Hornberger's Blog

What If Russia Pulls a Hiroshima/Nagasaki on Kiev?

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2023

Today’s Los Angeles Times contains a letter to the editor from a North Hollywood person named Dave Simon, which states in part the following: “To this day, I have no regret that President Harry Truman saved many American lives as well of thousands of others all across the globe by ordering the bombings of Hiroshima and ...

Who Would Ukraine Supporters Support if the U.S. Invaded Cuba?

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2023

American statists cannot understand why the Russian people continue to support their president Vladimir Putin and their government’s invasion of Ukraine. For American statists, the issue is very simple: Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia bad. Russians should oppose Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime. End of story. Fair enough. But let’s engage in a hypothetical. Let’s assume ...

Our Biggest Threat

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 22, 2023

Both liberals and conservatives are convinced that the biggest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with Russia and China. And, well, also the terrorists, Muslims, drug dealers, illegal immigrants, North Koreans, Cubans, Syrians, Vietnamese, communists, Reds, and others.  They are wrong. The biggest threat to our freedom and well-being is our very own federal government, especially ...

Immigration Socialism versus Open Borders

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2023

One of the most fascinating parts of the ongoing, never-ending debate over immigration is how statists continue to think that somehow their immigration-control system is finally — finally! — going to be made to work. Their hope is that someone somewhere will finally — finally! — come up with the perfect reform that will finally — finally! — ...

Unlimited Debt Leads to National Bankruptcy

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2023

During the current debt-ceiling crisis, one thing should be painfully clear to everyone: For those people who are advocating an increase in the debt ceiling, there is no maximum amount of debt that is too much for them. As far as they are concerned, the federal government should continue adding to its debt burden indefinitely into the future, ...

Confronting the JFK Assassination

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2023

The ground seems to be shifting with respect to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Displaying little or no fear of either the national-security establishment or of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” an increasing number of people are now openly and publicly acknowledging what has increasingly become obvious: that the U.S. national-security establishment orchestrated and carried out ...

Khrushchev Exposed the Hypocrisy of U.S. Interventionists

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2023

For American interventionists living today, all that one needs to know is that Russia invaded Ukraine. End of story. Black and white. Russia bad. Ukraine good. Support Ukraine with U.S. taxpayer-funded cash and armaments. America good. If we go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, we find that things are not so simple, especially for American interventionists, even ...

Involuntary Servitude in Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2023

One of the interesting aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that the regimes in both countries have resorted to conscription to get soldiers to “serve their country.” One would think that if a war is just, citizens would not have to be forced to fight in it.  With conscription, the state commands a citizen to report to ...

Immigration-Reform Nonsense and Delusion

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2023

With the expiration of Title 42, the pandemic-era policy of preventing foreigners from entering the United States to claim refugee status, America’s perpetual immigration crisis along the border is back in the news. Along with the crisis comes the popular refrain that we have heard for at least seven decades: “We need comprehensive immigration reform to bring an ...

Yellen Is Wrong: The Debt Ceiling Presents No Constitutional Crisis

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2023

A few days ago, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that adhering to the debt ceiling would produce a “constitutional crisis.” Her statement, however, reflects her lack of understanding of both fiscal and constitutional principles.  The debt ceiling is a law that has been duly enacted by Congress. No one, including Yellen, has ever suggested that the debt-ceiling ...

Confronting and Dismantling the Federal Killing Machine

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2023

In my blog post yesterday, I wrote that a necessary prerequisite to ending the massive violence that afflicts American society is dismantling the federal killing machine. By wreaking death, injury, suffering, and destruction on millions of people in foreign lands for the past several decades, the Pentagon and the CIA have triggered something inside off-kilter people ...

The Solution to Violence in America

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 8, 2023

Given the recent spate of killings in different parts of the United States, the response of the gun-control crowd has been predictable. Same old, same old. “These shootings show, once again, why we need gun control in America,” they cry.  Never mind that Switzerland is awash in the private ownership of guns and there aren’t regular mass ...