Bad Policies Bring Bad Consequences by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2008 No matter how the election results continue to go in the Democratic and Republican primaries, one thing is clear: The U.S. government is going to continue occupying Iraq for the indefinite future and killing Iraqis in the process. For example, just this week U.S. forces conducted a major offensive operation against ...
Why Is the Media Ignoring the Racist War on Drugs? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2008 One of the unfortunate aspects of the presidential race, so far, has been the refusal of the media to bring up one of the most important issues of our time — the drug war, especially given its racist consequences. While the decades-long drug war has destroyed countless American families, the part of American society that has ...
The “Change” Claptrap by Jacob G. Hornberger January 7, 2008 Amidst all the claptrap about “change” among both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, perhaps we should remind ourselves what the candidates (except Ron Paul) mean by the term “change.” What they mean is simply a change in the identities or party affiliations of those who wield the levers of the omnipotent government they support. As I ...
181 Dead People Obeyed D.C.’s Gun-Control Law by Jacob G. Hornberger January 4, 2008 Last Saturday, the Washington Post reported a statistic that cannot possibly be true. The Post said that gun violence rose in Washington, D.C., in 2007, resulting in 181 killings. Non-fatal shootings were also up. How can that possibly be true? Everyone knows that there is very strict gun control in Washington. How can there be gun violence where ...
Conservatives Are Responsible for the Plummeting Dollar by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2008 Since yesterday, I caught snippets of interviews by two well-known Fox News conservatives — Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. The interviews showed once again what strange and unusual creatures conservatives are. Both of them were criticizing the libertarian position of non-intervention in foreign affairs, actually arguing that the U.S. government needed to continue intervening in the Middle East and the ...
Praying for the Troops in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2008 A year ago, I was attending a Christmas church service while visiting my brother and his family in Dallas. In the middle of that service, the minister asked the congregation to close their eyes for a couple of minutes to pray for the troops in Iraq. This year, I attended the same church service. Interestingly, this ...
Hornberger’s Blog, January 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2008 Thursday, January 31, 2008 An All-Abiding Faith in the Welfare-Warfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the more amusing political mantras in the presidential race is that of Mitt Romney. "Washington is broken," he declares, inevitably bringing cheers from Republican audiences. It's as amusing as the popular mantra employed by the Democrats: "Change!" They still just don't get it. It's not "Washington" that ...
Bhutto, JFK, and Conspiracies by Jacob G. Hornberger December 31, 2007 It’s interesting to compare the attitude of the U.S. mainstream press toward the assassination of Benazir Bhutto with its attitude toward the assassination of President John Kennedy. The immediate reaction of the American press (and U.S. government officials) to the Bhutto killing has been a presumption of a conspiracy. Equally important, among the prime suspects are ...
Blackmailing the NFL by Jacob G. Hornberger December 29, 2007 If you want a good example of the real purpose of the regulated economy, watch the Patriots-Giants game tonight. It will be broadcast on both NBC and CBS, compliments of the strong-arm tactics of government officials who use economic regulations to threaten and blackmail people in the private sector into obeying political orders. The NFL planned ...
Stop Meddling in Pakistan by Jacob G. Hornberger December 28, 2007 In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the New York Times is calling on the Bush administration to intervene in the Pakistani crisis to “fortify Pakistan’s badly battered democratic institutions.” I’ve got a better idea: the U.S. government should butt out of Pakistani affairs — as well as the affairs of Iraq, Iran, Korea, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and ...
The New York Times “Retracts” Its Ron Paul Smear by Jacob G. Hornberger December 27, 2007 The New York Times is now admitting that Virginia Heffernan’s article about Ron Paul, which I blogged about yesterday, “contained several errors.” The Times also says, “The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.” See the Times’ retraction here. Wrong! The problem is not just that the article “contains errors” or that Paul ...
Shame on the New York Times for Its Smear of Ron Paul by Jacob G. Hornberger December 26, 2007 I couldn’t help but be struck by the vicious smear of Ron Paul by a Virginia Heffernan in the New York Times. You can read it here. Sure, politics is a nasty business but I just couldn’t help but wonder why the New York Times would publish garbage like this. Here’s the thrust of Heffernan’s attack: that Ron Paul has ...
