Is Pearl Harbor the Model for a Trump-Bolton War with Iran? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2019 Yesterday, the news media reported that President Trump told the acting U.S. “Defense” Secretary that he does not want war with Iran, which has caused some people to breathe a sigh of relief that the United States might yet avoid another deadly and destructive regime-change war. Don’t be too sure. After all, if Trump really means ...
Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea’s Nukes by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2019 From the start of the brouhaha that President Trump initiated against North Korea for refusing to destroy its nuclear weapons, I have consistently maintained that the communist regime would never rid itself of its nukes. Even when Trump suddenly did an about-face and fell in love with North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-Un and convinced himself that ...
Let’s Think at a Higher Level by Jacob G. Hornberger May 15, 2019 One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarians and non-libertarians is with respect to the welfare-warfare state way of life. Libertarians are committed to dismantling, repealing, abolishing, or ending it, while conservatives and progressives are committed to maintaining its existence and simply reforming it. One of the most remarkable achievements in freedom occurred when the First Amendment was adopted. Since it ...
Immigration Tyranny and Cruelty Come Home by Jacob G. Hornberger May 14, 2019 I can’t help but wonder if what has happened to Theresa Todd will cause conservative-leaning libertarians to abandon their support of immigration controls, the system of immigration central planning, cruelty, and tyranny that both conservatives and progressives have unfortunately foisted upon our land. Todd lives in West Texas. One night she was driving down a highway when she was flagged ...
Iraq Déjà Vu with Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2019 Given U.S. National-Security Advisor John Bolton’s war-provoking antics with Iran, I’m getting that déjà vu feeling with how President George W. Bush and his team of interventionists took the U.S. to war with Iraq. Of course, the first question that naturally arises is: Who’s the real acting president, Donald Trump or John Bolton? The Washington ...
The World’s Dictatress by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2019 In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, she would inevitably become the world’s “dictatress” and begin behaving accordingly. No can can deny that Adams’ prediction has come true. America has ...
Why School Compulsory-Attendance Laws? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2019 Imagine if Congress were to enact a law that required everyone to attend church on Sundays. The overwhelming majority of Americans would go up in arms. The concept of religious liberty is so deeply ingrained in our American heritage that there is no way that people, including devout Christians, would accept such a law. That heritage was enshrined in ...
Social Security’s Insult of Young People by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2019 Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, there is no Social Security fund into which people have “contributed” their money during their work years. There are also no lock boxes at Fort Knox that contain people’s names and the money they have “contributed” for their retirement. From the very beginning, Social Security has been a ...
Which New War Next: Iran or Venezuela? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2019 Pity President Donald “America First” Trump, Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo, National-Security Advisor (and Cold War fanatic) John Bolton, and Special U.S. Representative to Venezuela (and Cold War fanatic) Eliott Abrams. Knowing that the American people have grown weary with their forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, these four interventionists ...
CIA Intervention in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 6, 2019 As far as I know, no evidence has yet surfaced that definitively establishes direct CIA involvement in the U.S. regime-change operation in Venezuela. But it is a virtual certainty that the CIA is directly embroiled in the operation. How do we know that? Because that’s what the CIA does. It’s what it has always done. ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2019 Like other U.S. regime-change operations, the current one against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is rife with hypocrisy. After all, what is the main complaint that President Trump and other U.S. officials have against Maduro? It is that he is a socialist whose socialist programs and policies have brought misery and suffering to the Venezuelan ...
Regime Change Failure (So Far) in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2019 So far, the U.S. national-security establishment’s regime-change operation in Venezuela has met with failure. Having designated Venezuelan public official Juan Guaidó as the new president of the country, U.S. officials have still not been able to deliver him the reins of power. At the very least, Guaidó isn’t collecting taxes from anyone, which is usually a good ...
