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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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Tuesday 15th February 2011

Video - My CPAC Patriot Act Bash (and Jacob Hornberger’s Speech)

FFF “Repeal the PATRIOT Act!” Roundtable from CPAC 2011 from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
Here’s the video from Saturday’s CPAC forum, sponsored by Campaign for Liberty.
Ivan Eland did an excellent job of moderating. My speech was probably about 15 minutes. Hornberger followed and gave the best speech I have ever seen [...]

Video - Me & Jacob Hornberger Thumping Conservative Statists

Jacob Hornberger Show from CPAC 2011 with James Bovard from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
From the Future of Freedom Foundation: This edition of the Jacob Hornberger Show was recorded at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 11, 2011. Jacob and special guest James Bovard discuss “Why Do Conservatives Support Statism?”
The Jacob [...]

Wednesday 26th January 2011

My 2 Cents on Obama’s State of the Union Address

The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech.
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The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of This Moment [...]

Tuesday 25th January 2011

Thoughts on Obama’s State of the Union Speech?

4:01 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Comments: 4

The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow.
I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech - or what they think of the actual spiel.
This would be a terrible night to run [...]

Monday 24th January 2011

Our Know Nothing Foreign Policy (full text)

The American Conservative placed online today the full text of my review of Magic and Mayhem.
Worst and Brightest
Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages
By James Bovard
In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading con [...]

Thursday 13th January 2011

Speaking on the Patriot Act on a CPAC Panel Next Month…

I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. [...]

Wednesday 22nd December 2010

How Washington Protects Your Privacy & Liberty

from the January issue of The Freeman -
James Bovard
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
January/February 2011 • Volume: 61 • Issue: 1
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate [...]

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