U.S. Indifference to Life in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger January 29, 2019 By encouraging the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, to declare himself the rightful president of Venezuela, President Trump (“Mr. America First”) has shown, once again, his interventionist colors. More important, he and his interventionist advisers have shown their total indifference to the value of human life in Venezuela. By creating a situation in which two different public ...
End All Interventionism, Not Just in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger January 28, 2019 It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to America, “Please, give us one more chance. We ...
Justifying the 17-Year War by Jacob G. Hornberger January 25, 2019 When I first learned about the Thirty Years War in a history class in college, I was both fascinated and amazed. How in the world could a war go on for 30 years? That just seemed incomprehensible to me. Not anymore. The U.S. war on Afghanistan has now been going on for 17 years. And ...
Trump, Pull Them Out of Syria Now, Not Later by Jacob G. Hornberger January 24, 2019 In December, President Trump announced that he was finally ordering an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Syria. Almost immediately, under pressure from the interventionist crowd, including the national-security branch of the U.S. government, Trump reversed course and announced that he intended to delay the pullout by another four months. Today, it’s not clear that he ...
A Real Government Shutdown Would Help the Economy by Jacob G. Hornberger January 23, 2019 In an editorial last week entitled, “Shutdown Slows Down the Economy,” the New York Times suggested that President Trump’s partial shutdown of the federal government is hurting the economy. It’s a point that many people on the left are making. They are wrong. Actually, the best thing that could ever happen, from an economic standpoint, is a permanent shutdown ...
Suffering from Trump’s Eminent-Domain Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2019 In my blog post of yesterday, “Stealing Land to Build Trump’s Wall,” I explained how a system of immigration controls, in general, entail tyrannical enforcement measures and how Trump’s Wall, in particular, entails the use of eminent domain to steal people’s land on which to build the wall. Coincidentally, yesterday Global Village Space published an article detailing one ...
Stealing Land to Build Trump’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger January 21, 2019 As I have repeatedly emphasized over the years, a system of immigration controls inevitably involves immigration enforcement measures. That is, when we talk about immigration controls, we are not simply referring to a sign at the border that says: “Do not enter without the official permission of the U.S. government.” No immigrant would pay any attention to such a ...
Dismantle NATO, or At Least Get Out by Jacob G. Hornberger January 18, 2019 The New York Times today has a piece by the German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, entitled “The World Needs NATO.” The article gives the standard tripe about how NATO is a force for good in the world and needs to be preserved. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. NATO is a force for ...
Adhering to Principle on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2019 Conservatives and liberals favor a system based on immigration controls, which are founded on the socialist principle of central planning. As any person in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union will attest, central planning always produces chaos and crises. That’s why we have had a perpetual, ongoing crisis for decades in the area of ...
JFK, Trump, Russia, and the Deep State by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2019 Ever since I began writing on the JFK assassination, there have been those who have said to me, “What difference does it make whether this was a regime-change operation? Most everyone who engaged in it is dead by now anyway. What relevance does the assassination have for us living today?” The answer: We are still living under the governmental structure ...
Leave Americans Living in Mexico Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2019 There are a million American citizens living in Mexico. What’s up with that? Don’t they love America? Aren’t they patriots? What are they doing living down there instead of up here? Word is that many of them are refusing to assimilate. They are not learning to speak Spanish. They continue to associate with each other rather than with the Mexican ...
Trump, Hitler, and the Enabling Act by Jacob G. Hornberger January 14, 2019 The terrorists had just fire-bombed the German Parliament building. Even worse, it turned out that the terrorists were communists. German leader Adolf Hitler sought emergency powers to deal with the crisis. After heated debate within the German Reichstag, the German legislators gave Hitler the emergency powers that he was seeking. The legislators made it clear, ...
