Archive for December 2006
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Wednesday 27th December 2006
On Texas Radio & the Internet Thursday (12/28) 11 A.M. Eastern time
7:09 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
One more time: I’ll be on WBAP - the 50,000 watt Texas radio station - Thursday at 11 a.m Eastern. Brian Wilson (guest hosting for Mark Davis) and I will banter about the year in review. My cynicism may provoke some lively rebuttals from Dallas area callers….
You can listen live on the Internet here. The [...]
Monday 25th December 2006
LISTEN LIVE on Brian Wilson Show Tuesday (12/26) at Noon Eastern
12:46 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
MERRY CHRISTMAS, FOLKS! This is a great day to count one’s blessings.
Brian Wilson, one of the best talk show hosts in the country, invited me on his show tomorrow (Tuesday, 12/26) at Noon eastern. Should be plenty of laughs, giving a chance for holiday season curtsies to George W.
He will be guest hosting on WBAP, [...]
Saturday 23rd December 2006
America’s Best Political Philosopher?
12:28 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 29
SEE BELOW (@#%&@ blog software glitch):
Dilbert today is worth triple its weight in Harvard political philosophers. Scott Adams is no boot-burnisher.
This cartoon cuts to the heart of the fraud of contemporary democracy.
I am amused to hear talk of politicians having mandates when voters had a choice of squirrel abusers or secretary stranglers.
Amazing that there is far more truth [...]
Thursday 21st December 2006
George W. Bush, MAN OF THE YEAR
10:46 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
Reason.com is doing a feature on Man of the Year. Here’s my 2 cents:
George W. Bush is Man of the Year for vindicating cynics everywhere. Bush’s trumpeting of his illegal wiretaps and his championing of torture should quash mindless idealism about democracy. Bush capped off the year by impaling the Bill of Rights on the Military [...]
Sunday 17th December 2006
Iraqi Justice Coming to USA?
12:32 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 20
The New York Times has a great piece today on sham justice in Iraq. The US military now holds almost twice as many Iraqi detainees as it did when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. The U.S. set up a Central Criminal Court in Baghdad that usually has a Soviet-like disregard for due process. The system [...]
Monday 11th December 2006
Split Decision on Amazon
11:34 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
I was browsing the Amazon pages for a few of my books and noted some new reviews with varying perspectives.
Here’s one reader’s thoughts on Attention Deficit Democracy:
A fine contribution to the growing literature of liberty, November 2, 2006
Reviewer:
James Carpenter (Pennsville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
James Bovard’s Attention Deficit Democracy is an engaging, [...]
Friday 8th December 2006
American Conservative: Bush’s Torture/Dictatorship Scandal
2:21 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 52
Here is the full text of my piece on the Military Commissions Act & the torture scandal from the December 18, 2006 issue of the American Conservative.
It is good to see the screws tightening on some of these Bush rascals. This scandal could put an end to Bush II. [Comments Welcome at the End of [...]
The Fair Trade Fraud at 15
12:27 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
The front page of the Washington Post this morning shows a tearful photo of a Pearl Harbor veteran and others at ceremonies commemorating the 65th anniversary of the ‘day of infamy.’
That photo reminded me that, 15 years ago, I was being derided as a Japanese agent. (Yes, I did have a history before being labeled an Islamo-fascist [...]
Thursday 7th December 2006
Governments as Pathological Lying Screw-ups
1:40 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
The fine folks at the Foundation for Economic Education used another article of mine from the last century as their “timely classic” today. I enjoyed writing this piece even though it disqualified me from receiving an Exemplary Idealist Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - September 1999
Vol. 49 No. 9
Political Accounting
By James [...]
Wednesday 6th December 2006
The Great Gold Robbery
4:41 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 9
The Foundation for Economic Education featured as their “timely classic” today a 1999 article I did for their Freeman magazine on The Great Gold Robbery. Here’s the piece -
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - June 1999
The Great Gold Robbery
By James Bovard
James Bovard is the author of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and [...]
Sunday 3rd December 2006
Bush’s Torture Ticking Time Bomb
8:50 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
The American Conservative ran my piece on the Military Commissions Act and how the torture scandal may finish off the Bush presidency in their December 18, 2006 issue.
My impression is that the full article will be online soon. Here’s the lead and conclusion:
Sins of Commission
By James Bovard
Have Republicans become the party of torture, secret prisons, [...]