Obama, Like Bush, Just Doesn’t Get It by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2009 President Obama is in Cairo to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, which no doubt will explain that the U.S. government loves the people of the Middle East and is doing all sorts of good things to them. Alas, President Obama, like his predecessor, just doesn’t get it. The reason that people in the Middle East are angry ...
Prosecuting Robert Kahre for Embarrassing the Federal Reserve by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2009 For the life of me, I cannot figure out what Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre has done to deserve a federal criminal indictment. From what I can tell, Kahre is the victim of a brutal, heavy-handed Justice Department that is acting at the behest of the IRS and possibly even officials of the Federal ...
Consumer Sovereignty vs. Government Sovereignty by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2009 Hope springs eternal, at least for the socialists. Despite the fact that socialism has failed all over the world to raise people’s standard of living, socialists continue to hope that someone will finally prove that socialism will work. The latest hope arises with the U.S. government’s decision to become the majority owner of General ...
Hornberger’s Blog, June 2009 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2009 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger The military coup in Honduras, which some U.S. conservatives are already hailing as a pro-democracy coup, as they did after military strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, brings to mind a fantastic movie — Seven Days in May, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and ...
Loving Freedom While Destroying It by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2009 A few days after 9/11, a friend of mine at the conservative Heritage Foundation proudly exclaimed to me that Heritage had immediately jumped out in favor of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, with positions papers and articles. At the same time, Heritage continued to carry the same mission statement on its website: “to ...
The Sotomayor Nomination Is another Yawner for Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2009 As a libertarian, it’s hard for me to get all worked up over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, as conservatives and liberals are now doing. The only time I’d ever get excited about a Supreme Court nomination is if someone with a libertarian philosophy were nominated, such as ...
China’s Internet Control Gives Hope to Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2009 The Chinese government’s strict control over the Internet will come in handy during the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops, faithfully following orders of their superiors, opened fire on tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators. Ironically, the tight control that the Chinese communist regime maintains on the Internet provides ...
Criminal Proceedings against the Torture-Memo Lawyers by Jacob G. Hornberger May 27, 2009 U.S. defenders of the war on terrorism are agog over the fact that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, has initiated a criminal investigation of the Justice Department lawyers who prepared the infamous torture memos. Garzon is the same judge who initiated criminal proceedings in Spain against Chilean military strongman Augusto Pinochet for torture, murder, ...
Was Rape an Enhanced Interrogation Technique? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2009 There are those who argue that U.S. officials who authorized waterboarding and who performed waterboarding should not be held criminally accountable, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. government prosecuted Japanese military personnel who waterboarded U.S. POWs during World War II. Their reasoning goes as follows: Since the president’s attorneys redefined torture to mean ...
The Empire Is Bankrupting America by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2009 While Barack Obama was delivering his flowery speech justifying the indefinite imprisonment without trial of people suspected of violating laws against terrorism, the New York Times and Bloomberg were reporting on the financial consequences of out-of-control federal spending. You’ll recall that the Bush administration, which was insistent on continuing the brutal embargo against Cuba, ...
Tyranny in Burma Holds Lessons for Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2009 An editorial in yesterday’s New York Times entitled “Myanmar’s Cowardly Generals” excoriates the brutal military regime in Myanmar, aka Burma, for threatening the country’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, with additional criminal charges for letting an uninvited American visitor spend the night in her home. Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Prize ...
Where is the Change on Indefinite Detention? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2009 As part of the much-vaunted change that Barack Obama said that he was bringing to America as president, Obama has announced that he is dropping President Bush’s use of the term “enemy combatant” from his lexicon. At the same time, he has announced that he will continue the Bush administration’s post-911 assumption of power ...
