Libertarians Who Abandon Integrity by Jacob G. Hornberger September 3, 2020 In his interview with Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, President Trump declared “I’m somewhat libertarian; I have to be honest with you; Rand Paul will tell you that….” Why was Trump claiming to be “somewhat libertarian”? Because he wants libertarians to vote for him. Rejecting Trump’s entreaty, Bonnie Kristian has written ...
Remocrats versus Depublicans by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2020 While conservatives and progressives are all hyped up over the presidential election, this political farce is pretty pathetic from the standpoint of a libertarian. After all, the real issue for libertarians when it comes to Donald Trump or Joe Biden is: Which one will be worse from the standpoint of tyranny and oppression? That’s pretty pathetic. Consider the ...
The Politicization of Education by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2020 A controversy in California involving a public-school English teacher who wore a T-shirt to class with “I can’t breathe” on it demonstrates one of the reasons that the politicization of education has been such a disastrous experiment. The T-shirt threw some people into a rage. One parent says he wants his child to learn English and nothing else. ...
U.S. Meddling in Chile’s 1964 Presidential Election by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2020 Given the U.S. government’s meddling in Chile’s 1964 presidential election, I can’t help but wonder whether that has contributed to the major obsession that U.S. officials have with supposed Russian meddling in U.S. presidential elections. When one does bad things to others, oftentimes this causes the malefactor to think that others are doing the same thing to him.
Judicial Tyranny in the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger August 28, 2020 If you still have any doubts about the tyranny of the federal government’s beloved “war on drugs,” perhaps the case of Juan Carlos Seresi, Vahe Andonian, and Nazareth Andonian will remove them. Back in 1991, a federal judge named William D. Keller sentenced these three men to 500 years in jail for a non-violent drug offense—i.e., laundering drug ...
Big Business versus Monopoly by Jacob G. Hornberger August 26, 2020 CNN Business reports that Exxon, which was the world’s largest company in 2013, is today being kicked out of the Dow. As CNN Business puts it, “Exxon is now a shell of its former self.” The company is losing money and its “market value has crumbled by a staggering $267 billion from the peak.”
FDR’s Two Biggest Lies by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2020 Given all the hoopla by the mainstream press about lies purportedly issued by President Trump, one cannot help but recall two big lies issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. One lie dealt with foreign affairs and the other lie dealt with domestic policy. In the 1940 presidential race, Roosevelt, the incumbent who was running for an unprecedented third ...
The Omnipotent Power to Assassinate by Jacob G. Hornberger August 24, 2020 In an editorial last week, The New York Times called for an investigation into the attack on Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny, who was recently transported to Germany in a coma after apparently being poisoned. No one knows who did the poisoning but Times has strong suspicions: A hit on so prominent a figure, with the inevitable eruption ...
Much Ado About the Postal Monopoly by Jacob G. Hornberger August 20, 2020 It is so funny watching Republicans and Democrats fighting over the Postal Service. Their fight is over how to make the Postal Service finally work. Their differences revolve around how much tax money to hand over to the Postal Service to enable it to survive. Neither Republicans nor Democrats get it. They will never make the Postal Service ...
Should Snowden and Assange Pardon the U.S. Government? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 19, 2020 President Trump is saying that he might issue a pardon to Edward Snowden. For some reason, he hasn’t said the same thing about Julian Assange. But a pardon suggests that the person being pardoned has done something wrong. Neither Snowden and Assange has done anything wrong — at least not in a moral sense. It is the U.S. ...
The CIA Versus the Kennedys by Jacob G. Hornberger August 18, 2020 Former Congressman Ron Paul and his colleague Dan McAdams recently conducted a fascinating interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which focused in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was Kennedy Jr.'s uncle. The interview took place on their program the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Owing to the many federal records that ...
Don’t Forget Trump’s Deal with the CIA on the JFK Records by Jacob G. Hornberger August 17, 2020 In April 2018, President Trump issued an order to the National Archives to continue keeping thousands of CIA records relating to the John Kennedy assassination secret from the American people. The new deadline, which could be extended again by either Trump or a President Biden, was set for October 2021. Since the order was issued early in the ...
