U.S. Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the U.S. Election by Jacob G. Hornberger August 13, 2024 The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the U.S. government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today. While U.S. officials and U.S. interventionists love to point to the 1979 Iranian revolution ...
Venezuela’s Lessons for Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2024 What is happening in Venezuela provides valuable lessons for Americans. In the recent presidential election, the country’s dictator Nicolas Maduro immediately claimed victory but, suspiciously, has refused to reveal tally results from the voting stations. His opponent Edmundo González, on the other hand, quickly produced written tallies that were taken from many of the voting stations across the ...
Both Vance and Walz Experience Moral Blindness on “Serving” in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance is taking Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz to task for his military “service” with respect to the 2003-2011 U.S. war on Iraq. He says that Walz ended his 24 years in the National Guard early to avoid being deployed to Iraq. For his part, Vance, who was in the Marine Corps for four ...
I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2024 In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government Republic versus a National-Security State.” As longtime supporters of The Future ...
Israel and the Nullification of the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2024 An article posted yesterday on the website Responsible Statecraft states “According to a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, only 41% of Americans support the idea of U.S. troops defending Israel, even if its neighbors attacked it.” If that statement were made in a U.S. District Court, one of the federal attorneys would undoubtedly stand up ...
It’s Weird to See a Retired General Scotch a Plea Bargain by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2024 Given that we have all been born and raised under a national-security state form of governmental structure, no one in the mainstream press is batting an eyelash over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s role in a plea bargain into which military prosecutors had entered with three men who are accused of participating in the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh ...
Out-of-Control Spending and Debt Means More Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2024 The federal government’s debt load just passed $35 trillion. According to usdebtclock.org, that amounts to $267,000 per taxpayer. It’s worth mentioning that that federal debt load does not include Social Security and Medicare obligations or the obligations arising from other “unfunded liabilities.” This fiscal situation is not getting any better. That’s because the federal government is spending ...
The Rightwing View on Bureaucracy Is Wrongheaded by Jacob G. Hornberger July 31, 2024 Leave it to Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance to enunciate the rightwing view on bureaucracy, a view that is diametrically opposed to the libertarian view. According to an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, which criticizes Vance for his “disregard for the constitutional balance of powers and the rule of law,” Vance stated in a ...
Are Venezuelans Wishing They Weren’t Disarmed? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 30, 2024 Democracy has long been a shibboleth among U.S. officials and many American statists. From the first grade on up, American children are inculcated with the notion that democracy is equivalent to freedom. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Democracy can actually be a grave threat to freedom. That’s notion is demonstrated by the Bill of ...
Biden’s Court Plan Brings to Mind FDR’s Court-Packing Scheme by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2024 Wanting to continue appearing relevant, lame-duck President Biden has come up with a plan to reform the Supreme Court. His plan brings to mind the infamous court-packing scheme that was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s. Although FDR failed to get Congress to enact his plan, he ended up accomplishing what he set out to accomplish ...
Lone-Nut Theorists in the JFK Assassination Remain Stuck in a Pre-ARRB World by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2024 The near-assassination of former President Trump has brought the Kennedy assassination to the forefront of people’s minds, especially since many Americans remain discomforted by that event — and rightly so. At the same time, the Trump shooting has caused advocates of the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination to come forward and repeat the conclusions reached in 1964 ...
Why Americans Get So Giddy About Their Presidential Election by Jacob G. Hornberger July 25, 2024 Every four years, the American people get giddy and excited over their presidential election. There is a reason for that. In the run-up to the election, the presidential candidates cater to them, are nice to them, and offer them lots of benefits in the hope of garnering their votes. But everyone knows that come November 6 — the ...
