Archive for March 2006

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Tuesday 7th March 2006

Live Link to Radio Show Today - 1 p.m. - Gardner Goldsmith, New Hampshire radio

9:02 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 0

I will be on the Gardner Goldsmith show today (Tuesday) at 1 p.m.   You can listen live, or dial in to WNTK and affiliates in the New Hampshire/New England area.
Gardner is a hardliner radio host, gung-ho on promoting freedom and alerting people to the perils of politicians of all stripes and scents.  We will be [...]

Monday 6th March 2006

FFF uncorks my piece on the Federal Farming Takeover

9:09 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my Freedom Daily article on FDR’s takeover of American agriculture. The piece is re-posted today at LewRockwell.com. Here’s an outtake:
The history of agricultural policy is a history of endless political finagling, of bureaucracies that always lagged behind the pace of events, of policymakers’ appalling misperceptions that repeatedly destroyed [...]

Sunday 5th March 2006

Albanian Backlash against the book begins

6:55 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Uncategorized | Comments: 6

The Albanian Anti-Defamation League has launched its first attack on Attention Deficit Democracy.  A  woman who calls herself Kristina Albania - and who confesses that her nickname is “blerta” - angrily attacked the book yesterday in a “customer” (fat chance) review on Amazon. 
From the Amazon page for Attention Deficit Democracy -  
Title of Customer Review: [...]

Another Brazilian Hit and a Portuguese language review

3:23 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

My piece on the absurd definitions of the “suspected terrorists,” published last month in the Los Angeles Times, was translated and published by Jornal O Estado de Sno Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers. It was posted online by a Brazilian business lobby here.  
The generous review essay published by Counterpunch was translated into Portuguese and [...]

Wednesday 1st March 2006

Reason magazine runs my hit on TSA Killers & Apologists

4:46 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 0

The March issue of Reason contains my piece on the servile media coverage of the TSA’s killing of an airline passenger in Miami. The feds falsely claimed that Rigoberto Alpizar had run down the aisle of the plane shouting about having a bomb before G-men plugged him.
Unfortunately, the media has almost completely ignored this story [...]