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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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