Socialism Is the Root of Healthcare Woes by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2008 The healthcare system in the Czech Republic has a valuable, albeit perhaps discomforting, lesson for Americans. For decades, Americans have convinced themselves that they live in a free-enterprise country. For such Americans, such government programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and public schooling are an important and essential part ...
No Light at the End of the Drug War Tunnel by Jacob G. Hornberger May 27, 2008 Drug warriors are lamenting the high number of deaths of Mexican officials at the hands of Mexican drug lords. The latest victim was Edgar Millan Gomez, the acting chief of the federal police in Mexico City. In the last month alone, four top security officials in Mexico City have been ...
Iraq and the Emperor’s New Clothes by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2008 After five years of sacrificing thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people in a war of aggression and military occupation of a country that never attacked the United States, Pentagon officials are chagrined that the military junta of Burma won’t permit Pentagon officials to show how ...
Allowing Cubans and Americans to Be Free by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2008 From this week’s New York Times: “President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans would soon be allowed to give their relatives in Cuba cell phones to use.” Now, doesn’t that just say it all? Notice the operative word: “allowed.” The American people are being allowed to send cell phones to Cubans. Hey, President ...
“We Don’t Torture” by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2008 After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush assured the American people, “We don’t torture.” By “we” he meant people working for the federal government, including those in the CIA and the military. Since then, we’ve learned about the Abu Ghraib scandal, where some photographs or videos still remain under lock and ...
The Prosecution of Tariq Aziz by Jacob G. Hornberger May 21, 2008 U.S. officials might want to think twice before imposing price controls ever again in the United States, given what Iraqi officials are doing to Tariq Aziz, who served as deputy prime minister in the Saddam Hussein regime. Iraqi officials are prosecuting Aziz for enforcing government-imposed price controls against Iraqi merchants ...
The Conservative Gods by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2008 To gain a good sense of how conservatives view the federal government, all one has to do is examine the words that conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson directed toward David Ray Griffin, an author who has claimed that the federal government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Regardless of whether one ...
Appeasing Bush by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2008 On his recent trip to Israel, President Bush ignited a political firestorm within the Obama, Clinton, and McCain camps by suggesting that it would be wrong to “appease” the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran. Unfortunately, Bush has the appeasement issue inverted. The real appeasement question is whether people in the Middle ...
Crisis and Revolution in the Republican Party by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2008 With their third straight loss of a House seat in a special election, Republicans are discovering that they’re in crisis. Well, duh! After all, here you have a political party that preaches the old libertarian mantra of “free enterprise, private property, and limited government” while embracing and supporting such socialist, ...
The Shameful Mistreatment of Foreigners by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2008 Under ordinary circumstances, accused terrorist Mohammed Qahtani would be pleased that all criminal charges have been dismissed against him, especially since the Pentagon has alleged that he is one of the many “20th hijackers” on 9/11. But these are not ordinary circumstances given that Qahtani is one of the many ...
Immigrants and American Values by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2008 An increasing number of newspaper articles are reflecting that Latino immigrants nationwide are suffering from the U.S. economic downturn. For example, an article in Tuesday’s New York Times entitled “A Tenuous Prosperity Lost” stated, “The economic downturn unfolding across the United States is imposing a particularly punishing toll on ...
Rising Prices and a Falling Dollar by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2008 It seems that the mainstream media might finally be coming to realize that the soaring prices of commodities is not so much due to reduced supplies or increases in demand but instead to the enormous fall in the value of the dollar. In an article in Sunday’s New York Times entitled ...
