How to End Poverty by Jacob G. Hornberger March 8, 2019 For socialists, the solution to poverty is easy. All that needs to be done is for government to take money from the rich and middle class through taxation and give it to the poor. Or have government force employers, through minimum-wage laws, to pay more money to their workers. Voilà! Poverty solved! Wasn’t that easy?
Idolizing Nazism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2019 A group of public high-school students in Newport Beach, California, has provoked a huge controversy for arranging red cups in the shape of a swastika and doing a Nazi salute at a drinking party. Even though the party was a private affair, school officials and even law-enforcement officers are investigating the matter, especially since the party apparently involved some ...
The Free Market: A Powerful Redistributor of Wealth by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2019 Leftists are notorious for wanting to use the force of government to confiscate money from the rich in order to equalize wealth in society. They lament large “disparities of wealth” — e.g., the fact that there are billionaires and paupers living in the same society. Sometimes leftists call for giving the IRS-confiscated money to people who have less. Sometimes they ...
Honesty About Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2019 Conservatives and some liberals/progressives indignantly exclaim: “I am a capitalist, not a socialist … except for my support of: Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid; Public (i.e., government) schooling; The Federal Reserve; Immigration controls; The national income tax; The military-industrial complex; The welfare state; Foreign aid; Farm subsidies; The government-managed economy; The Postal Service; Amtrak; Public works; The Interstate Highway System; ...
The Immorality and Destructiveness of Wealth Equalization by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2019 One of the hallmarks of the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist philosophy is wealth redistribution through the force of government. Leftists/progressives/liberals/socialists lament the enormous disparities of wealth and income that exist in American society. They believe, therefore, that a legitimate function of government is to take money from the rich and either keep it for governmental expenditures or give it to the poor ...
National-Security Statism and North Korea’s Nukes by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2019 The Pentagon and the CIA and their policy of foreign interventionism are the root cause of the nuclear crisis with North Korea. Keep in mind that we are talking about one country, Korea, which was artificially divided into two halves, North Korea and South Korea. Therefore, the war that ultimately broke out between North Korea and ...
Trump’s Failure Versus North Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2019 Ever since President Trump incited his big crisis with North Korea, only to back off and ultimately fall in love with North Korea’s brutal communist dictator Kim Jung-Un, the entire exercise has had a weird, surreal quality to it. Trump began the crisis by claiming that North Korea’s mere possession of nuclear weapons posed a ...
Cold War Weirdness on Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2019 President Trump is currently having a second meeting with North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-Un. Hoping to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, Trump is hoping to enter into an agreement with the Korean Reds to finally bring a formal end to the Cold War-era Korean War. The meeting is being held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the ...
The Russian Mirror by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2019 A recent article in the New York Times about Russia’s “intelligence state,” authored by John Sipher, a former chief of station for the CIA, provides a valuable mirror for the American people. The problem is that American statists cannot see it as a mirror. While Sipher’s article clearly demonstrates that American statists, especially conservative ones, can see the ...
Trump’s Disrespect for Maduro’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2019 How ironic. President Trump wants to build his wall along the southern border of the United States to keep Latin Americans from illegally entering the United States. He already has constructed a tariff wall to keep foreigners from freely sending their goods into the United States. This past Saturday, we witnessed the spectacle of Trump doing his best to overcome ...
ISIS and Oswald by Jacob G. Hornberger February 22, 2019 How ironic that the U.S. government’s war on ISIS, the group brought into existence by the U.S. national-security establishment’s war of aggression on Iraq, would provide insight into the U.S. national-security’s establishment’s relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy some 55 years ago. As I emphasized in my 29-part video series ...
The Banality of Evil in Immigration Prosecutions by Jacob G. Hornberger February 21, 2019 While President Donald “America First” Trump and his merry band of foreign interventionists try to convince people how concerned they are with the plight of Venezuelans, four American women, Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick, might have doubts about this new-found Republican/conservative love for the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. That’s because the Trump administration has just ...
