Archive for July 2008
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Thursday 24th July 2008
The George W. Bush Memorial Library
10:29 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 8
This is floating around the Internet; LawHobbit sent it to me, and it is too good not to post. If anyone knows the original source, let me know and I will properly credit it.
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The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still [...]
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Daniel Ellsberg’s Lessons for Our Time
10:53 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today an article of mine from the May issue of Freedom Daily. Without further adieu….
ELLSBERG’S LESSONS FOR OUR TIME
by James Bovard
Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of American who should receive a Medal of Freedom. Except that the Medals of Freedom are distributed by presidents who routinely give them [...]
Thursday 10th July 2008
FISA Bashing on Antiwar.com Radio
9:01 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com RADIO and I chatted about FISA and other obscenities on Tuesday. The MP3 is now online and accessible here.
Scott came up with a zippety title for the interview - “Attention Deficit Police State.”
Scott was spooked when I told him the FBI has added skateboarding as a warning sign for its latest updates to the terrorist [...]
Tuesday 8th July 2008
The Virtual Iran War Resolution
9:57 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
This is one of those times that I realize how deficient the English language is in profanity. Congressmen deserve far worse hammering than the vernacular allows.
Congress may vote for a resolution this week that would be a de facto declaration of war on Iran. Iran poses no peril to the U.S. mainland. But since the U.S. [...]
Saturday 5th July 2008
Kent Snyder, RIP
11:23 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Kent Snyder, the head of Ron Paul’s Liberty Study Committee and Ron’s right-hand man for much of the last 20 years, passed away last week.
I first recall meeting him when he invited me to talk to a regular dinner that congressman Paul held for fellow-minded members of Congress in the late 1990s. Kent was both [...]