Police Bigoted Brutality Isn’t New: The Jean Seberg Story by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2020 Amazon Prime Video recently issued a movie entitled Seberg, which depicts the life of Jean Seberg, an American in the 1960s who became a famous actress both in the United States and France. The Jean Seberg story, however, is much more than just about film. It also is a very timely reminder, given the ...
Bigoted Cops and the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2020 If Americans want to diminish racial bigotry in police departments across the country, the best way to start is by legalizing drugs, all of them. That would bring an end to the legal opportunity that bigoted cops have in the enforcement of drug laws against blacks. I’m not saying that all cops are racial bigots. We ...
Trump and His Standing Army by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2020 President Trump’s warning to state governors that he is prepared to send his military forces to quell violent protests in cities across the land serves as another reminder of why our ancestors had such a deep antipathy toward standing armies. They knew that giant, professional, and permanent military establishments constitute the biggest threat to the freedom and ...
Trump Punishes China by Hurting Hong Kong by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2020 Acting in sympathy with the people of Hong Kong, who have just been told by China that they are being subjected to a new Chinese law to protect “national security,” President Trump has announced that he is taking measures to retaliate against … Hong Kong! Why, that sure makes a lot of sense, right! What better ...
Ungovernable by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2020 Notwithstanding all the death, violence, and corruption the U.S. government’s drug war has spawned in the United States, it has wreaked much more damage in Mexico. Since 2006, when Mexico began fiercely cracking down in the drug war at the behest of U.S. officials, the number of deaths and people who have disappeared because of the drug ...
Disingenuous Sympathy by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2020 My article yesterday, “The Power of Military Indoctrination,” generated two different responses, not on the main thrust of the article but rather on the issue of sympathy. My article, for those who haven’t read it, detailed the grief that a young woman, Kelsey Baker, is suffering over the loss of her boyfriend, Diego ...
The Power of Military Indoctrination by Jacob G. Hornberger May 27, 2020 A sad article in the New York Times this week entitled “He Died at War. The Pandemic Gave Me Time to Grieve” by a young woman named Kelsey Baker is a testament to the success of the U.S. national-security establishment in indoctrinating soldiers and, well, lots of civilians as well. The article details Baker’s ...
Apology Day by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2020 On Memorial Day yesterday, Americans were called upon to remember the American soldiers who have been killed in America’s many foreign wars. U.S. interventionists should have also used the day to apologize not only to the families of those veterans but also to the families who lost loved ones as a consequence of U.S. interventionism in their ...
How About Permanently Closing Public Schools? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2020 Amidst the death and suffering arising from the coronavirus crisis, people have an opportunity to ponder some important questions about life and liberty. One question arises in the context of when state and local officials should force children back into school: Why should the state be involved in education at all? Since all of us ...
Free Trade Raises Standards of Living by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2020 I find it amazing that there are still people in life who favor trade restrictions and trade wars. If there is anything credible economists agree on, almost 145 years after the publication of Adam Smith’s treatise The Wealth of Nations, it is that free trade is a good thing. In every trade, both sides benefit. ...
Government Debt in Argentina and the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2020 Those who continue to celebrate the out-of-control spending, debt, and inflation spree on which U.S. officials have embarked should continue focusing on Argentina, a country whose government is now in the throes of an economic and financial crisis owing to an unsustainable debt burden. Take a look at the website usdebtclock.org to get a sense ...
The FDR Plan to Restore America by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2020 Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation and a former participant in the AmericaCorps VISTA program, has a plan to restore America. It’s set forth in an article today published by the New York Times. Drawing on President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression, he wants the federal government to ...