Archive for November 2011
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Wednesday 30th November 2011
Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan
2:21 pm | Afghanistan | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 8
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (posted online today)
Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan
by James Bovard
American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has dumped on [...]
Tuesday 29th November 2011
MP3 of Brian Wilson Show Interview on Senate Vote for Military Crackdown on the Homefront
10:27 pm | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | Rule of Law | Comments: 4
Brian Wilson and I had a good time lambasting the Senate for voting to empower the U.S. military to seize and indefinitely detain American citizens on the homefront. It is amazing to see 44 Republican senators race over a cliff to give absolute power to a president they claim to abhor. [...]
Sunday 27th November 2011
Dilbert Blights 500,000 Lives
10:00 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
I don’t know how many project managers follow Dilbert, but the ones that do (and understand the humor) might be ready for Suicide Watch.
Scott Adams has a perfect ear for the absurdities of contemporary American bloviating.
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Super Committee Was a Fraud from the Get Go
9:37 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | wool | Comments: 0
From an interview with Press TV earlier today -
James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday said that “a lot of folks had high expectations from the congressional super committee to reduce the federal deficit. I figured it would be a fraud from [...]
Sunday 20th November 2011
Nature of the State Revealed in One Minute 39 Seconds
9:34 am | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The police response to the nonviolent protests at the University of California Davis is a stark lesson of how much abuse some government officials feel entitled to inflict on anyone who does not kowtow.
Watching this video, I wonder how much more violence the police would have inflicted if they had been confident that they [...]
Friday 18th November 2011
Zdenka Bartz, R.I.P.
4:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
I got a phone call from my old friend John Bartz a few days ago informing me of the sad news that his wife Zdenka had passed away.
Zdenka was visiting western Europe at the time the Soviet military crushed the “Prague Spring” in 1968. Rather than return behind the Iron Curtain, she [...]
TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nuisance
3:37 pm | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Transportation Security Administration is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week. Perhaps they can uncork an extra bottle of champagne to toast the hundreds of thousands of jobs they destroyed by making travel far more onerous for Americans.
I have been flogging this agency since 2003. Here is a link to my blog entries on [...]
Tuesday 15th November 2011
Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism
11:46 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 0
from the August issue of Freedom Daily (posted online last week)
Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism
by James Bovard,
On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 60 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of almost [...]
Friday 11th November 2011
Veterans Day: Remembering The Nature of War and Politicians
2:28 pm | Lying | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 8
Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, pegged to the end of the First World War. Unfortunately, almost all the lies that propelled that war have been lost in the Memory Bank.
The following 8 minute video is a potent reminder on both the nature of war and the nature of politicians who send men to [...]
Thursday 10th November 2011
Christmas Tree Tax: Bum Rap for Obama, Probably
10:35 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
So the Obama administration is trying to destroy Christmas with a new tax on Christmas trees?
Bah humbug. I’m pro-Christmas and pro-Christmas tree, but this hubbub looks like a red herring.
The 15 cent per tree tax (to fund promotional efforts and industry bureaucrats) is the same type of surtax that USDA-empowered committees have been [...]
Wednesday 9th November 2011
U.S. Government the Culprit for Rising Poverty
8:41 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 10
from my interview on Press TV -
The best solution to decrease U.S. poverty is to “vastly decrease the power in spending of the federal government,” says James Bovard, Maryland-based policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation.
“It’s the U.S. government that is dragging down the American economy and suppressing the productivity and creativity of the [...]
Thursday 3rd November 2011
Redefining Extremism: Ron Paul - the Sane Republican Alternative
8:49 pm | Ron Paul | Comments: 2
As Herman Cain’s candidancy melts into absurdity, I hope that reasonable Republicans will take another look at the one principled candidate running for the presidency.
It is ironic how extremist has been redefined in American politics.
In 1964, Barry Goldwater was considered extremist in part because of his rhetoric implying that he could favor a preemptive [...]