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 ...
Conservatives’ Partial Devotion to the Declaration of Independence by Jacob G. Hornberger July 24, 2024 Larry Arnn, the conservative president of Hillsdale College, arguably the most conservative college in the country, had an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal in which he partially praised the Declaration of Independence. Complimenting J.D. Vance’s speech accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination, Arnn reflected on certain passages of the Declaration of Independence, such as how it ...
Congressional Incompetence in Its Trump-Shooting Investigation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 23, 2024 Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears to be incompetence at best and willful blindness, conscious indifference, or complicity at worst on the part of the ...
Why the U.S. Secrecy Surrounding Evan Gershkovich? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2024 Last Friday, a Russian court, operating in secret, convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a Russian penal colony. Ever since Gershkovich’s arrest in March 2023, I have written extensively about the case: https://www.fff.org/?s=Gershkovich The Journal and U.S. officials have responded to the verdict and sentence in the ...
Should RFK, Jr., Have Accepted Secret Service Protection? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 19, 2024 In the aftermath of the near-assassination of President Trump, President Biden finally granted independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s longtime request to be granted Secret Service protection. However, I can’t help but wonder whether Kennedy is now having second thoughts, not only given the Secret Service’s massive incompetence, at best, that led to the Trump shooting but ...
Living with Perpetual Violence by Jacob G. Hornberger July 17, 2024 Notwithstanding the near-assassination of former President Trump, I could not help but find a bit of humor in the response of Republicans, Democrats, and mainstream-press commentators to the shooting — the response that says that there is no room for political violence in American society. Are they kidding? How can any reasonable person not guffaw at that statement? ...
Why Did They Immediately Shut Down the Investigation into JFK’s Assassination? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 16, 2024 Given the attempted assassination of former President Trump, I can’t help but think back to the assassination of President Kennedy — and, specifically, to how determined U.S. officials were to immediately shut down any investigation into the assassination. An NBC News article dated October 27, 2017, stated that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued a memo ...
Assassination Accomplishes Nothing by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2024 I was a few minutes into my talk at FreedomFest when former President Trump was almost assassinated. It was ironic because my talk was about the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President Kennedy. While my talk specifically focused on the CIA’s production of a fraudulent copy of the famous film of the assassination by Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder ...
