The U.S. Government Loves Egypt’s Military Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger August 16, 2013 Some Americans are agog at the U.S. government’s indifference to the military coup in Egypt and to the dictatorship’s brutal massacre of peaceful demonstrators. They just don’t get it. The U.S. government loves Egypt’s military dictatorship as much as it loved the Chilean military dictatorship that took power in 1973 and proceeded to rape, torture, or kill tens of ...
Competition is Not Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2013 Objecting to the proposed merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways, the Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the two airlines. The rationale? The feds say that the merger would impede competition and therefore should be disallowed. The government’s action only goes to show how government officials can warp economic principles so as to justify their control ...
The Poison of Medicare, Medicaid, and Medical Licensure by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2013 One of the common myths about America’s healthcare woes is that such woes are rooted in America’s “free-enterprise” system. It’s a myth because America’s healthcare system is actually based on socialism, economic control, and regulation rather than on “free enterprise.” After all, the term “free enterprise” means enterprise that is free of government control. Freedom from government control is certainly ...
Abolish the Postal Service by Jacob G. Hornberger August 13, 2013 Doug Bandow has a great article over at Forbes entitled “The Post Office Is Broke: It’s Time to End Washington’s Postal Monopoly.” Bandow’s article provides an excellent case as to why the Postal Service’s monopoly over the delivery of first-class mail should be repealed and, even better, why the government shouldn’t even be in the mail-delivery business at ...
The Never-Ending Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2013 The drug war is back in the news with two major events, one here in the United States and the other in Mexico. Both events point to the utter futility and destructiveness of this decades-long disaster. The New York Times reports that Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a new policy to relieve overcrowded prisons. Holder is instructing U.S. Attorneys ...
Secrecy versus a Free Society by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2013 A Texas company named Lavabit exemplifies everything that the national-security state has done to our nation. Lavabit is an Internet company that provides encrypted email service for its customers. It recently announced that it was voluntarily shutting down its business rather than capitulate to the demands of the NSA and its FISA Court to grant access to its customer’s ...
Mainstream Media Rule: Never Question the Warren Commission by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2013 Among the major unspoken tenets of mainstream journalism is: When it comes to the Kennedy assassination, never question or challenge the conclusions of the Warren Commission. Mainstream reporters and commentators learn early on that to violate this principal tenet is to place one’s career in the mainstream media in jeopardy. Thus, if a person wants to educate himself on the ...
Unilateral Free Trade vs. “Free-Trade Agreements” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2013 Let’s all shed a tear for Michael Froman. He’s the new U.S. trade representative. He’s the person who is responsible for negotiating “free-trade agreements” with other countries. So, why should we feel sorry for Froman? According to the New York Times, the sequestration has caused his budget to shrink 7 percent, down to $47 million. That’s making it more ...
Lynne Stewart: Convicted of Supporting the Declaration of Independence by Jacob G. Hornberger August 6, 2013 Former New York City attorney Lynne Stewart is back in the news. Having been convicted in federal court of being a terrorism supporter, she is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a federal penitentiary. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the 73-year-old Stewart’s recent request for an early release from prison has been rejected by ...
More Judicial Deference on National-Security State Murder by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2013 Continuing the long tradition of deference to the national-security state by the U.S. federal judiciary, a federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit by the sons of a man named Frank Olson seeking damages for the CIA’s murder of their father. The excuses that the judge used to dismiss the case were the statute of limitations and a previous ...
Egypt and the Corruption of American Values by Jacob G. Hornberger August 2, 2013 An article on U.S. foreign aid to Egypt by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank goes a long way in showing how conservative and liberal statists continue to lead our nation down a road of corrupted morals and values. The article, entitled “Rand Paul Rebuked by Fellow Republicans on Foreign Aid,” mocks Paul for the overwhelming 83-13 defeat by ...
Truth as Treason by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2013 If I were to use the phrase “When Truth Was Treason,” you might think that I was referring to the cases of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Your assumption, of course, would be entirely reasonable given that that’s what they did — they disclosed the truth about the U.S. national-security state’s lies, crimes, and secret surveillance schemes, for which ...
