The Great Man Theory of Governance by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2019 One of the political phenomena that the Trump administration has brought to the surface is the political philosophy that now guides much of the conservative movement. Unlike libertarians, who have a deep philosophical commitment to the principle of a government with very few, limited powers, conservatives have come to embrace what can be called the great man ...
It’s Too Soon to Celebrate Trump’s Syria Withdrawal by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2019 Yes, it’s possible that President Trump will follow through with his announcement that he’s going to pull out all U.S. troops from Syria. Just don’t bet the farm on it. Already Trump has shifted from pulling out the troops immediately to pulling them out four months from now. No one should be surprised if, four months from ...
What We Libertarians Are Aiming For by Jacob G. Hornberger December 21, 2018 As the end of 2018 and the beginning of the new year approach, we libertarians should remind ourselves of what we are aiming for. 1. First of all though is what we are not aiming for: We are not aiming for a warmed-over, reformed version of the welfare-warfare state way of life. That’s because ...
How About Truth Regarding the Department of “Defense”? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 20, 2018 With all the born-again fervor for truth among the mainstream press within the context of the Donald Trump regime, would it be too much to ask for the truth regarding the U.S. Department of “Defense.” I mean, come on, there is no way that what U.S. troops have been doing overseas for the past ...
The Change of Official Enemies under George H.W. Bush by Jacob G. Hornberger December 19, 2018 Missing from all the accolades heaped on former President H.W. Bush, who passed away a few weeks ago, was the fact that Bush presided over the biggest transition of official enemies of our country in the 70-year-old history of the U.S. national-security state. From the time the U.S. government was ...
The Disgrace of Maria Butina’s Prosecution by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2018 Some anti-Russianites and Trump critics are saying that the guilty plea by 30-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina confirms that the Russian government was meddling in the 2016 presidential election. It’s true that Russia might well have been helping Donald Trump, who was committed to establishing friendly relations with Russia, defeat Hillary Clinton, who was committed to maintaining ...
State Secrets and the National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger December 17, 2018 Inadvertently released federal documents reveal that U.S. officials have apparently secured a secret indictment against Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks who released secret information about the internal workings of the U.S. national-security establishment. In any nation whose government is founded on the concept of a national-security state, that is a cardinal sin, one akin to treason ...
Butina Pleads Guilty to Befriending the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger December 14, 2018 The Justice Department’s criminal prosecution of 30-year-old Russian Maria Butina, along with the mainstream media’s reporting on the case, gets more comedic with each passing day. Yesterday, Butina pled guilty to the grave federal criminal offense of befriending the United States. What could be more evil and nefarious than that? Imagine the audacity of ...
Dismiss the Sanctions Charges Against Meng Wanzhou by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2018 By arresting and detaining two Canadian officials, China’s communist regime is raising the stakes in the sanctions war that the U.S. government has initiated against Chinese citizens. As I pointed out in my recent article “Trump’s Trade Sanctions Meet His Trade War,” Canadian officials arrested a Chinese businesswoman named Meng Wanzhou at the ...
I Ain’t Got No Quarrel with Them Russians by Jacob G. Hornberger December 12, 2018 The entire anti-Russia brouhaha has reminded me of what Mohammad Ali stated after receiving notice from his local draft board that he was being forced to serve in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Ali declared. “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.” Ali had a point. After all, what had the ...
Celebrating Another Regulatory Conviction in the Anti-Russia Brouhaha by Jacob G. Hornberger December 11, 2018 The mainstream press is tipping its glasses in exultation over the latest regulatory conviction in the anti-Trump, anti-Russia brouhaha. This one comes in form of an upcoming guilty plea by a 30-year-old Russian woman named Marina Butina. Her crime? Failing to register as a foreign agent of the Russian government. The press is ...
Mueller Is Hoisting Trump on Trump’s Own Petard by Jacob G. Hornberger December 10, 2018 While Trump critics, especially those in the mainstream press, are going gaga over special counsel Robert Mueller’s allegations that the president has supposedly committed a grave, impeachable crime consisting of campaign-finance violations, they naturally are blinding themselves to the utter inanity of a system of campaign-finance regulations. But Trump and his Republican allies have no standing to complain because they are as ...
