The Fascism of Virginia’s Smoking Ban by Jacob G. Hornberger December 3, 2009 The Washington Post carried a nostalgic article about Virginia’s state-wide smoking ban, which just went into effect. The article reminded people of Virginia’s long heritage of tobacco growing. Not surprisingly, however, the Post failed to mention a far more important legacy of Virginia that has been rejected by the smoking ban — the legacy of ...
Socialist Failure in Afghanistan, Iraq, and New London by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2009 Pity the socialists. Their grandiose federal plans to “rebuild” Iraq and Afghanistan have turned out to be fiascoes. But heck, at least the socialists retained the hope of pointing to grandiose rebuilding programs at home to buttress their case for socialism, such as their urban-renewal project in New London, Connecticut, where the city took ...
Hornberger’s Blog, December 2009 by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2009 Thursday, December 31, 2009 Fight Cuban Tyranny with American Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger Once again, the U.S. government’s 112-year obsession with controlling Cuba rears its ugly head. This time, it involves the arrest by Cuban authorities of an American subcontractor who works for a company named “Development Alternatives, Inc.” According to the New York Times, (see here and ...
Falsehood and Deception vs. Truth and Reality by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2009 I was once delivering a lecture to a group of students at a local public (i.e., government) high school and I made the point that one of the biggest reasons why government officials love to control the educational system is for the purpose of indoctrination. The students were incredulous. “Are you saying that we’ve been indoctrinated?” they asked? “That’s precisely what ...
The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2009 President Obama has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan by acceding to his generals’ request to send an additional 34,000 troops to that beleaguered nation. What better proof that those of us who opposed the initial invasion of Afghanistan were right? The decision to treat the 9/11 attacks as a military problem, rather ...
Cuba’s Defense against U.S. Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 25, 2009 An American couple charged several months ago with spying for Cuba have pled guilty. Walton Myers, 72, a former State Department official, agreed to a mandatory sentence of life in prison. His wife Gwendolyn, 71, agreed to a 6-7 ½ years sentence. Apparently driven by devotion to Cuba’s socialist system, the couple had ...
Are Conservatives Coming Around on Civil Liberties? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 24, 2009 Yesterday’s New York Times carried an interesting article about how more conservatives are joining libertarians and liberals in the defense of civil liberties. This is a remarkable development, one that threatens to split the conservative movement. For decades, conservatives have denigrated the importance of civil liberties, largely as part of the war on drugs, which both conservatives and ...
The Mounting Debt by Jacob G. Hornberger November 23, 2009 A front-page article in today’s New York Times entitled “Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government” details what conservatives and liberals have done to our country with their out-of-control federal spending for their welfare-warfare state. The article reports that the national debt is now topping $12 trillion. That debt, of course, represents the ...
Legal Travesty in the Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger November 20, 2009 Federal Judge David Ezra has sentenced Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre to serve 15 years in the federal penitentiary. What a travesty of justice. The man no more belongs in jail than, say, Plaxico Burress, the NFL player who was sentenced to serve two years in a New York jail for possessing a handgun ...
Did Hitler Inspire the U.S. Post-9/11 Tribunal System? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 19, 2009 I don’t know how President Bush and the Pentagon came up with the idea of establishing a new judicial system for trying terrorists, but there is the distinct possibility that they got the idea from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Yes, I know, there are going to be those who resent such a suggestion, exclaiming, “Just ...
Obedience to God or Obedience to Orders? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 18, 2009 Speaking about the Ft. Hood killings, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stated, “The investigation is ongoing to figure out what would motivate an individual to carry out the type of act that this major carried out.” As the investigation into motive progresses, it will be interesting to see the extent to which the U.S. military’s policy on conscientious-objector status played ...
Advancing Liberty on ABC and Fox by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2009 This week has started out with a bang. Early yesterday morning, I appeared on radio station KTRH in Houston to discuss President Obama’s attempts to move America in the direction of socialism. I pointed out that national health care, which Obama would love to foist on America, is the pride and joy of Fidel ...
