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Wednesday 11th May 2011

King of Weasels Enters Prez Race

8:58 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Democracy | wool | Comments: 8

No matter what I could write about Newt Gingrich, it would not be snarky enough.
The Washington Post notes today: “Gingrich is an idea-spewing machine, unlike anyone else in the Republican Party. But does America want a one-man think tank , particularly one with his history, as its president?”
The Post was right about the spewing, [...]

Tuesday 10th May 2011

Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Fraud

From the February issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily -
Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Fraud
by James Bovard
President Obama has succeeded in seizing new power over health care and other swaths of American lives in part because previous presidents muddied Americans’ understanding of freedom.
Most of the past century’s debates over the meaning of [...]

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

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 4th March 2011

Google’s Unrecognized Peril?

9:51 am | wool | Comments: 0

.. another great cartoon from Bob Thaves

Friday 25th February 2011

Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom

from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (November 2010)
Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom
by James Bovard
Cass Sunstein is the chief of the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. As Salon’s Glenn Greenwald noted earlier this year, Sunstein “has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.” His values are probably guiding the [...]

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 [...]

Monday 17th January 2011

Good Government Guns II : My Treason

The satire I reposted yesterday was spurred by this article I wrote for American Spectator. It’s always satisfying when a piece spurs a Brooklyn philosophy professor to urge that I be prosecuted for treason……[thanks to WRSA for that photo....]
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Friday 7th January 2011

Our New Terrorist-Tainted House Homeland Security Committee Chief

11:43 am | Congress | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 8

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
This dude knows all about terrorism, since he has spent decades doing big-time fundraising for the Irish Republican Army.
Muckraker/hell-raiser/freedom-fighter Will Grigg has an excellent piece on King’s hypocrisy on LewRockwell.com today.

Monday 6th December 2010

“Assassin Nation” in new American Conservative

The January issue of American Conservative contains my piece, “Assassin Nation” - on Obama’s new policy for killing Americans.
That issue is not yet generally available online; it is available at newstands and for subscriber viewing at their website. Here is a brief outtake from the article:
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Tuesday 16th November 2010

The Mark Twain Prize Debacle: Another Reason to De-Fund PBS

9:19 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | wool | Comments: 2

Tina Fey, the Saturday Night Live performer who deftly satirized Sarah Palin, recently received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington. PBS broadcast much of the awards ceremony but deleted the most pointed paragraph in Fey’s acceptance speech in which she mock-praised “conservative women” such as Palin:
“And, you [...]

Monday 8th November 2010

A Better Book Cover Design for Bush’s Autobiography?

The Washington Post had a giant version of the cover of Bush’s DECISION POINT in its Style section today. Bush is trying to look solemn but I suspect he is going to a baseball game.
I think this photo - entitled “Bush Swings by Congress” - I took at a January 2007 antiwar DC [...]

Wednesday 6th October 2010

Prince George’s Police Latest Scandal: Too Stupid to Cheat

4:09 pm | Lying | Police | wool | Comments: 8

[UPDATED BELOW]
The Washington Post has another horror story on the PG Police. The Prince George’s County Police Academy apparently had a system of organized cheating for trainees that was so obvious that even the auditors noticed. (When an entire class gets perfect grades on a whole slew of tests, that’s a clue). [...]

Sunday 26th September 2010

MP3 of my “Police State USA” interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton

Scott Horton and I had a zippety time thumping the usual suspects here. (Antiwar.com Radio) The Bush and Obama administrations both took a hiding.

Wednesday 22nd September 2010

Obama: 9/11 Made Us Stronger

from the new book of White House insiders’ leaks to a Washington journalist -
9/11 worked out great for Leviathan and the political class, but it has been hell on the freedoms and taxpayers of America.

Monday 20th September 2010

Britain Formally Proposes to Re-Institute Serfdom

10:15 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | dictatorship | wool | Comments: 7

This British proposal is one of the most audacious power grabs of this century:
The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.
The CNBC article quotes [...]

Monday 13th September 2010

9/11 Commission Report Burnt on 9/11

The 9/11 Commission was one of the biggest frauds of a fraudulent decade. Here’s an excellent list of sources from “Washington’s Blog” on why the Commission’s report was a scam. (H/t Tom Blanton) Here’s a piece I did a few years ago detailing some of the charades of that farce of an “independent” commission. [...]

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