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Tuesday 21st February 2012

Obama’s Bogus Economic “Boom”

As President Obama’s reelection machine begins whooping up the economic recovery, we need to recognize the paucity of his achievements.
From an interview this morning with Press TV:
American people have lost their faith in the U.S. government even after President Barack Obama took office in early 2009, says James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future [...]

Thursday 9th February 2012

Liberals Love Obama’s “Liberty Drones”

New Washington Post polling data reveal that liberals strongly approve of Obama’s drone assassination policy - even when it is used to kill American citizens. Overall, 83% of Americans approve of Obama’s drone killing policy.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is raising hell about the administration’s secrecy - demanding that they at least release the confidential [...]

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. [...]

Saturday 29th October 2011

Whittling on an Epigram List for WikiQuotes

Spurred by feedback from that Daily Bell interview, I whittled out a list of my favorite epigrams from books gone by and popped them onto a page on Wiki Quotes.
I think this is the first time I added anything to a Wikipedia or WikiQuotes (at least as far as I can remember). I [...]

Friday 28th October 2011

MP3 of Playing Whack-A-Federal-Mole on the Brian Wilson Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a hoot yesterday flogging hell out of the Patriot Act and its noxious progeny.
Dang, hard to believe this stupid act is 10 years old. It has almost outlived my idealism.
You can listen to or download the show by clicking here brian-wilson-patriot-act-bash-10-27-2011

Friday 12th August 2011

Latest Patriot Act Frauds and Follies

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the following piece from the May issue of Freedom Daily -
The PATRIOT Act in the Crosshairs Again
by James Bovard
The most controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act are coming up for renewal this year. There is hope that Americans will finally learn more about how the [...]

Saturday 30th July 2011

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 [...]

Wednesday 27th July 2011

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 [...]

Monday 25th July 2011

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 [...]

Thursday 21st July 2011

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 Alzheimer’s patients, [...]

Tuesday 21st June 2011

Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law

from the March issue of Freedom Daily….
Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law
by James Bovard
Last November, George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, hit the streets. And Americans could see firsthand the former president bragging about ordering torture. Bush wrote that when he was requested to approve the CIA’s waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he responded, [...]

Tuesday 31st May 2011

Supreme Court Again Absolves Nation’s Most Dangerous Criminal Class

The Supreme Court ruled today that John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued regardless of the crimes committed against American citizens thanks to his policies as Attorney General.
What a crock.
On the same theme, Tom Engelhardt has an excellent essay today on “Post-Legal America.”

Saturday 28th May 2011

Dilbert Solves the Patriot Act Mystery?

We learned in the last few weeks that a secret ruling exists which permits the federal agencies to violate far more Americans’ rights under a twisted interpretation of the Patriot Act.
Are the feds using smart phones to track millions of Americans?

Tuesday 17th May 2011

Obama’s Unlimited Right to Kill?

from today’s Christian Science Monitor -
The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Assasination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?
As part of its war against violent extremism, the Obama administration now claims a right to kill Americans without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object.
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By James [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Monday 21st March 2011

MP3 of Interview on Libyan War with Katherine Albrecht

Katherine Albrecht and I had a fine time thrashing Obama & crew for their Libyan fiasco.
You can listen to the @ 20 minute interview by clicking on the following:
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It was great to hear Katherine in such high spirits and full of vim and vigor today. She is going through some very [...]

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