Is Putin Right About a U.S. Proxy War? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2022 On the surface of things, it appears that Russia is at war with Ukraine. But Russian president Vladimir Putin is saying that in actuality it is the United States that is warring against Russia and is simply using Ukraine as a proxy to conduct that war. Putin, therefore, is also saying that given that the United States is ...
The NATO Lie by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to the forefront the NATO treaty to which the United States is a party. President Biden and the Pentagon have steadfastly maintained that a Russian attack on any NATO member automatically obligates the United States to go to war against Russia. That, of course, would necessarily mean the virtual certainly of all-out ...
My 50-Year VMI Reunion by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2022 This past weekend I was at Virginia Military Institute celebrating my 50-year graduation reunion. It was a super nice weekend, not only for the memories it stirred up but especially for the opportunity to interact with guys with whom I spent four years at VMI. In fact I hadn’t seen many of them since graduation day back in ...
Ron DeSantis and the Charade of Free Speech in America by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2022 In his battle against Disney World, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has exposed the dark side of free speech in America. After Disney expressed opposition to a law in Florida popularly termed “Don’t Say Gay,” DeSantis went on the attack by securing the repeal of a special tax privilege that had been accorded Disney some 55 years ago. It’s ...
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2022 George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Let’s remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to better understand the situation in Ukraine. In 1898, the U.S. went to war against Spain in an ostensible attempt to help Cuba and other Spanish colonies achieve their independence. It turned out to ...
Abbott’s Border Follies by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2022 Advocates of immigration controls are undoubtedly ecstatic over Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recent border follies. Not satisfied with federal inspection of commercial vehicles entering the United States from Mexico, Abbott ordered state troopers to conduct additional searches of vehicles coming into the United States. Abbott’s justification for his inspection folly? He says he is just trying ...
The Evil Within by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2022 I am both fascinated and amused by the fierce reaction among the U.S. mainstream press and American statists to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are all exclaiming how evil the invasion is. What fascinates and amuses me is that they are totally unable to see that when they identify and confront the evil over there in Ukraine, they ...
The Deferentials by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2022 Let’s have a thought experiment. Suppose that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Cuban president Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez issued a joint announcement stating that North Korea had accepted an invitation to install some of its nuclear missiles in Cuba. The announcement made it clear that although the missiles could reach any American city, they would be entirely ...
The Biggest Threat to Our Freedom and Well-Being by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2022 There are some important things to note about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Our rights do not come from the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. As the Declaration of Independence states, our rights come from nature and God, not from the federal government, not from the Constitution, and not from the Bill of Rights.
Identifying and Confronting Evil by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2022 Americans have no problems identifying and confronting evil in foreign regimes. Most everyone, for example, has joined the bandwagon in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As I point out in my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, a big problem facing our nation, however, is the inability of all too many ...
Why Didn’t Trump Pardon Assange and Snowden? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 12, 2022 In his waning days as president, Donald Trump saw fit to pardon four former Blackwater guards who had been convicted of killing 14 Iraqi civilians and injuring 17 others in an ambush in Baghdad. The guards were in Iraq as part of the U.S. government’s deadly and destructive invasion, war of aggression, and long-term occupation of a country ...
Why Not Joint War Crimes Trials? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2022 The U.S. mainstream media is calling for the criminal prosecution of Russian president Vladimir Putin, as well as Russian military personnel, for war crimes committed as part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There is nothing wrong with that. When government officials or military personnel engage in war crimes, they should be prosecuted. What’s weird though is that you ...
