Shocking Revelations about the Titanic by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2010 Shocking revelations about the sinking of the RMS Titanic have just come to light. U.S. officials have long kept this information secret on grounds of national security. It turns out that after the Titanic hit the glacier, ship officials calculated that the vessel could still be saved by unloading a large amount of weight from ...
Specks and Beams in U.S. Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger February 10, 2010 John Limbert, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran, is asking the UN to investigate human-rights abuses in Iran by that country’s dictatorial regime. Ever since protests against Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections broke out, the Iranian dictators have been rounding up people, torturing and raping them, and even executing them. But I wonder if ...
Libertarianism is the Light Shining through the Statist Darkness by Jacob G. Hornberger February 9, 2010 For years, liberals and conservatives have played this little game in which they imply that they hold opposing philosophies. Nothing could be further from the truth. There’s not a dime’s worth of difference, philosophically speaking, between a liberal and a conservative. It would be difficult to find a more perfect example of this phenomenon than ...
Socialism and Imperialism Are Taking Us Down by Jacob G. Hornberger February 8, 2010 In a February 6 editorial, the mainstream newspaper the New York Times took note of the dangers of out-of-control federal spending and soaring debt. In 2011 alone, the projected deficit is $1.3 trillion, an amount that even the Times calls “breathtaking.” But what is even more breathtaking is what Times recommends that federal officials do. ...
Christian Support for Killing Iraqis by Jacob G. Hornberger February 6, 2010 Among the things about the Iraq War that I have never been able to understand is how American Christians have been able, in good conscience, to support this war. After all, no one can deny that neither Iraq nor the Iraqi people ever attacked the United States. That makes the United States the aggressor — ...
Americans Are Paying for Socialism and Imperialism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 5, 2010 Both liberals and conservatives have long lamented that Americans have not been bearing their fair share of the costs of the U.S. Empire’s longstanding imperialist escapades in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s ridiculous. Consider the ever-increasing debt that is being added to each person’s balance sheet. Each American currently owes $40,000, which is his individual share of ...
Tyranny and Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger February 4, 2010 Over the years, I’ve had conversations with Europeans about gun control. Not surprisingly, they have been very critical of America’s “gun culture” — that is, the widespread ownership of guns among the American people. They have extolled the situation in Europe, where gun-control laws preclude people from freely owning guns, arguing that such laws ...
Socialism, the Great Equalizer by Jacob G. Hornberger February 4, 2010 If you’d like a good picture of where American socialists are leading our country, consider the situation in North Korea, which is the world’s best model of a socialist society. In North Korea, everyone is equal because everyone is equally poor. The government is the sole owner of the means and results of production, ...
China’s “Muscular” Failure to Submit to the U.S. Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger February 3, 2010 Consider this opening paragraph from a New York Times article regarding the U.S. government’s arms sales to Taiwan: “For the past year, China has adopted an increasingly muscular position toward the United States, berating American officials for the global economic crisis, stage-managing President Obama’s visit to China in November, refusing to back ...
Why Didn’t the Nanny State Protect Us from Toyota? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 2, 2010 Would someone please explain to me how it’s possible that millions of Toyota vehicles have that accelerator problem? I thought the federal government was supposed to keep us safe from these sorts of things. Consider, for example, this page, which contains the “Federal Motor Vehicle Standards and Regulations” issued by the Office of ...
Hornberger’s Blog, February 2010 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2010 Friday, February 26, 2010 Ron Paul vs. Big Government Conservatives by Jacob G. Hornberger An op-ed entitled “Conservatives’ Isolationist Dalliance” in the Washington Times today by Jeffrey T. Kuhner, president of the conservative Edmund Burke Institute, is an excellent example of the difficult task that Ron Paul has in convincing conservatives to abandon their devotion to Big Government in foreign ...
Will Obama Try to Pack the Court Too? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2010 President Obama’s tiff with the Supreme Court over the Court’s ruling in the corporate-spending case brings to mind what President Franklin Roosevelt, one of Obama’s icons, did when the Supreme Court began declaring some of his socialist and fascist schemes unconstitutional. Roosevelt came up with a plan that would enable him to pack the Court with additional justices, legal ...
