Spending on Defense Is One Great Big Lie by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2019 Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson is worried. He thinks that maybe — just maybe — the U.S. government is not spending enough on defense. In a column entitled, “Here’s Why We Could Be Under-Spending on Defense,” Samuelson has come up with a complicated formula that has caused him to fear that China and Russia might actually be spending ...
Why No Congressional Investigation into Epstein’s Intelligence Connections? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 21, 2019 With convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein now dead, the Justice Department has launched an investigation into prison procedures that allowed him to commit suicide. Meanwhile, women who were sexually abused or raped by Epstein when they were minors are continuing civil actions against Epstein’s estate. But why no congressional investigation into Epstein’s relationship, if any, to ...
End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else by Jacob G. Hornberger August 20, 2019 Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are calling on the U.S. Congress to reevaluate U.S. foreign aid to the Israeli government. Their reason? Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied entry into Israel for the two of them, owing to their public support of the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions movement, a global protest against the Israeli government’s longtime mistreatment ...
Greenland and Denmark, Prepare Your Defenses! by Jacob G. Hornberger August 19, 2019 Both Denmark and Greenland are reacting negatively to President Trump’s expressed interest in purchasing Greenland, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederikson called Trump’s idea “absurd.” A spokesman for Greenland’s premier Kim Kielson, stated, “Greenland is not for sale.” Is that the end of the controversy? Not necessarily. Just ask ...
Israeli and U.S. Destruction of Freedom of Travel by Jacob G. Hornberger August 16, 2019 Proponents of trade and immigration controls oftentimes forget that there is another factor that comes with their socialist immigration system, that is, in addition to the death, suffering, police state, and destruction of the rights of economic liberty, liberty of contract, freedom of association, and private ownership of property. That factor is the destruction of freedom of ...
Right-Wing Political Pablum by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2019 Former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh has issued a no-holds-barred call for a right-wing Republican to run against President Trump in the Republican primaries. Walsh’s call appeared in an op-ed entitled “Trump Needs a Primary Challenge” that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. Walsh is obviously not satisfied with the current primary challenger to ...
Maduro’s Brutality Reminds Us of U.S. Brutality by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2019 When I was kid, the last thing I ever thought was that I would end up living in a country whose government has the power to torture people. I was taught that only brutal dictatorships do that. And yet, here I am, many years later, living under a government that is empowered to torture people, including American ...
Should Libertarians Support Trump’s Immigration Raids? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2019 Libertarian supporters of immigration controls are remaining conspicuously silent about President Trump’s latest immigration raids. What’s up with that? Wouldn’t you think that people who support America’s system of immigration controls would be praising such raids? Actually, it’s a good thing such libertarians are remaining silent, just as they remain silent about the other enforcement measures ...
680 Down, 10 Million to Go by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2019 No doubt trying to break President Obama’s record for deporting illegal immigrants, President Trump had his immigration gendarmes conduct secretive immigration raids at workplaces in Mississippi, which succeeded in rounding up and arresting 680 suspected illegal immigrant workers. That means that Trump’s people have to arrest only 10 million more in order to achieve his dream of ...
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and the El Paso Killings by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2019 Leftists are tripping over themselves in their attempt to blame President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for one of the nation’s latest killing sprees, the one in El Paso, where the killer posted an online screed complaining about the “invasion” of illegal immigrants. Of course, the left is having a more difficult time trying to tie Trump’s rhetoric to the simultaneous ...
Welfare-Warfare State “Freedom” and “Patriotism” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2019 A 13-year-old boy has just received a lesson in “patriotism” at a Montana county fair. He suffered a fractured skull and several hours of bleeding from his ears for refusing to remove his hat during the singing of the National Anthem. That’s because 39-year-old Curt James Brockwell picked the kid up by his throat and slammed him into the ...
Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger August 6, 2019 The U.S. Empire, which controls much of the world through hundreds of military bases in foreign countries, through foreign regimes run by domestic U.S. puppets, and through foreign dependency on U.S. foreign aid, got its start in 1898 during the Spanish American War. It was that war that enabled the Empire to acquire its imperialist domain in Cuba known ...
