Another Death Notch for Drug Warriors by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2024 I haven’t seen The Iron Claw but it certainly looks like a good movie. It receives 88% and 94% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about the von Erich brothers, who became famous in the world of professional wrestling in the 1980s. As I was reading a review of the movie, I discovered ...
Two More U.S. Murders by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2024 The last thing the Founding Fathers wanted for our country was omnipotent government — that is, a government that wields totalitarian-like powers. Thus, when the U.S. Constitution called the federal government into existence, it expressly restricted its powers to those enumerated in the Constitution. If a power wasn’t enumerated, it could not be legally exercised. The powers enumerated ...
40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense by Jacob G. Hornberger January 5, 2024 When I read an article yesterday by a man named Edwin Rubis, I sat there, shook my head, and asked myself how any government could do such a thing to anyone. The reason that Rubis’s article caught my attention is captured in the title of his article: “I’m Serving 40 Years in Federal Prison. Here’s a ...
Reinforcing the Immigration Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger January 4, 2024 Proponents of America’s system of immigration controls never mention their support of what comes with this system that they support — an immigration police state. That’s because they don’t want to be known as proponents of a police state. They want to be known only as proponents of immigration controls. But an immigration police state comes with a ...
Is Russia Copying the U.S. Espionage Act? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2024 On December 29, the New York Times published an article entitled “How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent,” which details the Russian government’s prosecution of Russian citizens who criticize Russia’s war on Ukraine. According to the article, “In the first 18 months of the war, the law scooped up a vast array of ordinary Russians — ...
The Deep State’s Control of NATO and Congress by Jacob G. Hornberger December 21, 2023 Longtime readers of my blog know that I have long recommended a book entitled National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon, professor of law at Tufts University and former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. Glennon’s thesis, to which I subscribe, is a simple but ominous one: The U.S. national-security branch of ...
Breaking Through to Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger December 20, 2023 The Postal Service is selling a new stamp with the word “FREEDOM” prominently displayed on it. As I purchased a roll of the stamps, it reminded me of my favorite quotation: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” by Johann Goethe. That quotation presents one of the big challenges we face in ...
Conservative Deference to Federal Authority by Jacob G. Hornberger December 19, 2023 I’ve long believed that conservatives have a strange way of thinking when it comes to the federal government. Their positions on three issues — immigration, the drug war, and sanctions — buttress my point. Let’s start with immigration. Conservatives rail against the large number of immigrants illegally entering the United States. That’s why they ardently support America’s immigration ...
No-Tax Government by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2023 The ideal free society is one in which people are living in a limited-government republic, one whose powers are limited to the three legitimate functions of government and one that is funded voluntarily — that is, funded without the coercive apparatus of taxation. That concept sometimes befuddles people. They think that government and taxation are one and the ...
Immigration Socialism and Immigration Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2023 There are two important principles to keep in mind with respect to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis: 1. The crisis is caused by the immigration system itself. That is, if there was no immigration-control system, there would be no immigration crisis. 2. The immigration-control system comes with an immigration police state. That’s because people will inevitably ...
Blowback and Russia’s Arrest of Evan Gershkovich by Jacob G. Hornberger December 14, 2023 In a press conference yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia desires to “reach an agreement” with respect to the return to the United States of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The reporter has been incarcerated for 250 days since his arrest for espionage against Russia. Ever since his arrest, both the Journal and the ...
Another U.S. Spy for Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2023 U.S. spies for Cuba are in the news. Last week, U.S. officials announced the arrest of Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a former U.S. ambassador, on charges of having spied for Cuba since the 1970s. Meanwhile, Ana Montes, a former analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was recently released from federal prison after serving a 20-year sentence for spying ...
