Archive for April 2008
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Friday 25th April 2008
Listen Live Radio 2 pm Friday (4/25) Brian Wilson Show in Baltimore
8:14 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 7
Talk show legend Brian Wilson is back on air in Baltimore. As the Baltimore Sun reported a few weeks ago, “No matter what happens, Brian Wilson can’t seem to stay away from Baltimore for long.”
I will be on his program on WHFS (105.7 FM) at 2 pm today (Friday, 4/25). You can listen live here. [...]
Thursday 24th April 2008
Finally - a Good Ron Paul Antiwar TV Ad!
2:59 pm | Bovard | Ron Paul | Comments: 8
The folks at American Liberty Coalition have crafted a powerful antiwar ad promoting Ron Paul for president. This minute long ad conveys Ron Paul’s passion and his concern about the ruinous costs of the current wars and the peril of Bush attacking Iran.
The Liberty Coalition solicited donations to help pay for airing the ad, and [...]
Thursday 17th April 2008
Congress Quietly Repeals Martial Law Provision
8:42 am | Bovard | Comments: 8
In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as part of Public Law 110-181 (HR 4986), the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (signed into law [...]
Tuesday 15th April 2008
Ron Paul Supporters Rally at Capitol
5:00 pm | Bovard | Ron Paul | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
A couple hundred Ron Paul supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers @organized by the Granny Warriors.
I stopped by mid afternoon. I was told by one attendee that “Ron Paul came by and spoke around 11:15. Unfortunately, the sound system was not yet working at that point.” He said he had [...]
Wednesday 9th April 2008
White House Choreographed Torture Sessions
9:38 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Torture | Comments: 11
ABC has a bombshell tonight about how Cheney and other top Bush administration officials would sit at the White House and decide exactly how Muslim detainees would be tortured.
ABC noted: “The high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed — down to [...]
Martial Law Act of 2006
1:28 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Uncategorized | dictatorship | Comments: 3
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the January 2008 issue of Freedom Daily on Martial Law. Without further ado…
The Martial Law Act of 2006
by James Bovard
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make [...]
Tuesday 1st April 2008
$34 Million for the Ron Paul Prez Campaign
3:49 pm | Bovard | Ron Paul | Comments: 10
The latest financial disclosure forms indicate that more than $34 million has been raised by and for the Ron Paul campaign for president. The campaign has spent more than $28 million. The campaign had $5.5 million on hand at the end of February.
The Paul campaign also filed a disclosure listing more than 2500 itemized expenses. [...]