Captain Khan Did Not Die for His Country by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2016 Amidst the firestorm of controversy between Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the couple whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq, the mainstream media and mainstream political commentators continue to repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseam, the bromide that has been drummed into their heads ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq: that U.S. soldiers ...
Captain Khan Was Waging an Unconstitutional War by Jacob G. Hornberger August 2, 2016 Amidst the fury over the exchanges between Donald Trump and Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the couple whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Kahn, was killed in Iraq, the mainstream media and mainstream political commentators are missing some important elements in the controversy. In his speech at the Democratic national convention, Khizr Khan asked if Donald Trump had read the Constitution. ...
Clinton or Trump? Pick Your Poison. by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2016 Clinton or Trump? It’s your choice. Socialism or fascism. Take a look at Venezuela. Or Cuba. Or North Korea. If Clinton has her way, that’s the direction in which America will continue to head. Those are socialist regimes. They are also impoverished, bankrupt regimes in which people are suffering chronic economic hardships and perpetual chaos and crises. The pure idea of ...
Should We Have Prayer in Public Schools? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2016 Suppose someone proposed a law requiring every child in America to report to a government facility to receive Christian indoctrination. How many Americans would support such a law? Actually, most Americans would. According an article in Lifestyle, 57 percent of Americans favor prayer in public schools. 54 percent of Americans believe that there isn’t ...
Turkey and the War on Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2016 Glenn Greenwald asks a provocative question: Would Turkey be justified in assassinating or kidnapping a Turkish citizen named Fethullah Gulen, who resides in Pennsylvania. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Gulen of being a terrorist who helped orchestrate the recent military coup attempt in Turkey. What causes Greenwald to ask such a question? ...
Help the Poor by Abolishing the Income Tax by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2016 The standard leftist position on helping the poor is: Increase income taxes on the rich and give the money to the poor in the form of welfare. The idea is that it’s just not fair that someone has more money when someone has less money. By equalizing people’s financial conditions, through the force of a progressive income tax and ...
More Blowback in France by Jacob G. Hornberger July 20, 2016 The reaction to the terrorist attack in Nice, France, where a truck driver killed dozens of people by running them down and shooting them with a (illegal) pistol, was predictable: denunciations of Islam, Muslims, and ISIS, calls for more bombing and killing in the Middle East, and more emergency clampdowns on liberty and privacy at home. There is one big ...
Turkish Citizens versus Pinochet Coup Dead-Enders by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2016 One of the fascinating aspects of the attempted military coup in Turkey has been the reaction of the Turkish people to the military coup attempt. It stands in stark contrast to the attitude of American and Chilean right-wingers who still sing the praises of the U.S.-national-security-state-driven military coup in 1973 that brought army strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet into power. At ...
Regime Change in Turkey by Jacob G. Hornberger July 18, 2016 The attempted military coup in Turkey serves to remind Americans of two important facts: First, that Americans are legally obligated to fight and die for that country’s dictatorial regime and, second, that the position taken by the coup leaders is no different from that taken by America’s national-security establishment. While Turkey’s president, Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, has been democratically elected, the fact ...
