Kahre’s Prosecutors Are Going Nutso by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2009 I have a hunch that things are not going well for the prosecution in the case of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which I blogged about last week. The reason that I say that is that it would seem the most likely explanation for the Las Vegas U.S. Attorney’s office going what can only be described as nutso. You’re not ...
The Idiocy of Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2009 The news media is reporting that an armed man shot and killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday with a 22-caliber rifle. That’s impossible. It just cannot be true. Don’t the media know that the Holocaust Museum is located in Washington, D.C.? Don’t they know that despite the recent U.S. Supreme Court ...
Who Are They Protecting? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2009 The Pentagon and the CIA are opposing the release of photographs that depict the torture and sex abuse of prisoners and detainees while in their custody. The basis for their objection is “national security.” Their argument goes like this: “Our personnel have done some horrendous things to people in our custody, so horrendous that we ...
Boumediene Confirms the Wisdom of Our Ancestors by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2009 In the debates leading up to the enactment of the U.S. Constitution, our American ancestors made a demand. If we accept the Constitution and the federal government it is calling into existence, they said, then we demand passage of a Bill of Rights immediately after the Constitution is adopted. The reason they made that demand ...
Pull Medicare and Medicaid Out by the Root by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2009 When I was kid growing up on a farm outside Laredo, Texas, I had the rather unfortunate experience of having to rid our lawn of weeds. The important thing I learned about weeds is that to get rid of them permanently, you have to pull them out by the root. If you simply cut off the branches or the ...
Obama, Like Bush, Just Doesn’t Get It by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2009 President Obama is in Cairo to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, which no doubt will explain that the U.S. government loves the people of the Middle East and is doing all sorts of good things to them. Alas, President Obama, like his predecessor, just doesn’t get it. The reason that people in the Middle East are angry ...
Prosecuting Robert Kahre for Embarrassing the Federal Reserve by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2009 For the life of me, I cannot figure out what Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre has done to deserve a federal criminal indictment. From what I can tell, Kahre is the victim of a brutal, heavy-handed Justice Department that is acting at the behest of the IRS and possibly even officials of the Federal ...
Consumer Sovereignty vs. Government Sovereignty by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2009 Hope springs eternal, at least for the socialists. Despite the fact that socialism has failed all over the world to raise people’s standard of living, socialists continue to hope that someone will finally prove that socialism will work. The latest hope arises with the U.S. government’s decision to become the majority owner of General ...
Hornberger’s Blog, June 2009 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2009 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger The military coup in Honduras, which some U.S. conservatives are already hailing as a pro-democracy coup, as they did after military strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, brings to mind a fantastic movie — Seven Days in May, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and ...
Loving Freedom While Destroying It by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2009 A few days after 9/11, a friend of mine at the conservative Heritage Foundation proudly exclaimed to me that Heritage had immediately jumped out in favor of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, with positions papers and articles. At the same time, Heritage continued to carry the same mission statement on its website: “to ...
The Sotomayor Nomination Is another Yawner for Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2009 As a libertarian, it’s hard for me to get all worked up over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, as conservatives and liberals are now doing. The only time I’d ever get excited about a Supreme Court nomination is if someone with a libertarian philosophy were nominated, such as ...
China’s Internet Control Gives Hope to Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2009 The Chinese government’s strict control over the Internet will come in handy during the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops, faithfully following orders of their superiors, opened fire on tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators. Ironically, the tight control that the Chinese communist regime maintains on the Internet provides ...