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Friday 3rd February 2012
C-SPAN Booknotes: Terrorism & Tyranny (2003 transcript)
1:26 pm | Ron Paul | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here - Brian Lamb’s views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he made: “Well, your sense of [...]
Thursday 2nd February 2012
EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering
1:21 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the November issue of Freedom Daily -
The EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering
by James Bovard
Few federal agencies have a more brazen history of trampling due process and basic fairness than the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From the time the EEOC was created in 1965, it [...]
The Fed is Wrecking Our Economy
1:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
My two cents on the latest humbug from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke:
In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, James Bovard, a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation explained that U.S. Federal Reserve policies are further hurting the U.S. economy rather than improving it.
“The Federal Reserve itself has done so much to [...]
Tuesday 31st January 2012
Next Week: FFF/Hornberger on Civil Liberties College Tour
10:29 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Young Americans for Liberty and the Future of Freedom Foundation will be putting on a college tour next week on “The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution.”
FFF president Jacob Hornberger will be joined by best-selling author Glenn Greenwald and former Reagan Justice Department official Bruce Fein for a series of panels at [...]
Karen Kwiatkowski for Congress - Go Virginia!
4:20 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Karen Kwiatkowski, an author and retired Air Force Lt. Col., is running for Congress in Virginia’s Sixth District. Beginning in 2003, Kwiatkowski exposed the shenanigans she had seen in the Pentagon leading up to the invasion of Iraq. She has shown more courage than an entire 747 full of laptop bombardiers.
Karen is an avid supporter [...]
Saturday 14th January 2012
Epigrams from My Sordid Past
10:14 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
Dipping into my books, I plucked out some of my favorite lines. FWIW:
From The Farm Fiasco (ICS Press, 1989)
* For sixty years, politicians have driven American farmers out of world markets and onto the government dole.
*Nineteenth-century reformers built their utopias on the expectation of an imminent change in human nature. Twentieth-century reformers [...]
Monday 2nd January 2012
Ron Paul: Toppling Political Idols and Changing American Politics
10:46 am | Democracy | Ron Paul | Uncategorized | Comments: 9
As someone who was born in Iowa, I’m pleased to see many Iowans flocking to support Ron Paul.
The Washington Post has a tut-tutting front-page story today complaining that Paul’s 45-minute stump speech “outlines a view of the world so bleak it would make Chicken Little sound like an optimist.”
It is not surprising that a [...]
Wednesday 28th December 2011
“Was James Bovard Bit By a Mailman as a Child?”
3:47 pm | Uncategorized | wool | Comments: 5
The headline was the opening sentence of a letter written to the Los Angeles Times. The writer, Jim Washburn, was so upset that the Times clipped that first sentence from his published response that he posted it on his blog. He commented: “A few days previous, they’d run an op-ed piece by some blowhard named [...]
Tuesday 27th December 2011
MP3 of Dallas Interview on Santa, Postal Snafus, Etc. with Brian Wilson
11:11 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 8
Brian Wilson and I had some fun this morning on Dallas station KLIF.
I am waiting for the defamation lawsuits to arrive from the city of Boston and from the Postal Service.
You can download or listen to the show by clicking the following:
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Obama’s Dictatorial Assassination Program
10:30 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
Future of Freedom Foundation
Freedom Daily, October 2011 (posted online 12/23/11)
Obama’s Dictatorial Assassination Program
by James Bovard
The Obama administration now claims the authority to kill American citizens without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object. The “targeted killing” program of George W. Bush’s administration has been radically expanded to [...]
Listen Live -On Dallas Radio with Brian Wilson 10 am Eastern Tuesday 12 27
9:59 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
I will be on the air with guest talk show host Brian Wilson on Dallas’s KLIF radio this morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
You can listen on the air at AM 570 in parts of Texas or listen live online by clicking here and tapping the Listen Live button.
Wednesday 21st December 2011
Wall Street Journal: “Confessions of a One-Season Santa Claus”
9:42 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 12
< from Thursday's Wall Street Journal editorial page-
Confessions of a One-Season Santa
by James Bovard
When I asked one girl what she wanted for Christmas, she gritted her teeth: ‘I want you to leave.’
In the fall of 1977, I moved to Boston seeking literary triumphs and intellectual stimulation. As a 21-year-old college dropout from [...]
Tuesday 20th December 2011
Good News: Americans Finally Recognize Congressmen as Rascals
2:16 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
From an interview today with Press TV:
The historical low approval rating of Congress signals that most Americans may be finally paying attention to the ‘dishonesty’ of Congress, according to James Bovard of The Future of Freedom Foundation.
“More Americans may finally be paying attention to what Congress is doing. I’ve been surprised for decades that far [...]
Postal Service Vindicated in L.A. Times
11:10 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
The Los Angeles Times ran a couple letters defending the Postal Service today in response to last week’s piece on nearly 50 years of intentional mail slowdowns.
I was especially hurt by the statement that I had “maligned” the Postal Service. Geez, I bend over backward to give the government a break and I [...]
Thursday 15th December 2011
Los Angeles Times: Postal Service’s Almost 50-Year Intentional Slowdown of Mail
9:39 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 12
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed December 16, 2011
U.S. mail: Slow and slower
The Postal Service has been intentionally slowing down first-class mail for almost 50 years.
By James Bovard
The U.S. Postal Service announced plans this month to phase out overnight delivery of first-class mail. Postal officials are portraying the decision as a painful but necessary [...]
My Drunken Wisdom on Foreign Aid on Fox News
9:56 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
I had a couple cameos in the two-part Fox News report this week on foreign aid. At one point in the sit-down interview with Fox’s John Roberts, he mentioned a couple foreign aid “success stories.” I doubted the success claims but I commented that there had been so many programs over the [...]
Tuesday 13th December 2011
On Fox News Tonight, Probably - on Foreign Aid
2:36 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Just received an email from Fox News regarding an interview that I taped with them last Wednesday. The topic was foreign aid - a subject near and dear to my heart.
“We just wanted to let you know that the two part series will begin airing tonight on Special Report with Bret [...]
Monday 12th December 2011
Karzai Solves Mystery of Afghan Corruption
8:48 pm | Afghanistan | Barron's | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Afghan frontman Hamid Karzai announced this past weekend that foreigners are to blame for the rampant corruption his country. It is true that foreign aid has helped bring out the worst in many Afghan wheeler-dealers. But Karzai and his cronies would likely be looting regardless of whether Uncle Sam air-dropped billions onto [...]
Tuesday 6th December 2011
70 Years After Pearl Harbor: New Book On FDR’s Lying Path to War
5:37 pm | Lying | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Wednesday is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Americans have still not learned all the details of what the U.S. government knew prior to the attack. The Japanese attack was inexucsable, but Franklin Roosevelt’s actions played a far greater role in that debacle than most Americans realize.
Thomas [...]