Archive for August 2010
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Tuesday 31st August 2010
Obama’s Bogus Exit Perfectly Captured
8:51 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 8
When the Washington Post’s Tom Toles is good, he’s great.
Will Obama Out-BS Bush on Iraq?
8:19 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Iraq | Lying | Obama | Comments: 4
Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq.
I’m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003.
I expect that [...]
Thursday 26th August 2010
9/11 as Government Blowback Day
2:11 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
Some church in Florida is planning on celebrating 9/11 by burning hundreds of Korans. Perhaps this will be the launchpad for bonfires across the nation of any book suspected of Muslim tendencies.
There’s a different 9/11 celebration going on in San Diego. Lawrence Ludlow emailed me about “Government Blowback Day.” I [...]
Wednesday 18th August 2010
The Crime of Lying to the FBI???
8:30 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Clinton | FBI | Justice Department | Lying | Rule of Law | dictatorship | lese majeste | Comments: 4
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a four-star sleazeball. But the feds had their chance to put him away and they failed to convince a jury on all charges except lying to the FBI.
This is one of the “crimes” that best illustrates the mirage of the Rule of Law in the U.S. FBI agents and [...]
Monday 16th August 2010
James J. Kilpatrick, RIP- the Conservative Literary Path Not Taken….
9:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 8
[updated at the bottom]James J. Kilpatrick passed away yesterday at the age of 89.
In his prime, and in his top notch writing, he was one of the best conservative stylists of the late 20th century. He gracefully combined earthiness and erudition to connect with Americans far and wide. When William F. Buckley passed away [...]
Friday 13th August 2010
A Web-Only Solution for Federal Agencies?
12:52 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Today’s Dilbert should cheer up American newspaper executives.
Is there any way to also get most federal agencies to go “web-only”?
Thursday 12th August 2010
How We Brought Freedom & Prosperity to Afghanistan
2:51 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Obama | Torture | Comments: 7
posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, from the May issue of Freedom Daily -
BRINGING FREEDOM & PROSPERITY TO AFGHANISTAN
by James Bovard
The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama
Wednesday 11th August 2010
Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive
5:21 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 5
The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round.
It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion [...]
Wednesday 4th August 2010
My 2 Cents on WikiLeaks, the FBI, and Assorted Hokum - Antiwar.com Transcript
4:18 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bob Barr | Bush | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 3
The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week’s interview. My comments on the Obama administration’s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret).
Bovard:
National Security letters have [...]
Tuesday 3rd August 2010
New U.S. Government Motto: Controlling Us to Secure Us
2:56 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 0
“If you don’t have control of the population, you can’t secure the population,” according to Brig. Gen. Frederick Hodges, director of operations for the NATO regional command in southern Afghanistan.
The front-page Washington Post piece with the above quote deals with Kandahar.
But it is also the motto for the U.S. government’s approach to [...]