Archive for February 2010
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Sunday 28th February 2010
The Great Democratic Patriot Act Double-Cross
10:17 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
What’s the point of voting for Democrats if they are going to act like Bush-bots in rubberstamping FBI National Security Letters shredding the Fourth Amendment?
Good to see the left-wing websites hammering Obama, Leahy, and Rep. Nadler for sanctifying and perpetuating some of the worst abuses of the post 9/11 era.
Alternet’s whack is here.
Fire Dog Lake’s [...]
Life Story of a Federal Reserve Governor
9:47 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
… or of some poohbah bailed out by the Fed or by some other group of political racketeers.
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Monday 22nd February 2010
Congratulations Thomas Szasz! The Preface to the 50th Anniversary Edition of THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS
11:22 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Next year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Szasz’s classic The Myth of Mental Illness.
Szasz has written a preface for the 50th anniversary edition. You can read it here on LewRockwell.com today. This essay deftly captures the controversies and changing battlefield over the past half century.
Szasz’s conclusion perfectly captures the [...]
Sunday 21st February 2010
Conservative Political Action Conference Highlights
9:07 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 8
One of the heroes of the CPAC attendees:
John Bolton Harvests Young Souls:
Ann Coulter Bodyguard (Tonya Harding wasn’t hiring this month)
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Saturday 20th February 2010
Podcast from CPAC Interview with Brian Wilson
10:26 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
I stopped by Brian Wilson’s radio booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday.
Click on brian-wilson-2-19-10-cpac-bovard to listen to the interview.
I doubt that the Tea Party folks will be coming to either Brian or I for a testimonial any time soon.
I continue my campaign to get “boarhawg” recognized as a legitimate verb by the Oxford [...]
Wednesday 17th February 2010
Frightening Voters Into Submission
11:16 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | Comments: 9
From the November 2009 issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily…
Frightening Voters Into Submission
by James Bovard
Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has a new book out that reveals that he almost resigned because the Bush administration was hustling bogus terror alerts before the 2004 election. Ridge’s revelation was not surprising to people who had [...]
Tuesday 16th February 2010
On Russian TV Talking About American Dictatorial Power
10:53 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Freedom | Obama | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 0
I was on Russian Television (the English language edition) last night talking about all the “emergency” declarations and power grabs by recent presidents. The interview on “The Alyona Show”  starts about 6 minutes into this YouTube segment here.
It was ironic to be commenting on the danger of excessive presidential power on Russian TV….
Perhaps at some point the mainstream [...]
Thursday 4th February 2010
My Early Optimism on the War on Terror & Civil Liberties
10:52 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Freedom | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | dictatorship | Comments: 4
I had forgotten about the following riff until stumbling across it a few days ago.
In late September 2001, Reason magazine asked a handful of folks “to discuss which civil lliberties they thought were most at risk in what has been called America’s first 21st century war.” They published the responses in an article entitled, [...]
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Washington Post: Subjugation as “Apple Pie”
1:53 pm | Obama | wool | Comments: 0
“How Can Apple Pie Suddenly Turn Bad?” reads the headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post.
The article talks of the tragic development that Obama’s health care plan appears to be sinking.
The fact that Americans would object to increased political control over health care is so completely inconceivable to Washington Post reporters and [...]