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Wednesday 14th March 2007
Rising Odds of Impeachment
1:24 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Rule of Law | Comments: 30
Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….)
I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales. Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic. No matter what the Bush administration did, they [...]
Wednesday 7th June 2006
The Most Absurdities Per Kilogram
10:29 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | wool | Comments: 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my Freedom Daily article on the feds’ war against Tommy Chong. Always sad to see a great comedian get no respect.
Here are the first few paragraphs; full text is here.
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
by James Bovard, Posted June 6, 2006
The war on drugs has produced more absurdities per kilo [...]
Friday 6th January 2006
Think Tanks as Military Bases
11:22 am | Ashcroft | Bush | Cheney | lese majeste | think tanks | Comments: 4
George W. Bush exploits captive audiences as well as any president. During the last four years, he has ritually gone to military bases to uncork his biggest inanities regarding foreign policy. There are some howlers that can only be tossed out in front of an audience forbidden to laugh. No one in a military audience [...]