Conservative Hypocrisy on the Looters by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2020 I have found the outrage among conservatives over the looting of private businesses during the anti-police brutality protests to be amusing because it is so riddled with hypocrisy. Conservatives indignantly say that the looters were acting immorally because they trespassed onto privately owned businesses and stole merchandise that belonged to the owners. The essence of ...
The Nonsense of “National Security” by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2020 President Trump’s attempt to suppress publication of a new book by his former national-security advisor John Bolton has, not surprisingly, raised First Amendment issues. But there is another issue that everyone ignores: the “national security” argument that Trump is using to justify his attempt to suppress the book.
The “Greatest” Generation’s Refusal to Fight the “Good War” by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2020 The most sacred shibboleth of U.S. foreign interventionists is World War II. Whenever the issue of foreign interventionism arises, you can count on interventionists to raise what they call the “good war” and the “greatest” generation who fought it. If the “greatest” generation had not intervened in the “good war,” they exclaim, Nazi Germany and imperial Japan ...
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 2 (of 2) by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2020 Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 1 (of 2) Let’s now move to the autopsy that the U.S. military conducted on the President John F. Kennedy’s body on the evening of the assassination, November 22, 1963. Texas law required the autopsy to be conducted in Texas. Dr. Earl Rose, the Dallas Medical Examiner, insisted on conducting ...
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 1 (of 2) by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2020 Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 2 (of 2) One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment rather than simply a murder carried out by a supposed lone-nut assassin. The ...
Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2020 Like many of his counterparts in the mainstream press, Los Angeles Times senior editorial writer Michael McGough is aglow over the apology issued by Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for having participated in President Trump’s photo-op in which military troops used tear gas on peaceful protestors in the nation’s ...
Why Do Libertarians Support School Vouchers? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2020 For the life of me, I simply cannot understand why some libertarians still support school vouchers. Libertarianism, after all, is about achieving a free society. What do school vouchers have to do with freedom? They are the very antithesis of freedom. A genuinely free society necessarily entails getting government out of education entirely. That includes ridding ...
Police Bigotry and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2020 To suggest that all cops and all judges are racial bigots would obviously be ridiculous. But it would be equally ridiculous to suggest that there are no racial bigots within law enforcement or even the judiciary. In fact, the DEA, the state police, and local law enforcement all serve as a magnet for racial bigots. ...
Don’t Rename Those Military Bases. Close Them Instead. by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2020 A controversy has erupted over the naming of U.S. military bases here in the United States. The bases are named after Confederate generals, and there are people who want to change that. They want the bases to be named for more politically correct military figures. I’ve got a better idea: Let’s not rename the bases. Let’s ...
Iranian Monetary Tyranny Is Déjà Vu in America by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2020 If there is any beneficial aspect of a foreign dictatorship, it is that it can provide a reality check for the American people, especially those who are convinced that they live under a “free-enterprise” economic system. A case in point is Iran, where a court has just sentenced a couple, Vahid Behzadi and his wife Najva ...
The Pentagon’s Role in the Protests by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2020 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, is apologizing for the role he played in President Trump’s photo-op in Washington, D.C.. Dressed in battle fatigues, Milley accompanied Trump to the event in which National Guard troops attacked peaceful protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets in order to clear the way ...
What’s the Difference Between Conservatives and Liberals? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2020 I realize that conservatives and liberals are convinced that they are different from one another. I also understand that the mainstream media is convinced of the same thing. For the life of me, as a libertarian I can’t see any difference between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats, at least not with respect to ...
