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Archive for June 2011

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Tuesday 28th June 2011

Idolizing Absolute Power: Assassination Bloodlust

From today’s Counterpunch -
Assassination Bloodlust
Idolizing Absolute Power
by JAMES BOVARD
The Christian Science Monitor published a piece I wrote last month wrote opposing allowing the U.S. government to kill Americans without a warrant, trial, or any judicial niceties. The article, “Assassination Nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?,” spurred [...]

Friday 24th June 2011

MP3 of Today’s WGN Interview on Food Stamp Article

4:22 pm | Bush | Obama | Comments: 0

WGN’s Cisco Cotto and I had a rattlin’ good chat about that WSJ food stamp article this morning on Chicago radio.
You can hear the show by clicking (or downloading) on the following link: wls-cisco-cotto-june24jamesbovard

Wednesday 22nd June 2011

Wall Street Journal: Food Stamps for Millionaires

Wall Street Journal June 23, 2011
The Food-Stamp Crime Wave
By JAMES BOVARD
Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar “paperwork reduction” reforms advocated by the United States Department of [...]

Fear-mongering and Servitude

from the July-August issue of the Freeman -
Fear-Mongering and Servitude
by James Bovard
In his 1776 essay, “Thoughts on Government,” John Adams observed, “Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be [...]

Tuesday 21st June 2011

Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law

from the March issue of Freedom Daily….
Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law
by James Bovard
Last November, George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, hit the streets. And Americans could see firsthand the former president bragging about ordering torture. Bush wrote that when he was requested to approve the CIA’s waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he responded, [...]

Saturday 11th June 2011

“Bitter, Cantankerous, and Too Lazy to Shave”

6:46 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 13

My Wall Street Journal tribute to the highway department is spurring some incisive comments. I will revise my Blurb List later tonight.
William Gomes, commented posted at WSJ:
The real failure of Mr Bovard’s summer job was, it seems, making him into the bitter and cantankerous individual he is today…. I cannot imagine [...]

Thursday 9th June 2011

Wall Street Journal: My Summer Road to Perdition

10:08 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4

Here’s a pleasant jaunt down memory lane…. part of a project I’ve been whittlin’ on for awhile.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
.My Summer Road to Perdition
What did I learn as a young man laboring for the Virginia Highway Department? How to work slowly to slipshod standards.
By JAMES BOVARD
Mayors, governors and congressmen are busily hyping [...]

MP3 of Today’s Brian Wilson Show Turkey Shoot

10:04 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat this afternoon about foreign aid, Afghanistan, and whether Sheryl Crow (the Panty Peak star of the Country Music award show) should be labeled “middle aged.” I didn’t say she wasn’t cute.
Brian’s wit and wrath against the government makes for a fun show. [...]

MP3 of Today’s Interview with Ron Smith on WBAL

11:48 am | Afghanistan | Obama | wool | Comments: 0

It’s always fun to raise hell with Ron Smith in Baltimore. Ron had me on his WBAL show today and we had a good time flogging foreign aid and the Afghan debacle. Ron is one of the best informed talk show hosts out there, and it was neat to see what his [...]

Monday 6th June 2011

Barron’s: The Anti-Corruption Charade (full text)

Barron’s
Editorial Commentary
The Anti-Corruption Charade
by James Bovard
In much of the world, governing is a synonym for looting. Unfortunately, American and European foreign aid has a long history of accelerating the looting. Foreign aid created a generation of kleptocracies—governments of thieves—in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Mercedes-Benz automobiles became so popular among African government officials that [...]

Saturday 4th June 2011

Barron’s: Governing as Looting

7:17 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3

My tribute to foreign aid is the guest editorial in this week’s Barron’s. Here is an outtake they have posted online:
Editorial Commentary | SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011 The Anti-Corruption Charade
By JAMES BOVARD
If there’s free money to steal, there will be more stealing
In much of the world, governing is a synonym for looting. Unfortunately, [...]

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