Donald Trump, Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger February 4, 2019 It is supremely ironic. To respond to the dictatorial mindset and policies of Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro, President Trump has adopted his own dictatorial mindset and policies. Trump obviously believes that the way to fight foreign dictatorship is by adopting dictatorship here at home. Consider Trump’s actions with respect to Citgo, the Houston-based refining firm that is owned by the ...
Hurtling Toward Bankruptcy by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2019 The federal government owes people almost $22 trillion. That means that American taxpayers owe people almost $22 trillion. That’s because the federal government has no money of its own. The money it gets comes entirely from American taxpayers. That’s what the IRS is for — to make certain that everyone sends his required amount of taxes to ...
The U.S. Government’s Love of Foreign Dictatorships by Jacob G. Hornberger January 31, 2019 Lest anyone be tempted to believe that President Trump and other U.S. interventionists are intervening in Venezuela because of some purported concern for the Venezuelan people, let’s examine just a few examples that will bring a dose of reality to the situation. This latest intervention is nothing more than another interventionist power play, one intended to replace one dictatorial ...
Mueller’s Indictments and James R. Clapper Jr. by Jacob G. Hornberger January 30, 2019 Special Counsel’s Robert Mueller’s securing of an indictment against political operative Roger Stone adds to the list of people associated with President Trump who have been charged with making false statements to federal officials. The question naturally arises: If false statements to federal officials are so important, then why hasn’t the Justice Department secured an ...
U.S. Indifference to Life in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger January 29, 2019 By encouraging the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, to declare himself the rightful president of Venezuela, President Trump (“Mr. America First”) has shown, once again, his interventionist colors. More important, he and his interventionist advisers have shown their total indifference to the value of human life in Venezuela. By creating a situation in which two different public ...
End All Interventionism, Not Just in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger January 28, 2019 It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to America, “Please, give us one more chance. We ...
Justifying the 17-Year War by Jacob G. Hornberger January 25, 2019 When I first learned about the Thirty Years War in a history class in college, I was both fascinated and amazed. How in the world could a war go on for 30 years? That just seemed incomprehensible to me. Not anymore. The U.S. war on Afghanistan has now been going on for 17 years. And ...
Trump, Pull Them Out of Syria Now, Not Later by Jacob G. Hornberger January 24, 2019 In December, President Trump announced that he was finally ordering an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Syria. Almost immediately, under pressure from the interventionist crowd, including the national-security branch of the U.S. government, Trump reversed course and announced that he intended to delay the pullout by another four months. Today, it’s not clear that he ...
A Real Government Shutdown Would Help the Economy by Jacob G. Hornberger January 23, 2019 In an editorial last week entitled, “Shutdown Slows Down the Economy,” the New York Times suggested that President Trump’s partial shutdown of the federal government is hurting the economy. It’s a point that many people on the left are making. They are wrong. Actually, the best thing that could ever happen, from an economic standpoint, is a permanent shutdown ...
Suffering from Trump’s Eminent-Domain Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2019 In my blog post of yesterday, “Stealing Land to Build Trump’s Wall,” I explained how a system of immigration controls, in general, entail tyrannical enforcement measures and how Trump’s Wall, in particular, entails the use of eminent domain to steal people’s land on which to build the wall. Coincidentally, yesterday Global Village Space published an article detailing one ...
Stealing Land to Build Trump’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger January 21, 2019 As I have repeatedly emphasized over the years, a system of immigration controls inevitably involves immigration enforcement measures. That is, when we talk about immigration controls, we are not simply referring to a sign at the border that says: “Do not enter without the official permission of the U.S. government.” No immigrant would pay any attention to such a ...
Dismantle NATO, or At Least Get Out by Jacob G. Hornberger January 18, 2019 The New York Times today has a piece by the German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, entitled “The World Needs NATO.” The article gives the standard tripe about how NATO is a force for good in the world and needs to be preserved. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. NATO is a force for ...
