Immigration Destruction Under Obama by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2009 In yet another effort to continue the policies of the Bush administration, the Obama administration is targeting American companies that hire illegal immigrants. But to demonstrate that being a compassionate liberal is better than being a compassionate conservative, Obama’s immigration gendarmes aren’t conducting violent publicity-seeking raids on the businesses. Instead, they’re sending written ...
What’s That Imperial Base in Honduras For? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2009 Lost in all the debate over whether the coup in Honduras was a coup or not is the great big elephant sitting in the room that no one is talking about. What in the world is the U.S. government doing with a military base in Honduras on which hundreds of U.S. soldiers are residing? It ...
Confessions and Torture in Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger July 6, 2009 According to the New York Times, Iranian officials have announced that they have secured confessions from top reformers to a conspiracy to bring down the Iranian government. The paper stated that such confessions are “almost always extracted under duress.” Now, take a wild guess what such “duress” consists of. The paper states: “The ...
Lessons from the Fourth of July by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2009 The true revolutionary aspect of the Fourth of July was not the military battles that the English colonists waged against the British Empire. Instead, it was the notion that was expressed in the Declaration of Independence: man’s rights do not come from government but rather from nature and God. Throughout history, people have been taught ...
The Banality of Evil Applies to Everyone by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2009 One of the aspects of the Iraq War that has fascinated me the most is how CIA agents and U.S. soldiers could actually bring themselves to kill, torture, and sexually abuse Iraqis. After all, don’t forget that neither the Iraqi people nor their government participated in the 9/11 attacks. The worst “crime” that any ...
Hornberger’s Blog, July 2009 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2009 Friday, July 31, 2009 The New York Time’s Failure of Understanding by Jacob G. Hornberger In a July 29 editorial entitled “The Military Is Not the Police,” the New York Times stated, “It was disturbing to learn the other day just how close the last administration came to violating laws barring the military from engaging in law enforcement when President ...
Health Care Is Not a Right by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2009 Amidst all the health care debate, there is one underlying assumption that hardly anyone challenges: the notion that people have a right to health care. The truth is that it’s a nonsensical notion. People no more have a right to health care than they have a right to education, food, or clothing. After all, what does ...
Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger June 30, 2009 The military coup in Honduras, which some U.S. conservatives are already hailing as a pro-democracy coup, as they did after military strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, brings to mind a fantastic movie — Seven Days in May, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Ava Gardner. The movie is about ...
Iranians Have Two Options: Obey or Die by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2009 Many Europeans love to look down their noses at Americans over the issue of gun rights. They just cannot understand how Americans can be so uncivilized as to leave people free to own guns. Whenever I discuss the gun-rights issue with Europeans, I point out one fundamental fact, one with which they can never disagree. ...
Federal Fraud in the Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2009 As Christopher Maietta, the Justice Department prosecutor in the current trial of Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre, was making his opening statement, the following sentence appeared on a screen inside the courtroom: “This is a case about money, greed and fraud.” The case is certainly about money, because it involves Kahre’s use of gold coins ...
Suppressing Free Speech Here at Home by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2009 While the Ayattolahs in Iran are intimidating people into ceasing their criticism of the government, U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are doing the same here in the United States, specifically in the trial of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which is currently taking place in Las Vegas. Upset with critical comments posted by American citizens regarding the prosecution of a ...
The Right to Torture Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2009 Conservatives are protesting a federal judge’s ruling that torture victim Jose Padilla’s civil lawsuit against former Justice Department attorney John Yoo be permitted to continue. The conservatives feel that Yoo, who authored some of the infamous torture memos for the Bush White House, should be immune from lawsuits from Americans who were tortured as ...
