Cuban and American Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2011 The disastrous failure of Cuba’s socialist economic system provides valuable clues to the American people as to why the United States is mired in economic woes. While total socialism has led Cuba into the depths of economic despair, the partial socialization of the American economy has led America in the same direction. Equally important is what socialism has done ...
Emergency Laws and Public-School Indoctrination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2011 An interesting aspect of the Syrian protests shows, once again, the big success of public (i.e., government) schooling in America. Syria is ruled by a brutal dictatorship. Everyone agrees on that. The world is witnessing the power of that dictatorship today, as it employs overwhelming police and military force to suppress dissent and anti-government demonstrations by the Syrian populace. Syria’s dictator, ...
Nullifying the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2011 No doubt to the chagrin of many judges across the land, a New Hampshire jury has shown, once again, that juries are the final judges of both the law and the facts in criminal cases, contrary to what all too many judges falsely inform juries in their courtroom. The New Hampshire case involved the drug war. A man named Bob ...
Duplicity and Debacle at the Bay of Pigs by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2011 This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a regime-change operation in Cuba planned and initiated by the CIA. The invasion was a disastrous failure, one that the CIA is still trying to rectify half-a-century later. When the CIA was established in 1947, the original idea was that it would simply be an intelligence-gathering agency to ...
Welfare and Warfare Are a Renunciation of Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2011 Perhaps the most damaging effect of public (i.e., government) schooling is the malleable mindset that it produces in American children, a mindset that defers to the authority of the government in important matters. Day after day, year after year, state officials mold the minds of the children into accepting popular, albeit false, doctrines. While some succeed in breaking free ...
No More Statism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 14, 2011 Not surprisingly, liberals are calling for tax hikes on the rich as their way to pay for the ever-burgeoning costs of the welfare-warfare state. Conservatives pretend to oppose tax hikes. Their preferred method of funding the welfare-warfare state is through the Federal Reserve, whose job is to provide the money and credit needed to fund excess federal spending without the ...
Let’s Not Forget the Torture Partnership with Syria by Jacob G. Hornberger April 13, 2011 Among the many Middle East dictatorships that are rounding up, incarcerating, torturing, and killing protestors and demonstrators is the one in Syria, which has long been recognized as one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the region. President Obama has condemned the “abhorrent violence committed against peaceful protesters by the Syrian government today and over the past ...
Cuba, Statists, and Americas Economic Woes by Jacob G. Hornberger April 12, 2011 The economic situation in Cuba goes a long way in explaining the economic woes of the American people as well as the response of American statists to such economic woes. After Fidel Castro took power in 1959, his mindset was no different from the average American statist. Castro believed that the reason that most Cubans were poor was because so ...
The Government-Shutdown Joke by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2011 What a joke that government-shutdown showdown turned out to be. Didn’t I tell you last week that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats would ever permit the federal government to “shut down” for any length of time? The reason: most Americans would realize how wonderful it is, and that’s the last thing any statist, Republican or Democrat, wants them ...
The Pentagon’s Kangaroo System is Junk by Jacob G. Hornberger April 11, 2011 Republicans are cheering while liberals are mute over another important cave-in by President Obama, this time over his flip-flop regarding the trial of accused terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom Obama initially intended to prosecute in federal district court in New York City but is now sending down the Pentagon’s kangaroo military-tribunal route. Let’s make no bones about it: There is ...
Shut It Down, Permanently by Jacob G. Hornberger April 7, 2011 There is one big reason that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will permit the federal government to remain “shut down” for too long: They’re both too afraid that the American people will discover what a wonderful thing it is that the federal government is “shut down.” Let’s get one thing clear, however: When federal officials refer to a “shut ...
Obama’s Concern for Libyan Civilians Is a Lie by Jacob G. Hornberger April 6, 2011 President Obama’s claim that his concern for Libyan civilians motivated him to wage his undeclared war of aggression on Libya has got to be one of the most laughable lies to come out of a president’s mouth since President Bush’s bogus WMD rationale that he used to scare the American people into supporting his undeclared war of aggression on ...
