Jacob Hornberger: Tyranny and Gun Control in Venezuela
"What the Venezuelan people are teaching Americans is that disarmament is a mistake that a nation can make only once."
"What the Venezuelan people are teaching Americans is that disarmament is a mistake that a nation can make only once."
"The watchlist would seem less perilous if the TSA were not one of the most incompetent agencies on Earth."
"The ACLU has sued over the practice of separating families at the border, though by the time that gets through the process, there will be much damage done to the children themselves, many if not most of whom came here seeking protection from violence in Central America. There’s also a strong argument that the policy violates international law and norms."
"The Canadian government funded Cameron with roughly $500,000 between 1950 and 1965 — $4 million in 2018 dollars, along with sizeable funding from the CIA."
"He confessed it was his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who doubted the intentions of the government’s intelligence agency."
"California police say they have arrested two people for abducting and attempting to deport a 21-year-old foreign flight school student."
"The US increasingly looks like a banana republic, where the permanent state and not the people get to decide who’s in charge."
"This is still our country. Don’t just sit there. Do something."
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."