Chuck Hobbs

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

“If the federal government can do it to ‘them,’ they can do it to ‘you’...” Chuck Hobbs, Facebook post regarding the arrest of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 2025 When it comes to suppressing the right to speak freely per the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Trump administration is consistently employing Gestapo-like tactics to crack down on those offering dissenting views about the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilian men, women, and...

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed what I firmly believe to be yet another patently illegal executive order, this time aiming to compel voters to produce passports or another form of federal identification in order to register and vote in federal elections. For the sake of hypothetical analysis, such an order—if legal—would impact millions of citizens, particularly the poor, who do not hold passports or similar forms of federal picture identification.

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

It is neither hyperbole or histrionics for me to state this morning that America is smack dab in the middle of a major constitutional crisis and looming showdown between the "separate" and "co-equal" Executive and Judicial Branches of Government. The facts:*Late last week, President Donald Trump announced plans to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel alleged Venezuelan gang affiliated migrants to Central America.

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

In Ancient Rome, to enforce discipline among its military, commanders often would order "decimation," which was the practice of killing one out of every ten soldiers among the ranks.

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

Five years ago today, the World Health Organization declared Covid 19 a "Global Pandemic" and within days, the world as I/we knew it was turned upside down! As a diabetic/hypertensive, my doctor sent me a text message that week telling me to isolate and that if I had to venture out, to mask up! Still very much in a state of disbelief, my skepticism quickly began to wane once the courts and schools made the wise choice to turn virtual later that week! Soon thereafter, essential items like...