Archive for October 2010
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Sunday 31st October 2010
Politicians, the Biggest Halloween Horror
7:19 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Another classic from Oliphant….
The question from the little kid on the left side - - “Mommy - is politics a trick or treat?” -
- if only more adults thought to frame the issue that way….
Tuesday 26th October 2010
Demolition Derby Democracy, Crash #4283
8:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Comments: 7
The real irony is that people expect from progress from elections.
(cartoon by Tom Toles, Washington Post)
“De-Sacralizing Democracy” Refuted
8:15 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
The Campaign for Liberty reposted my FFF article on “De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty.”
The first comment, from last4ever from Salisbury, MD, was tell-tale: [quotes from my article in italics; his rebuttal is non-italicized]
“The combination of ignorant voters and conniving politicians is far more likely to ruin than to rescue this nation.”
(Duh!, your books [...]
Friday 22nd October 2010
Pentagon’s Biggest Lie? “No Surprises” Expected from WikiLeaks
10:45 am | Iraq | Lying | Secrecy | War crimes | Comments: 6
So the pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump.
Obama’s Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible - if not mutton-headed - as the Bush Pentagon believed.
No surprises expected in WikiLeaks Iraq war dump: Pentagon WASHINGTON [...]
Wednesday 20th October 2010
MP3 of my Lou Dobbs Radio Show interview on DARE
3:07 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
I had fun yesterday bantering with the guest host Dom Giordano on the Lou Dobbs Radio Show about DARE.
We agreed to disagree on whether it was a good thing to put police on a pedestal…
To hear the show, click on the MP3 here -
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Tuesday 19th October 2010
On Lou Dobbs Radio Show/Network Today (10/19) at 4:09 pm
2:48 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
I’ll be on the Lou Dobbs Show today at 4:09 pm (Eastern time) talking about the latest Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) debacle.
[UPDATED WITH THE TIME CHANGE]
Me & Mother Jones: Libertarian or Rapper?
1:33 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
Mother Jones has an article in their September/October issue challenging readers to guess whether one-line quotes (or antics) are from Rappers or from libertarians.
They used the first sentence of the last chapter of Lost Rights: “America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.”
When I wrote that book, I guessed that the above line would be [...]
Monday 18th October 2010
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
12:24 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | dictatorship | Comments: 9
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (July issue) - posted online today -
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
by James Bovard
In the 1770s, the British colonists living in America won their freedom from British rule thanks to the
Exposed: The Federal Reserve’s Toxic Waste
10:07 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Federal Reserve | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
from the new issue of The New Yorker
Thursday 14th October 2010
Mp3 of Interview with Brian Wilson Bashing Statism
3:11 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Talk Show ace Brian Wilson and I had fun yesterday stomping the $%&@! out of Statism.
The Tea Party also did some serious flak catching.
You can hear the interview by clicking on the WSPD link here.
Sunday 10th October 2010
A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat
10:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bailout | Federal Reserve | Ron Paul | Secrecy | Comments: 4
It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat….
The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for a [...]
Wednesday 6th October 2010
Prince George’s Police Latest Scandal: Too Stupid to Cheat
4:09 pm | Lying | Police | wool | Comments: 8
[UPDATED BELOW]
The Washington Post has another horror story on the PG Police. The Prince George’s County Police Academy apparently had a system of organized cheating for trainees that was so obvious that even the auditors noticed. (When an entire class gets perfect grades on a whole slew of tests, that’s a clue). [...]
Monday 4th October 2010
Why I Avoid Conspiracy Theories
2:50 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
I always suspected that this is how The System worked.
from the new issue of the New Yorker