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Friday 5th March 2010

FBI Bankrolling Bloggers Advocating Murder?

9:17 pm | FBI | Surveillance | wool | Comments: 8

The Associated Press story on the New Jersey guy who advocating killing federal judges reveals that the bloodthirsty blogger was apparently a paid FBI informant.
A right-wing New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a
jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to “flush out” dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist [...]

Tuesday 2nd February 2010

Washington Post: Subjugation as “Apple Pie”

1:53 pm | Obama | wool | Comments: 0

“How Can Apple Pie Suddenly Turn Bad?” reads the headline in the print edition of today’s Washington Post.
The article talks of the tragic development that Obama’s health care plan appears to be sinking.
The fact that Americans would object to increased political control over health care is so completely inconceivable to Washington Post reporters and [...]

Tuesday 10th November 2009

Most Venal-Looking Congressman?

I have seen plenty of smarmy looking congressmen over the decades, but this photo of Rep. Bob Filner (D-Cal) probably takes the cake.
Who would vote for someone who looks like he might mug you and steal your wallet before your leave the polling booth???
Or is there somebody I missed or forgot? What other member [...]

Thursday 5th November 2009

The Media as Enablers of Government Lies

Posted online today…
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies Freedom Daily August 2009
by James Bovard
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians [...]

Tuesday 20th October 2009

Where do we Report the Terrorist Cops???

The Los Angeles Police Department has a new video out encouraging people to run squealing to the police practically every time some stranger asks directions to City Hall.
This is part of an orchestrated effort to keep people jumpy and clamoring for government to save them.
But where do we report terrorist cops? Los Angeles [...]

Friday 9th October 2009

8 Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan

And so now the Pentagon and the White House are going to tell the truth about Afghanistan?
Pshaw!
Here’s my 2 cents on the issue - distributed by the Future of Freedom Foundation and also appearing on Counterpunch today.
** I have a ‘reader survey’ question at the bottom regarding a specific line in the piece.
EIGHT YEARS [...]

Sunday 4th October 2009

YouTube version of the Glenn Beck interview

10:13 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 0

I finally came across a YouTube clip of the Glenn Beck interview on AmeriCorps.
You can watch it here.
I forgot the cigar.
[Suggestions are welcome... ]

Monday 21st September 2009

My Paranoia Vindicated - Gahan Wilson

3:58 pm | Bovard | wool | Comments: 2

“When did you first become aware of this imagined ‘plot to get you?’”
Or, as they said after Ruby Ridge, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not out to get you.”
Gahan Wilson (no relation to Ruby Ridge) has a new 3 volume collection of his Playboy cartoons hot off the presses.
Wilson will [...]

Thursday 10th September 2009

The Post 9/11 Round-up of Innocents: Ashcroft’s High Crime

The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents
by James Bovard Freedom Daily May & June, 2009
Many Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by the end of the George W. [...]

Saturday 18th July 2009

Barron’s: Obama’s Make-Work Jobs Harm Teenagers

Barron’s ran an article of mine on summer jobs boondoggles as a guest editorial in the issue hitting teh stands today. Here’s an outtake from the article (a subscription is required to see the full version on the online site).
Playing At Work Isn’t Productive Barron’s July 20, 2009
by James Bovard
LONG BEFORE [...]

Monday 6th July 2009

Dead: A War Criminal, a Liar, and a Director of the Washington Post - McNamara

1:06 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | wool | Comments: 4

In its obituary article on Robert McNamara today, the Washington Post mentions that McNamara was a director of the Washington Post company.
Was that honor bestowed because of McNamara’s lies or because of his war crimes?
Or maybe he was just a really really great dinner guest at the homes of Post editors and owners.
And people [...]

Friday 12th June 2009

Perverse Reading Habits of U.S. Attorneys: Shredding Privacy, Except for Torturers

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
US Attorney subpoenas Las Vegas Review-Journal for info about posters to a web-page story.

“On May 26 the Review-Journal published an article about an ongoing federal tax evasion trial. The primary defendant, Las Vegan Robert Kahre, stands accused of tax fraud for using the rather inventive argument that he could [...]

Wednesday 27th May 2009

The Campaign Reform Crime (or Scam?)

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the January issue of Freedom Daily on campaign reform scams. This is the first part of a two-part series on the McCain-Feingold act and related hokum.
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The Campaign Reform Scam Part 1 [...]

Wednesday 6th May 2009

Flu-Induced Insanity from the Obama Team

2:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Uncategorized | wool | Comments: 3

The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is considering pushing for all Americans to get 3 flu shots this Fall - “one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe.”
So is this part of a stimulus package for autism treatment centers, or what?
It is [...]

Tuesday 10th March 2009

Dictatorship of Lawyers - or, Me and Law School

The Foundation for Economic Education reposted online a 2001 article of mine entitled “Dictatorship of Lawyers.”
The piece spurred some incisive comments on FEE’s website:
Comment by Bill on 10 March 2009:
Ah for the rantings of another who couldn’t get into Law School; Neither could G. W. (W Gump) Bush. You can go to Iran; they [...]

Saturday 18th October 2008

Libertarians Still Lusting for Palin?

Is anyone closely tracking Sarah Palin’s continued popularity with libertarians?
Charles Murray, one of the Beltway’s favorite libertarians (ensconced at the manically pro-war American Enterprise Institute), told the New York Times that he is “truly and deeply in love” with Palin.
Joe Bast, the head of the Heartland Institute, said that Palin “was a great choice [...]

Wednesday 24th September 2008

The Highway Robber State

The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States - governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from Freedom in Chains, 1999)
If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were you ceding the right to the [...]

Saturday 20th September 2008

Ron Paul Supporters Vindicated?

[full size photo at my Flickr site here ]
And to think that many people thought that the Ron Paul supporters were too cynical about the Fed….
This monster bank/stock market bailout shaping up in Washington will probably be one of the greatest cons of the new century. This is simply letting politicians give themselves a blank check - or a [...]

Wednesday 14th May 2008

Now Online: Podcast of BMW Horse**** Interview!

Talk show host Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat on WSPD in Toledo today. We kicked hell out of the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization BS Act now before the Senate. There were wine, beer, and cigar jokes, as well as expressions of condolence to the Israeli Prime Minister who might be [...]

Tuesday 19th February 2008

My Favorite Cartoon (from Playboy 2002)

Clay Butler did this wonderful cartoon for Playboy for a 2002 article of mine bashing the Patriot Act. His cartoon was so good that I urged St. Martin’s/Palgrave to use it for the cover of Terrorism & Tyranny. Alack - my editors there did not share my mania for cartoons.
The full size of the cartoon is [...]

Friday 14th December 2007

Bush’s AmeriCorps Fraud

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article on AmeriCorps from the September 2007 Freedom Daily.
I admit: the first sentence is my favorite line in the piece.
Bush’s AmeriCorps Fraud Freedom Daily, September 2007
by James Bovard
Politicians have long used moral doggerel to make citizens docile. Though President Bush is often verbally inept, he has [...]

Wednesday 9th May 2007

Another Award for a Tyrant Apologist

Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield gave the esteemed Jefferson lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities last night in Washington.
According to the NEH website, “The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities recognizes an individual who has made significant scholarly contributions to the humanities and who has the ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the [...]

Wednesday 25th April 2007

How the Sniveling Media Paved the Road to War

Bill Moyers Journal on PBS tonight had a great program on how media groveling to Bush administration falsehoods and absurdities helped lead to the Iraq war.
The program focused on the villains and bootlickers in the press. It also contained interviews with some of the courageous reporters - such as Warren Stroebel and Jonathan Landay of Knight Ridder [...]

Friday 16th March 2007

Great Torture Humor

9:39 pm | Bovard | Torture | wool | Comments: 8

Tim O’Regan has the perfect response to the Establishment media’s groveling to the tortured confession and the redacted transcript out of Gitmo.
O’Regan reveals that KSM and his look-alike, porn star Ron Jeremy, are the “Hairy Brothers of Destruction.” O’Regan reveals:
KSM supplied a type-written note that listed all of the crimes the duo is responsible for masterminding. [...]

Tuesday 27th February 2007

Fashion Quandary for Conservative Event

11:53 am | Bovard | wool | Comments: 24

So I’m going to the Hoover Institution reception in Washington tonight. Hoover’s Christmas card this year featured a picture of the medal that President Bush awarded them in November. The reception should be double knee deep in True Believers and NeoConservatives.
Luckily, people generally have low fashion expectations of freelance writers. I’ll wear a coat and tie - [...]

Sunday 12th November 2006

My Latest Terrorist Tendencies

2:46 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 21

I was subwaying into Washington last night when I learned of a grave new terrorist peril.
The train’s driver kept repeating, “For safety and security reasons, please do not take pictures or video recordings of Metro trains and buses.” He recited this core message with often mystifying enunciation after each subway station.
To jazz up the rendition, [...]

Wednesday 1st November 2006

Why I Was Disbarred

10:09 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 5

I exchanged some email earlier today with Scott Horton over at Stress blog. Here’s his writeup:
What the Hell is a “Person of Interest”?
I first heard the phrase used by John Ashcroft in his wild unfounded accusations against Steven Hatfill in the anthrax case and here and there a couple of times since.
Now Thursday’s New York [...]

Wednesday 25th October 2006

LISTEN LIVE - Thursday (10/26) - on the Brian Wilson Radio Show

Brian Wilson, one of the best talk show hosts in the country, invited me on his show tomorrow (Thursday, 10/26) at 4:30 pm Eastern time for half an hour. You can listen live here. He is on WSPD in Toledo, 1370 AM.
Should be plenty of laughs, especially about torture and Bush.

Wednesday 30th August 2006

Bush & Killing in the Name of Democracy

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my June 2006 Freedom Daily article on “Killing in the Name of Democracy.” Doing the research for this article was hell on my idealism.
KILLING IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY Freedom Daily, June 2006
by James Bovard
President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. [...]

Monday 7th August 2006

The Folly of Democratic Inevitability

9:37 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 0

The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation posted my article today on one of the great democratic delusions of our time. The piece is online here - and below:
Freedom Daily May 2006 (posted August 7, 2006)
Nonsense on the Inevitability of Democracy
by James Bovard
Many Americans are being lulled into assuming that democracy is inevitable. [...]

Monday 3rd July 2006

1979 New York Times Satire on the All-Volunteer Congress

10:53 pm | Bovard | Congress | wool | Comments: 2

Twenty-seven years ago (or as they say in West Virginia, “years and years and years ago”), the New York Times printed my satire on the failure of the All-Volunteer Congress. This article was written at a time when criticism of the All-Volunteer military was at its height. Nixon had abolished conscription in 1973 and many [...]

Wednesday 7th June 2006

The Most Absurdities Per Kilogram

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my Freedom Daily article on the feds’ war against Tommy Chong. Always sad to see a great comedian get no respect.
Here are the first few paragraphs; full text is here.
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
by James Bovard, Posted June 6, 2006
The war on drugs has produced more absurdities per kilo [...]

Friday 26th May 2006

My 2 cents in USA Today

12:47 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 4

The edit page at USA Today asked me to send over a couple sentences of comments on a column by Al Neuharth on whether students should play or work during the summer.
My two bits: “Real jobs can be an excellent antidote to some of the tripe students hear in classrooms. Doing onerous work or dealing [...]

Wednesday 29th March 2006

Washington Times Publishes my Response

9:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 4

Letters to the editor
March 29, 2006
I appreciate The Washington Times printing a review of my new book, “Attention Deficit Democracy” (”Finding American voters wanting?” Books, Sunday). The reviewer states that “what Mr. Bovard leaves out is that these Founding fathers were suspicious of untrammelled democracy itself.”
I am perplexed by this comment, since the book is [...]

Tuesday 21st March 2006

My Cheney Tribute is now online

The American Conservative has posted my piece on Cheney’s revelation that he is exempt from federal law regarding national security secrets. Here are a few paragraphs from the piece:
The “my wish is the law’s command�? attitude towards disclosure and secrecy has permeated the Bush administration. From shortly after 9/11, the Bush team sought to drop an [...]

Monday 13th March 2006

“Misunderstandings” Bush appointee style

10:48 pm | Bovard | wool | Comments: 7

Here’s an update on the bust of the Bush abstinence education mastermind.
The lawyer for Bush’s former top domestic policy advisor, Claude Allen, told a Maryland court that this case was simply “misunderstandings.”
“Misunderstandings?”
Tuesday’s Washington Post notes: “Police said they have been able to document 25 instances in which Allen tried to obtain refunds for items he was seen picking [...]

Tuesday 7th March 2006

Not Bush’s Fault

11:04 am | wool | Comments: 8

I am sometimes criticized for being excessively harsh on George W. Bush.
I want to take this opportunity to make it clear that I don’t blame the president for everything.
This Arizona abuse apparently has nothing to do with the White House or the war on terrorism. Except unless that local fire department received a grant from [...]

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