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Monday 31st January 2011

Egypt: A Great Poster & Hillary Clinton’s Lies Translated

BRAVO!
And the following video - titled HOW TO INTERPRET A STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING - is 24 karat satire. And it is a helluva lot more honest than anything that Hillary Clinton has said since law school.

Saturday 29th January 2011

Egyptian Uprising: An Inspirational Video and Great Photo

8:25 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The above photo is from the Egyptian protests this week. Hat tip to Robert A. Wicks. (I am not sure if he made the poster. If someone knows the author of this photo/poster, please advise and will give fuller credit).
THE two-minute video below was produced by Tamer Shaaban. It [...]

Brian Wilson Thumps the Toledo Blade

8:55 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 4

The great libertarian talk show host Brian Wilson has written the definitive rebuttal of the Toledo Blade’s attacks on his earlier this month. You can read his demolition of the Blade here, at the Toledo Free Press.
Brian has done damn fine hell-raising ever since he arrived in at WSPD in Toledo, and this latest [...]

Friday 28th January 2011

Three Cheers for Egyptians and for Al Jazeera!

9:22 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

It is great to see so many people with the courage to risk all defying a corrupt, oppressive government.
It is great to see the party headquarters of a corrupt regime going up in flames.
And it is great to see American politicians squirming as the authoritarian tool they have bankrolled for 30 years totters and looks [...]

Wednesday 26th January 2011

My 2 Cents on Obama’s State of the Union Address

The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech.
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The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of This Moment [...]

Tuesday 25th January 2011

Thoughts on Obama’s State of the Union Speech?

4:01 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Comments: 4

The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow.
I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech - or what they think of the actual spiel.
This would be a terrible night to run [...]

Monday 24th January 2011

My Office Motto

10:10 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 9

[from the new issue of the New Yorker]
Hell, if my office looked like a mausoleum like this one does, I’d be a negative thinker, too.
Geez, did this guy have a zombie design his office?
There are no cigar butts, no pair of pliers to adjust the chair, no stack of empty Remington ammo boxes, and no [...]

Our Know Nothing Foreign Policy (full text)

The American Conservative placed online today the full text of my review of Magic and Mayhem.
Worst and Brightest
Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages
By James Bovard
In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading con [...]

Thursday 20th January 2011

JFK+50: Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy

I received a copy of the March issue of the American Conservative in the mail today. Here are some brief outtakes from a book review (totaling @ 2000 words) I wrote in that issue on the general theme of Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy :
*In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign policy experts [...]

Monday 17th January 2011

Good Government Guns II : My Treason

The satire I reposted yesterday was spurred by this article I wrote for American Spectator. It’s always satisfying when a piece spurs a Brooklyn philosophy professor to urge that I be prosecuted for treason……[thanks to WRSA for that photo....]
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Sunday 16th January 2011

Good Government Guns? Time to Disarm G-Men?

2:26 pm | Clinton | Police | Rule of Law | Comments: 8

After listening to the media chatter about the evil of private guns for the past week, I couldn’t resist reposting this satire published by the Los Angeles Times in the wake of Janet Reno’s raid to nab Elian Gonzalez. The piece generated some very hostile letters to the editor, reprinted below.
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Saturday 15th January 2011

Brian Wilson’s Latest Knockout in Toledo

9:15 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

Toledo is best known in sports history as the location where Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title by a knockout back in 1919.
This past week saw another knockout - this one self-inflicted by the Toledo Blade in its clumsy attempts to smear talk show host Brian Wilson. Wilson effectively toppled Toledo’s Mayor-for-Life Carly [...]

Thursday 13th January 2011

Speaking on the Patriot Act on a CPAC Panel Next Month…

I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. [...]

The Right to Resist Government

1:25 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5

The good folks at the Foundation for Economic Education reposted an article this week that I wrote for The Freeman back in 2000.
Here’s my hat tip to moderation…..
The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty //http://www.thefreemanonline.org
The Right of Resistance
by James Bovard • August 2000 • Vol. 50/Issue 8
James Bovard is the author of [...]

Tuesday 11th January 2011

“Have You Changed Your Tone Because of the Arizona Shootings?”

10:03 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 7

That’s the headline on a Washington Post online article seeking comments from people about how the rampage by an Arizona nut case reform themselves. Here’s the article’s pitch:
Reporter Sandhya Somashekhar is looking to interview people who have seen changes in conversations around the dinner table or at work because of the Arizona shootings. We [...]

Friday 7th January 2011

Our New Terrorist-Tainted House Homeland Security Committee Chief

11:43 am | Congress | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 8

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
This dude knows all about terrorism, since he has spent decades doing big-time fundraising for the Irish Republican Army.
Muckraker/hell-raiser/freedom-fighter Will Grigg has an excellent piece on King’s hypocrisy on LewRockwell.com today.

Burnishing My Terrorist Credentials…

9:01 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 4

…. or maybe just boosting my rating on the Terrorist Watch List.
From Press TV

Any Suggestions for Fine-Tuning or Redesigning this Blog???

8:49 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

I’m probably going to update this blog in the next week or two. I will be adding “Add-On” buttons (to easily post blog entries to Facebook, Twitter, etc.), a direct link to my Amazon book page, perhaps a rotating set of quotations, and slightly darker typeset (if possible).
Are there other changes that would make this [...]

Wednesday 5th January 2011

Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the September issue of Freedom Daily - (also on Counterpunch)
Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush
by James Bovard
The Tea Party movement is challenging politicians and political establishments in many parts of this country. Many Tea Party supporters define [...]

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