Interventionism and Gun Control in Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2009 The situation in Iran is providing liberals with a harsh lesson about the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. It’s a lesson that our American ancestors understood very well. Here’s the lesson: Without the right to keep and bear arms, the rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly are meaningless. If tyrants own all ...
Using Waco “Blowback” to Suppress Dissent by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2009 Now that the Democrats are in charge of the White House, liberals are doing all they can to suppress criticism of big government. The newest strategy is to link criticism of big government to unlawful acts of violence, such as the shooting at the Holocaust Museum or the shooting of the abortion doctor. A good example ...
Were the Myerses Spying against U.S. Assassinations, Coups, Embargoes, and Invasions Against Cuba? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2009 The Washington establishment is agog over the arrest of Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers on charges of spying for Cuba. He’s the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell who worked for 30 years at the State Department, and she’s a housewife turned political activist. According to a front-page article in the New York Times today, “American officials say they are ...
Interventionism Comes with Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2009 American interventionists are upset with Barack Obama for not taking a more aggressive stand in favor of the protestors in Iran. Alas, the interventionists just don’t get it. While they themselves are lovers of the U.S. federal government, what they don’t understand is that such love is not shared by people in other parts ...
Federal Prosecutors Buckle on Abusive Subpoena in Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2009 Last Friday in my blog “Kahre’s Prosecutors Are Going Nutso,” I blogged about the abusive subpoena that federal prosecutors had served on the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The newspaper had published a news story about the trial of Robert Kahre, a Las Vegas businessman who is on trial in federal district court for paying his workers in gold and ...
Pull Out of Korea (and Everywhere Else) by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2009 Notwithstanding its occupations of two nations — Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Empire is at it again, fulfilling its role as the world’s international policeman, this time with respect to North Korea. Americans should hope that things don’t get out of control because if they do, there is little doubt that if war were ...
Padilla’s Lawsuit against Yoo to Proceed by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2009 Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, who authored some of infamous torture memos for the Bush administration, has just received an adverse ruling in a federal lawsuit brought by Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was incarcerated and tortured for several years by the U.S. military. Padilla had been arrested on American soil on suspicion ...
Kahre’s Prosecutors Are Going Nutso by Jacob G. Hornberger June 12, 2009 I have a hunch that things are not going well for the prosecution in the case of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which I blogged about last week. The reason that I say that is that it would seem the most likely explanation for the Las Vegas U.S. Attorney’s office going what can only be described as nutso. You’re not ...
The Idiocy of Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2009 The news media is reporting that an armed man shot and killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday with a 22-caliber rifle. That’s impossible. It just cannot be true. Don’t the media know that the Holocaust Museum is located in Washington, D.C.? Don’t they know that despite the recent U.S. Supreme Court ...
Who Are They Protecting? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2009 The Pentagon and the CIA are opposing the release of photographs that depict the torture and sex abuse of prisoners and detainees while in their custody. The basis for their objection is “national security.” Their argument goes like this: “Our personnel have done some horrendous things to people in our custody, so horrendous that we ...
Boumediene Confirms the Wisdom of Our Ancestors by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2009 In the debates leading up to the enactment of the U.S. Constitution, our American ancestors made a demand. If we accept the Constitution and the federal government it is calling into existence, they said, then we demand passage of a Bill of Rights immediately after the Constitution is adopted. The reason they made that demand ...
Pull Medicare and Medicaid Out by the Root by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2009 When I was kid growing up on a farm outside Laredo, Texas, I had the rather unfortunate experience of having to rid our lawn of weeds. The important thing I learned about weeds is that to get rid of them permanently, you have to pull them out by the root. If you simply cut off the branches or the ...
