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Hornberger’s Blog, May 2009

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Friday, May 29, 2009 The Sotomayor Nomination Is another Yawner for Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger As a libertarian, it’s hard for me to get all worked up over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, as conservatives and liberals are now doing. The only time I’d ever get excited about a Supreme Court nomination is if someone with a libertarian philosophy were nominated, such as Randy Barnett, Richard Epstein, or Andrew Napolitano. Heck, I’d also be excited over the nomination of what I would call principled liberals, such as Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Turley, Joanne Mariner, and Joseph Margulies. Conservative Bruce Fein would be another great selection. But a standard mainstream statist lawyer like Sotomayor? Yawn. Big deal. Given a choice between a conservative and a liberal justice, my inclination has always been to favor the ...

Release the CIA’s Still-Secret JFK Records Now

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Today, June 10, marks the anniversary of one of the most important and remarkable speeches in American history — President John F. Kennedy’s speech at American University on June 10, 1963 -- what has become known as the “Peace Speech.” Two excellent books have been written about the speech: To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Speech by Jeffrey Sachs and Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 49 Hours that Made History by Andrew Cohen. Why is that speech so important and so remarkable? Three reasons: One, it reflects that President Kennedy had achieved a breakthrough that was moving him toward ending the Cold War and establishing peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Two, JFK prepared the speech without notifying and consulting with the national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon and the CIA — because he didn't trust their judgment and he didn't agree with their vision for the future direction of America. Three, he purposefully ...

Hornberger’s Blog, March 2005

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Thursday, March 31, 2005 According to the Pioneer Press, Dan Gartrell, a former Head Start teacher at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, said public-school student killer Jeff Weise “would have been just fine if teachers ‘had time to greet students in the morning, easing them through conflicts since the previous day that may be getting them down.’ He went on to suggest that we need full-time mental health professionals in our schools, from preschool through college.” A good place for those mental-health professionals to start would be to counsel public-student students on the psychological consequences of state compulsory-attendance laws, which force families to send young people into government-approved institutions to receive government-approved “education” from government-approved schoolteachers using a government-approved curriculum that follows a government-approved schedule of bells. How can such a dysfunctional concept not have psychological ...

Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?

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In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.” Was Schumer referring to Trump’s ideology, philosophy, or knowledge about economics or foreign policy? None of the above. According to an article in The Hill, he told Rachel Maddow on her show that ...

The Assassinations of John Kennedy and Orlando Letelier

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This week the Washington Post carried a fascinating front-page article entitled “This Is Not an Accident. This Was a Bomb” about the assassination of Orlando Letelier, the former official in the Allende administration who, along with his 25-year-old assistant Ronni Moffitt, was murdered on the streets of Washington, D.C., in 1976. The article includes several interesting photographs, including of ...