Archive for January 2009
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Wednesday 28th January 2009
More Bush Freedom Hokum
8:00 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my piece on Bush’s rhetoric from the October issue of Freedom Daily.
After all of his huffing and puffing on freedom, it is no surprise that Bush will set up a Freedom Institute.
Heck, I was looking for a good punchline on that inanity, but it may be impossible [...]
Tuesday 27th January 2009
Roberta Novello - My Old Nemesis Back in the News
4:18 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
The last time I wrote about Roberta Novello, she was doing a prohibitionist ax-swinging routine against a company that made Crazy Horse Malt Liquor. I am a fan neither of malt liquor nor Crazy Horse, but Novelli’s heavy-handed demagoguery was too much to bear. Posted below is an article I did for the Wall Street [...]
Monday 26th January 2009
Ten Thousand Czars
11:27 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
FreedomPolitics.com, the new website produced by the Orange County Register, posted online today a piece I did back in 2000 on Czar mania. (The article was a spinoff from Freedom in Chains).
Once more around the track for this one….
TEN THOUSAND CZARS
by James Bovard
The Founding Fathers sought to build a government that was constrained both by [...]
Saturday 24th January 2009
Still Ragging on AmeriCorps
3:58 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
I was interviewed by a Christian Science Monitor reporter recently about AmeriCorps. The Obama administration is talking about greatly increasing the enrollment in activities like the ‘civilian conservation corps.’
Here’s an outtake from the article:
Critics point out such programs have proven inefficient in the past. “This is the type of thing that is driven by trying [...]
Monday 19th January 2009
Gaza Slaughter “A Product of Circumstance”
11:08 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced today that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were “a product of circumstance.”
Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: “These matters will present us with a complicated task … The consequences, in the context of civilians casualties, are something we [...]
Sunday 18th January 2009
Readin’ Ain’t What it Used to Be
4:08 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Kudos to cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman for capturing the demise of reading better than a stack of volumes by contemporary professors and a heap of studies by the National Endowment for the Arts. [Click on the cartoon for a full size version of the Zits cartoon]
Unfortunately, the “experts” respond to this problem by recommending dousing [...]
Thursday 8th January 2009
Nitwit Senate Resolution on Gaza
11:14 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 13
So the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed by voice vote a resolution blindly supporting Israeli attacks on Gaza and heaping derision on Hamas.
This craven display should awaken anyone who sanguinely assumed that “everything changed” on November 4.
The resolution contained numerous twists of history, but the most glaring absurdity is the following:
“Whereas Hamas was founded with the [...]
Tuesday 6th January 2009
Why Not Kill all Gazans?
1:20 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 17
Reading the justifications that Israeli supporters are offering for the IDF assault, I don’t see any rationale being offered that would not justify killing everyone in Gaza.
If a single rocket is fired from Gaza territory, does that mean that everyone living in that area has automatically forfeited their life? The New York Times notes today that Israeli [...]