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Wednesday 28th April 2010

Bush Secrecy - now in Portuguese

Murilo Leme kindly translated my recent Freedom Daily article on Bush Secrecy policies into Portuguese. Here’s his contribution -
LIBERDADE CADA DIA
O Legado de Sigilo de Bush
por James Bovard, Postado em 7 de abril de 2010
Muitos estadunidenses assumiram que o risco a sua liberdade representado pela administração Bush terminou quando George Bush saiu da Casa [...]

Make All Politicians Wear Microphones All the Time

9:31 pm | Democracy | Surveillance | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was wearing a microphone for a TV station as he went out and talked to the common people. But he ran into one elderly ingrate who didn’t burnish his boots.
After he got back into his chauffeured car, he groused that the woman was a “bigot” and wanted to [...]

Friday 23rd April 2010

Tea Party Pushback: Now I’m a Traitor, Racist, Communist, and Nazi

My Christian Science Monitor op-ed on the Tea Party movement is spurring some uplifting responses.
My article concluded, America needs real champions of freedom – not poorly informed Republican accomplices.” A phalanx of Tea Party activists rushed to vindicate their movement and prove me wrong.
Following is their rebuttal to the article:
Comments [...]

Tea Party: Pro-Torture, Pro-War, Pro-Freedom?

9:38 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 12

from today’s Christian Science Monitor -
‘Tea party’ activists: Do they hate liberals more than they love liberty?
A recent ‘tea party’ rally showed lots of anger toward President Obama, but little consistent support for liberty in America.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR——————————————————————————–
By James Bovard
posted April 23, 2010 at 10:05 am EDT
Rockville, Md. —
Many “tea party” activists staunchly oppose [...]

Thursday 22nd April 2010

Raging Bitch!

6:47 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4

After Germany ceased exporting my favorite beer (Dinkel Acker pilsner), it was hard times. I tottered on the edge of becoming a white wine drinker.
But I recently discovered a new beer that is not quite as good but very satisfying in its own way. It is from Flying Dog - a Frederick, MD [...]

Wednesday 21st April 2010

My Culpability for the Oklahoma City Bombing

I almost forgot my role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
No - I’ve never been to Oklahoma.
But a 1999 Los Angeles Times review of one of my books made similar points to what Bill Clinton made in his New York Times op-ed on Monday. The reviewer, Anthony Day, was horrified at my rejection [...]

Podcast of today’s Brian Wilson interview on Clinton’s Lethal Hypocrisy

5:24 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

Brian Wilson and I had a fun time kicking Bill Clinton’s article around today on WSPD. Here’s the podcast: jpb-radio-brian-wilson-4-21-2010-0555148a2 [click on the bold text to hear or download the show]
I also did the Ron Smith show today on WBAL in Baltimore. Ron and I had a rollicking time paying tribute to [...]

Tuesday 20th April 2010

The Slippery Definition of Extremism

The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this op-ed today….

The Slippery Definition of Extremism
by James Bovard
Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to permit government policies that few sober people [...]

Bill Clinton’s Lethal Hypocrisy on Government Violence

from Counterpunch today -
Bill Clinton on Violence and Government
A Lethal Hypocrisy
By JAMES BOVARD
Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times headlined: “Violence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.” The article settles any doubts [...]

Monday 19th April 2010

Podcast of April 19th Interview with Ernie Hancock

Legendary hellraiser and freedom fighter Ernie Hancock had me on his radio show today. We talked about the meaning of April 19th - Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc.
He tried to squeeze out a few predictions but I pretty much took a dive.
You can hear the show by clicking radio-jpb-2010-04-19-ernie-hancock-a-pmhere. (The [...]

Sunday 18th April 2010

Classic New Yorker Cartoons Updated for Our Times

9:45 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

Ace Hooligan at the Project for the New American Revolution has new, improved New Yorker cartoons here.
I understand that his quips have already been condemned by the Vatican and the Federal Reserve.

Thursday 15th April 2010

1994 Tax Day article: “The Growing IRS Dictatorship”

Tax Day is a time to pause to appreciate all that Washington does for us. Here’s a piece I wrote 16 years ago. Unfortunately, few newspapers or magazines are stooping to notice the danger of the IRS’s power these days.
The article was accepted by Wall Street Journal editorial features editor Amity Shlaes, and [...]

Podcast of Census-Bashing Interview on Free Talk Live

Mark Edge of Free Talk Live interviewed me yesterday on the Census, government surveillance, and other perils of our times.
The podcast is here. My interview is the final 20 minutes of the 2+ hour program.
I did not see the interview listed as a separate downloadable file. If I missed something [...]

Wednesday 14th April 2010

Happy 90th Birthday, Thomas Szasz!!

9:58 pm | Freedom | Comments: 2

April 15 is the 90th birthday of Thomas Szasz, one of the great heroes of freedom in our time. Thanks to his work, millions of people around the globe have had fewer shackles on their lives.
His most famous book is The Myth of Mental Illness. In the nearly 50 years since that came [...]

Kudos to the Libertarian Party of Ohio

The Libertarian Party of Ohio (www.lpo.org) held their annual convention last weekend in Worthington, Ohio. I was there for a Saturday night spiel, and it was a treat to meet so many folks gung-ho to fight for freedom. Many of their activists had a fervor about them which I rarely see inside the [...]

Monday 12th April 2010

The Missing Miranda Warning for your Census Form

1:18 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

from the April 12, 2010 issue of the New Yorker

Thursday 8th April 2010

The National Endowment for Democracy’s Kyrgyzstan Legacy

12:17 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

This is a photo of an undercover policeman kicking the head of a Kyrgyz demonstrator this week.
The National Endowment for Democracy and the Bush adminsitration were proud of their role in the uprising that led to the current government taking power in Kyrgyzstan.
Maybe the Endowment’s apologists will claim that the demonstrator is getting [...]

Wednesday 7th April 2010

The Bush Secrecy Legacy

12:08 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

from the January issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily….
The Bush Secrecy Legacy Freedom Daily January 2010
by James Bovard
Many Americans assumed that the Bush administration’s peril to their freedom ended when George Bush exited the White House on January 20, 2009. Unfortunately, the precedents [...]

Tuesday 6th April 2010

Killing Journalists as Video Game Sport

Three cheers for Wikileaks. Their posting of a 38-minute video from an Apache helilcopter showing U.S. gunners killing two Reuters journalists (and ten other civilians) in 2007 is heroic. Naturally, the Pentagon had endlessly scorned Reuters’ Freedom of Information Act and other efforts to get the video.
The video and a transcript of [...]

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