Why Perjury Matters in the Judicial Branch by Jacob G. Hornberger October 3, 2018 If there is one thing that is plainly clear, when it comes to the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, lying is just no big deal. In fact, lying has become such a core part of the presidency and the Congress that Americans have come to accept that lying is just an inherent part of government itself. Nonetheless, ...
The Issues in Kavanaugh Are Assault and Perjury, Not Booze and Carousing by Jacob G. Hornberger October 2, 2018 Liz Swisher gets it. And she’s not a lawyer. She is a prominent physician in Seattle. She is also a University of Washington professor and director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. She is a graduate of Yale. She is also a former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the ...
Trump’s Sham FBI “Investigation” of Kavanaugh by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2018 Preliminary Note: See my September 28 article “Brett Kavanaugh: A Black Mark on the Supreme Court?” and my article today, “Summon Mark Judge to Testify in Kavanaugh Hearings.” *** On the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote on whether to send President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the full Senate for a vote on ...
Brett Kavanaugh: A Black Mark on the Supreme Court? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2018 Like many others, I watched the congressional hearing yesterday involving President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, who currently serves as a judge on the D.C. federal court of appeals. My conclusion after watching both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testify? Congress should either conduct a more extensive investigation into Ford’s accusation or refuse to confirm Kavanaugh’s ...
There Is No Right to Healthcare by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2018 A common belief among progressives is that people have a right to healthcare. Nothing could be further from the truth. People have a right to seek healthcare but they don’t have a right to healthcare. There is a world of difference between the two concepts. If I have a right to healthcare, that would necessarily mean that someone would be ...
Why Americans Choose Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2018 There is no question but that the 20th and, so far, the 21st centuries have been the centuries of socialism for the American people. Yes, I know, many Americans don’t like to consider themselves socialists and prefer to think of the United States as “free enterprise.” But the fact is that Americans have chosen to live under the variation ...
Why No Libertarian Supreme Court Justice? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 25, 2018 Regardless of the extreme brouhaha surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, it’s difficult for libertarians to get excited over his nomination to the Supreme Court. For that matter, it was also difficult for libertarians to get excited over Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. There is a simple reason for that. While conservatives and liberals like to think that there ...
We Are (Mostly) All Socialists Now by Jacob G. Hornberger September 24, 2018 There is a popular conception among some libertarians that the reason that we live under a massive welfare-warfare state is because government has a natural propensity to grow. The notion is a popular one among libertarians who promote anarchism, i.e., the total absence of government. The argument goes like this: The Constitution, which was supposed to keep government reined ...
Our Drug-War Conference Tonight at Spelman College by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2018 If you are in the Atlanta area this evening, I hope you’ll join us at FFF’s conference at Spelman College. The theme of the conference is “Mass Incarceration and the Drug War.” The speakers are Neill Franklin of LEAP, an organization of former law-enforcement officers who call for and to the war on drugs, Seema ...
U.S. Perversity on Peace in Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2018 Just when you think that the U.S. national-security state’s policy toward Korea can’t get more perverse, it does. The latest perversion? Opposing a peace agreement between North Korea and South Korea! Imagine that. And why would U.S. officials oppose such an agreement? Because it would inevitably lead to calls for U.S. troops in Korea to be sent packing home ...
Paul Manafort and LBJ, Influence Peddlers by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2018 The mainstream press and the progressive movement are shocked — shocked! — over Paul Manafort’s influence peddling and political corruption schemes. Their reaction to Manafort’s conviction and guilty plea remind me of the scene in the movie Casablanca, where the police chief is “shocked” to learn that there is gambling in Rick’s establishment, followed by someone bringing the police ...
It’s Hurricane Season, Which Means Anti-Gouging Laws by Jacob G. Hornberger September 17, 2018 With the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, the anti-gouging snitchers and enforcers are surfacing, just as they do every hurricane season. According to a news story on Fox5ny.com, the North Carolina attorney general’s office has received 500 reports of price-gouging. The article even features a telephone number that people who wish to report price gougers can call: 1-877-5-NO-SCAM. North Carolina Attorney ...
