Trump’s Militarism and Isolationism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 20, 2017 I cannot recommend too highly an op-ed that appeared in yesterday’s Washington Post, entitled, “Quit Calling Donald Trump an Isolationist. He’s Worse than That” by Stephen Wertheim, a Fellow in History at King’s College at the University of Cambridge. It is an absolutely excellent analysis of Trump, foreign policy, militarism, and isolationism. Those who support U.S. interventionism around the ...
What’s Wrong with Talking to Russia? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 17, 2017 Amidst the feeding frenzy that has taken over Washington, D.C., and the U.S. mainstream media over Russia, forgive me for asking a politically incorrect question: What’s wrong with talking to Russia? After all, is the United States at war with Russia? Well, you might think so if you read the editorial in Wednesday’s New York Times, entitled “Time to Investigate ...
Bribes, Catapults, and Corruption Trump Trump’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger February 16, 2017 Donald Trump is obviously a smart man. One cannot build up a billion-dollar financial empire without being smart. Unfortunately, however, Trump is not so smart when it comes to some things, like the drug war. He thinks that simply by cracking down in the drug war and becoming more ruthless than previous presidents, he’s going to be the one who ...
Trump and Duterte: Birds of a Feather by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2017 When it comes to the drug war, the verdict is in: The big, drain-the-swamp, anti-establishment president, Donald Trump, is turning out to be just like all the other mainstream establishment politicians. He made that clear last week in a speech before a group of law-enforcement officials, where he vowed to be “ruthless” in the war on drugs. Trump told ...
Pipe Dreams, Left and Right by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2017 It amazes me how liberals and conservatives remain so committed to the welfare-state, warfare-state way of life and honestly believe that there is still some magical formula that someone is going to come up with that is finally going to make it work. Or, better yet, that some president with a magic wand, such as Hillary Clinton or Donald ...
Immigration Chaos and the Troops by Jacob G. Hornberger February 13, 2017 Amidst all the furor over President Trump’s immigration edicts, there is one important thing that every American should keep in mind: There is a much easier and simpler solution to the threat of anti-American terrorism, which is the excuse that Trump is using for his immigration edicts: Just bring the troops home from the Middle East and Afghanistan and ...
The Misguided Attacks on Betsy DeVos by Jacob G. Hornberger February 10, 2017 The mainstream media and American leftists are up in arms over the selection of conservative Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education. They’re pointing to her lack of knowledge about how public schools operate and her conservative devotion to school vouchers to show that she has no business running the federal Department of Education. They are lamenting ...
The Religion of National-Security Statism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 9, 2017 In my article last week, Fallacies of the Anti-Islam Crowd, I pointed out three fallacies of the anti-Islam crowd in America, which consists of those people who have convinced themselves that terrorist attacks against the United States are part of a supposed centuries-old war that Muslims have been waging against the West rather than blowback from the ongoing ...
Moral Blindness among the Statists by Jacob G. Hornberger February 8, 2017 A new controversy stirred up by President Trump has propelled the moral blindness of liberals, conservatives, and the mainstream press into the forefront of American political discussion. Trump’s latest controversy involved a response he gave in an interview with Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, as follows: O’Reilly: Do you respect Putin? Trump: I do respect him. O’Reilly: Do you? Why? Trump: Well, ...
Yemen and at the Bay of Pigs by Jacob G. Hornberger February 7, 2017 NBC News is reporting that contrary to what U.S. officials have been maintaining, the goal of the recent U.S. military attack in Yemen was not to capture computers but rather to kill or capture a man named Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who U.S. officials say is the third most dangerous terrorist in ...
Trump’s Dictatorial Tendencies Are Normal in a Welfare-Warfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger February 6, 2017 President Trump has lashed out in anger against a federal judge in Seattle for putting a temporary quietus on Trump’s recent immigration dictates. Trump labeled Judge James Robart a “so-called judge,” notwithstanding the fact that this “so-called judge” has been a federal judge for 13 years, having been nominated by President George W. Bush, confirmed by Congress, and duly ...
Fallacies of the Anti-Islam Crowd by Jacob G. Hornberger February 3, 2017 Ever since the 9/11 attacks, there has been a fringe element in American society that has claimed that the attacks were part of a centuries-old religious war between Islam and Christianity. They’ve claimed that Muslims constitute a grave threat against everyone in the United States and the Western world because Muslims are supposedly determined to establish a world-wide caliphate, ...
