Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes U.S. Hypocrisy by Jacob G. Hornberger September 9, 2024 As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here), the U.S. government is prosecuting members of a small political group named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru” movement. The trial is taking place in U.S. District Court in Tampa. The group has been advocating socialism and opposing ...
First They Came for the Communists by Jacob G. Hornberger September 6, 2024 Yesterday, I wrote about a trial in U.S. District Court in Tampa in which federal prosecutors are keeping us safe by prosecuting and hoping to jail members of a group called the African People's Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru Movement.” (Uhuru is Swahili for “freedom”). The government is alleging that the defendants have been secretly ...
A Federal Prosecution in Florida Is Keeping Us Safe from the Russkies by Jacob G. Hornberger September 5, 2024 If you have been pacing the floor over the possibility that the Russkies are trying to influence your vote in the 2024 elections, you can sleep well tonight. That’s because the feds are currently prosecuting four members of the African People’s Socialist Party in a trial in federal district court in Tampa. What is the African People’s Socialist ...
Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2024 It has now been more than a month since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian custody. Gershkovich had been incarcerated for more than a year on charges of being a spy for the U.S. government, a charge fiercely denied by both the Journal and the U.S. government. Throughout the ordeal, Journal officials and U.S. ...
Economic Ignorance on the Minimum Wage by Jacob G. Hornberger September 3, 2024 It absolutely amazes me that there are still people who defend a government-mandated minimum wage. It is truly a testament to the long-lasting effect of indoctrination and propaganda to which students are subjected in public (i.e. government) schools and state-supported colleges and universities. The latest example of this phenomenon is the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times. ...
Leave Venezuela Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger August 29, 2024 The Los Angeles Times has just published an article that proposes a way for the U.S. government to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro from power: “The harshest possible sanctions must be leveled against Maduro and all state-owned industries to make an exit plan his best option.” The article was authored by Kristina Foltz, “a researcher and writer ...
Should the State Ban Cell Phones In Its Public Schools? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 28, 2024 An editorial in the Los Angeles Times endorses the growing trend to ban cell phones in public schools. The editorial points out that school districts all across the country are enacting such bans. The Times writes: The 2024-25 school year may be the tipping point when adults act to curb kids’ phone addiction and regain their ...
What Does “Free Enterprise” Really Mean? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 27, 2024 If a survey were to be conducted asking the American people whether they favor America's system of “free enterprise,” my hunch is that at least 90 percent of them would respond, “Of course. As an American, I strongly support our nation’s system of free enterprise.” But how many people actually ponder the meaning of that term? My hunch ...
Trump Is Lying about Releasing the JFK Records by Jacob G. Hornberger August 26, 2024 To honor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (after Kennedy was rebuffed by Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris), Trump announced that if Americans elect him president again, this time around he will order a release of the CIA’s long-secret JFK-assassination-related records. What a crock. What amazes me is that Trumpsters believe anything and ...
Russia Is Not Our Enemy by Jacob G. Hornberger August 23, 2024 Given the ongoing war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, it’s natural for Americans to conclude that Russia is our enemy. Not so. Our enemy is instead the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — the entity that is responsible for the war in Ukraine and that is destroying our ...
Is Kamala Harris “Open Borders”? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2024 One of the funny aspects of the ongoing, never-ending immigration debate has been watching right-wingers, led by their leader Donald Trump, exclaim against President Biden for implementing a policy of “open borders.” Undoubtedly Trump and his right-wing acolytes are going to say the same thing about Kamala Harris. Why is that funny? Because it demonstrates that Trump and ...
Should the Dollar Be Backed by Gold? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 21, 2024 Amidst all the talk about the Federal Reserve’s high interest-rate policy to combat its many years of monetary expansion and debasement, some people advocate the restoration of the monetary system on which the United States was founded — one in which, they say, the dollar was “backed by gold.” But there is one great big flaw in that ...
