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Archive for July 2011

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Saturday 30th July 2011

MP3 of my Raging Bitch Tribute on Brian Wilson Radio Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about Declan McCullagh’s excellent article on the House Committee vote to require Internet Service Providers to keep records of every website visited by every customer.
While this provision is currently the hobbyhorse of nitwit conservative Republicans, the Obama administration also supports this vast data [...]

Wednesday 27th July 2011

Debt Limit Talks: “Squeal Like a Pig,” the Establishment Said

Tom Toles’s excellent cartoon below captures the soul of the debt limit talks. Anyone who is not cynical is probably heading for the chopping block.
My good friend and talk show hellraiser extraordinaire Brian Wilson has an excellent article tomorrow at LewRockwell.com on the real meanings behind the key terms flung around in [...]

Monday 25th July 2011

MP3 of Freedom Fest Panel Flogging the War on Terror

Jacob Hornberger, Sheldon Richman, and I had fun flogging the war on terror during a Freedom Fest panel earlier this month.
Since I was the token moderate on the panel, I went third. I started out my riff (@ 20 minutes into the tape) talking about how a TSA agent at Baltimore went [...]

Thursday 21st July 2011

Lies and Leviathan

The new issue of the American Conservative includes a review essay I wrote on John Mearsheimer’s Why Leaders Lie. Here’s the piece -
Leviathan’s Lies
Review of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, John J. Mearsheimer, Oxford University Press, 2011.
By James Bovard
Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer’s patients, [...]

Tuesday 12th July 2011

Debt Limit Talks: Both Parties are Untrustworthy Weasels

1:36 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 10

I heartily thrashed both Democrats and Republicans in a brief interview this morn with Press TV:
U.S. officials are “wasting [the] money” of the American people “in so many different ways” as President Barack Obama and rival Republican lawmakers are struggling to compromise on the federal debt limit which was hit in May, says James Bovard, [...]

Dilbert Captures Twitter’s Soul

8:26 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

[[CARTOON STRIP A FEW INCHES BELOW HERE - @$@#$ WORDPRESS SOFTWARE]]

http://www.twitter.com/jimbovard

Monday 11th July 2011

Now Officially a Twit - Twitter Feed

12:30 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1

So, on top of my other bad habits, now I am tweeting.
The phrase that is normally used here is — “You can follow my tweets by going to http://www.twitter.com/jimbovard - …”
To be honest, that seems a bit farcical. Too ludicrous to qualify as “grandiose.”
Much of whatever I tweet will also be [...]

MP3 of Today’s Zippety Interview with WBAL’s Ron Smith

11:44 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

WBAL’s Ron Smith and I had a rowdy time today paying our respects to the food stamp program. Ron has been doing talk radio for almost 30 years, so he appreciates policy absurdities far better than most hosts.
You can hear the @10 minute interview by clicking (or downloading) this link -
ron-smith-show-7-11-2011-jim-bovard-food-stamps

Wednesday 6th July 2011

The 2011 Version of Aging Gracefully

10:23 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3

excellent cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker

Friday 1st July 2011

My Bastardry Re-Confirmed: “Bovard and His Ilk” [Food Stamps]

8:41 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 19

The Wall Street Journal published some letters on last week’s food stamp piece. According to Joel Berg of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger:
Food-stamp fraud has never cost the American taxpayers anything close to what defense-contractor or corporate-welfare fraud costs, and the number of people illegally using food-stamp benefits has always been dwarfed by [...]

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