Archive for November 2010
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Tuesday 30th November 2010
WikiLeaks: Best Thumbnail Retort to Whining Govt. Officials
11:22 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
From the Guardian:
Sunday 28th November 2010
Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks, Exposing More Official Lies
9:43 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Democracy | Secrecy | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 8
Anyone who favors self-government should support the efforts by WikiLeaks to expose official lies. Their latest release of hundreds of thousands of State Department diplomatic cables will hopefully undermine the piety and pretentiousness of U.S. foreign policy for years.
The Obama administration is rolling out the same old “people will die!” hobgoblin in response [...]
Wednesday 24th November 2010
TSA: Attitude Fines for Complaining About Being Molested
11:15 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Surveillance | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 4
The Transportation Security Administration has a long history of stretching power far past the bounds of sense of decency. This 2008 piece from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily exposes the perils of a bad atttiude at the airport..
Freedom Daily, June 2008
Federal Attitude Police
by James Bovard
The Transportation Security Administration has created more gantlets [...]
TSA Screeners’ Forgotten 2004 Luggage Theft Rampage
8:40 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1
On this first National Opt-Out Day, good Americans are supposed to blindly trust the Transportation Security Administration.
But the TSA has had far more scandals than the media chooses to admit - or remember.
Following is a piece I wrote for the New York Times in August 2004 on the nationwide epidemic of [...]
Tuesday 23rd November 2010
TSA: Three Cheers for National Opt-Out Day!
4:36 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Freedom | Surveillance | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 6
National Opt-Out Day is a great response to the TSA’s damned outrages.
From the Opt-Out Day website:
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY!
It’s the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government’s desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an [...]
Thursday 18th November 2010
TSA hand work in the New York Times
10:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 10
Congratulations to everyone raising hell about the TSA. When the New York Times Business Section has to notice the hubbub, the issue has traction.
Wednesday 17th November 2010
TSA Busted: Ron Paul’s Reform Legislation
10:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Freedom | Ron Paul | Transportation Security Admin. | dictatorship | Comments: 5
Here is Ron Paul’s statement on HR 6416
Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act
Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation
TSA Tyranny: Ron Paul to Announce Legislation Today to Rein the Rascals in
1:15 pm | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1
from a Ron Paul Twitter: I will introduce legislation later today addressing TSA abuses. Look for my floor speech on C-SPAN, probably between 5-6 PM EST…
The Political Slaughterhouse
10:38 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | Obama | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 4
from today’s Counterpunch -
THE POLITICAL SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Statism
Tuesday 16th November 2010
The Mark Twain Prize Debacle: Another Reason to De-Fund PBS
9:19 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | wool | Comments: 2
Tina Fey, the Saturday Night Live performer who deftly satirized Sarah Palin, recently received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington. PBS broadcast much of the awards ceremony but deleted the most pointed paragraph in Fey’s acceptance speech in which she mock-praised “conservative women” such as Palin:
“And, you [...]
Wednesday 10th November 2010
Statism, the Greatest Threat
12:25 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 5
From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (August 2010 issue, posted online today…)
Statism, the Greatest Threat
by James Bovard
Pervasive confusion over the nature of government and freedom has opened the gates to perhaps the greatest, most widespread increase in political power in history. If we are to regain and safeguard our liberty, we must reject [...]
Monday 8th November 2010
A Better Book Cover Design for Bush’s Autobiography?
9:22 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | Iraq | Rule of Law | War crimes | wool | Comments: 9
The Washington Post had a giant version of the cover of Bush’s DECISION POINT in its Style section today. Bush is trying to look solemn but I suspect he is going to a baseball game.
I think this photo - entitled “Bush Swings by Congress” - I took at a January 2007 antiwar DC [...]
Claire Wolfe’s Great New Book: The Bad Attitude Guide to Good Citizenship
6:41 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 9
Claire Wolfe, the libertarian best-selling author of 101 Things to do Until the Revolution, has another bombshell book hitting the streets. The Bad Attitude to Good Citizenship provides a cavalcade of insights and inspirations on how to capture and defend your personal freedom. Claire sees through and shreds the mainstream political BS [...]
Thursday 4th November 2010
More Fine Hell-Raising by San Diego Libertarians/Anarchists
3:44 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | Comments: 13
Larry Ludlow and co-conspirators did some fine hell-raising on Election night. San Diego has a public hall where candidates gather and election results come in. Here is Larry’s summary of the action:
W e had lots of fun poking holes in democracy. Here are some photos. One of the candidates, a bald, [...]
Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Biggest Weasel Winners of the 2010 Election??
9:27 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Democracy | Comments: 11
Who is the biggest weasel amongst the newly elected politicians?
Andrew Cuomo, the new governor of New York, always does well in weasel ratings.
Richard Blumenthal, who lied all over Connecticut to make people think he had actually fought in the Vietnam war, is CONN’s new U.S. Senator.
What other newcomers deserve weasel accolades?
Unfortunately, the vast majority [...]
Monday 1st November 2010
Redundant????
1:49 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Democracy | Uncategorized | Comments: 9
from a photo posted on the Washington Post page for photos from the Jon Stewart rally on Saturday
- photo by “consistentflatcher”
Front Royal History photos from LIFE magazine
1:12 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
LIFE magazine has put its photo collection online, searchable by Google.
There is a gold mine of photos here from the battle over school integration in Front Royal, Virginia in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Most of the online photos are not yet identified.
Are there other good online resources of the end of [...]