The Moral Bankruptcy and Hypocrisy of Conservatives by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2020 If you want a good sample of the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of conservatives, look no further than the Washington Post, specifically an op-ed in yesterday’s issue by noted conservative columnist Hugh Hewitt. In his op-ed, Hewitt takes Colin Powell, a fellow conservative who served as secretary of state, chairman of the joint ...
Economic Nonsense in the New York Times by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2020 If you have a kid who is trying to figure out where to go to college, you might want to counsel him or her to avoid going to Stony Brook University, at least if he or she plans on majoring in economics. That’s because there is a good chance that your kid will end up having to ...
Limit Police Power to Targeting Real Criminals by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2020 Given the history of brutality by the Minneapolis police department, especially against blacks, with the killing of George Floyd being the most recent example, the Minneapolis city council has signaled its intent to abolish its police department. The mayor of the city, Jacob Frey, opposes the idea, instead favoring police “reform,” an idea that has been tried ...
The FBI’s Glorification of a Serial Blackmailer by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2020 Now that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is removing a statue of Robert E. Lee from a state-owned park in Richmond, isn’t it time that the federal government did a little house-cleaning of its own? A good place to start would be by enacting legislation that forces the FBI to strip the name of J. Edgar Hoover, the ...
Police Bigoted Brutality Isn’t New: The Jean Seberg Story by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2020 Amazon Prime Video recently issued a movie entitled Seberg, which depicts the life of Jean Seberg, an American in the 1960s who became a famous actress both in the United States and France. The Jean Seberg story, however, is much more than just about film. It also is a very timely reminder, given the ...
Bigoted Cops and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2020 If Americans want to diminish racial bigotry in police departments across the country, the best way to start is by legalizing drugs, all of them. That would bring an end to the legal opportunity that bigoted cops have in the enforcement of drug laws against blacks. I’m not saying that all cops are racial bigots. We ...
Trump and His Standing Army by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2020 President Trump’s warning to state governors that he is prepared to send his military forces to quell violent protests in cities across the land serves as another reminder of why our ancestors had such a deep antipathy toward standing armies. They knew that giant, professional, and permanent military establishments constitute the biggest threat to the freedom and ...
Trump Punishes China by Hurting Hong Kong by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2020 Acting in sympathy with the people of Hong Kong, who have just been told by China that they are being subjected to a new Chinese law to protect “national security,” President Trump has announced that he is taking measures to retaliate against … Hong Kong! Why, that sure makes a lot of sense, right! What better ...
Ungovernable by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2020 Notwithstanding all the death, violence, and corruption the U.S. government’s drug war has spawned in the United States, it has wreaked much more damage in Mexico. Since 2006, when Mexico began fiercely cracking down in the drug war at the behest of U.S. officials, the number of deaths and people who have disappeared because of the drug ...
Disingenuous Sympathy by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2020 My article yesterday, “The Power of Military Indoctrination,” generated two different responses, not on the main thrust of the article but rather on the issue of sympathy. My article, for those who haven’t read it, detailed the grief that a young woman, Kelsey Baker, is suffering over the loss of her boyfriend, Diego ...
The Power of Military Indoctrination by Jacob G. Hornberger May 27, 2020 A sad article in the New York Times this week entitled “He Died at War. The Pandemic Gave Me Time to Grieve” by a young woman named Kelsey Baker is a testament to the success of the U.S. national-security establishment in indoctrinating soldiers and, well, lots of civilians as well. The article details Baker’s ...
Apology Day by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2020 On Memorial Day yesterday, Americans were called upon to remember the American soldiers who have been killed in America’s many foreign wars. U.S. interventionists should have also used the day to apologize not only to the families of those veterans but also to the families who lost loved ones as a consequence of U.S. interventionism in their ...