The most profound and ominous aspect of the controversy surrounding the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador is that the Trump administration has figured out a way to circumvent the right of habeas corpus, not just for foreigners but also for the...
Jacob G. Hornberger
America the Ugly
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump might have inadvertently come up with the perfect solution to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis. That solution entails making America so ugly that foreigners will no longer want to come here. After all, that’s...

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S....

Trump’s Third Term
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with...
A Powerful Government and a Weak Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
For many Americans, it is an article of faith that a vast and powerful federal government equals a great and strong nation. Actually, it’s the exact opposite. The more powerful the federal government, the weaker the nation. Contrariwise, the smaller and weaker the...
Voice of America Has No Place in a Free Society
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
Statists are up in arms over President Trump’s decision to terminate the Voice of America and other U.S. government propaganda outlets that fall under the control of a federal entity called the U.S. Agency for Global Media. USAGM also encompasses Radio...
President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
It has now been two months since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. The question naturally arises: Where are those long-secret JFK Records that he repeatedly promised to release to the American people? Or to be more precise, why are those long-secret JFK records...
DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Died for Nothing
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a desperate attempt to placate President Trump in the hope of averting his imposition of a 25 percent tariff on her nation, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum recently sent a Mexican citizen named Rafael Caro Quintero to Trump. Caro Quintero is alleged to have...
NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole...
Is Trump Risking His Life with Russia and Ukraine?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
If you want to get a sense of what President Kennedy was up against with his Peace Speech at American University a few months before he was taken out, just look at the reaction to President Trump’s friendly overtures toward Russia in the last few days. The mainstream...
Why the Mainstream Media Is in Trouble
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
As most everyone knows, the mainstream media is hurting, big time. For many years, subscriptions and advertising revenue have been plummeting. Some of the big papers have been able to survive only by having some multimillionaire bail them out with his own money and be...
The Moral Depravity of US Sanctions and Embargoes
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela....
Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who...
Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by...
Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple...
Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years....
Our Official Enemies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
Whenever I see the vehement anti-Russia sentiment that pervades American society, I can’t help but think about Muhammad Ali. After Ali announced that he would not comply with the U.S. government’s draft notice, which almost certainly would have meant that he would...
Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes US Hypocrisy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here), the US government is prosecuting members of a small political group named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru” movement. The trial is taking place in US District Court in...
Russia Is Not Our Enemy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, it’s natural for Americans to conclude that Russia is our enemy. Not so. Our enemy is instead the US national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — the entity that is...
US Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the US Election
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming US presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the US government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today....
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