Tariff Smartness in Australia by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2025 As the Wall Street Journal has repeatedly emphasized, President Trump’s tariffs are dumb. Very dumb, not only because they damage people in the targeted country but also the American people. Tariffs are a sales tax imposed on American consumers. An increase in taxes is never a good thing for people. Moreover, tariffs impose economic harm on ...
Trump’s Use of Immigration Controls to Destroy Free Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2025 Libertarian supporters of an “Ellis Island” type of immigration-control system are receiving a lesson in the fallacies of their system. They imagine an immigration-control system in which the federal government is vetting every foreigner and rejecting only the few “bad” ones. What they fail to understand is that once federal officials are given the power to determine who ...
Trump’s Viciousness Against the Mexican People by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2025 For many decades, in their laments against illegal immigrants from Mexico, conservatives have repeatedly exclaimed, “Why doesn’t Mexico just get its economic house in order so that its citizens don’t have to ‘invade’ the United States to better their lives through labor?” While economic conditions in Mexico are not desperate, like in Cuba or Venezuela, Mexico has always ...
Abolish Federal Reports on Trade Deficits and Trade Surpluses by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2025 If you’re like me, you pace the floor every night worrying about the trade deficit between your state and other states. Why, I can’t tell you the number of nights I go sleepless every month worrying about the trade deficits between my state of Virginia and other states. For example, take Florida. I don’t know what the figures ...
President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2025 It has now been two months since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. The question naturally arises: Where are those long-secret JFK Records that he repeatedly promised to release to the American people? Or to be more precise, why are those long-secret JFK records still secret? What’s up with the delay, President Trump? After all, it takes about one ...
DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2025 In a desperate attempt to placate President Trump in the hope of averting his imposition of a 25 percent tariff on her nation, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum recently sent a Mexican citizen named Rafael Caro Quintero to Trump. Caro Quintero is alleged to have orchestrated the kidnapping, torture, and execution of a DEA agent named Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
Trump’s Tariff-Drug War Nonsense by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2025 Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, has announced that Trump’s tariffs against Mexico and Canada should not be considered a trade war but rather part of America’s “war on drugs.” As soon as Mexico and Canada stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States, he says, the tariffs will be lifted. Politicians and bureaucrats are well-known for ...
How Does Trump Resume Shipments of Arms to the Regime that Started the War? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2025 Imagine if war had broken out between the United States and Soviet Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Let’s assume that two American cities — New York and Washington, D.C., and two Russian cities —Moscow and St. Petersburg — were destroyed by nuclear missiles before a peace agreement was entered into. Who would the U.S. mainstream press, the ...
Let’s Not Forget JFK’s Attitude Toward Russia by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2025 In the aftermath of the tirade at the White House among President Trump, Vice-President Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky, both conservatives and liberals (i.e., “progressives” or leftists) are going ballistic over Trump’s friendly attitude toward Russia. They are pointing out that since at least the end of World War II, the official attitude of the U.S. government has ...
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Are Standing for “Freedom” and “Free Markets”? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2025 In an editorial this week, the conservative Wall Street Journal chided Jeff Bezos, the owner of the liberal Washington Post, for Bezos’s announcement that henceforth the Post would be standing for “personal liberties and free markets.” The Journal pointed out that Bezos’s phraseology is remarkably similar to that employed by the Journal, which is “free markets ...
NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2025 During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole because the war is still going on. Trump and people in his ...
Secret Service Agent Clint Hill and the Fraudulent JFK Autopsy by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2025 Former Secret Service agent Clint Hill recently passed away. He was the Secret Service agent who jumped on the back of the JFK limousine after Kennedy had been shot in Dallas in November 1963. He pushed Kennedy’s wife Jacqueline, who had crawled out on the back of the limo, into the back seat. As the limo then proceeded ...
