Maduro’s Brutality Reminds Us of U.S. Brutality by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2019 When I was kid, the last thing I ever thought was that I would end up living in a country whose government has the power to torture people. I was taught that only brutal dictatorships do that. And yet, here I am, many years later, living under a government that is empowered to torture people, including American ...
Should Libertarians Support Trump’s Immigration Raids? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2019 Libertarian supporters of immigration controls are remaining conspicuously silent about President Trump’s latest immigration raids. What’s up with that? Wouldn’t you think that people who support America’s system of immigration controls would be praising such raids? Actually, it’s a good thing such libertarians are remaining silent, just as they remain silent about the other enforcement measures ...
680 Down, 10 Million to Go by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2019 No doubt trying to break President Obama’s record for deporting illegal immigrants, President Trump had his immigration gendarmes conduct secretive immigration raids at workplaces in Mississippi, which succeeded in rounding up and arresting 680 suspected illegal immigrant workers. That means that Trump’s people have to arrest only 10 million more in order to achieve his dream of ...
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and the El Paso Killings by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2019 Leftists are tripping over themselves in their attempt to blame President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for one of the nation’s latest killing sprees, the one in El Paso, where the killer posted an online screed complaining about the “invasion” of illegal immigrants. Of course, the left is having a more difficult time trying to tie Trump’s rhetoric to the simultaneous ...
Welfare-Warfare State “Freedom” and “Patriotism” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2019 A 13-year-old boy has just received a lesson in “patriotism” at a Montana county fair. He suffered a fractured skull and several hours of bleeding from his ears for refusing to remove his hat during the singing of the National Anthem. That’s because 39-year-old Curt James Brockwell picked the kid up by his throat and slammed him into the ...
Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger August 6, 2019 The U.S. Empire, which controls much of the world through hundreds of military bases in foreign countries, through foreign regimes run by domestic U.S. puppets, and through foreign dependency on U.S. foreign aid, got its start in 1898 during the Spanish American War. It was that war that enabled the Empire to acquire its imperialist domain in Cuba known ...
A Dysfunctional and Unfree Society by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2019 Responding to the weekend massacres in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump announced his opinion that the shooters must be mentally ill. Well, doh, Captain Obvious! But there have always been people in American society who have been off-kilter mentally. Until recently, most of these off-kilter people haven’t gone out on massive killing sprees against people they don’t even know. Thus, the ...
Donald Trump, Trade Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger August 2, 2019 President Trump has suddenly announced that he is upping his trade war against China by imposing another $300 billion of tariffs on Chinese goods. According to the Washington Post, Trump said that his tariffs would begin at 10 percent on such products as cellphones, television sets, toilet seats, and pillows but could increase to 25 percent. As ...
The Moon Landing Was One Big Socialist Project by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2019 Amidst all the hoopla over the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it’s easy to forget that this was just another 20th-century massive public-works project, no different in principle from federal dams, the Interstate Highway System, Amtrak, the Tennessee Valley Authority, public housing, and other socialist projects. As such, except for libertarians, everyone fails ...
Open Borders Are Compatible With a Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger July 31, 2019 For some time now, there has been a conservative faction within the libertarian movement that has advocated that libertarians abandon their position in favor of open borders and instead join up with conservatives and progressives in support of government-controlled borders. In doing so, these conservative-oriented libertarians always fail to address one of the principal costs of abandoning libertarian principle on ...
Immigration Control Follies by Jacob G. Hornberger July 30, 2019 Sometimes the debate over the decades-long immigration crisis becomes amusing. In a July 26 editorial entitled “Trump’s Wall Gets America Nowhere on Border Security,” which takes the Trump administration to task for its cruel, brutal, destructive, and failed immigration enforcement measures, the New York Times writes, “There must be a way to house the migrants, ...
Gun Violence in California by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2019 Upon hearing that a man dressed in a military-style outfit was shooting people with an assault rifle at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sunday, I imagine that there were at least some Californians saying to themselves, “That’s impossible. It’s illegal in California to take an assault rifle into a public festival.” Indeed, according to Wikipedia, “The gun ...
