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Archive for January 2007

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Wednesday 31st January 2007

Toledo Mayor “Squeals Like a Pig”

5:37 pm | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 8

Talk show host Brian Wilson added another notch to his holster (or whatever) today.
A federal judge slapped a permanent injunction on mayor Carty Finkbeiner (don’t blame me, I didn’t make the name up) and the city of Toledo.
Unfortunately, Wilson doesn’t drink beer, so he will not be celebrating properly tonight.
Here are some details from the [...]

My Amazon Profile Page

10:55 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

Amazon has started creating profile pages for authors, including links to all of their books offered by Amazon. My profile page is here.
Several of my books are also for sale at the Laissez-Faire Books website here.
Amazon is not carrying Arabic works (as far as I know). The Arabic language version of Bush Betrayal is available [...]

Monday 29th January 2007

America’s Previous Antiterrorism Disasters in Lebanon

In his State of the Union message last week, George Bush rattled his saber towards Hezbollah, trying to make it sound almost as frightening as Al Qaeda. This was typical Bush hokum. The history of U.S. intervention in Lebanon proves that America should stay the heck out of that country.
I wrote the following piece last August; it appeared in the Future of [...]

Subversive Photos from the DC Antiwar Rally 1/27/07

SEE PHOTO BELOW (@#$# software)
This was my favorite photo from Saturday’s demonstration. Where is the Secret Service when you need it?
I have 10 other photos posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bovard/
I am tottering on the edge of getting the hang of some of this modern technology.
UPDATE 1/30: The Flickr page with the “Bush Swings by Congress” photo has [...]

Sunday 28th January 2007

Photos from Saturday’s Antiwar Demo

At Saturday’s antiwar demo in DC, it was good to see lots of folks fed up with Bush’s BS. And there were lots of great signs and comic relief.
I am in the process of loading my photos from the demo here. I will get more shots up tomorrow morning.
Claire Wolfe kindly posted several of my fav shots on her site this [...]

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

March on Washington this Saturday (Jan. 27)

This Saturday should see the biggest antiwar demonstration in Washington since September 2005. Details here.
I will be heading down to the big show. When I go to these events, I tend to saunter more than march, savoring the circus elements of these festivities and spending lots of time on the periphery.
Stopping Bush from expanding the Iraq [...]

Thursday 18th January 2007

LIVE ONLINE Friday (1/19) at 4:30 PM Eastern on Brian Wilson Show

Brian Wilson and I will be thrashing the Bush adminsitration’s latest dodges regarding its illegal surveillance tomorrow afternoon.
You can listen live here
Brian has been doing a great job whupping up on the mayor of Toledo, revealing the rascal as a two-bit censorship hack. There’s a photo of Brian here just before he smashed down the door [...]

Wednesday 17th January 2007

Bush’s Remote Control Martyrs

6:20 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 27

In the Tuesday interview for PBS Newshour, host Jim Lehrer asked Bush why he has not asked more AMericans.. to sacrifice something” for the war in Iraq.
The President replied: “I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible images of violence on [...]

Tuesday 16th January 2007

“Close Enough for Government Work” Torture

12:59 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 18

A newly-released Pentagon-funded study entitled “Educing Information” examines the “concerns about recent U.S. interrogation activities, subsequent investigations, and the efficacy of contemporary tactics, techniques, and procedures.”
Surprise, surprise: the U.S. government has little or no idea what it is doing when it tries to beat the truth out of people. A Washington Post story on the study [...]

Tuesday 9th January 2007

Surge & Dictatorship

8:54 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 44

The real issue in Bush’s speech Wednesday night is not the additional troops he intends to send to Iraq. The real issue is his nearly open proclamation of dictatorial powers.
Apparently, once a president lies a nation into war, he is entitled to absolute power for as long as he chooses. Regardless of how many Americans [...]

Thursday 4th January 2007

The Perils of Emergency Power

11:32 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 13

Freedom Daily September 2006 (posted online January 2007)
The Perils of Emergency Power
by James Bovard
The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans’ and other people’s financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may have conducted “hundreds [...]

Tuesday 2nd January 2007

What if Nixon had been Hanged?

3:28 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 38

Seeing the rave reviews on how Iraqis will benefit from the hanging of Saddam Hussein, and hearing the late Gerald Ford lauded today to the heavens, I can’t help wondering how American history might have changed if Richard Nixon had been hanged.
Of course, I’m not suggesting Nixon should have been hanged by a lynch mob. [...]

Thanks to Folks who Commented Here in ‘06!

12:39 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 22

I want to thank people whose comments enriched and enlivened this blog last year. I learned a lot from individuals who offered their thoughts on political events and on my writings.
This era of torture and military tribunals can be plenty grim at times, and the belly laughs I got from from witty comments around the world [...]

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