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Archive for April 2011

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Friday 29th April 2011

LawHobbit Launches New Blog - Humor Guaranteed

LawHobbit, one of the most astute (if not idealistic) commentors on this blog, now has his own blog. You can see GunHobbit here He welcomes comments, even from disgruntled G-men.
He promises “A lawyer’s view of guns and money. And politics. And hobbitry in general.”
I always get confused by that last term. Greaseman, [...]

Tuesday 26th April 2011

Press TV Interview on Idiotic US Wars & Idiot Policymakers

1:52 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

I worked hard to flatter my high-level contacts inside the Obama administration in an interview on the wisdom of US warring on Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
The link to the Press TV interview is here. The noise in the background is the sound of a new roof being put on my neighbor’s townhouse. [...]

Monday 25th April 2011

Misdefining Liberty

1:07 pm | Freedom | Comments: 5

from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (January 2011 issue)
MISDEFINING LIBERTY
by James Bovard
The definitions of liberty devised in ivory towers and elsewhere have a profound impact on political and judicial thinking. Regardless of how wrongheaded some concepts of liberty prevalent early last century may now appear, America’s legal structure is now based on those [...]

Saturday 23rd April 2011

Washington Crashes Everything

4:04 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

I could add four or five more federal issues waiting to crash.
But why would any reasonable person not expect the feds to continue being asleep at the control tower?
Another excellent cartoon the Post’s Tom Toles .

Thursday 21st April 2011

Ted Rall Nails Obama on Spreading Democacy to Libya

Wednesday 20th April 2011

Columbine Anniversary #12: The Forgotten Lies & Cowardice

11:55 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 9

The American Spectator
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Tuesday 19th April 2011

Waco Redux

11:16 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

This is the 18th anniversary of the FBI’s final assault at Waco. Here are a few pieces I wrote for the Wall Street Journal about Waco in 1995 during a brief window when Republicans claimed to be intent on discovering what actually happened at that debacle. Janet Reno’s comparison of a 54-ton tank [...]

MP3 of Interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton on Idiot Libyan Policymakers

From Antiwar.com: “James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses his article, “Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars;” the two-party “consensus of rascals” on US foreign policy; the “best and brightest” government policymakers who are blinded by arrogance, tunnel vision and echo chambers; and the confusion about whether disastrous foreign policy decisions [...]

Thursday 14th April 2011

Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play

Washington Times, April 15, 2011
Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars
by James Bovard
Congratulations - your tax payment is probably your biggest purchase of the year. The federal tax burden now amounts to more than $20,000 per household, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Your contribution to the Treasury coffers will permit Uncle [...]

Wednesday 13th April 2011

Absurdity of Trusting Foreign Policymakers

sent out this morn by the Future of Freedom Foundation…
The Absurdity of Trusting Foreign-Policy Makers
by James Bovard, April 13, 2011
The United States is attacking Libya on the basis of vague hopes that peace will triumph after the Allied bombing ceases. There are plenty of reasons to doubt whether a few hundred cruise missiles will beget [...]

Friday 8th April 2011

Obama’s Torture Regime?

Spencer Ackerman of Wired has an excellent piece today on the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command’s secret jails in Afghanistan. Ackerman notes:
Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm about these detention centers since 2009. Detainees who claim to have gone through the sites have told them about abuses inside the so-called “Black Jails” ranging [...]

Thursday 7th April 2011

MP3 of Interview on Brian Wilson Show: Libya, ICE, WPost, and other targets

WSPD’s Brian Wilson had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about various political villains and other scoundrels. You can listen to the @ 25 minute interview by clinking on the highlighted text below:
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Wednesday 6th April 2011

Wash. Post Editorial: Kill More Libyans Now!

The Washington Post has an editorial today fretting that the Obama administration has not killed enough Libyans. The Post warns that U.S. killing of more Libyans is the best way to assure a bright future for Libya. OK, that’s not verbatim - but this is: “The dangers of the military stalemate [...]

Listen Live at 5: On the Brian Wilson Radio Show (4/06)

2:10 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1

WSPD’s Brian Wilson - a great libertarian radio host - hell, a great radio host per se - is in DC this week helping keep an eye on all the damn rascal politicians.
I will be on his show a bit after 5 p.m. today (Wed., 4/06 - EASTERN TIME).
You can listen live by clicking [...]

Tuesday 5th April 2011

Lost Email Today: Servint crashed, so please resend…

4:35 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

My web and email provider, Servint, had a four hour collapse in service today. If you emailed anything my way this afternoon, it probably never arrived. Please resend.

Sunday 3rd April 2011

Hypocrisy: Killing 100,000 People is Foreign Policy

10:27 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

Reposted from the Facebook page of Vi Mizfitz.
Maybe the Voice of America could use this poster as their logo for helping foreigners understand how the U.S. government is rescuing them.

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