Archive | February, 2008

McCain’s Forgotten Drug Fix

Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist,  his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten. If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the crimes that Cindy McCain committed, the black woman might have been sent to […]

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Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?

That’s a rhetorical question, right? Actually, it’s the title of the most recently posted article of mine from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily. Even though elections did not guarantee freedom in the past, we can be confident they will do so this year because [redacted by FBI web editor] DO ELECTIONS GUARANTEE FREEDOM?     […]

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My Favorite Cartoon (from Playboy 2002)

Clay Butler did this wonderful cartoon for Playboy for a 2002 article of mine bashing the Patriot Act.  His cartoon was so good that I urged St. Martin’s/Palgrave to use it for the cover of Terrorism & Tyranny.  Alack – my editors there did not share my mania for cartoons. The full size of the cartoon […]

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Brian Wilson Sweeps Ohio

Actually, maybe ‘cleans up Toledo’ would be a more accurate headline. The Toledo Blade, a newspaper that Brian has treated with the same affection that Nixon lavished on the Washington Post, has a hefty, mostly glowing profile of Brian today here.  I’m glad to see his superb talent getting recognized in print.   I was […]

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MP3 Now Online of My Interview on Ron Paul etc. With Goyette

My interview from last Thursday with Charles Goyette is now online here.  Thanks to Scott Horton at Antiwar.com for posting it.  Charles and I had a rollicking discussion – covering torture, Iraq, and some of the struggles of the Ron Paul campaign.   The interview is 16 minutes.  Most of the discussion about the Paul campaign […]

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