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Archive for October 2011

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Monday 31st October 2011

The Most Dangerous Halloween Costume in Washington

I expect that sheepskins are selling well on Capitol Hill again this year.
I wonder if Hillary will get her specially-tailored costume from Libya or from Kosovo this year.
Another great Sam Gross cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker
James Bovard

Sunday 30th October 2011

Obama’s White House of Horrors: Execution Without Trial

8:45 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The New York Times had a perky cartoon today by Brian McFadden today on the pervasive fears across the ideological spectrum of Obama’s White House horrors. My hunch was that the cartoonist thought the fears were a laughing matter (here’s a link to the full-size cartoon in the Times).
And people wonder why cartoonists [...]

Saturday 29th October 2011

Whittling on an Epigram List for WikiQuotes

Spurred by feedback from that Daily Bell interview, I whittled out a list of my favorite epigrams from books gone by and popped them onto a page on Wiki Quotes.
I think this is the first time I added anything to a Wikipedia or WikiQuotes (at least as far as I can remember). I [...]

Friday 28th October 2011

MP3 of Playing Whack-A-Federal-Mole on the Brian Wilson Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a hoot yesterday flogging hell out of the Patriot Act and its noxious progeny.
Dang, hard to believe this stupid act is 10 years old. It has almost outlived my idealism.
You can listen to or download the show by clicking here brian-wilson-patriot-act-bash-10-27-2011

MP3 of Antiwar.com Radio Interview on the Patriot Act

Scott Horton and I had fun on Wednesday hammering the Patriot Act on its 10th anniversary. That noxious law continues to spawn dreadful precedents…
You can listen or download the interview by clicking on this link antiwar-radio-11_10_26_bovard

Wednesday 26th October 2011

Patriot Act: Tenth Anniversary of a Swindle

3:48 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

This is the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act. Geez, I didn’t think that this scam would survive this long. But it has served the government well, so there have never been a shortage of apologists for this surveillance regime. After a certain number of years, even the most [...]

Tuesday 25th October 2011

About That Happy Ending in Iraq….

9:08 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 1

The fairy tale narrative from much of the mainstream media over Obama’s Iraq announcement last week is ludicrous even by DC standards.
The best retort to the prevailing hoopla is this great cartoon from the Washington Post’s Tom Toles
James Bovard

Thursday 20th October 2011

The Soviet Union’s Continuing Influence on America

1:03 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 3

from the July issue of Freedom Daily, posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation -
The Soviet Union’s Continuing Influence on America
by James Bovard
It has been almost 20 years since the Soviet Union officially dissolved. While the nation of that name no longer exists, its legacy continues influencing political thought and practices in [...]

Wednesday 19th October 2011

Are Americans Getting the Government They Deserve?

10:08 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 6

The last line of my previous post - “Americans deserve better” - has sparked a number of skeptical emails and comments. Let me clarify.
It is a popular saying that people get the government that they deserve. This has rarely been more false than in current times. The fact that most Americans are politically ignorant [...]

Sunday 16th October 2011

Ron Paul’s Peace & Freedom Message vs. Republican Establishment

8:49 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 20

Ron Paul has won many of the Republican Party straw polls over the past six months. But during the last 3 televised Republican debates, Paul received less than 19 minutes to expound and defend his views - less time than any other candidate. This is shabby even by Republican standards.
At a time when [...]

Claire Wolfe’s Great New Novel - Hardyville Tales

4:21 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

Claire Wolfe is one of the finest freedom writers around. She has a knack for making freedom both vivid and fun. She has a new novel entitled Hardyville Tales - When ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ meets ‘For Your Own Good.’
The book is based in part on the hugely-popular series of [...]

Wednesday 12th October 2011

DEA Informants: America’s Biggest Liars? - Iran Farce

3:13 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant - I knew there was something very strange about this…
And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug Enforcement Administration informant who recently [...]

Tuesday 11th October 2011

MP3 of My Interview on Obama’s Assassination Abomination with Brian Wilson

8:33 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

Talk show host and libertarian hell-raiser Brian Wilson and I had fun flailing Obama’s assassination policies on WSPD today. (According to the station’s website, I am WSPD’s “Best Laugh Winner.”)
It’s amazing that a president claiming the right to kill Americans based on secret evidence and a secret memo is not stirring up far greater opposition. [...]

Friday 7th October 2011

Steve Jobs, Greater Than I Knew - We Need More Hammer Throwers

11:00 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 9

I never purchased an Apple computer. The magazines and publishers I dealt with preferred PC-based formats, so i have chugged along with tolerable machines over the decades (except for the last Dell piece of @#$#@#$@ I bought).
I use computers mostly for simple stuff - glorified word processing - so I didn’t feel [...]

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