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 ...
It Was JFK Who Blinked in the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2020 By the time he graduates public high school, most every student in America has been indoctrinated with the notion that it was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who “blinked” during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually it was President John Kennedy who “blinked” during the crisis, and it was a good thing ...
Blindness on Iraq War “Patriotism” by Jacob G. Hornberger July 10, 2020 An op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times by Democrat Tammy Ducksworth demonstrates that when it comes to “patriotism,” liberals are as morally blind as conservatives. Duckworth’s op-ed goes after conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, who recently questioned Duckworth’s patriotism by suggesting that she didn’t love her country. Naturally, Duckworth, who lost her legs ...
The Shameful Mistreatment of Linda Ronstadt and the Dixie Chicks by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2020 Former Nazi leader Herman Goering famously said: Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want ...
The LA Times’s Namby Pamby Proposal on Masks by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2020 Extremely frustrated over the fact that many Americans still refuse to wear masks in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, in an editorial the Los Angeles Times has come out today in favor of a federal mandate on mask wearing. Pointing out that the “United States is a confusing mess of patchwork policies” ...
Weak Libertarian Solutions to America’s Healthcare Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2020 Ever since the start of the coronavirus crisis, a number of libertarians have taken the position that President Trump and federal officials have mismanaged the crisis. They point out all the things that Trump and federal officials have done wrong, and they detail all the bad consequences of their efforts to resolve the crisis. Their points ...
Who Hates America? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2020 Over the weekend, noted conservative Rod Dreher issued a nasty diatribe against NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In a short article in the American Conservative, Dreher accused Kaepernick of “hating America” and cited a recent tweet that Kaepernick sent out. Kaepernick is the black NFL quarterback who, a couple of years ago, incurred the ire of ...
Other Reasons to Remove Wilson’s Name at Princeton by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2020 Princeton University’s board of trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and one of its residential colleges. Wilson is not only a former U.S. president but also served as Princeton’s president from 1902-1910. The reason for the board’s action is Wilson’s racism. He didn’t want blacks applying to Princeton. He ...
