Drug War Disappearances and Murders by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2020 How anyone can defend drug laws is beyond me. Consider the following: During the past 15 years or so of drug warfare in Mexico, there have been around 200,000 deaths resulting from drug war violence. 200,000 people, dead. Not because of drugs, but because of the drug war. That’s not all. There are also ...
Donald Augusto Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger July 28, 2020 I find it fascinating to watch the rightwing, conservative mindset unfold in response to what is occurring in Portland because it reminds me so much of the same rightwing, conservative mindset with respect to Chile in the 1970s. In 1970, the Chilean people elected an extreme radical to be their president. His name was Salvador Allende. ...
Inflation Could Make Portland Look Like Child’s Play by Jacob G. Hornberger July 27, 2020 In the run-up to the November elections, both President Trump and Joe Biden, along with their respective party cohorts, are gearing up to give another few trillion dollars in free money to American voters. This vote-buying scheme is being sold as another attempt to “stimulate” the economy. Actually, it will do the exact opposite. Their vote-buying scheme ...
“Small Government” is an Empty Republican Mantra by Jacob G. Hornberger July 24, 2020 Favoring “small government” has long been a Republican and conservative mantra. It is also an empty one. It’s a shame that some libertarians have adopted it to describe libertarianism. After all, what does “small government” mean? A smaller IRS? A more streamlined DEA? A fascist Social Security system? A reformed Medicare system? A 10 percent cut ...
The Immigration Police State Comes to Portland by Jacob G. Hornberger July 23, 2020 For years I’ve been pointing out that an immigration police state comes with a system of immigration controls, just as thunder comes with lightning. Immigration police-state measures include: (1) warrantless trespasses and warrantless searches of farms and ranches within 100 miles of the border; (2) domestic immigration checkpoints that subject travelers who ...
A Federal Mask Mandate? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2020 The Democrat governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has come out with an op-ed in the New York Times today calling for a federal nation-wide mandate requiring people to wear masks. She says that that’s the way to save lives from Covid-19. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Whitmer fails to provide any constitutional justification for such ...
Rename the Roosevelt Room to the Gustav Schröder Room by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2020 Last month the University of Southern California announced the removal of the name of former USC president Rufus von KleinSmid from a building on campus. Von KleinSmid served as president of the university from 1921 to 1947. Von KleinSmid’s offense? He was a supporter of the eugenics movement, and he also refused to admit Japanese American ...
The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2020 The banality of evil that characterizes the U.S. national security state is demonstrated perfectly by the continuation of its deadly economic embargo against Cuba, which has been ongoing for some 60 years. What’s the point of the embargo? After all, the Pentagon’s, CIA’s, and NSA’s official enemy Fidel Castro died years ago. Why continue to intentionally ...
How to Bring Liberty and Justice to Blacks (and Everyone Else) by Jacob G. Hornberger July 17, 2020 If you want to get a glimpse of what it's like to be black in the context of the war on drugs, just consider what has happened to Sean Worsley, a black Iraq War veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. Worsley lives in Arizona, a state that permits medical ...
Why Shouldn’t Foreigners Be Free to Support U.S. Candidates? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2020 President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s jail sentence has re-raised the issue of Russia’s supposed involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign. Recall that the ostensible purpose of special prosecutor (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller’s long, drawn-out investigation was to determine whether Russia played a role in the campaign and whether Trump had somehow become a covert ...
Trump, Kennedy, and the Russia Collusion Delusion by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2020 President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s jail sentence has brought the Russia collusion delusion back into the limelight. Special prosecutor (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller, the lawyer in charge of conducting an in-depth investigation into whether Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election, immediately fired a salvo against Trump’s commutation ...
Lawyer Licensure Is a Protection Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger July 14, 2020 Given the difficulty of administering the July bar exam to California law school graduates in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is advocating that the state let new law graduates practice law without passing the state bar exam. In an editorial in today’s issue, the Times is recommending that the state ...
