Ron DeSantis and “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” by Jacob G. Hornberger September 23, 2022 Republicans and conservatives are still celebrating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s immigration antic with respect to his shipping and dumping immigrants in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. They are convinced that what DeSantis did was a brilliant political move because it supposedly exposed the hypocrisy of rich, elite progressives/liberals/Democrats who say they favor immigrants but then won’t take them into their ...
Humorous Aspects of Immigration Anxiety by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2022 I fully realize that it is difficult to find humor in an immigration system that continues to bring death, suffering, humiliation, and a police state to countless people. Nonetheless, even amidst the darkness surrounding America’s system of government-controlled borders, I just can’t help but laugh at some of funny aspects of the extreme immigration anxiety that strikes immigration-control ...
The CIA’s Zapruder Film Secrecy by Jacob G. Hornberger September 21, 2022 This coming December 15 is the newest deadline for the disclosure of the CIA’s 50-year-old records relating to the Kennedy assassination. In a recent article, I predicted that as the deadline approaches, the CIA will seek yet another extension of time for secrecy and that President Biden will deferentially grant it. The CIA will undoubtedly once ...
Distractions, Scapegoats, and Rot by Jacob G. Hornberger September 20, 2022 Out-of-control federal spending. Decades-long monetary debasement. A never-ending violent and corrupt drug war. A perpetual deadly and destructive war on terrorism. A mind-destroying educational system. Bankrupt socialist welfare programs, including Social Security and Medicare. A highly regulated and controlled society. Vicious trade wars. A decades-old immigration crisis. Invasions and occupations. Coups. Torture. Indefinite detention. Fomentation of foreign crises ...
Right-Wing Hypocrisy on DeSantis’s Clownish Thuggery by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2022 Right-wingers are making a big deal out of the decision by people in Martha’s Vineyard not to take into their homes the immigrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shipped to them a few days ago. The right-wingers are saying that feeding the immigrants and caring for them was not sufficient. The people of Martha’s Vineyard, they say, should ...
The Clownish Thuggery of DeSantis and Abbott by Jacob G. Hornberger September 16, 2022 You can tell how Republicans view illegal immigrants by the clownish thuggery in which two of their most revered governors are currently engaged. After arresting (kidnapping might be a better term) immigrants for violating sacred federal laws against illegal entry, DeSantis and Abbott then have them involuntarily transported to Washington, D.C., or Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the transporters ...
Chile’s Lessons for Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger September 15, 2022 NOTE: Our upcoming online Zoom conference "End Inflation and the Fed" kicks off on Monday, October 3, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with Richard Ebeling. Richard teaches economics at the Citadel and is co-host of FFF's weekly Internet show, the Libertarian Angle. He is former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and former Ludwig von ...
The Unnecessary War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2022 After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials decided to invade Afghanistan. Never mind that the federal government produced no evidence of complicity of the Taliban government in the attacks. Never mind that there was no congressional declaration of war against Afghanistan, as the Constitution requires. Never mind that Afghanistan had been legally justified in refusing President Bush’s ...
Military Self-Delusion on the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger September 13, 2022 Several former U.S. defense secretaries and retired generals recently published an open letter about the current political environment in America. The letter stated, among other things: “Military officers swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not an oath of fealty to an individual or to an office.” That’s just pure nonsense and self-delusion. Oh, ...
The Big Lie of 9/11 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 12, 2022 Yesterday -- September 11 -- the Los Angeles Times carried an op-ed entitled “A History of the ‘Big Lie,’ from Plato to TikTok.” The article stated, “If you look back at history, lying is as old as humans.” The author, Mark Kurlansky, points to several examples of lies, including lies told by the Soviets, the Nazis, ...
America’s Immigration Death Machine by Jacob G. Hornberger September 9, 2022 A Texas judge recently denied bond to 28-year-old Christian Martinez, one of the two men who have been indicted for the roles they allegedly played in the deaths of 53 migrants in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. Everyone was shocked over the deaths. Yesterday immigration officials discovered the bodies of nine migrants who drowned ...
My Prediction on the CIA’s Secret Assassination Files by Jacob G. Hornberger September 8, 2022 This coming December 15 is the date that President Biden set for the release of the CIA’s long-secret JFK-related records. I would like to place my prediction on the record three months in advance of that deadline. I predict that the CIA will, once again, request Biden to, once again, extend the time for secrecy. Further Biden, citing ...
