Do Immigrants Have the Right to Pursue Happiness? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 27, 2018 Next Wednesday, July 4, Americans will be celebrating the anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. An important question arises: How many Americans truly believe in the principles enunciated in the Declaration? The real significance of the American Revolution does not lie in the military battles between the English colonists and the English military. Those are interesting from a military-history ...
Why No Outrage Over U.S. Killing of Children? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2018 National outrage over President Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents as a way to deter illegal immigration into the United States has forced the president to abandon the policy. The outrage came from all sides of the political spectrum, especially from the left, and from the mainstream media. Trump’s policy is obviously cruel and brutal, given that ...
Immigration Enforcement Comes with Immigration Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2018 People are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to separate children from foreign parents who have entered the United States without official permission. The outrage has been so vocal and passionate that the president has been compelled to abandon the policy. What most everyone fails to notice, however, is that this is just one more measure, albeit an extremely ...
Cuba Denuclearized in 1962. Why Continue the Embargo? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2018 In a time in which President Trump is saying that the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it “denuclearizes,” why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba? After all, Cuba “denuclearized” back in 1962. Why is the U.S. government still punishing the people of Cuba with its brutal economic embargo?
Will Trump Agree to Unify Korea Under Kim? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2018 South Korean President Moon Jae In and the people of South Korea may come to rue the day when Moon decided to let President Trump negotiate a peace agreement with North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong Un, especially given the close relationship that now exists between Trump and Kim. That’s because in the topsy turvy world of ...
The Big Obstacle to Peace in Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2018 Suppose my neighbor acquired a bazooka and stored it in his home. He doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t threaten me with it. I ask him, “John, why have you acquired that bazooka?” He responds, “Just in case you decide to attack me and my family. If you do, we are going to defend ourselves by firing this bazooka at ...
North Korea Poses No Nuclear Threat to the U.S., and Trump Says So by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2018 Just when you think that the Korean situation can’t get more interesting, it does. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump has now declared that North Korea is "no longer a nuclear threat" to the United States. He said that Americans can now “sleep well tonight.” That is one remarkable development, especially since North Korea has not ...
Trump Got Played in Singapore, But That’s a Good Thing by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2018 Conservatives are a fascinating lot. Throughout the Cold War, they steadfastly maintained that the Cold War was necessary because communist tyrants were hell-bent on conquering the United States and subjugating the American people. That’s in fact why the U.S. national-security establishment intervened in the Korean War and the Vietnam War and sacrificed more than 100,000 U.S. soldiers — supposedly ...
Trump’s Tariff Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2018 Isn’t it amazing how some mainstream pundits can easily recognize dictatorial actions of foreign leaders like North Korea’s Kim Jung Un, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, and the Philippines’s Rodrigo Duterte but then go blind when it comes to similar-type actions by President Trump. A good example is Trump’s unilateral imposition ...
The Bizarre Trump-Kim Summit by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2018 Overlooked in all of the hullabaloo over the summit in North Korea between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are two bizarre things: One, the U.S. government is the root cause of the crisis that Trump is trying to resolve and, two, the fact that South Korean president Moon Jae-in is not an equal player in ...
Trump’s Perverse View of Patriotism by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2018 In an act of petty revenge against the Philadelphia Eagles, President Trump put on display the concept of patriotism that unfortunately has come to characterize America in the era of the national-security state — a concept that perverts the genuine meaning of patriotism on which America was founded and which characterized the nation throughout the 1800s. The controversy began when ...
Could a U.S. Domestic Coup Ever Be Justified? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2018 Even though he undoubtedly doesn’t realize it, a man named Jose Cardenas, a former acting assistant administrator for Latin America at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the George W. Bush administration, has indirectly weighed in on the John Kennedy assassination. That’s because foreignpolicy.com has just published an article by him endorsing a military coup against Venezuelan ...
