Archive for July 2007
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Tuesday 24th July 2007
New Torture Scandal Update in American Conservative
2:30 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Torture | Comments: 15
The July 30 issue of American Conservative contains a piece I did updating the latest twists and turns of the torture scandal. Here’s the lead paragraph:
From the first days after the Abu Ghraib photos hit the airwaves, the torture scandal has epitomized the worst of the Bush presidency. A timid media, a cowardly opposition party, [...]
Monday 23rd July 2007
War Lies & the 2004 Election
10:27 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Comments: 7
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the April 2007 Freedom Daily on “War Lies & the 2004 Election.”
What sort of democracy allows rulers to perpetuate their power with brazen lies?
WAR LIES & THE 2004 ELECTION Freedom Daily April 2007
by James Bovard
Shortly after he was reelected, President Bush declared that American voters [...]
Friday 20th July 2007
My FFF Speech is Now Online at YouTube
10:56 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | dictatorship | Comments: 10
This is the talk from the Future of Freedom Foundation conference last month.
I’m not sure how the segments of the talk are broken out, but it is probably in segment 5 or 6 that I pull the rabbit out of the hat.
The questions from the audience were superb - the Q & A was zippety.
Here’s the [...]
Thursday 19th July 2007
New Bush Dictatorial Decree
10:25 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | dictatorship | Comments: 4
Just when my concerns about Bush were starting to subside….
Bush issued an executive order on Tuesday permitting the feds to seize the property of anyone who threatens “the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq” or who “undermin(e) efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”
Former Justice Department official Bruce [...]
Wednesday 18th July 2007
Deliberative Democracy Dementia
8:19 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Comments: 24
The Foundation for Economic Education posted online the pieces from the May issue of the Freeman. Here’s my two cents on Deliberative Democracy…. (There are a few extra line breaks in this text; I have cursed it quite thoroughly but the blog software remains recalcitrant).
“Deliberative Democracy” Dementia
By James Bovard
James Bovard (jim@jimbovard.com) is the author of [...]
Sunday 15th July 2007
Excellent Report on US Military’s Civilian Carnage in Iraq
3:55 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Iraq | Comments: 16
Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian have an excellent report in the new issue of Nation from interviews with 50 U.S. veterans on the carnage inflicted in Iraq.
Hedges, Al-Arian, and Nation deserve great credit for this report.
If the New York Times or the Washington Post had half as much gumption on this issue, Americans would be [...]
Wednesday 11th July 2007
Political Ethics Conundrum
9:32 am | Bovard | Comments: 15
from ThinkProgress.org’s summary of today’s headlines - following up on the story of Sen. Vitter’s phone number showing up on the DC’s madam’s list:
Sen. David Vitter visited a Canal Street brothel several times “beginning in the mid-1990s, paying $300 per hour for services at the bordello.” Attempting to defend Vitter against the “solicitation of prostitution [...]
Tuesday 3rd July 2007
Online Radio July 4th - 6 PM Eastern - Peter B. Collins
7:07 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 1
Peter Collins, the liberal West Coast radio host, will rebroadcast his recent interview with me tomorrow (Wed.) July 4th at 6 p.m. Eastern time, 3 p.m. Pacific. You can listen online here.
It is an hour interview. We had some hearty laughs - especially about a comparsion of Alberto Gonzales to a drunk SUV driver who crashes into ten [...]
Sunday 1st July 2007
I.H.S. LibertyGuide Reviews Attention Deficit Democracy
9:19 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 12
The Institute for Humane Studies’ LibertyGuide website reviewed Attention Deficit Democracy. Samuel DeConio, who is finishing a doctorate in political science, covered many of the book’s subjects in his article. I appreciate the time and effort he took to read and review A.D.D. His review is very thorough on several aspects of the book that [...]