Don’t Invade Zimbabwe by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2008 The situation in Zimbabwe provides an excellent example of how U.S. foreign policy should operate all over the world. Like most public officials everywhere, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is desperately trying to maintain his grip on power. Unfortunately, his bag of dirty tricks goes far beyond the various forms of ...
Speculators as Scapegoats by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2008 It seems that American statists are conjuring up new scapegoats for America’s economic woes, what with speculators, oil companies, and OPEC becoming the new national boogeymen. I suppose this was inevitable given that it might be difficult to blame ever-rising gasoline prices at the pump on illegal aliens. First, though—a little personal history on this subject: Three-and-a-half years ago — December ...
Fighting Terrorism with Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2008 Let’s give credit where credit is due. In the midst of its invasions, occupations, bombings, sanctions, killing and maiming, torture and sex abuse, kidnappings and renditions, and kangaroo judicial proceedings, the U.S. government deserves credit for providing the world with some comic relief. It comes in the form of a U.S. ...
The Minimum Wage Hurts the Poor by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2008 All too many liberals continue to extol the virtues of the minimum wage despite the fact that it hurts the very people liberals want to help — the poor. A recent example of this phenomenon occurred last week in a New York Times op-ed by Adam Cohen. Harkening back to Franklin ...
The Democratic Capitulation on Telecom Immunity by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2008 Not surprisingly, the Democratic-controlled Congress has once again capitulated to the president, this time agreeing to a “compromise” bill that grants immunity to telecom companies that knowingly and intentionally broke the law that prohibited them from sharing confidential information about their customers with the government. Outraged customers sued the ...
Scalia’s Siren Song by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2008 In his dissent in Boumediene, Justice Scalia pulls an old trick from the interventionist hat — that Americans will be safer if they surrender their fundamental rights and liberties to the government. What he’s saying is that Court’s holding recognizing habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo prisoners is going to result in ...
The Real War Facing Our Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2008 While it might be tempting to blame George W. Bush for the last 7 years of darkness, tyranny, and oppression in America, such would be a big mistake. While Bush has presided over such federal programs as torture and sex abuse, spying on American citizens, wars of aggression, occupations, indefinite ...
My Government, Never Wrong by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2008 Conservatives are berating the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the Boumediene case, where the Court held unconstitutional the federal government’s attempt to cancel habeas corpus rights to the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. The conservative reaction to the decision reflects, once again, how conservatives have come to view the ...
Hating the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2008 Suppose the Chinese people were able to overthrow their communist regime and install a democratic republic. Suppose the new Chinese officials asked Americans to help them implement a new criminal-justice system for China. Some Americans would recommend that China adopt such criminal-justice principles as right to counsel, right to confront ...
A Stunning Rebuke to Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2008 Yesterday, in a stunning rebuke of President Bush, the Pentagon, and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the cancellation of habeas corpus for foreigners accused of terrorism. The Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush nullified the provision in the Military Commissions Act that purported to remove the jurisdiction of the federal courts to hear habeas corpus cases for ...
Barack Obama’s Socialist Philosophy by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2008 The central point of Barack Obama’s economic plan is to tax the rich in order the give money to the poor. Of course, this is nothing more than the core philosophy of the welfare state. It is also the core principle of socialism. What Democrats (and Republicans) have a difficult time facing ...
Stop the President from Running the Economy by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2008 A front-page article in the New York Times today describes how the economic policies advocated by both John McCain and Barack Obama are the same old tired ideas that Republicans and Democrats have been advocating for years. McCain’s panacea is tax cuts for the rich and Obama’s panacea is ...
