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Thursday 12th May 2011

Latest Pro-War Power Grab

I was interviewed this morning (pre-coffee, unfortunately) by Press TV on a provision in a House bill that could make it even easier for presidents to start new war. Here’s their summary of the interview:
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The House Armed Services Committee has expanded the Bush-era “war on terror” bill, with amendments that would allow any president [...]

Wednesday 11th May 2011

King of Weasels Enters Prez Race

8:58 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | wool | Comments: 8

No matter what I could write about Newt Gingrich, it would not be snarky enough.
The Washington Post notes today: “Gingrich is an idea-spewing machine, unlike anyone else in the Republican Party. But does America want a one-man think tank , particularly one with his history, as its president?”
The Post was right about the spewing, [...]

Tuesday 3rd May 2011

Feds: Watch Out for Radicalized Individuals!

The Department of Homeland Security has warned landlords in the DC area “to be looking out for the radicalized individual,” according to Peggy Jeffers, of the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington Inc. DHS sent out the warning to apartment and building managers on Sunday evening, the same time that Obama announced [...]

Thursday 21st April 2011

Ted Rall Nails Obama on Spreading Democacy to Libya

Tuesday 19th April 2011

MP3 of Interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton on Idiot Libyan Policymakers

From Antiwar.com: “James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses his article, “Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars;” the two-party “consensus of rascals” on US foreign policy; the “best and brightest” government policymakers who are blinded by arrogance, tunnel vision and echo chambers; and the confusion about whether disastrous foreign policy decisions [...]

Thursday 14th April 2011

Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play

Washington Times, April 15, 2011
Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars
by James Bovard
Congratulations - your tax payment is probably your biggest purchase of the year. The federal tax burden now amounts to more than $20,000 per household, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Your contribution to the Treasury coffers will permit Uncle [...]

Wednesday 13th April 2011

Absurdity of Trusting Foreign Policymakers

sent out this morn by the Future of Freedom Foundation…
The Absurdity of Trusting Foreign-Policy Makers
by James Bovard, April 13, 2011
The United States is attacking Libya on the basis of vague hopes that peace will triumph after the Allied bombing ceases. There are plenty of reasons to doubt whether a few hundred cruise missiles will beget [...]

Friday 8th April 2011

Obama’s Torture Regime?

Spencer Ackerman of Wired has an excellent piece today on the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command’s secret jails in Afghanistan. Ackerman notes:
Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm about these detention centers since 2009. Detainees who claim to have gone through the sites have told them about abuses inside the so-called “Black Jails” ranging [...]

Thursday 7th April 2011

MP3 of Interview on Brian Wilson Show: Libya, ICE, WPost, and other targets

WSPD’s Brian Wilson had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about various political villains and other scoundrels. You can listen to the @ 25 minute interview by clinking on the highlighted text below:
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Wednesday 6th April 2011

Wash. Post Editorial: Kill More Libyans Now!

The Washington Post has an editorial today fretting that the Obama administration has not killed enough Libyans. The Post warns that U.S. killing of more Libyans is the best way to assure a bright future for Libya. OK, that’s not verbatim - but this is: “The dangers of the military stalemate [...]

Wednesday 30th March 2011

Speech on Middle East “Fell Short, Lacked Substance”

1:34 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Comments: 0

No, this is not a judgment on Obama’s gas-bagging on Monday night.
Instead, that is the State Department’s verdict on a speech today by Syria’s “President” Bashar al-Assad.
After all the BS the Obama administration has shoveled, one would think that U.S. officials would be a bit circumspect before snipping about other leaders’ tripe.

Monday 28th March 2011

Libya Speech: Obama’s Biggest Buncombe Yet?

1:40 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Comments: 9

Will Obama break all his past records for BS tonight when he gives his speech on Libya at 7:30 pm? (Eastern)
He will be speaking to the most servile audience he could find - uniformed military officers at the National Defense University. The room will be full of people who are owned lock, stock, [...]

Friday 25th March 2011

Obama’s Unlimited Right to Kill?

Is there any limit to the killing that a U.S. president can initiate as long as he claims benevolent motives? Over the past dozen years, three presidents commenced bombing nations that posed no threat to the U.S. The only “restraint” seems to be whether presidential speechwriters can stitch together phrases to portray [...]

Tuesday 22nd March 2011

Obama’s Immaculate Killing of Libyans

10:18 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 6

[photo by George Robert Newcomb antiwar rally by the White House on March 19, 2011]
According to some Obama supporters, the U.S. bombing of Libya is a self-evident triumph of good over evil.
Why? Because we’re the good guys, and Obama said the people the U.S. is killing are bad guys.
Defense Secretary Gates has become [...]

Monday 21st March 2011

Obama’s Mushroom Cloud Legacy

For years, we have heard that Obama is different than other politicians - wiser, more compassionate, more prudent.
Bull.
Blowing the hell out of Libya settles any doubts about whether Obama is simply another deluded ruler who will use power however he pleases to burnish his reputation.
Obama is simply a high-falutin’ version of George W. Bush. [...]

Saturday 19th March 2011

“Police Are Out of Control…”

My two cents on police brutality, from an interview yesterday on police brutality with Press TV
Bovard: “Police are often out of control and local governments do a very poor job of protecting people from their protectors. Almost across the board, you have law enforcement officers who don’t feel obliged to obey the law.”
Bovard: “The entire [...]

Friday 18th March 2011

Defining Coercion Down

from the Future of Freedom Foundation, posted online today…
Freedom Daily December 2010
DEFINING COERCION DOWN
by James Bovard
Coercion is the essence of government in the same way that profit is the essence of private businesses. The state can impose new prohibitions and restrictions, create new penalties, or impose taxes in order to finance benefits. It is [...]

Thursday 3rd March 2011

Teacher Unions 24-Karat Hokum

4:27 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 29

[photo from the New York Times]
“First They Came for the Teachers… and I Didn’t Speak Up.”
Does it get any deeper?
Hell, if you went to public school, you probably can’t string together ten lines of coherent points on why teacher unions are not a pox on the school.
Here is a link to [...]

Friday 25th February 2011

Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom

from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (November 2010)
Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom
by James Bovard
Cass Sunstein is the chief of the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. As Salon’s Glenn Greenwald noted earlier this year, Sunstein “has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.” His values are probably guiding the [...]

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