Conservative Hypocrisy on Brittney Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger July 27, 2022 The rank hypocrisy among conservatives in the Brittney Griner case continues apace. Yesterday, the conservative Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a man named Gregg Opelka, who expressed sympathy with Griner. He hopes that “she doesn’t receive the disproportionate 10-year sentence she faces. A milder punishment seems fitting for her unfortunate error of judgment.” He ...
Federal Spending Is the Problem with Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2022 Both conservatives and progressives are lamenting the soaring prices in the American economy. Not surprisingly, many of them are blaming the problem on Covid and, of course, on Russia. If only Covid hadn’t hit and if only Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, everything in the American economy would be hunky-dory. Progressives are now criticizing the Federal Reserve for threatening ...
Biden versus Trump: What’s the Difference? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 25, 2022 Yesterday, the New York Times carried a news analysis entitled “On U.S. Foreign Policy, the New Boss Acts a Lot Like the Old One.” The article made a very simple point: When it comes to foreign policy, there isn’t much difference between President Biden and former President Trump. Well, duh! As we libertarians have been pointing ...
The Secret Service’s Obstructions of Justice by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2022 According to an article on the website Alternet, “Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is calling for a “criminal investigation” into the U.S. Secret Service‘s deleted text messages” relating to the congressional investigation into the January 6 protests at the Capitol. The article stated, “The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General notified the House and Senate ...
Border-Control Fallacies by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2022 A writer at Substack named David Ferguson writes: Robert Frost once wrote “good fences make good neighbors.” Very true. Isn’t there any private property on the U.S. side of the border? Doesn’t a property owner have the right to defend his justly obtained property? How about hiring private police to keep intruders from trespassing on your property? The ...
Rafael Caro Quintero and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2022 U.S. officials are celebrating the capture of Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican drug lord wanted for the kidnapping, torture, and execution in 1985 of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, who had been assigned to operate in Mexico as part of the U.S. war on drugs. Caro Quintero had already served 28 years in jail in Mexico ...
No Need to Meet With Dictators by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2022 By now, most everyone knows about President Biden’s famous “fist bump” with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi dictator who has been accused of orchestrating the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi when he visited a Saudi consulate in Turkey. The fist bump took place during Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with bin ...
DeSantis’s Socialist Measures to Condemn Communism by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2022 Republicans sometimes introduce a bit of humor into public life, even if they have no intention of being funny. A recent example is Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Undoubtedly catering to Cuban-Americans in the hope of garnering their votes, DeSantis recently signed a bill establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day” to honor the millions ...
Sanctions, Immigration Controls, and Death in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger July 14, 2022 Horrific economic and political conditions in Venezuela have caused more than six million people to flee the country in a desperate attempt to save their lives. Hundreds of thousands of them have come to the United States, where ordinarily they would be subject to forced deportation back to Venezuela under America’s socialist system of immigration controls. In ...
Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger July 13, 2022 As longtime FFF supporters know, we have long called for a lifting of the U.S. embargo on Cuba, primarily on moral grounds. First, the embargo targets the Cuban people with economic privation and even death in the hope that the Cuban people will revolt against Cuba’s communist regime and replace it with a pro-U.S. rightwing dictatorship, much ...
Is Brittney Griner Really Guilty? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 12, 2022 Yesterday, I wrote about U.S. drug-war hypocrisy in Russia, specifically referring to the case of Brittney Griner, the U.S. basketball star who was arrested in Russia for possession of a trace amount of hashish oil found in two vaping cartridges in her luggage. As I pointed out in yesterday’s article, U.S. officials and the mainstream press ...
U.S. Drug-War Hypocrisy in Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2022 The drug-war hypocrisy of President Biden and the mainstream press are on full display in Russia, specifically in the case of Brittney Griner, the renowned W.N.B.A. basketball star. Griner was caught with a small amount of hashish oil in her luggage upon arriving in Russia to play for a Russian basketball team during the offseason. She has been ...
