Where Is Congress on Ukraine’s Membership in NATO? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 2, 2022 Given all those pious pro-democracy pronouncements by U.S. officials, I’d like to ask what might be considered a discomforting question: Where is the U.S. Congress when it comes to deciding whether Ukraine becomes a member of NATO? The answer to that question might be even more discomforting than the question itself: In a country that purports to be ...
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell Are Not Censoring Joe Rogan by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2022 Leftists are going ballistic over the Joe Rogan dustup at Spotify. After Rogan had a guest on his show that expounded COVID-19 viewpoints that go against what the government likes, singer Neil Young announced that he was pulling his songs from Spotify to protest what Rogan had done. He was followed by singer Joni Mitchell, who announced the ...
The U.S. Government Will Be Responsible for Ukraine Deaths by Jacob G. Hornberger January 31, 2022 Despite the fact that U.S. officials are playing the innocent in the Ukraine crisis, the fact is that the U.S. government will be responsible for the death toll that results from a Russian invasion of Ukraine. That’s because it is the U.S. government, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA, who have precipitated the crisis. If the U.S. ...
The Cold War Racket Never Ended for the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger January 27, 2022 There is something important to recognize about the Cold War: It was not ended by the U.S. government. Instead, it was ended by the Soviet Union. If it had been up to the U.S. national-security establishment, the Cold War would have gone on forever because it is the best racket in U.S. history, one that continually expanded the ...
Where is JFK When You Need Him? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 26, 2022 President Kennedy had a unique way of viewing his communist adversaries during the Cold War. He would put himself in their shoes and try to figure out what was motivating them to take the actions they were taking. He would then attempt to fashion a solution to a particular crisis that satisfied the other side’s concerns.
A Time for Introspection by Jacob G. Hornberger January 25, 2022 With the crisis over Ukraine getting bigger by the day, this would be a good time for the American people to engage in some serious introspection, especially given the recent withdrawal of U.S. forces from their forever deadly and destructive war in Afghanistan. One option, of course, is to continue business as usual. That’s what is clearly ...
Liberty Entails the Right to Possess and Consume Drugs by Jacob G. Hornberger January 21, 2022 By now, even the most ardent of drug warriors has to admit that the drug war has been a manifest failure, at least if the goal was to eradicate drug use in America. At the same time, most everyone must now acknowledge the widespread violence, death, suffering, mass incarceration, infringements on civil liberties, asset forfeiture, and racial bigotry ...
The Unseen Consequences of the Interstate Highway System by Jacob G. Hornberger January 20, 2022 I was recently on a road trip to Missouri where I saw a sign that indicated that I was on the famed Route 66, a U.S. highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1960s. Although I grew up in South Texas, as a kid I was very familiar with Route 66 because ...
Crisis-Filled Lives by Jacob G. Hornberger January 19, 2022 No one can deny that we Americans live crisis-filled lives. Right now, there is a major crisis in Ukraine with Russia. There is also an ongoing crisis with China. Other foreign-policy crises, such as with Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, and North Korea. There is a terrorism crisis. Healthcare crisis. Social Security crisis. Drug-war crisis. Immigration crisis. Debt ...
Good for Putin for Exposing U.S. Hypocrisy by Jacob G. Hornberger January 18, 2022 At the risk of being accused of befriending one of the two premier enemies (or rivals, opponents, adversaries, or competitors) of the U.S. national-security establishment (the other one being China), I feel compelled to commend Russian President Vladimir Putin for exposing the rank hypocrisy of U.S. officials. I must admit that I couldn’t help but smile when I ...
Healthcare Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2022 As the Omicron variation of COVID-19 continues to spread, the American people need to be asking themselves an important question: Do they want healthcare freedom or not? If not, then healthcare will remain under the control of government — the federal government and the state and local governments. That will mean continued and growing healthcare tyranny in ...
Leave Cuba, and Leave Cuba Alone by Jacob G. Hornberger January 12, 2022 On the 20-year anniversary of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center and their military-tribunal judicial system at their imperial base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some critics are asking the obvious question: Why doesn’t President Biden simply order the closure of this horrific travesty and be done with it? Unfortunately, however, the critics don’t want to acknowledge ...