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 ...
What a Great Conference! by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2008 Our conference “Restoring the Republic 2009: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties” was a resounding success! The 21 speeches were among the best I’ve ever heard. In fact, I have never participated in a conference with so many consistently great speeches. The mix of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians — along ...
Fight Socialism with Freedom in Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2008 A rare Gallup poll conducted in 2006 in Havana and Santiago, Cuba, reflect that Cubans have a good grip on reality regarding the two root causes of the horrible economic misery under which they have long been suffering. The first cause is Cuba’s socialist economic system. According to a New ...
Minimum-Wage Laws Are Unnecessary and Destructive by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2008 Among the biggest myths in economics is that government intervention is needed to ensure a minimum wage for workers. In fact, not only is such intervention unnecessary, it is actually harmful to those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Interventionists claim that in the absence of minimum-wage laws, wages would ...
Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference on Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2008 An op-ed in yesterday’s conservative Wall Street Journal provides another example of how there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats, especially when it comes to foreign policy. The op-ed, entitled “Don’t Expect a Big Change in U.S. Foreign Policy” by Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. ...
