warfare state. Conservatives pretend to oppose tax hikes. Their preferred method of funding the welfare-warfare state is through the Federal Reserve, whose job is to provide the money and credit needed to fund excess federal spending without the ...