from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (April 2011) – The Forgotten Failures of the Peace Corps by James Bovard This is the fiftieth anniversary year for the Peace Corps. Prior to the creation of AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps took the cake as the most arrogant and overrated government program in Washington. At a […]
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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 […]
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 the current […]
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 berserk over […]
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 […]
Debt Limit Talks: Both Parties are Untrustworthy Weasels
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 […]
Dilbert Captures Twitter’s Soul
[[CARTOON STRIP A FEW INCHES BELOW HERE – @$@#$ WORDPRESS SOFTWARE]] Tweets by JimBovard
Jim
Thanks a lot!
timmy taes
The Two and Only is my favorite podcast on the Int
David Smithson
Right you are. Retired now, I worked for many yea
Ron Redrift
Sorry to hear of your tiff with Mr. Wilson; hope i