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Wednesday 4th August 2010
My 2 Cents on WikiLeaks, the FBI, and Assorted Hokum - Antiwar.com Transcript
4:18 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bob Barr | Bush | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 3
The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week’s interview. My comments on the Obama administration’s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret).
Bovard:
National Security letters have [...]
Saturday 31st July 2010
MP3 of My Interview with Scott Horton on the FBI, WikiLeaks, Etc.
9:35 am | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bob Barr | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Lying | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 0
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com Radio and I had fun tarring-and-feathering the usual federal outrages on Thursday. The MP3 is here.
Scott balked at the chance to reveal his deepest thoughts on Chelsea’s wedding. It could have been a great “Bill Hicks moment.”
Here’s Scott’s thumbnail of the interview:
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, [...]
Thursday 27th May 2010
Barr Campaign Manager’s Solomonic Solution to the Ghostwriting Debt
9:28 pm | Bob Barr | wool | Comments: 8
Regarding the lawsuit over the Barr 2008 Presidential Committee’s $47,000 debt to me for ghostwriting Bob Barr’s Lessons in Liberty –
Russ Verney, Bob Barr’s 2008 campaign manager, admitted to the Washington Post that “We owe him some money and we intend to pay it.”
And then Verney came up with the best fundraising idea of the [...]
Tuesday 11th May 2010
Atlanta’s Creative Loafing Newspaper Covers the Barr Ghostwriting Lawsuit
11:33 am | Bob Barr | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
From Creative Loafing, a weekly paper in the Atlanta area (with the second-highest circulation of any paper in Georgia) :
Barr ghostwriter finds promoting liberty doesn’t pay
May 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm by Scott Henry in News
Bob Barr, the GOP congressman-turned-Libertarian presidential candidate (and CL columnist-turned-AJC columnist) is being sued by the ghostwriter of his [...]
Monday 10th May 2010
American Conservative on the Barr ‘08 Ghostwriting Lawsuit
12:32 pm | Bob Barr | Comments: 3
Editor Kelly Jane Torrance, in a post titled, “Reading Lessons”:
“Bob Barr Lessons in Liberty #1 Pay Your Ghostwriter” is how Jim Bovard headlines his post announcing that he’s suing the former Libertarian Party presidential candidate. There might be a bigger lesson here, though: If you don’t want people to know you didn’t write your [...]
Friday 7th May 2010
Vanity Fair on the Ghostwriting Lawsuit
7:07 pm | Bob Barr | Comments: 1
VANITY FAIR Books
Former Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Bob Barr Sued by His Own Ghostwriter
by Juli Weiner May 7, 2010, 5:15 PM
Bob Barr is in such trouble with his own ghostwriter, whom he has neglected to pay for two years. The book in question is called Lessons in Liberty—not to be confused with the actual [...]
Washington Post on the Barr Campaign Ghostwriting Lawsuit
2:07 pm | Bob Barr | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
David Weigel, the Washington Post’s “Right Now” columnist/blogger (covering conservatives and the Republican Party), posted the following today on the lawsuit against the Barr 2008 Presidential Committee:
The former congressman from Georgia who joined the Libertarian Party and became its 2008 presidential candidate gets some unwelcome attention from Jim Bovard, a prolific libertarian writer [...]