Hornberger’s Blog, April 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2005 Saturday, April 30, 2005 One of the interesting twists of fate in Iraq involves Bush versus Bush with respect to the regime that would rule Iraq. After U.S. military forces under Bush I ousted Saddams forces from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf intervention, Bush I encouraged the Shiites and the Kurds to revolt. However, U.S. officials ultimately decided to stand aside ...
Hornberger’s Blog, March 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2005 Thursday, March 31, 2005 According to the Pioneer Press, Dan Gartrell, a former Head Start teacher at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, said public-school student killer Jeff Weise “would have been just fine if teachers ‘had time to greet students in the morning, easing them through conflicts since the previous day that may be getting them down.’ He ...
Hornberger’s Blog, February 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2005 Monday, February 28, 2005 U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty, who is representing the government in the Abu Ali case (the case in which U.S. officials kept U.S. citizen Abu Ali in a Saudi jail for 20 months), should be given a special federal medal for audaciousness. Responding to Abu Ali’s claims of torture, McNulty stated in official court ...
Hornberger’s Blog, January 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2005 Monday, January 31, 2005 While President Bush and the Pentagon continue their march around the world establishing “democracy” through military invasions and occupations, Americans would be wise to focus on democracy at home. For example, yesterday’s New York Times reports that the CIA, which consists of secret, unelected bureaucrats whose power is virtually omnipotent, is refusing to comply with ...
Hornberger’s Blog, December 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2004 Friday, December 31, 2004 In today’s FFF Email Update, we link to an interesting article in the drug-war section entitled “A Taste of the System” which details one of the perverse consequences of the “war on terrorism” and the “war on drugs.” John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, checked ...
Hornberger’s Blog, November 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2004 Tuesday, November 30, 2004 The last few weeks have not been kind to sons of prominent bureaucrats. First, Howard Stern brought to public attention that Michael Powell, the head of the FCC, the American version of the Taliban’s Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, is the son of Colin Powell. But both Michael Powell and ...
Hornberger’s Blog, October 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2004 October 30, 2004 Like a bad dream, Osama bin Laden is back, having released a videotape stating that terrorism against the United States is rooted in U.S. government foreign policy in the Middle East rather than in hatred for America’s “freedom and values.” This is also what the CIA agent “Anonymous” emphasizes in his recent book ...
Hornberger’s Blog, September 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2004 September 30, 2004 Our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is back in the news. The city has just agreed to use its taxing power to plunder and loot D.C. residents to line the pockets of the baseball owners who have graciously agreed to bring the Montreal Expos to D.C. Never mind that that America’s premier “model city” has schools that are ...
Hornberger’s Blog, August 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2004 Tuesday, August 31, 2004 Some pro-Vietnam War veterans are taking John Kerry to task for his antiwar positions after he returned from Vietnam. What these guys fail to understand is simply because soldiers fight in a war doesn’t make the war right or just, not even if the soldiers fight bravely or courageously. For example, there were plenty of German and ...
Hornberger’s Blog, July 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2004 Saturday, July 31, 2004 Well, well, well—surprise, surprise—millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money that have supposedly been used to “rebuild” Iraq are unaccounted for, resulting in 27 criminal investigations for fraud—against U.S. officials. The Los Angeles Times reports, “The report raises anew questions surrounding the occupation government under Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, who turned over control ...
Hornberger’s Blog, June 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2004 Wednesday, June 30, 2004 The neoconservative commentators who believe that patriotism means blind support of government, especially during times of war, are stunned, shocked, and paralyzed over the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Hamdi, Guantanamo, and Padilla cases because they now can’t decide which branch of government to support — the executive branch’s claim to dictatorial powers or the judicial ...
Hornberger’s Blog, May 2004 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2004 Monday, May 31, 2004 Today — Memorial Day — is a good time to begin reflecting on the future direction of our country, especially given the failure of the most recent foreign war waged by the federal government. I say failure because there is no possibility that the occupation of Iraq will succeed in bringing freedom, democracy, or even the ...
