Archive for December 2009
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Tuesday 29th December 2009
The New Oxymoron: A Non-Sham Secretary of Education
1:28 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Washington Post today debunks the supposed stellar achievements of the Chicago schools system -the former domain of Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.
Earlier in this century, the supposed triumphs of the Houston school system - the main bragging point of Bush’s Education Secretary Rod Paige - also collapsed like a house of cards. [...]
Wednesday 23rd December 2009
On Michael Smerconish Program Today - Broadcast Time Varies
1:22 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Brian Wilson is guest hosting for Mike Smerconish on 40 stations around the country. Brian and I are chatting now until 2 pm Eastern time, paying tribute to America’s Dysfunctional Democracy.
The stations that carry the Smerconish show are listed here. The most popular station is WOR in New York City, which rebroadcasts the Smerconish [...]
Monday 21st December 2009
CANCELLED On with Brian Wilson Tuesday at 1 pm on SMERCONISH NETWORK
11:06 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
SCHEDULING GLITCH - CANCELLED
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Brian Wilson will be guest hosting for Mike Smerconish tomorrow on 40 stations around the country. Brian and I will chat from 1 pm to 2 pm Eastern time, paying tribute to America’s Dysfunctional Democracy.
The last time I talked to Brian, he disapproved of Obama. [...]
Wednesday 16th December 2009
Dinkel Acker Abandons American Beer Drinkers?
9:53 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 34
I contacted Dinkel Acker’s German headquarters regarding the news that the beer would no longer be sold in the United States.
I received the following courteous email today from Dinkel Acker’s Export Director, Christian Liess:
It is indeed the case that our business partner in the USA discontinued the import of Dinkelacker into the USA [...]
Battle of the Bulge Anniversary & Debacle: Unnecessary Carnage
4:06 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
This is the 65th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge. While most Americans who are aware of the battle learned of it through Hollywood movies that portrayed valiant U.S. resistance to the German Wehrmacht, the truth is far more embarrassing to the U.S. Supreme Commander.
The battle was completely unnecessary, and [...]
Monday 14th December 2009
Carbon Tromping with the Sierra Club
10:12 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
I did a couple hikes early last month with the Sierra Club.
Good folks, though there were theological tensions with some of ‘em.
Some lady was talking gravely about reducing her carbon footprint.
She got peeved when I suggested wearing tennis shoes instead of boots.
Sierra Club types are 100% pro-organic, but they seemed to make an [...]
The Great Beer Massacre of 2009!
9:42 pm | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 13
My all-time favorite beer is no longer being imported!
I have been a huge fan of Dinkel Acker, a wonderful German pilsner, for more than a decade. I would buy cases at a time, making it worthwhile to scamper across the Potomac to a state with civilized beer buying laws. (Montgomery County, Maryland, [...]
Friday 11th December 2009
How Bush Redefined American Freedom
11:36 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Bush Betrayal | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | Comments: 1
Posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation - from the September issue of Freedom Daily…
HOW GEORGE W. BUSH REDEFINED AMERICAN FREEDOM
by James Bovard
George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And [...]
Wednesday 9th December 2009
The Jim Beam Corrected Version of Boy Scout Creek Crossing Photo
8:39 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
{click on photo for full-size version}
Tom Blanton emailed me: “I’ve discovered a new tool in Photoshop that reveals things in pictures that couldn’t be seen before. Check out this new version of your scout picture.”
Never expected to see this photo hit by a “truth squad.”
This helps explain why I failed the final exam for Temperance [...]
Tuesday 8th December 2009
Boy Scouts & a Pro-Freedom Reaction
7:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
I appreciate the comments on the creek-crossing photo.
The Boy Scouts of America begin their 100th anniversary celebration on December 10, and I’m curious about the political impact of the Scouting experience.
I am wondering how many guys who were in the Scouts became more pro-freedom in response to the heavy-handed invocations of authority and [...]
Thursday 3rd December 2009
My Pre-Anarchist Motif
10:24 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 20
Update #2: Tom Blanton, of the Project for the New American Revolution, also kindly did an upgrade of the photo. Here is Tom’s version:
UPDATE: “Black Bloke” and Wes Baker kindly sent improved versions of the photo, now inserted at the top of this post. I’m not sure if Wes’s version will open [...]
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
John Brown: One Terrorist Who Deserved Hanging
8:38 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 13
This is the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. When he attacked Harper’s Ferry with a handful of followers, the butcher of Kansas helped sow the seeds of the Civil War. Few things would have made Brown happier than the thought of hundreds of thousands of people dying for [...]
Tuesday 1st December 2009
Will Obama Out-BS Bush?
12:09 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | Obama | Comments: 1
Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world.
The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps - talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single [...]