Three Other Presidents Targeted for Befriending Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2018 In my article “Was Reagan a Traitor Too?,” I detailed how three U.S. presidents since World War II have been vilified and condemned for befriending Russia, America’s World War II partner and ally: John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and now Donald Trump. However, they are not the only presidents who have been targeted by the U.S. national-security state for daring ...
Was Reagan a Traitor Too? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2018 If anyone thinks that Donald Trump is the only U.S. president ever targeted for befriending Russia, think again. As I indicated in a recent article, the deep state went after President Kennedy for doing the same thing. And yes, like Trump, they called Kennedy a traitor, an appeaser, and a coward for refusing to stand up to Russia, which ...
Conspiracy Humor and Irony in the Trump-Russia Brouhaha by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2018 New York Times: Mr. Trump raised a series of largely irrelevant conspiracy theories — none of which were directly related to the evidence of Russian hacking activity. Washington Post: And with that, yet another President Trump conspiracy theory is thoroughly repudiated by the Russia investigation. Chicago Tribune: On Monday, Trump also resurrected several debunked conspiracy theories about his opponent Hillary Clinton ...
The Deep State Went After JFK on Russia Too by Jacob G. Hornberger July 17, 2018 It is fascinating to see both the rightwing and the leftwing excoriate President Trump for trying to establish friendly relations with Russia, especially since it’s not the first time this has happened. It also happened to President Kennedy. As the old saying goes, it’s déjà vu all over again. Like Trump, Kennedy was called a traitor, an appeaser, and a ...
Mueller’s Indictment Isn’t Worth Squat by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2018 I sure wish the mainstream media and all those critics of Donald Trump had had better civics teachers in high school. If they had, they would understand that special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against those Russian officials for supposedly illegally meddling in America’s presidential election doesn’t mean squat. Instead, the media and the Trump critics have accepted the indictment ...
NATO Is the Model Entangling Alliance by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2018 Suppose I had an unlimited power of attorney to sign your name as a co-signer on any loan I made with the bank. Every time I went to the bank and borrowed money, I could legally obligate you to pay my loan if I defaulted. How would you like that? My hunch is that you wouldn’t be too excited about ...
The Deep State’s Absorption of Donald Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2018 The dust-up over NATO confirms, once again, that President Trump, unfortunately, has been absorbed by the same deep state whose existence he sometimes laments. After questioning here in the United States the usefulness of NATO, Trump traveled to a NATO meeting in Europe, where he flipped and declared his firm commitment to this Cold War anachronism, declaring publicly, “I ...
U.S. Dictatorial Fangs at the World Cup by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2018 In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, entitled “In Search of Monsters to Destroy,” John Quincy Adams warned the American people that if the U.S. government ever became an imperial, interventionist government, it would inevitably become like a dictatorial regime. A good example of how right Adams has proven to be has occurred during the World Cup ...
A Critique of My Fundraising Letter … From a Libertarian by Jacob G. Hornberger July 10, 2018 Every time I think I have seen it all, I discover that I haven’t. Yesterday, for the first time in the 28-year history of The Future of Freedom Foundation, I was critiqued for what I wrote in a fundraising letter that we just sent out to our supporters. In the letter, we are asking our supporters to help ...
North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2018 With North Korea accusing Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo of engaging in a “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” it should be increasingly obvious to most everyone that North Korea is not going to destroy its nuclear bombs. This should not surprise anyone. The dumbest thing that North Korea could ever do is to destroy its ...
The Mystery of Robert Knudsen by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2018 On January 29, 1989, the Washington Post published an obituary of Robert Knudsen, which stated in part: Robert LeRoy Knudsen, 61, a retired photographer with the White House staff, where he served for 28 years, died Jan. 27 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital after a heart attack. He lived in Annandale. Mr. Knudsen had provided photographic coverage of every ...
Waging Minimum-Wage War Against Black Teenagers by Jacob G. Hornberger July 5, 2018 Yesterday morning at my neighborhood Starbucks, a white woman around 20 years old who has worked there for quite some time told me that she would be leaving Starbucks within a few days. She told me the reason is that she has secured another job, a retail job that is totally unrelated to the coffee trade. She said that ...
